Name: ARRL 10M Contest
Start: 2024-12-13T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-15T19:00:00-05:00
Location: DMI Research

SPARC NAQP RTTY 2023 Results!

By Zack KO4WPO on 07/17/2023

SPARC 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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SPARC’S next Operating Event will use Radio Teletype

By Tom Schaeffer W4CU on 07/08/2023

Original RTTY — Classic Teletype Machine with paper output now replaced by computer program and screen

Radio teletype or RTTY is easy to learn and fun to use. The club will be entering the North American QSO Party RTTY event which starts at 2:00 pm Eastern on Saturday July 15 and runs for 12 hours. Like all our Operating Events this is open to all members. We will be entering in the Multioperator Two-Transmitter (M2) division so there will be operating time for everyone even trainees new to RTTY. Visitors are welcome.

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SPARC Field Day Video

By Ed NZ1Q on 07/04/2023

The video covering most of the efforts by the SPARC operators was captured by 3 participants and put together in a short video on the SPARC YouTube channel.

Video Here

Field Day Results are In

By Tom Schaeffer W4CU on 06/23/2023

AA2MF - Operating 5 Positions — Rich AA2MF operating all 5 FT8 positions on 5 different bands early Sunday Morning

Field Day produced good results for SPARC. The group of operators listed below worked a total of 1643 QSOs. Of those 759 were made by CW, 702 by FT8/4 , and 182 by SSB. Our score based on QSOs alone was 6,208. Dave KR4U added 100 points to that total by copying the ARRL Field Day Message. Another 50 points was added by submitting our results on ARRL’s submission page.

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Jack – W1BBU SK, June 13, 2023

By Ed NZ1Q on 06/21/2023

From Jack’s QRZ page:

“I was first licensed in 1957 as a Novice as KN1EJT. Upgraded to Tech and later Conditional as K1EJT. In 1969 and 1970 was YB0AAC, one of the first two foreign amateurs legally licensed in Indonesia. In 1971 was authorized to use KR6JH by US authorities in Okinawa (Ryukyu Islands). Upgraded to Advanced class KF4SX in 1985. After the death of my father, who was licensed as W1BBU circa 1927, I applied for and received his call – W1BBU.

Member of ARRL, St Petersburg Amateur

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SPARC Field Day 2023 Signup

By Pat AAØO on 06/03/2023

SPARC Field Day will be on June 24-25th at our club station location, DMI Research, 6699 90th Ave N, Pinellas Park, FL. We’ll start at 12pm Saturday with station familiarization and a little practice, the on-the-air operating event starts at 2pm Saturday and runs through 2pm Sunday.

We’ll be operating as 4-Delta with stations on SSB, CW, and Digital(FT8, etc). We’ll be using Yaesu FT-1000 radios and N1MM logging software. Operation will be indoors with Air Conditioning.

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