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 100th Camporee
Ken KD2DZZ set up at the Suffolk County Council’s 100th Anniversary Camporee at Southaven Park in Yaphank, NY on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Ken was the sole representative from SCRC and estimates that about 2,500 scouts were in attendance. Ken set up a 10 x 20 pop-up to keep dry as it rained or drizzled…
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…
ARRL Director Jairam visit
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
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…
Fox Hunt trial run
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…
Fox Hunt antenna build
All I could say is we had a Great time last night building our Fox Hunt antennas, everybody there could tell you the same thing. It was a lot of fun, we had a lot of laughs, but all in all we built our Fox hunt antennas and they work great, SWR’s are low and…
Field Day, 2018
Just wanted to thank all the members who came to our Field Day to help with setup and the turn out that we had. We made a load of contacts and had a great time doing so. Food was good and the weather did cooperate with us. The general consensus is can’t wait for the…