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SARA joins over 40,000 hams every year to get on the air for Field Day, the most popular coordinated event in ham radio. Here’s SARA’s plans for 2021.

In an attempt to reduce network load on the ham network and the Pi at the repeater site, an Allstar hub node has been created “in the cloud”. This new hub is Allstar Node #48496. Instead of connecting to Allstar Node #43211 which is the local node of the W8WKY 39 repeater, please connect to

The FCC’s rule changes governing RF exposure standards went into effect on May 3, 2021. Here’s an excellent video about the changes.

The 2021 Spring Apparel Sale for all your SARA Gear needs is finally here!

Below are the on-the-air transmit times for SARA’s 147.390 repeater. Times from this time a year ago were between 2 and 4 hours typically, so this is quite an increase since 2020! Date Transmit time (HH:MM:SS.sss) 2021-04-07 10:44:43.92 2021-04-06 12:57:38.490 2021-04-05 12:46:30.941 2021-04-04 08:02:29.944 2021-04-03 10:36:29.428 2021-04-02 10:34:49.56 2021-04-01 09:57:18.844 2021-03-31 12:32:11.566 2021-03-30 11:27:00.603 2021-03-29