Field Day 2018 We put another one in the books. The weekend forecast was showing rain for the entire duration of the event. That did not deter the Friday set-up crew. A contingent showed up early to get going before any rain hit. As it turned out, we only received…
Mike K8MRD made a great video chronicling our Field Day…check it out and share. Thanks and 73
Dayton Hamvention This was the second year for the Dayton Hamvention in Xenia, OH. It did rain, as in the previous year. This brought forth mud, but no as much as in thee previous year. The organizers addressed many of the issue last year with the traffic and mud in…
Goodbye Spring and Hello Summer! What happened since the last meeting? We were getting snow and still had winter storm warnings up north, and then Summer broke out! I had to rush to do some antenna work before the snow disappeared. And so it begins The Event committee is ramping…
Spring is Coming – Still We continue to have tastes of Spring. March sort-of went, out like a Lamb, being chased by a Lion! As of this writing, we are having snow falling and melting upon hitting the ground. The still gives us all some time to do that important…
The SLAARC website has been upgraded to use HTTPS with SSL as of 17 March 2018. Everything appears to be working, but if you encounter any kind of problem, please let me know. ~Bruce (K8BRF)
Spring is Coming We keep having tastes of Spring. March has come in like a Lion, which means it should go out like a Lamb. I know that the February and March weather took out my HF antennas so March will mean some antenna work. Spring also means Siren testing…
We will asses the travel and road conditions by 4:00 PM Sunday, approximately 2 hours before people would begin to travel to the meeting on Sunday. If the road conditions are poor, we will cancel the meeting. We will send out an e-mail, announce it on the repeater and post…
Winter is Holding On Since the groundhog saw his shadow, we are going to have six more weeks of Winter. However, we have some things on our side. The days are getting longer, 80 and 160 meters are still good, and we had a very successful Winter Field Day. Winter…
Here is a link to the video from our January presentation from Larry K8UT on FT8 Added Note Larry thought this was an important graph that was not shown…my how FT8 has taken the ham community by storm! Original sourced from ‘http://g7vjr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ft8-2017-3.png’
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