SPARC

Field Day 2022 Wrap up

By Pat AAØO on 06/28/2022

SPARC’s 2022 Field Day was a successful one. We had 40 people on the sign-in sheet and 21 operator callsigns made QSOs in the log. After removing duplicates we made 1,455 QSOs (statistics breakdown below). Band conditions made for slow going on Saturday but things really picked up Sunday morning.

Overall the stations worked well, having the same radio at each station made it easy to transition between them. We had some issues with the stats screen not keeping up with the QSOs, FT8 locking up N1MM occasionally, and sorting … Click for more

Field Day 2022 Signup

By Pat AAØO on 06/14/2022

SPARC Field Day will be on June 25-26th at our club station location, DMI Research, 6699 90th Ave N, Pinellas Park, FL. We’ll start at 9am Saturday with setup, the on-the-air operating event starts at 2pm Saturday and runs through 2pm Sunday.

We’ll be operating as 3-Delta with 1 station each on SSB, CW, and Digital(FT8, etc). We’ll be using Yaesu FT-1000 radios. Operation will be indoors with Air Conditioning.

If you are planning to attend, please fill out the form using the link below so we know how … Click for more

Mike Scott K4ZPE, SK

By Charles Adkinson on 06/05/2022

The SPARC club is sad to share that club member Mike Scott is now a silent key. Mike was a long-time SPARC club member, long-time member, and webmaster of the W4ORM club and by all reports a terrific person. Also, Mike designed and published this website for SPARC. Many of the original pages were authored by Mike.

Please keep Mike’s spouse and family in your thoughts. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

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Upcoming Events Reminder

By Pat AAØO on 05/27/2022

Just a reminder of the upcoming events:

Saturday May 28th – WormFest – 7am @ Freedom Lake Park, https://w4orm.org/wormfest-2022/
Saturday May 28th – VE Session – 10am @ Lealman Fire Dept, contact AI4QP
Friday June 3rd – SPARC Monthly meeting – 7:30pm @ DMI
Saturday June 4th – Museum Ships Weekend – American Victory Ship, Channelside Tampa, contact KC1YL to schedule operating time
Sunday June 5th – Field Day dry run – 10am @ DMI
Tuesday June 21st – VE Session – 6:30pm @ DMI, contact AA0O
Saturday June 25th

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New Meeting Location

By William Gauzens on 04/12/2022

We will be holding our monthly meetings at DMI Research located at 6699 90th Ave N in Pinellas Park. We look forward to seeing everyone for our next meeting on May 6th.

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Monthly Meeting Location TBD

By William Gauzens on 04/01/2022

We will be moving the location of our monthly club meeting. We will post the new location as soon as we have a new location set.