11/23/2024
St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club
A few SPARC members has the pleasure of visiting with Jerry, WB9Z and Valerie NV9L over breakfast recently. Jerry has been on numerous DXpeditions, while his fiancée Valerie is a host on the ham radio webcast “Ham Nation.”
After a filling breakfast, we took our visitors on a tour of W4GAC. There we presented Jerry with a donation from SPARC for the K1N Navassa DXpedition. Jerry was one of the many operators that put this rare entity on … Click for more
Field Day
The 2015 ARRL Field Day weekend is June 27-28, 2015.
“But, Tom, I’m a new ham and I have never heard of Field Day. What’s that?” I am so glad you asked. Field Day is an amateur radio exercise where we setup temporary antennas in a portable operation to test our ability to create functioning amateur radio stations without using established communication equipment (fixed antennas, stations, etc). This event combines an emergency preparedness exercise with a contest and a fun club outing to spend the weekend hamming.
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SPARC members maintain station and make contacts with K1N, Navassa Island.
Video by AL4B.
The second edition of Bryce, K7UA’s The New DXer’s Handbook is now available for download at no cost.
Click here to download.
Ron KP2N reports that the club station exceeded the last few year’s score in this past weekend’s ARRL RTTY Roundup at the W4GAC station. Using the contest callsign W4TA, several RTTY operators activated the club station to compete in this RTTY favorite. Results from this year and a few years past are:
CALL CONTACTS MULTS SCORE YEAR
Year QSOs Multipliers Score
2015 1002 115 115,230
2013 939 109 102,351
2012 899 118 106,082
2011 1028 106 108,968
Thanks to all the operators that came down and helped out.
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The December QST shows W4TA placed 19th out of 150 for 4A.