Long Island's Oldest Ham Radio Club Est. 1947
All past and present LEO members of the Suffolk County Radio Club were invited to operate the Special Event Call Sign K3FBI/2F at the Fire Island Lighthouse for National Police Week. Lou, NO2C and Salli, K2RYD, of the Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club, activated the Fire Island Lighthouse for National Police Week utilizing the…
On Monday May 6th, 2024 a few members of the Suffolk County Radio Club ventured out in an attempt to activate a state park. Ed, N2XDD, John, N3JWM, and Brian, NG2S, gathered at Brookhaven State Park, US-2019, for the event. Gary, KE2YK, VP of the Peconic Amateur Radio Club stopped by to attend and lend…
On Saturday May 4,2024 Suffolk County Radio Club was invited by the Shirley Mastic Moriches Library to take part in Masticon. This years celebration coincided with Star Wars Day (May the 4th), There was plenty of Jedis and Siths running around but that did not ruin the great time had by members manning the table….
This months meeting will be a week early due to Memorial Day. We will be Meeting on May 20, 2024 at 7:00pm. at the Longwood Youth Sports Association building in Yaphank . This months guest speaker will be Ken Neubeck , WB2AMU. His presentation will be about 6 meters, AKA the Magic Band. Ken has…
The Suffolk County Radio Club was once again honored to be in attendance with Elaine Thompson, daughter of Frank John Ryder, the original W2DQ! Unfortunately most memorabilia from the time when Frank lived in Brooklyn had been lost in a fire. However Elaine was gracious enough to bring copies of 2 photographs that survived the…
Presented by Richard J Martino Jr. KB2SNE Richard is retired U.S. Air Force who worked on fixed satellite communications systems as both an operator and maintainer. He belongs to his local CAP: Civil Air Patrol Chapter NY-251 assigned to Long Island Group HQ as a Communications Engineer. He has resumed his USAF retirement rank…
Our Club has restarted an old tradition, monthly breakfast meetups. We met at the McDonalds in Farmingville , ten club members in total attended. We will switch locations each month and perhaps alternate between Saturday and Sundays. The next date will be announced soon, try and attend and maybe bring a friend that is interested…
The Suffolk County Radio Club participated in the Solar Eclipse HamSci Research Project on April 8th, 2024. The event was held at the Moriches Branch of the Shirley, Mastic, Moriches Library. Not only did we have many members in attendance but also some members of other local Amateur Radio Clubs as well as Jim Mezey,…
Newsday visited the SCRC to discuss the club’s plans for participation in the upcoming events and radio science related to the eclipse which will occur Mon, Apr 8. Activites are being coordinated through HamSci.org. Nicholas Spangler’s story is available on Newsday for subscribers along with a video showing some operations. Several members braved the near…
Our Speaker for the March meeting was Joe K0NEB. Joe Joined us via zoom from his home in Nebraska. The presentation was focused on kit building with lots of tips and tricks from his vast experience as a kit builder. The Meeting was attended by well over 30 club members!