11/26/2024
St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club
SPARC Fest was a once again a great success. The open field at Freedom Lake Park was packed with sellers and buyers. This Free Ham Fest is becoming more popular every year. It was great to see many Hams from all over the region attend. See you next November!
Video clip details here.
While Field Day “isn’t a contest”, for those that like to keep score, the December 2018 issue of QST has the 2018 Field Day results. The combined CARS/SPARC/UPARC event racked up a score as submitted with 1253 total contacts and a total score of 5180 in the 3A class (3 transmitters, club-portable). By way of comparison, among the other 3A class participants, that placed us 42nd in the country out of 304 entrants, 1st in WCF, 2nd in Florida and 5th in the ARRL Southeastern division.
The November meeting at SPARC’s new meeting place (Hobson Fellowship Hall at the Fifth Ave Baptist Church) was attended by over 40 members and guests. Billy, KN4LUZ captured the presentation on video and took a number of still photos. These have been posted on the Resource Page. Check out the pictures from the meeting, you will see a lot of familiar faces.
The presentation and QSO video clip has been posted on SPARC-club.org, resource page. Check the presentation file for the links that were discussed during the presentation. The sample QSO demo is also there.
Thanks to efforts by Rich AA2MF, we will again expand our collective culinary diversity at our annual After the Holidays Party. We’ll be dining Italian at the Brooklyn Pizza company located at 10785 Park Blvd in Seminole. The festivities will start at 3:00PM on Sunday, January 13, 2019. Members will order off the menu, and are responsible for their own bill. Rumor has it that Santa may stop by on his way to his timeshare on St. Pete Beach. Dress is casual. For those … Click for more
Every night SPARC holds a 2m traffic net on the SPARC 2m repeater. We have also had a question each night, which those who have checked-in can take a shot at the multiple choice answer. We answer the question just for fun, we don’t keep score.
Please join us each night at 6:30. Now you can enjoy more detail, i.e. “The rest of the Story.”
Thanks to Billy, KN4LUZ who has just started up a web page where he is posting more detail behind the trivia Q&A. He often has … Click for more