Late Summer We are in the last month of Summer. Even though the bands may be poor, there is plenty of activity on the ft8 portions of the bands. Late Summer and Early Fall is a great time to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. When going out be…
Summer Time Parks on the Air (POTA) is in full swing. Many are bringing their equipment with them on trips and taking the time to activate parks along the way. Keep an eye out for club members and be sure to spot them. So far the Summer has been fairly…
Members of the SLAARC e-mail list may have noticed a new e-mail that came out during July. It was generated from a newly created e-mail group created on Groups.io What is Groups.io? At base, it is a new form of an e-mail group. It allows for a clear method of…
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…
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