Long Island's Oldest Ham Radio Club Est. 1947
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!
The Suffolk County Radio Club participated in the Winter Field Day event on January 27th. The club setup in the club communications trailer in the parking lot of the clubhouse. Many members attended and worked stations across the US and around the World. Members utilized 4 stations for over 6 hours of continuos operaion. The…
The club hosted another guest speaker this month, Mike KD2UWR, who presented a comprehensive and informative talk on POTA operations. He touched on all aspects of the activity including terminology (hunter / activator), registering at https://pota.app, discussed optional logging programs (Mike’s favorite is HAMRS – find it at https://hamrs.app/), radio gear required. Mike is a…
The club has been using suffolkcountyradioclub.com for some years as our primary domain but to better reflect our non-profit status, we are moving to suffolkcountyradioclub.org as of Oct 28, 2023. We’re working on moving our email addresses and groups to .org as well, so please be patient during the transition!
There was a nice turn out for the August meeting with some old members returning and new friends welcomed. Bob, KD2TRG gave an in-depth presentation on the nanoVNA, a low cost handheld Vector Network Analyzer using DSP (Digital Signal Processing) technology developed in 2019. Bob’s presentation materials, including some links to web resources including videos…
SCRC operated 3I as W2DQ on Saturday, Jan. 28th at the LYSA Youth Center. Eric, KD2HCU sent in these fantastic pictures.