Last day to sign-up (for food planning purposes) is Wednesday, January 26th.
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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.
We are meeting in Room 2.
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
SPARC, the St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club held it’s first SPARCfest since the COVID shutdown at Freedom Lake Park in Pinellas Park, FL. There were lots of items to look at and SPARC was unloading a ton of equipment.
The author found a sentimental item that he picked up. Not especially practical in our county with digital and P25 but hey it works so for $10 why not.
Several members of UPARC attended the event.
Alan picked up a fiberglass lineman’s pushup pole for $30 from a guy who paid $20 less than 5 minutes earlier. We all wanted one but there were not enough to go around. Julie NF1T picked up one as well.
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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
THIS SATURDAY, FRED HOWARD PARK, SHELTER 8 @ 10AM
Additional Information:
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To commemorate the hurricane, operators from the Upper Pinellas Amateur Radio Club will operate from Honeymoon Island State Park starting Friday, October 22nd to October 24th, 2021. We NEED operators, filling 24+ hours of operation will take people!
The callsign used will be N4H. Modes will be SSB and FT8. SSB frequencies are 14.265 and 7.265. Also for Parks on the Air (POTA) chasers, Honeymoon Island State Park is park K-1880.
Operating time is 10:00 AM EDT (14:00Z) to ~6:30 PM EDT (22:30Z) on each day Friday 10/22, Saturday 10/23 and Sunday 10/24. Setup will begin at 9am daily.
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Various people have inquired about availability of the monthly meeting slides. They are now on the UPARC website on the Meeting Schedule page:
https://uparc.org/2021-meeting-schedule/
Click the meeting date in the left most column and a PDF of the slide deck will open in a new window.… Read the rest
The Repeater Team had a work session on the HamWAN environment after the September meeting. Below are a few updates:
- HamWAN radio on tower is working.
- Resolved issue where another HamWAN user was using our IP address.
- Inquiring with the area HamWAN team about a point-to-point connection to Tampa. Would improved connection by estimated 10dB.
- New Minix PC is very stable unlike the previous PC.
- Currently router is a bit flaky. Will be replaced in next work session.
- Current EchoLink interface is going to be replaced with improved model in next work session.