Category: Club
February 13, 2026
Skipped Hamcation this year and just went to the contest dinner on the way to my folk's place. Dave KM3T gave the speech. Amanda won a $100 DX Engingeering gift certificate. Sat at a table with some WRTC competitors so that was fun.
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December 31, 2022
I did a lot of stuff with the radio club this year, I wrote a Year in Review about it on the club webpage. My big radio things this year were going to the FCG Contest Dinner at Hamcation, usually it's on the same day as the club meeting. I got to meet quite a few people I knew from on the air and…
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December 4, 2022
We had another SPARC in the Park event with the club. Decent turn out and lots of contacts got made. There were a few more people than this, I should've take more photos
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September 10, 2022
SPARC members took a field trip down to the WRMI commercial station near Okeechobee in Florida. This station runs 15 transmitters at 100k watts each for 1.5 million watts of RF power! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9eXOCnMwo Road in Panoramic view
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June 26, 2022
This year we hosted the summer Field Day at the SPARC club station. After a discussion with the members we decide to be a "D" Class station rather than "A" to make it easier since it was the first time we've done it as a single club in awhile. "A" stations use generator power and temporary…
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February 4, 2022
Solar ham radio bike w/Starlink https://youtu.be/Ow89u\qqNxk
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January 30, 2022
Hex beam Winter Field Day at the Clearwater Fire Training facility with SPARC, UPARC and CARS.
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October 9, 2021
We activated K-6700 Sawgrass Lake Park which is one of the newer added Parks, in St. Petersburg, with the St Petersburg Amateur Radio Club. We got quite a few park-to-park contacts and we'd have everyone send their callsigns out so we gave people quite a boost to their P2P contacts. Billy KN4LUZ…
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June 28, 2021
We had our 3-club joint field day this year at the Clearwater Fire Training Facility. We ran 3 stations plus a 6meter FT8 station. We setup 5 antennas including my hexbeam that I used to have on the roof of my old house. The hexbeam went together real easy and worked amazing. We have a triplexer so…
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March 5, 2021
We finally got back to meeting in person. We met outside the church at our normal location. Had 36 people attend, everyone seemed very comfortable. I've done more meetings on Zoom than I've done in person so I'm still getting the hang of running official meetings. Club secretary Charles W4BPP gave…
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