Starting on Tuesday, March 2nd, SARA’s W8WKY 147.390MHz repeater will be carrying the RCWA Boredom Breaker Net from 1pm to 2pm eastern. This is being offered on a trial basis to see how it works out with the repeater and our community. Started by the Rogers County Wireless Association in Oklahoma as a midday net […]
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It’s that time of year again – ARRL Field Day! Or, at least, the time to start planning for it. SARA is planning to have a club field day in 2021 assuming there is no major shift in the trajectory of COVID-19 and the vaccination progress. With that in mind, it’s time to start assembling
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After spending my first several months as a ham just lurking around 2m and 70cm, I participated in my local club’s Field Day event and decided it was time to move beyond only nets and such like and join the ranks of those on HF.
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Some of the SARA Tech Committee along with a few other interested hams (notably Eric WD8KNL and Rick WB8UTW) have been continuing to pursue the noise interfering with 147.390 MHz. There has been a tremendous amount of hours put in by John N8CD doing direction-finding around the area. Thanks to John’s tireless effort the noise
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Sign-Ups for the build will close on February 26, 2021 The SARA Spring 2021 Build Project will be a dual-band J-Pole assembled from common components. This build project is open to anyone, not just SARA members. The J-pole antenna is an end-fed omni-directional half-wave antenna that is matched to the feedline by a quarter wave
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