What a great weekend for Field Day! Beautiful weather at setup time teed up an entire weekend of great weather, great fellowship, and great operating. SARA operated W8WKY as a 5 Alpha site this year. That means that all four simultaneous-operation transmitters were operating on emergency power of some form – generation, solar, or batteries. […]
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SARA Member Callsign Badges are now available to SARA members! See https://w8wky.org/badges/ for information and ordering details!
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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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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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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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