Posts published in “Club Station”

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

The SPARC Contesters are live on the air (and you can watch)

By Tom Schaefer NY4I

In yet another new feature to bring more contesting to you, you can now watch the SPARC contesters live in the shack. Click here to go to the Upcoming HF Events page here and you can watch a live bird’s eye view of the stations operating. It is video only (no sound). We will be … More

SPARC Breaks Own Record in CQ WPX RTTY Contest

By Tom Schaefer NY4I

This past weekend (February 10th – 11th, 2018), the SPARC Contesters activated the SPARC club station again to participate in the CQ WPX RTTY Contest. You may recall that in last year’s effort, SPARC achieved the highest score in our history and had the top score in the 4th call area. We also … More