11/24/2024
St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club
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 21st at 2:00PM local time, and running for 12 hours. We will be running two stations simultaneously at W4TA in class M2.
NAQP – RTTY is a fun contest as all stations are required to run 100 watts or less. This makes for a relatively even playing field, with advantages to stations with good antennas … Click for more
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FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT, IF YOU REGISTERED YOURSELF BUT WERE PLANNING ON ATTENDING WITH YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER/GUEST, PLEASE ALSO REGISTER ANYONE ELSE IN YOUR PARTY. WE NEED AN ACCURATE COUNT FOR FOOD. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU ARE BRINGING YOUR SPOUSE AND 2 KIDS, PLEASE REGISTER THEM ALL INDIVIDUALLY. You can sign others up here: https://goo.gl/forms/Tqr9kX30BNR1WJeg1
As you may be aware, the radio room is … Click for more
Thanks to all that attended the meeting last night.
For those that do not recall if they signed up, here is the list of people that have signed up already.
If you are NOT on this list, please go to this link and sign up.
| Name | Call Sign |
|---|---|
| Jason Esterline | N4BOZ |
| Tom Schaefer | NY4I |
| ken martens | WK4KM |
| Pat Connelly | KX4HL |
| David Trewin | KR4U |
| Dee Turner | N4GD |
| Bob Wanek | N2ESP |
| Glenn Panazzolo | N4ESU |
| Gerry Pollack | WR6N |
| Richard Stephens | N4BUA |
| Will Scott | W7WMS |
| Dan Gerson | KB4BOQ |
| Steve Heppler | KN4MBS |
| Alan Streitman | N4AYE |
As Spring turns to Summer, a young ham’s fancy turns towards…Field Day! The annual ARRL Field Day emergency preparedness exercise/contest/social event is Saturday June 23rd and Sunday June 24th. As usual, SPARC is participating in this event but this year, we are building upon the success of the Winter Field Day event with a joint Field Day operation with the Clearwater Amateur Radio Society and Upper Pinellas Amateur Radio Club. The event will be held at … Click for more
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 event. Thanks for all the hard work.
SPARC has a habit of keeping score to a different drummer. Yes we had QSOs–1263 to be exact. These break down as follows…
Band Mode QSOs Pts … Click for more
I noticed a tweet describing how SPARC member Pat Connelly KX4HL and a few others participated in the State Parks On the Air this past weekend. I asked Pat if he could pass along some pictures and a summary of their activities. This is Pat’s report:
… Click for moreI saw a post in the Amateur Radio section of Reddit about the Florida State Parks on the Air operating event/contest. This was the first I’d heard of it, but the second year of