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.
