Celebrating 75 years as Long Island’s oldest radio club On Saturday October 8, 2022 from 1500z to 2359z we will be operating a Special Event Station to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the club. The event will be held at the historic laboratory of Nikola Telsa (Wardenclyffe) located in Shoreham, N.Y. We will be active on…
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August 2022 meeting
On Monday August 29, 2022 the club met at the Longwood Youth Sport Association clubhouse in Yaphank. Our very own Pres W2PW did a presentation on the handheld that everyone loves to hate, the Baofeng. Pres went over some common menu settings and showed some shortcuts for programming memories.
Additional Ham License date – Apr 1
Have you been looking for somewhere to take the amateur radio test? We have a “VE” (Volunteer Examiner) Session scheduled for the 1st of April (no, really! this isn’t an April Fools Day joke!) at the United Church of Christ 335, Horseblock Road, Farmingville, NY 11738. Tests begin at 7pm. Bob N2OCH is the main…
ARRL Director Jairam visit
SCRC meeting with Ria Jairam, Director of ARRL Hudson Division. Note that the ARRL Hudson Division also includes Long Island. She spoke on many different topics and would like feed back on anything you have a problem or question about. Ria’s contact info can be found here
Fox Hunt trial run
Sunday we got together and did a practice run for the Fox Hunt, it was a great time, found the little bugger hugging a tree…. We will defiantly do it again. We found out things that we need to do in the future and maybe some additional equipment, all in all we made homemade antennas…