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“Fill up your propagation toolbox” by Glenn, N4GRC, presented at the Jan 5th, 2024 SPARC meeting.

 

This presentation given by Glenn, N4GRC followed last month’s presentation by NZ1Q on “The Sun and HF Propagation”, this presentation discusses tools to use that can help us with solar weather, propagation and DX predictions

Download the PowerPoint slides here: Propagation Tools Slides

Watch the video here

Tune in to the SPARC nightly net for the latest numbers on our repeater (Nightly SPARC Net 6:30 pm, SPARC Repeater 147.060, pre-net @ 6 pm), via EchoLink (NZ1Q-L), or on Broadcastify.com as WA4AKH  https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/35028

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“The Sun and HF Radio Propagation” by Ed, NZ1Q, presented at the Dec 1, 2023 SPARC meeting.

 

This second presentation given by Ed, NZ1Q followed last month’s presentation by KC4SXO on “What the Numbers Mean.”  The Dec presentation discusses how the sun’s activity affects radio wave propagation on Earth.

View Ed’s presentation on the SPARC YouTube page:  HERE

Download the PowerPoint slides:  The Sun & HF Propagation

Tune in to the SPARC nightly net for the latest numbers on our repeater (Nightly SPARC Net 6:30 pm, SPARC Repeater 147.060, pre-net @ 6 pm), via EchoLink (NZ1Q-L), or on Broadcastify.com as WA4AKH  https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/35028

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“What do the Numbers Mean” by Bob, KC4SXO. Presented at the Nov 3, 2023 SPARC meeting.

On the nightly SPARC net (6:30 pm SPARC Repeater 147.060, St Petersburg, FL) Bob presents the Solar forecast for the day. He runs through the published numbers for the sun’s activity and subsequent radio conditions on Earth. This presentation describes what the numbers really mean. 

View Bob’s presentation HERE

Download the PowerPoint slides:  What Do The Numbers Mean title page (1)

Tune in to the SPARC net on the repeater, or via EchoLink (NZ1Q-L), or on Broadcastify.com as WA4AKH  https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/35028

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Cancelled: October SPARC Operating Event: Makrothen RTTY Contest

Unfortunately SPARC will not participate in theMakrothen RTTY event and the club station will not be open October 14 and 15

Makrothen RTTY  is a favorite operating event of SPARC and other RTTY operators because the score for a contact is the distance from you to the contact. Scores in the millions of points are routine. In fact, in 2017 SPARC placed Second World Wide with a score of 2,023,660. This year’s contest will take place October 14 & 15.

 

 

 

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North American QSO Party Side Band Results!

SPARC had another successful effort in the August 19, 2023 NAQP SSB contest. The W4TA team worked a total of 873 QSO’s in 12 hours for a score of 136,118 points. The score was the second highest of Florida Contest Group Multi Two entries exceeded only by a group in the Virgin Islands. Looking at the 3080’s reported M/2 entries, W4TA was 11 out of 20 in the category.

SPARC operators were: AA2MF, WD8MIU, K04WPO, KQ4DVG, KQ4DXM, KA4IOX and W4CU. Special thanks to W7WFS who worked on raising the tower, … Click for more

SPARC NAQP RTTY 2023 Results!

NAQP RTTY LogoSPARC Participated in the NAQP RTTY Contest Saturday, and we’re proud to share our scores!

At the time of posting, SPARC is 18th place by score of ALL scores in the world, 5th place overall in our class (multi-op multi-transmitter), and 1st of the stations submitted under the Florida Contest Group!

Here’s our score summary, and you can view the results of the contest so far here

https://www.3830scores.com/currecscores.php?arg=35csc3z1vmqil

North American QSO Party, RTTY - July

Call: W4TA
Operator(s): AA2MF W4CU KO4WPO W7WMS W1EES WD8MIU KQ4DXM KN4YQC KR4U KF4TYA KD4CEE KA4IOX 
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