04/25/2024
St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club
“The Sun and HF Propagation” presentation by Lu W4LT, has been uploaded to the SPARC Resource Page under Ham Radio Resources. Look toward the bottom of the left-hand column on this website (www.sparc-club.org) to view the presentation.
Many thanks to Lu for sharing his presentation with SPARC and his presentation at the last club meeting.
The Battery Presentation will be given by Ed, NZ1Q at Upper Pinellas ARC on Saturday Jan 6. If you have an interest in batteries and missed the original presentation at SPARC you can attend the meeting at UPARC. The presentation focuses on rechargeable storage batteries of all types and touches on how to get the longest life out of your batteries as well as charging and discharging tips.
As the year comes to an end, we look forward to what awaits us in 2018. In 2017 we put the final issue of the SPARC GAP Newsletter to bed. In this age of electronic and social media, hard copy has become a thing of the past. How many of you still use paper logs? One exception is the introduction of our new tri-fold SPARC Brochure that introduces the club to people interested in amateur radio. That being said, having been reelected President, I am struggling with ways to include … Click for more
Check out the video on SPARC’s new YouTube page.
This past week the dual-band antenna was replaced because signals were somewhat degraded. The new 2m/70cm dual- band antenna is in place atop the building at 27th Ave N and MLK. The 220 antenna is a separate single-band antenna and continues to work well. With such a great repeater location, no wonder that these repeaters do such a wonderful job. Many thanks to the repeater team that keep things running.
Radio Propagation presented by Lu Romero W4LT, member of TARC.
Propagation is important to all of us especially in this low sun spot period. Understanding more about propagation on all bands help us make contacts regardless of mode or frequency.
The presentation includes angle of radiation, ionospheric layers, ground reflection, solar radiation effects, 2m ducting, sun spots, x-ray flux, ground wave and sky wave, multi path, 6m sporadic E, gray line, long path and more.
Lou has given this presentation at TARC and was well received. He is an entertaining … Click for more
Stop by the new SPARC YouTube page and check out the uploads, which include the latest clip from the SPARC Antenna Party last weekend. SPARC setup this new page to collect all the videos in one easy to access location.
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Several postings were moved to the new page from their previous YouTube location. Look for the CERT presentation, 2017 Science Festival and SPARC Fest at Freedom Lake Park. Also SPARC Field Day and SPARC at Tampa Bay Ham fest.