After last night’s weekly Wednesday night net a couple members met up on our 70cm repeater to test out sending and receiving some SSTV images. This was inspired by listening to the W3HZU Keystone VHF Club net over echolink who held an SSTV net Tuesday night at 8pm. What is SSTV?SSTV is an acronym for…
Allstar node build project meeting
It was a very good meeting last night! We had 17 members present and all the members are excited about the Allstar build that we will be doing in the coming weeks with Pres, W2PW. We went over the materials list and discussed the various options. Special thanks to Charlie, K2ATF for donating 2 signs…
J-Pole webinar with Dr. Ed Fong
At our last meeting on 9/17/19, we enjoyed a webinar about J pole antennas given by Dr. Ed Fong, WB6IQN, a long time ham and professor at UC Santa Cruz- Silicon Valley. You can find out more information about Dr. Fong or purchase his antennas on his website. It was interesting to learn about the…
Compass course completed!
Bruce, WB2ADF, presented a compass training course Sunday 9/15 at Southaven Park. It was very informative, and Bruce made it more interesting by employing many different techniques to present the material. Members in attendance all had a good time with a great teacher! Thank you Bruce!
September Breakfast 9/1/19
The Sunday breakfast was enjoyed by all, What a great time we had at the breakfast. Radio and non-radio conversations where flying all around the tables.
W2PW returns to talk AllStar
I would like to thank Pres Waterman, W2PW, local AllStar expert for coming to the meeting last night 8/20. He spoke enthusiastically about Allstar and the many ways we can use it to improve our Ham Radio experience. We had 19 members present and many questions were asked about the system of nodes and reflectors…
Sunday Breakfast 8/4/19
The Sunday Breakfast was enjoyed by all, it was a great time, the Breakfasts are the first Sunday of the month at the California Diner in Patchogue, NY at 9:30am – all are welcome. We had a great time this morning. The conversations went from one side of the spectrum to the other. Hope more…
Summer Field Day, 2019
Our Summer Field Day was a great success and a great time was had by all. We put up the tent on Friday night and set up tables. Saturday morning we started to set up antennas and radios but not before we stuffed ourselves with Pancakes, Eggs, Bacon, Coffee and juice. We started at 7am…
Guest speaker W2PW
Preston, W2PW who operates the WR2UHF repeater gave a great presentation to our club last night going over many aspects of DMR, D-Star, Fusion, and All-star. WR2UHF ( 444.700 MHz ) is, at times, connected as a node on the East Coast Reflector (which is actually a coast to coast US IRLP network – see…
SCRC at LIMARC hamfest
Hamfest 6/9 Sunday LIMARC outdoor event with a lot of vendors. We saw a lot of good stuff. Guy, K2HOT and I manned the table for the club.