Volunteers Are Needed
March 19 & 20
Link to race organizer: Rabid Raccoon 100
March 19 & 20
Link to race organizer: Rabid Raccoon 100
Breezeshooter Fun Event
This Saturday March 5th
Steel City Club House
This Saturday at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM Steel City ARC will be hosting a FUN PARTY along with the Breezeshooters Ground Wave contest. We will have Pizza and Snack so make your way up to the club house and have some fun while making some 10 meter contacts. This should be a good contest this year since the 10 meter band is opening up again. The mode of operation will be phone for the March 5th event.
Going to work the contest from home make sure you enter “W3KWH” under “Club Affiliation”
Steel City – Winter VE Testing Sessions
This Saturday at 12:30 PM
February 19
March 19
The session will be held at “Precision Sign & Awning” in Carnegie at 12:30 PM. For directions to the location click here
Precision Sign & Awning
3 Glass St.
Carnegie, PA 15106
For more information on Steel City VE testing session check out our VE testing Page.
SKYWARN Recognition Day – acknowledges the contributions of public service volunteers who provide essential weather information as it’s happening. Each year on the first Saturday in December, the day honors those volunteers who pay attention when the wind picks up, or the sky turns dark. Their efforts keep their communities safer by communication warnings to the National Weather Service.
The observance recognizes the vital public service contributions that Amateur Radio operators make during National Weather Service severe weather warning operations. It also strengthens the bond between Amateur Radio operators and the local National Weather Service.
Around the country, nearly 290,000 Skywarn® weather spotters volunteer their time. They identify severe weather that could potentially affect life and property. Spotters warn the National Weather Service of the threat of thunderstorms, tornados, and floods.
12:00 to 2:00 PM on Saturday is our assigned time slot to operate HF from the clubhouse. We will be needing operators during that time slot to operate! Members and pending members are invited to attend. Techs will be allowed to operate on HF due to control ops being present.
NU3Q plans to be at the club for the event on Friday night 12/3 for about two hours and Saturday morning 12/4. We need operators to cover the afternoon and evening shifts on Saturday and to assist NU3Q while he is at the club. We will use the following: “This is W3KWH for WX3PIT Skywarn Recognition Day”. Please keep a log of your W3KWH QSO’s – NU3Q will submit the W3KWH QSO’s to the NWS.
More Information:
https://www.weather.gov/crh/skywarnrecognition
https://www.weather.gov/pbz/skywarn
SKYWARN Recognition Day Operating Instructions
1. Object SKYWARNTM Recognition Day serves to celebrate the contributions to public safety made by amateur radio operators Skywarn Spotters during threatening weather.
2. Date NWS stations may operate at any time during December 5, 2020 from 0000 – 2400 UTC. 3. Exchange: Call sign, signal report, QTH, and a one or two word description of the weather occurring at your site (“sunny”, “partly cloudy”, “windy”, etc.). 4. Modes: NWS stations will work various modes including SSB, FM, AM, RTTY, CW, and PSK31. While working digital modes, special event stations will append “NWS” to their call sign (e.g., N0A/NWS). NWS offices may also participate via Social Media platforms throughout the 24 hour period. 5.Station Control Operator: It is suggested that during SRD operations a non-NWS volunteer should serve as a control operator for your station. 6. Event and QSL Information: The National Weather Service will provide event information via the internet. Event certificates will once again be electronic and printable from the main website after the conclusion of SRD. |
Last session before the snow fly’s! People interested in getting your Ham Ticket or Upgrading your ticket should check out our VE testing page https://w3kwh.com/ve-testing/ While walk in are allowed it is highly recommended to contact of VE Chairperson Chris, K3PQ to let him know your coming. That way your guarantee there will be testing material for you. Chris can be reached at K3PQ {at} W3KWH {dit} COM – (412) 259-3319
Thanks for all that attended the workshop. The input was much appreciated and I think we have a plan to go forward. A request for funding will be made at our next business meeting. Below are the slides from the presentation there are a lot of links in the presentation that you can click on to learn more. You will have to download the PDF to click on the links. The video will take some time to clean up.
Click here to download PDF with Links
ATV Workshop
Art, WA3BKD will be hosting a workshop on Thursday Nov 4th @ 7:00PM. This is an learning workshop where you can learn how to properly ground your station & tower.
WA3TFS Designs for Amateur Radio
Talk & Demo Oct 6th @ 7:00 PM
Jim Forkin, WA3TFS will be giving a talk about kit building and his kit that he has for sale at our Oct 6th, Wednesday night social meeting. The talk will begin at 7:00 PM.
Jim will be talking about some of his kits like, Simple FM SFR transceiver for 10 or 6 meters {See picture}, An simple SDR receiver for 1 kHz to 1.7 GHz, Using Arduino’s microprocessors for ham radio applications. He will also talk about the advantages of software control radios.
Check out his website: http://wa3tfs.com
Hey its an party!
Saturday Oct 9th – Noon till Midnight
Sunday Oct 10th – 9:00 AM till 6:00 PM
Save The Date!
Join us on Oct 9th & 10th for the annual PA QSO Party. Your heard me correctly! there is an HUGE CASH REWARD for the Steel City Member that works the W3RRR bonus station. Come on up to the club house and join the team was we have a lot of fun making contacts across the state. There will be an Ice Cream Social at 2:00 PM on Saturday, Hamburgers & Hot Dogs at 6:00 PM, then on Sunday there will be donuts in the morning. All the radio’s and antenna’s are reserve for this event the remotes will be shut down during contest times.
So Make Plans To Join the Posse!
We will need operators & loggers
CW & Phone Operators