Long Island's Oldest Ham Radio Club Est. 1947
On Saturday May 4,2024 Suffolk County Radio Club was invited by the Shirley Mastic Moriches Library to take part in Masticon. This years celebration coincided with Star Wars Day (May the 4th), There was plenty of Jedis and Siths running around but that did not ruin the great time had by members manning the table….
This months meeting will be a week early due to Memorial Day. We will be Meeting on May 20, 2024 at 7:00pm. at the Longwood Youth Sports Association building in Yaphank . This months guest speaker will be Ken Neubeck , WB2AMU. His presentation will be about 6 meters, AKA the Magic Band. Ken has…
Our Club has restarted an old tradition, monthly breakfast meetups. We met at the McDonalds in Farmingville , ten club members in total attended. We will switch locations each month and perhaps alternate between Saturday and Sundays. The next date will be announced soon, try and attend and maybe bring a friend that is interested…
Our Speaker for the March meeting was Joe K0NEB. Joe Joined us via zoom from his home in Nebraska. The presentation was focused on kit building with lots of tips and tricks from his vast experience as a kit builder. The Meeting was attended by well over 30 club members!
Celebrating 75 years as Long Island’s oldest radio club On Saturday October 8, 2022 from 1500z to 2359z we will be operating a Special Event Station to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the club. The event will be held at the historic laboratory of Nikola Telsa (Wardenclyffe) located in Shoreham, N.Y. We will be active on…
On Monday August 29, 2022 the club met at the Longwood Youth Sport Association clubhouse in Yaphank. Our very own Pres W2PW did a presentation on the handheld that everyone loves to hate, the Baofeng. Pres went over some common menu settings and showed some shortcuts for programming memories.
Have you been looking for somewhere to take the amateur radio test? We have a “VE” (Volunteer Examiner) Session scheduled for the 1st of April (no, really! this isn’t an April Fools Day joke!) at the United Church of Christ 335, Horseblock Road, Farmingville, NY 11738. Tests begin at 7pm. Bob N2OCH is the main…
SCRC meeting with Ria Jairam, Director of ARRL Hudson Division. Note that the ARRL Hudson Division also includes Long Island. She spoke on many different topics and would like feed back on anything you have a problem or question about. Ria’s contact info can be found here
Sunday we got together and did a practice run for the Fox Hunt, it was a great time, found the little bugger hugging a tree…. We will defiantly do it again. We found out things that we need to do in the future and maybe some additional equipment, all in all we made homemade antennas…