12/22/2024
St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club
Thanks to efforts by Rich AA2MF, we will again expand our collective culinary diversity at our annual After the Holidays Party. We’ll be dining Italian at the Brooklyn Pizza company located at 10785 Park Blvd in Seminole. The festivities will start at 3:00PM on Sunday, January 13, 2019. Members will order off the menu, and are responsible for their own bill. Rumor has it that Santa may stop by on his way to his timeshare on St. Pete Beach. Dress is casual. For those … Click for more
Starting on November 2nd (with the exception of this December’s meeting) the SPARC monthly meetings will be held the first Friday of every month in Hobson Fellowship Hall at the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. The church is located on the northwest corner of 5th Avenue North and 49th Street in St. Petersburg. Please park in the large lot at the rear of the church, which is accessible from 6th Avenue North. Enter through the doors labeled “Hobson Fellowship Hall.”
Our thanks to Johnnie W4TSP … Click for more
The video of last weeks SPARC presentation about Lightning and Amateur Radio is now available on our resource page at https://www.sparc-club.org/test-page-pdf-links/
Many thanks to Glenn, N4GRC for doing the presentation and to Billy, KN4LUZ for creating the video.
To access any of the SPARC past presentations go to the Resource Page on SPARC-Club.org
This page has recent presentations and other information files. Just added is a link to Ron’s presentation on Heathkit and Glenn’s presentation on Grounding.
On the main page look in the lower left column for the SPARC Resource page as shown below.
Also, bookmark the SPARC YouTube page for other videos.
At the October 5 meeting, Glenn, N4GRC will tell us how he designed and installed his shack ground system and how he planned out his perimeter ground loop.
The October meeting on the 5th will be at DMI Research in the usual meeting room. Stay tuned for future meetings that will be in a new location. Meeting starts at 7:30 PM.
You may remember Glenn from the dynamic Wi-Fi presentation and demo he gave to SPARC last year. For this talk his grounding presentation pictures show how Glenn constructed his … Click for more