News from the Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club (SPARC)
The SPARC web site is at http://www.qsl.net/sterling.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Club Meeting, Wednesday, 4 March 2015
It is time for our March club meeting. Time seems to move along rapidly sometimes.
I have had a good month in ham radio. I will have given the Virginia QSO party presentation at the Alexandria Radio Club, the Roanoke Valley Amateur radio club, and at the Chesapeake Amateur Radio Service. In addition, I ran a special event station at our church to enable some of the younger members of our congregation to get on the radio. Finally, I worked the ARRL DX CW contest on 40M for a couple of hours and following the advise of folks at the last club meeting, did a QSO with Navassa Island. A good month for me.
Refreshments for the meeting will be provided by Eric, AJ4LN.
Charlie, K3SR, will give a demonstration this month on "Cable Impedance Measurement and other techniques." I am not a hands-on person, so this will be very interesting for me.
Finally, we have a few items of club business. We will do a little final coordination for VA QSO Party, which is rapidly coming up on 21-22 March.
See you at the meeting,
73, Gordon, NQ4K
Monday, February 09, 2015
Congratulations to the Class of February 2015
See email below from Red, N3TG, on results of exam session and pictures at:
http://www.qsl.net/sterling/Licensing/201502_License_Exam/20150201_Exam_Session_Pics/20150201_Exam_Session.htm
http://www.qsl.net/sterling/Licensing/201501_Tech_Class/2015_January_Tech_Class_Pics/2015_January_Tech_Class_Pics.html
73, Gordon, NQ4K
On 2/8/2015 8:41 PM, Bill Free wrote:
It is with great pleasure that I announce to you all the new call signs
given to you by the FCC as the result of your successful exam
undertakings a week ago with the SPARC VE exam team. Here below are
your new "identities:" We hope you will begin to enjoy your new ham
radio privileges. Please feel free to come visit a SPARC club meeting
the first Wednesday of each month (except July and August) at the same
location where you took your exam from 7 to 9 pm.
Julia Duncan KC3EGU
Marty Matsen KC3EGV>
Don Meyerhoff KM4HRG
Lucas Parobek KM4HRH
Travis Pendergraft KM4HRI
Jeffery Traver KM4HRJ
Michael Henderson KM4HRL
Kyle Canavera KM4HRM
Robert Fowler KM4HRN
Bill Dubnowski KM4HRO
Tim Malloy KM4HRP
Jessica McWaters KM4HRQ
Brendan O'Neill KM4HRR
Jayme Pendergraft KM4HRS
Geary Younce KM4HRT
Congratulations to all!
Bill Free N3TG (a/k/a/ Red)
VE Coordinator, Sterling Park ARC
Monday, February 02, 2015
January 2015 meeting minutes
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location name: Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, Eastern Loudoun Station, community room
Location address: 46620 East Frederick Dr., Sterling, VA 20164
Facilitator: Gordon, NQ4K
Attendees: 18, including 2 new attendees
Refreshments were provided by Red, N3TG.
Secretary Eric, AJ4LN collected the annual $10 dues from 18 people (some of the dues were from people not attending the meeting), and handed the money to treasurer, Ray, KD4RSL.
We had a round of introductions where each person shared their recent amateur radio related activities.
We had our annual show and tell, where people presented some interesting radio related items. Eric, AJ4LN showed the "Useless Box" contraption he had assembled from a kit he received for Christmas. Here's a link to the kit: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ef0b/
We had our annual "white elephant" gift exchange.
We discussed the Virginia QSO Party, which our club hosts, and which takes place March 21-22, 2015. We are making progress on receiving payments for sponsored plaques. We discussed plans to have a K4NVA/Mobile HF station on the air outside Loudoun County on Sunday morning, during the time the main K4NVA station is expected to be off the air during the Vienna Wireless Winterfest hamfest, which falls on the same Sunday morning only for this year.
We discussed the next technician license class.
- Eric Carlson, AJ4LN, Secretary
Club meeting, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 7PM
It is time for the February club meeting. Wednesday, 4 February 2015.
Refreshments for the meeting will be provided by Paul, K4PDF.
I have had a very busy month. The biggest thing was participating in the tech license preparation class and exam this past weekend. The instructors did an excellent job and Red, N3TG, the exam session coordinator can tell us how the students did.
At this meeting, Henry, K2BFY, will give a presentation on "ARES in Loudoun County." Henry has been working with Tom Dawson to update the plan for AREA support to Loudoun County Government. I know almost nothing about ARES so this should be an interesting talk.
We do have a few items of club business.
We will get an update on preparations for the Virginia QSO Party. Bill, KJ4VTH, has been lining up sponsors for the plaques.
See you at the meeting.
73, Gordon, NQ4K
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