May 20, 2024
Come join us for ARRL Field Day. Everyone is invited even if you don’t have a ham radio license! Our members will have all of the radios, antennas, microphones and oh-so-many cables all set up and ready for you to get on the air. Or, maybe you want to talk with one of our members …
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Our club has an active email reflector (SARC-All) which discusses all things related to radio as well as club business. From time to time we post excerpts from some of the general radio discussions. Kirk K9MSG started the discussion Recently I’ve been near the southeast corner of Bloomingdale [Illinois – Ed.]. I’ve often looked up …
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By Joe KB9RCR We generally find equipment randomly coming through the door for repair and/or calibration. SARC is blessed to have rather extensive test equipment/parts and more importantly are blessed with several members with really good technical skills to find and solve circuit challenges. Over the years there have been many pre-organized construction projects that …
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by John KD9KSH The Holiday party is usually an event where we are able to talk with our SARC friends and make new friends. SARC has been lucky to have new members join the club and this is a great opportunity to get to know them. This event is only open to SARC members and …
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During a recent construction project club members built dummy loads for testing radios. The loads required a heat sink and club member Bob W9GEW provided materials and machine time from his business to help produce those. He provided this video of the machining process.