07/16/2024
St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club
SPARC will again be participating in the St. Petersburg Science Festival. This event is designed to
provide children hands-on access to the wide world of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math).
If you are interested in being part of SPARC’s ham radio demonstration team, please contact Bob, N2ESP. Additional details on the festival can be found by clicking here.
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SPARC member and fellow W4TA contester Scott O’Keefe N4RI placed second in the 2015 CQ DX Marathon Formula class. Scotty finished with 250 countries worked in 2015 just behind winner Joe W4TV with 254 countries. The Formula class is for people that are using only vertical or simple dipole antennas and 100 watts (there is a separate QRP category).
You can find out more information about the DX Marathon here. The way the award resets each year allows the people that have worked just … Click for more
SPARC member Tom, NY4I has taken responsibility for the bridge program that enables two 
popular ham radio programs to share QSO data.
“N1MM” is a popular contesting program that is configurable for competition in most international Radiosport contests. “DXKeeper” is the logging component of a suite of programs known as “DX Labs.” The “bridging” program Tom is working on transfers the QSOs entered in N1MM to DXKeeper in real time. This allows you to update your needed DXCC entities list as you are contesting. The bridge is also compatible … Click for more
At the May 6th club meeting our program will include several examples of a “Go Box.” These portable communications centers can easily be
transported by one person, setup quickly and provide communications on different bands and modes during emergencies or other communication events..
Learn about their purpose, capabilities, how to plan and make your own. Our presenters will each demonstrate their own projects. We will hear from: Andy, KI4VOS; Udo, KF4KUL and
Clayton, KJ4RUS. We also plan to fire up some of the equipment as a demonstration. … Click for more
The SPARC daily net’s Q&A session run by Ed, NZ1Q is moving on to Propagation questions from
the Amateur Extra question pool. Ed and his team have just finished running through questions covering the digital modes available to radio amateurs. A question is presented every evening with answer/discussion following at the end of the net. Those studying for an exam find the material helpful and those licensed long ago learn new material. As an added bonus, occasionally a ham radio trivia question sneaks in, offering some diversity to … Click for more