Ed, N2XDD, was net control for our first Health Net on Sunday, March 15 at 8pm on our club’s VHF 145.210 MHz repeater. The net is modeled after a similar Health and Welfare net taking place each weeknight at 7pm on the BNL repeater UHF 442.400 MHz and some members of SCRC are participating in…
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SCRC hosts CERT at meeting
At the January meeting the board convened at 7pm and many items were discussed including fund raising ideas for 2020. Most of the fund raisers in 2019 were led by a small core of members – getting more members involved in these efforts is key to meet our goals for this year, the largest of…
Allstar build update
There have been several Allstar project build meetings over the past month at the home of Pres, W2PW where members gathered to modify radios, construct cables, and program their raspberry pi to create functioning Allstar nodes. For the most part the project has been a success and a lot of fun. The meetings are continuing…
Playing with SSTV
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…
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 Dayton 2019
Several members attended the Dayton Hamvention at the Green County Fairgrounds & Expo Center. This annual ham radio convention held in Xenia, OH is sponsored by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association (W8BI) from which the event takes its name. Lots of great ideas were brought back which will hopefully be put into action!
SCRC at Children’s Spring Festival in Medford
Guy K2HOT and Ken KD2DZZ represented the club on Saturday, April 27 at Children’s Spring Festival, an event sponsored by the Medford Chamber of Commerce for the community held at Medford Memorial Park Other members stood by on air to provide radio contacts for anyone interested in “playing radio” that day from the park. Our…
SCRC at LIMARC hamfest
Members of Suffolk County Radio Club were in attendance and manned tables at LIMARC’s hamfest on February 24, 2019 at Levittown Hall in Levittown, NY.
Winter Field Day, 2019
Some pictures from our winter field day event January 26, 2019 at Grace Lutheran church in Mastic. It was a beautiful day, several members helped set up a dipole in the trees and there were a bunch of verticals set up. We operated as W2DQ 3I NLI (there were three stations and we are located…