News from the Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club (SPARC)

The SPARC web site is at http://www.qsl.net/sterling.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Wednesday nite 6m round table

The 6m SPARC round table is every Wednesday (except for meeting nites) at 1900 local time on the Ashburn NQ4CI NVFMA 6m repeater:

53.61mhz with a -1mhz offset and a 67hz PL tone (PL not currently implemented)

The backup plan if the 6m repeater is not working is to meet on the 70 cm Ashburn NQ4CI NVFMA repeater at 442.100 with a +5mhz offset.

There is no net control station because this is not a net. It is a gathering place for SPARC so just get on 6m and conduct an informal round table discussion. I would like to keep the SPARC on air meetings informal.

If U would like a great inexpensive (about $75) 6m transceiver, please contact me or KA2ZEV. A SPARC member, Mike, KA2ZEV, has some awesome Midland 22 channel 110 watt 12V dc transceivers and U can get one from him. I have been using one and it is superb.

Also, Bill, WF1L, mentioned that a 5/8wave 2m antenna is about 1/4wave on 6m and I tried it with the 110 watt Midland transceiver and it works very well.

Almost any antenna will work on 6m... from an 80 meter dipole to a 2m 5/8 wave vertical so antennas should not be an issue.

The 70cm repeater can be reached with an HT from Leesburg so I'm thinking that most SPARC members can reach it. I bought a PUXING 70cm transceiver on ebay (available for about $50) and it works fine with the rubber duck antenna. I have reached the 70cm repeater from my QTH with as little as 300mw (QRPp) power.

73, Henry, K2BFY

Henry Weidman
Sterling, Virginia

posted by SPARC'ie  # 7:36 PM

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