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ARRL Field Day June 27-28, 2020

By Alan Streitman on June 24, 2020

Field Day 2020 – What’s in a Name?

By Tom Schaefer NY4I

As you may know, our normal Field Day at the fire training center is not happening this year. Many members are taking advantage of the rule changes to operate class 1D or 1E from home. One of the changes the ARRL made—for this year only—is the ability to aggregate our individual scores under one club name. Please note that you still just make contacts with your own call but when it comes time to send in your Field Day entry, in the spot for club name you can add a name and everyone that uses that same club name will see a single entry in the results for

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Bylaws Update

By Jason Esterline on June 4, 2020

On 7/4/20 the membership voted to accept the bylaws revisions necessary to become a Not-For-Profit Corporation, 22 in favor, 0 against. The first step in this process is incorporation in Florida. Thanks to all that contributed to the successful accomplishment of this milestone. Ken WQ3V will now begin the process of getting the paperwork in order for filing with the state.

The committee and board have been hard at work on the Bylaw revisions necessary to become a Not-For-Profit Corporation. We ask that you review our current bylaws, the proposed bylaws, and the reference chart at the link below. President Alan Streitman will go over these with us during our monthly meeting on 6/6.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2qq3uqq05ckb3x5/AACT6KPuEr6d5RsvW8EDdmcua?dl=0… Read the rest

Virtual Meeting for June

By Jack Kinney on May 21, 2020

The next club meeting is Saturday, June 6 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’re holding virtual meetings using Zoom. A link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to the membership. You can download the Zoom client from Zoom

Tech Presentation: Show Your Shack

MEMBERS: Check your email for meeting details.
NON-MEMBERS: Send us a message here for details.… Read the rest

Virtual Meeting for May

By Jack Kinney on April 26, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fire station is closed to the public.  Rather than not having our monthly meetings, we’ve decided to have them virtually until things resume to normal and it is safe again.

Our monthly club meeting is Saturday May 2 at 10:00am. A link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to the membership. There will NOT be any testing beforehand. We will have a full agenda, as well as a tech presentation: Getting Started with FT8, N4KIN

MEMBERS: Check your email and/or the UPARC Forum for meeting details.
NON-MEMBERS: Send us a message here for details.… Read the rest

Virtual Meeting for April

By Jack Kinney on March 30, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fire station is closed to the public.  Rather than not having our monthly meetings, we’ve decided to have them virtually until things resume to normal and it is safe again.  Please disregard any previous notices that stated otherwise.

Our monthly club meeting is next Saturday at 10:00am. There will NOT be any testing beforehand. We will have a full agenda, as well as a tech presentation.

There are a few ways in which you can join us (below), we recommend joining via a PC or MAC – however you can use a phone or tablet, or call in for audio only.  The best experience will be to have video as there will be a … Read the rest

Pinellas Emergency Operations Call for Volunteers

By Jack Kinney on March 24, 2020

Who : Pinellas EOC / Clayton Parrott

What: Point of drop off for PPEs (Personal Protective Equipment)

When: Wed, Thurs, Friday, Maybe Saturday This week. 3/25-3/28 8AM-8PM

Where: An un-named Church in Tarpon Springs (To be announced)

Why: Pinellas County EOC is requesting businesses with Extra PPE equipment donate the equipment at one of 3 drop off points, North, Central, and South County. I was asked to contact Eastlake CERT and I also offered to ask UPARC if they wanted to volunteer for the North County site, hence this Email.

How: Business will be asked to drop off the equipment between 9am-7pm. This will be set up as a drive through drop off. Car drives … Read the rest

Weekly Net Resumes March 24 on East Lake CERT Repeater

By Jack Kinney on March 22, 2020

Due to ongoing issues with the repeater behaving erratically, our club weekly net is moving to the East Lake CERT 70 cm repeater (W4ELC) that operates on a frequency of 442.800 Mhz with a PL tone of 146.2 Hz.
Our repeater team is actively working on the problem and determined that the W4AFC antenna system is at fault. We are doing our best to schedule a tower climber to work on the antenna during these difficult times.

Please use simplex 146.575 for local communications.

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Winter Field Day 2020

By Tom Schaefer NY4I on March 16, 2020

Another Winter Field Day has come and gone (more than a few weeks ago due to my belated report). The weather was mild if not just a tad cold at night (for us Floridians anyway). The now annual combined Winter Field Day effort between the Clearwater ARS, St. Petersburg ARC and Upper Pinellas ARC took place the weekend of January 25 at the Clearwater Fire Training Center.

So how did we do?

Our total numbers of contacts was above 1200 making for the most we have made from this site in a Field Day (Winter or Summer). The total points of 19788 were sent in at the end of February with the results typically released about 4 months later. We … Read the rest

Repeater Status Page

By Jack Kinney on March 9, 2020

March 24, 2020

We are working with local tower repair companies to schedule a climber, however have been impacted by the Corona Virus.

March 18, 2020

Alan W4UB visited the site and upon checking the antennas with an antenna analyzer, it shows a VSWR of 6.9:1. Alan double checked the hardline at the repeater end connector to no avail it appears we will be scheduling time with a tower climber to determine if we have a coax issue or antenna issue.

March 17th, 2020

Dave Shuey WA3VRE did extensive bench testing of the Kenwood repeater and it is working fine. Debugging continues to the next pieces in the chain (duplexers, coax and antennas).

March 9, 2020

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