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Amateur Radio Technician License Study Class

The Upper Pinellas Amateur Radio Club is hosting a free Technician License Training and Exam course.

This is a two-day course: November 11 (Training) and November 18 (Training and Exam).

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Annual Picnic & Officer Elections

November 5 @ 10:00 am3:00 pm

* IMPORTANT * IMPORTANT *

Our Annual Business Meeting & Election is November 5th, and we NEED you to join us!  This will be a great time, at a beautiful park with great food, camaraderie, a little bit of official business, and a FOX HUNT!

First, please let us if you’ll be attending, how many in your party, and what you will bring for the potluck!  You can do that by filling out the following quick survey.  https://forms.gle/pEHfyqBKwWGyBUbB9

Next, IF you cannot make it, please return the Proxy via email or in person to any UPARC board member/officer as we need 1/3 of our membership present (or by proxy) to have a

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Ken Martens – WK4KM – Services Announced

SERVICES: Ken’s interment will be at Bay Pines National Cemetery (10000 Bay Pines Blvd, St. Petersburg, FL 33708) on Friday July 29th @ 11:00am. A celebration of life with refreshments will be held at Dunedin Golf Club Restaurant (1050 Palm Blvd, Dunedin) immediately following.… Read the rest

July Meeting – Special Guest Presentation by Tim Duffy K3LR

 

Tim Duffy K3LR

Tim Duffy K3LR – Photo by DX Engineering  This month’s presentation is about the K3LR Contest Station — by our Special Guest Tim Duffy!  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… This is a presentation you don’t want to miss!

Zoom details available upon request – please use the Contact Page to request

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UPARC in the Park Event Registration

UPARC In The Park LogoThink of Field Day but smaller and less formal. Typically we have a single radio powered by battery with a wire antenna. We operate for a few hours and call it a day. If we’re in a Florida State Park we activate POTA. If we’re at Honeymoon Island State Park we can even activate IOTA.

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January Meeting this Saturday!

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We are NOT meeting at the fire station due to the community room being closed. Click Details below.

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.

Event Information

We are meeting in Room 2.



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Tim Duffy K3LR: Grounding & Bounding

December Meeting: Technical Presentation

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

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