This months meeting will be a week early due to Memorial Day. We will be Meeting on May 20, 2024 at 7:00pm. at the Longwood Youth Sports Association building in Yaphank . This months guest speaker will be Ken Neubeck , WB2AMU. His presentation will be about 6 meters, AKA the Magic Band. Ken has…
Special Attendance at the April meeting
The Suffolk County Radio Club was once again honored to be in attendance with Elaine Thompson, daughter of Frank John Ryder, the original W2DQ! Unfortunately most memorabilia from the time when Frank lived in Brooklyn had been lost in a fire. However Elaine was gracious enough to bring copies of 2 photographs that survived the…
Winlink at the April 22nd meeting
Presented by Richard J Martino Jr. KB2SNE Richard is retired U.S. Air Force who worked on fixed satellite communications systems as both an operator and maintainer. He belongs to his local CAP: Civil Air Patrol Chapter NY-251 assigned to Long Island Group HQ as a Communications Engineer. He has resumed his USAF retirement rank…
Breakfast Meetup April 14,2024
Our Club has restarted an old tradition, monthly breakfast meetups. We met at the McDonalds in Farmingville , ten club members in total attended. We will switch locations each month and perhaps alternate between Saturday and Sundays. The next date will be announced soon, try and attend and maybe bring a friend that is interested…
SCRC participates in the Solar Eclipse Event
The Suffolk County Radio Club participated in the Solar Eclipse HamSci Research Project on April 8th, 2024. The event was held at the Moriches Branch of the Shirley, Mastic, Moriches Library. Not only did we have many members in attendance but also some members of other local Amateur Radio Clubs as well as Jim Mezey,…
SCRC prepare for HamSCI during the Eclipse
Newsday visited the SCRC to discuss the club’s plans for participation in the upcoming events and radio science related to the eclipse which will occur Mon, Apr 8. Activites are being coordinated through HamSci.org. Nicholas Spangler’s story is available on Newsday for subscribers along with a video showing some operations. Several members braved the near…
March 2024 Meeting
Our Speaker for the March meeting was Joe K0NEB. Joe Joined us via zoom from his home in Nebraska. The presentation was focused on kit building with lots of tips and tricks from his vast experience as a kit builder. The Meeting was attended by well over 30 club members!
SCRC participates in Winter Field Day 2024
The Suffolk County Radio Club participated in the Winter Field Day event on January 27th. The club setup in the club communications trailer in the parking lot of the clubhouse. Many members attended and worked stations across the US and around the World. Members utilized 4 stations for over 6 hours of continuos operaion. The…
SCRC – Nov 2023 Meeting
The club hosted another guest speaker this month, Mike KD2UWR, who presented a comprehensive and informative talk on POTA operations. He touched on all aspects of the activity including terminology (hunter / activator), registering at https://pota.app, discussed optional logging programs (Mike’s favorite is HAMRS – find it at https://hamrs.app/), radio gear required. Mike is a…
Club moves to .org as primary domain
The club has been using suffolkcountyradioclub.com for some years as our primary domain but to better reflect our non-profit status, we are moving to suffolkcountyradioclub.org as of Oct 28, 2023. We’re working on moving our email addresses and groups to .org as well, so please be patient during the transition!