SPARC will be hosting a Parks on the Air (POTA) event on October 9th at Sawgrass Lake Park. The park is located at 7400 25th Street N in St. Petersburg and opens at 7:00 AM. For those that do not know, Parks on the Air is a worldwide group to activate various State and National Parks. Sawgrass Lake Park is the result of a unique cooperative agreement between the Pinellas County Parks & Conservation Resources and the Southwest Florida Water Management District — hence its qualification for the POTA … Click for more
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Members of SPARC – we have our annual election of Officers and Board Members coming up.
At the October meeting, the nominating committee will announce nominations we have come up with, and we will call for nominations from the floor.
At that time, any member wishing to nominate someone, or themselves, for a particular position, can do so. Remember, you must be a current SPARC member. At the following meeting in November, we will hold the election. Hal Chase W1EES will handle the collection of nominations again(Thanks Hal!). … Click for more
while perusing the state of Florida VE session counts on the ARRL website, i noticed our own Dee Turner, N4GD, is in the top 10 of all sessions (in fact, he’s 7th overall) in the number of VE sessions he has attended… and that’s out of more than 1,600 VEs in Florida!! congrats Dee, keep up the good work!!!
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SPARC member and former club Vice President Rich, AA2MF, was among the top finishers in the 2021 ARRL RTTY Roundup radiosport event. Competing in the Single Operator, RTTY Only, Low Power category, Rich earned 102,178 points, giving him a top ten finish in the US and Canada. Congratulations Rich for a job well done.
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There is a much bigger wrap-up article to come yet but in the meantime, thanks to everyone that came out to Field Day this year. The facility was great as always, the teams worked great together and I believe everyone had a good time. We had around 60 people there and made around 1200 QSOs (preliminary scoring summary here) plus obtained our satellite contact. More to come but in the mean time, take a gander at this fantastic photo from our club president, Pat AA0O.
We have a real-time status display of the operation at this year’s Field Day. The contacts are tracked in real-time and available in several handy graphs. If you can’t make it to Field Day but want to check on our progress, please click on the map at the right side of the website. You can also access it directly at https://www.sparc-club.org/sparc-real-tme-contest-display-dashboard/
Enjoy!