Allegheny County
ARES Meeting This Saturday
3-25-23 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
All radio operators are welcome to attend both members and non-members of SCARC are welcome. Bob NU3Q will be going over the status of ARES for the county and will be covering the following weeks SET Drill.
Directions to the SCARC Club House: http://w3kwh.com/find-the-clubhouse/
March 25th – 10 am – 12 Noon — ARES Meeting for Allegheny County open to all members and non-members
April 1st – 9 AM – 12 Noon — SET TEST @ Club house
April 22nd – TBA — Carnegie Library @ Carnegie Open House
May 21st — Komen Race For The Cure — Volunteers are needed
June 3rd – June 18th — Lewis Clark On The Air – Special Event Station
June 24th – June 25th — FIELD DAY 2023
June 24th — Rachel Carson Trail Challenge – Volunteers are needed
July 15th – July 16th — Vintage Grant Prix – Volunteers are needed
Sept 24th — Pittsburgh Great Race — Volunteers are needed
WE NEED YOUR HELP
We are getting down to our last several week before the race start. We can not let an aid station go without radio communications most of the site have no cellular service. So Ham Radio operators are a must have. Please follow the link below to see the still open slots. This has been an enjoyable and fun public service event to work.
Click Here For More Information and to sign up: W3KWH.net/Rabid
HELP US!
Most Recent Runner Counts:
64 — 100 Mile Ultra
37 — 100 Kilometer Ultra
234 — 20 Mile Marathon
112 — Midnight 20 Marathon
5 — Relay Teams
Updated 3/6/23
Woody Hoburg is a Pittsburgh native and ham radio operator KB3HTZ is heading to space very early Monday morning. { 1:45 AM } He is the pilot aboard SpaceX Crew-6 Dragon Spaceship. He will be spending the next 6 month on board the International Space Station keeping busy doing science work. I got to know Woody from the Tripoli Rocket Assc. and its Pittsburgh chapter, his father had to get certified just so Woody could fly the big rockets since at the time he was under age. The group now has a Junior program due to the success Woody had. I had the privilege of being the Prefect {safety officer} of the group when he went for his level 3 certification flight at our tiny field, it was something to see that huge flag rocket in our small field. God Speed Woody and have some fun flying into space.
73…N3LRG
The HamSCI Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science will occur October 14, 2023 and April 8, 2024 during spectacular North American solar eclipses.The Festivals will consist of multiple events, each with a goal of increasing our understanding of sun-ionosphere-earth relationships. Participants will include volunteer amateur radio operators, short wave listeners and science researchers from multiple US universities.
Read More about this here:
https://science.nasa.gov
https://hamsci.org/eclipse
Reviving a 200-year-old system, enthusiasts are putting the digit back in digital communication
“For almost 20 years, Steve Galchutt {WGØAT}, a retired graphic designer, has trekked up Colorado mountains accompanied by his pack of goats to contact strangers around the world using a language that is almost two centuries old, and that many people have given up for dead. On his climbs, Galchutt and his herd have scared away a bear grazing on raspberries, escaped from fast-moving forest fires, camped in subfreezing temperatures and teetered across a rickety cable bridge over a swift-moving river where one of his goats, Peanut, fell into the drink and then swam ashore and shook himself dry like a dog”
READ THE FULL ARTICAL HERE
On The Smithsonian Magazine
The Steel City Amateur Radio Club will be hosting an Ham Radio Demo at the Carnegie Library in Carnegie, PA. This will be open to the public to show off what ham radio is all about. Please get the word out to your neighbors, family, and friends to bring them to the wonderful library in Carnegie. Steel City will have a display of their Go Boxes and some of our members boxes. We will have live connection via our remotes so that we can make some contacts while the public looks on.
MAP TO THE LIBRARY
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall
VE Testing Session
Steel City Amateur Radio Club will be conducting a VE testing session Public Demo at the Carnegie Library in Carnegie PA. The testing session will start at 2:00 PM on Feb 25th and is open for new hams and upgrades. Please check out our VE Testing Page for more information. Also please contact Chris K3PQ at k3pq@w3kwh.com for pre-registration to guarantee a spot for you at the testing location. Walk in allowed but register people will be tested first.
Carnegie Library
300 Beechwood Avenue
Carnegie, PA 15106-2644
Google Map Link
This information is for Steel City Members only via the web. For public access please go to the club house on any monthly business meetings for access.
Main Website: https://www.3y0j.no/
News Updates: https://www.dx-world.net/3y0j-bouvet-island/
Follow along with the Bouvet Island DXpedition as the try to work the rarest DX identity.