News from the Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club (SPARC)

 Hi,

Good meeting,

We had seven attendees.  All on Zoom.  The 2M repeater is not back online.

No jokes this week.  Cannot read my writing.

See you next week.
73, Gordon, NQ4K

posted by SPARC'ie  # 7:07 AM

Hi,

We completed the first major move of equipment from Jim's QTH to my QTH today.  The attached picture shows the equipment stacked in our "computer" room.  This is approximately 80 items of vintage equipment.. 

We had a lot of help in this move.  Thanks to
  Bud, W4KSN
  Jeff, KB4IWD
  Eric, AJ4LN
  Stueve, K4INT
  John, W3XWT
for helping out over the past couple of days to make this happen.

Still more to move and in a few days when we finalize an inventory list, we will start trying to sell it.

Do not forget the Wednesday In-Person meeting.


73, Gordon, NQ4K

posted by SPARC'ie  # 7:15 PM

 Hi,

It is time for our monthly meeting for the month of March.  The year is going by very rapidly.

We meet at 7 PM at the Sheriff substation in Sterling on Wednesday 6 March.

The featured speaker for this month is Marty, NV3H, and he will talk on GNU Radio.  This is an open-source software toolkit that provides signal processing for software defined radios.  It can be used with low-cost RF hardware to build your own software defined radio.  This should be an interesting discussion and I know that I will learn a lot.

If we have time we can talk about the VA QSO Party and other minor bits of club business.

73, Gordon, NQ4K

posted by SPARC'ie  # 9:53 AM