Joined the Club
My membership was approved, so SPARC now has 146 members. Mark asked if I’m a climber. It sounds like lots of people chicken out about half way up when climbing the tower. When studying for my license, I didn’t commit a lot of the tower stuff to memory, since I didn’t expect to be involved in that sort of thing.
Ham Fest in York
SPARC will be at the Ham Fest in York with some “ham junk” for sale. Ralph, from Radio Shack, bought Souders’ small hardware business, so he’ll have all those small accessories there. Testing will be available at the Ham Fest on a walk-in basis.
Other Programs and Notes
- Breakfast in Manheim, every 2nd Saturday, at City Star Diner.
- Mike is building fox hunt transmitter. Someone else is building a battery for it.
- Tech classes will start again, Maybe on Mondays. Someone suggested conducting a mock net for training.
- UHF repeater is working. Full-time tied to VHF.
- Field day is coming up soon at the club house.
- There may be room for me to help with website maintenance.
- Some people are going to Dayton Ham Fest.
- Trying to use Ham Club Online again to manage membership. It’s a database for ham clubs. Ares is on it.
- Balun Designs is a good source for durable hardware.
- HFQso runs nets for testing propagation.
- There’s an Appalachian Trail APRS Golden Packet event to pass an APRS packet the entire length of the trail.
- Podcast: Ham Radio Workbench
- An old episode (1 year ago?) had Vance, N3VEM, doing rocket stuff.
- I’m never going to finish my podcast list.
- I chatted with JJ, KC3QEH. I need to look into his POTA activations.
Club Net
I checked into the club net for the first time tonight.