Member Badges Available
SARA Member Callsign Badges are now available to SARA members! See https://w8wky.org/badges/ for information and ordering details!
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Field Day Antenna Prepped
The new SARA multi-band fan dipole has been built and deployed for some initial tuning and testing! For Field Day 2019, SARA will be deploying at tri-band fan dipole on 20m, 40m, and 80m. On May 31st, Gary AA8CS, Jeff W8TB, and John N8CD came over to Jason N8JDM’s house to raise and tune the
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SARA Family Picnic 2019
The annual SARA Family Picnic will be held on Sunday, August 18th from 1pm to 4pm! We will be returning to Silver Creek Metro Park at the Sherman Shelter. This event is for SARA club members and their families only. SARA will provide the main course of burgers and hotdogs, including buns and condiments. SARA
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442.275 Digital Migration Complete
The conversion of SARA’s 442.275 repeater to a multi-mode digital machine is complete. Barry KI8B, Marty N8XPK, Rick WB8UTW, Jason N8JDM, John N8CD, and Gary AA8CS assembled their gear for the job as planned on Saturday May 4th. Shortly after 8:15 the work began of removing the analog bits of the UHF machine and replacing
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442.275 MHz Conversion – MAY 4, 2019
At the April meeting, SARA voted to confirm the Technical Committee plan to convert W8WKY 442.275 MHz to a multi-mode digital repeater, replacing the current analog FM system. This conversion will happen the morning of Saturday, May 4th. Beginning at noon on Saturday, May 4th, 442.275 MHz will operate only with the following digital modes:
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