December 21, 2024
Upper Pinellas Amateur Radio Club
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Hope you didn’t show up at the fire house on January 1st. We moved our meeting because of the holiday. Meet us this Saturday, January 8th at 10AM! We’ll be learning about Waves in our presentation.
We are meeting in Room 2.
Tim has been an active contest operator for 49 years. He has hosted over 145 different operators as part of the K3LR multi operator DX contest efforts since 1992 – which have made over 800,000 QSOs. Tim served on the ARRL Contest Advisory Committee as a member and multi-year Chairman. K3LR has
been an active member of the CQ Contest Committee for 31 years. Tim was the Atlantic Division Technical Achievement award winner in 1998. He was moderator of the Dayton Contest Forum for 10 years and has been moderator of the Hamvention Antenna forum for 38 years. He is a founding member and Vice President of the North Coast Contesters. K3LR serves as founder and … Read the rest
We hunted, voted and ate. Most importantly we saw some friends for the first time in almost two years. We saw Delbert and his XYL for the first time since 2019. We also met David who joined the club yesterday evening and is working towards his Technician license.
Described by Tom Schaefer, NY4I as the “first winter field day” the native Floridians hovered around the hot grill to stay warm in the damp 60 degree morning air!
Steve Foy, N4FOY returned from the fox hunt victorious with a big smile and fox in hand.
Jack Kinney, N4KIN called the business meeting to order. The first order of business was to thank Jeff DeGrasse, K4JJD for his service as UPARC treasurer … Read the rest
On June 5th, we had our first in person meeting since Feb/Mar 2020! It was great to see those who attended! We tried using Zoom for those out of state or choosing not to attend in person. It wasn’t without some technical issues, but we made it work. Improvements to come for the next meeting!
Thirteen people attended in person, one of whom was Ray Dabkowski,W8RD. He visited our club and decided to join!
If you did not know, Honeymoon Island and Caladesi Islands were once connected. It was called Hog Island until the 1921 hurricane cut a channel thru the island forming what we know today as Hurricane Pass.
We learned from Ray that the 100th anniversary of the … Read the rest
We’re back at the Fire Station starting with the June 5th meeting!
That said we’re going to attempt to have the meeting on Zoom at the same time for those who cannot make it or live out of town.
License testing resumes in July.
The next monthly UPARC meeting is at 10:00 AM on Saturday April 3rd, 2021. This is an online Zoom meeting. Besides our usual reports on various club activities, we have a technical presentation on Node-RED presented by Tom NY4I.
Node-RED is an open-source technology created by IBM to help automate the Internet of Things (IoT). But since IoT is just controlling various pieces of hardware, Node-RED lends itself quite well to controlling ham radio gear. By creating graphical “flows”, nodes are linked together to talk to radios, amplifiers, rotor controllers, weather stations, web-based power switches, relays, etc. Most people install this on a Raspberry Pi but it can also run on Windows. Mac, Linux, etc. Through a set of shared … Read the rest
The next club meeting is Saturday, December 5th at 10:00am.
PRESENTATION: ADS-B Flight Tracking by NY4I
MEMBERS: Check your email for meeting details.
NON-MEMBERS: Send us a message here for details.
Laurel VE testing is unavailable until further notice.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fire station is closed to the public.
Therefore, we hold virtual meetings using Zoom. A link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to the membership. You can download the Zoom client from Zoom
The next club meeting is Saturday, November 7th at 10:00am.
Laurel VE testing is unavailable until further notice.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fire station is closed to the public.
Therefore, we hold virtual meetings using Zoom. A link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to the membership. You can download the Zoom client from Zoom
The focus of the meeting will be the election of the 2021 Board of Directors and Officers.
Ballots and Proxies will be distributed by email and may also be downloaded on the forum.
MEMBERS: Check your email for meeting details.
NON-MEMBERS: Send us a message here for details.… Read the rest
The next club meeting is this Saturday, October 3rd at 10:00am.
Laurel VE testing is unavailable until further notice.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fire station is closed to the public.
Therefore, we hold virtual meetings using Zoom. A link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to the membership. You can download the Zoom client from Zoom
Presentation: Understanding Repeaters by NY4I
MEMBERS: Check your email for meeting details.
NON-MEMBERS: Send us a message here for details.… Read the rest
The next club meeting is Saturday, September 5 at 10:00am.
Laurel VE testing is unavailable until further notice.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fire station is closed to the public.
Therefore, we hold virtual meetings using Zoom. A link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to the membership. You can download the Zoom client from Zoom
Presentation: JTAlert – Jack Kinney, N4KIN
MEMBERS: Check your email for meeting details.
NON-MEMBERS: Send us a message here for details.
