Posts published in “Club Station”

SPARC on the Move

By Bob Wanek N2ESP

SPARC has been asked to relocate their station to another room in the same building. Our station engineering team consisting of John KI4UIP and Dave KR4U has worked out a plan to move our equipment, furniture, power, internet and antenna wiring to the new station location.

On Saturday 9/15, the furniture and equipment was … More

W4TA 2nd Worldwide in Makrothen

By Tom Schaefer NY4I

The SPARC Contest Team is proud to announce they placed second worldwide and second in North America in the Multi-Op High Power (Single Receiver) category. This was for the Makrothen RTTY contest run from the SPARC station over the weekend of October 14th and 15th, 2017. Our second place score of 2,023,660 points represents the … More

Want to Learn RTTY?

By Bob Wanek N2ESP

If you would like to learn the art of radioteletype, aka RTTY, do we have a deal for you. The ARRL is sponsoring the North American QSO Party – RTTY. Starting on Saturday July 21^st at 2:00PM local time, and running for 12 hours. We will be running two stations simultaneously at W4TA in … More

W4TA Scores to a Different Drummer in the FQP

By Bob Wanek N2ESP

The SPARC Contest Group, W4TA, just completed another running of the Florida QSO Party sponsored by the Florida Contest Group. The only good thing I can say about the propagation was that it sucked equally for all contestants. In spite of conditions, the FCG did everything in its power to pull off another successful … More

DXLabs Workshop on April 21, 2018

By Tom Schaefer NY4I

SPARC will be conducting a full day DXLabs workshop on Saturday April 21st starting at 10:00 AM. The purpose of this is to introduce people to using the DXLabs Suite of software. If you are a recent convert to DXLabs or looking to change from a different logging package, this is the session for … More

You’re Invited! Come out and Operate a Phone Contest on March 23 – 25.

By Tom Schaefer NY4I

The SPARC Contesters invite everyone to come out and operate the CQ WPX SSB contest starting at 8:00 PM on Friday, March 23. We will be at the club station to work as many stations as we can–all on phone. The WPX contest is a fun contest as we use a rare prefix (NY4) which … More