Aug 8th – Aug 15th
Steel City ARC will be doing an Special Event Station W8O to celebrate our 80 years in ham radio. Check out our event page for more information. To get one of our certificates after working our W8O station just send an QSL card to our address.
SCARC MEMBERS ONLY
Hello Steel City Members, there will be a special Zoom meeting on Saturday Night at 8:00 PM. Look in your email for the Zoom meeting invite Saturday morning. We will be going over how we are going to operate from the club house, club remotes, and from 
your homes. Our special event station will run from Aug 8th though Aug 15th. The event will start immediately after the QCWA net on Sunday morning ~9:00 AM. Below is the tentative scheduled for operations.
Sunday – Aug 8th
Tuesday – Aug 10th – Net night
Wednesday – Aug 11th – Social Night
Sunday – Aug 15th – SCARC 80th Birthday Picnic
On the “Club House only days” you will only be allowed to operate from the club house. All other day you will be allowed to operate from your homes.
Aug 7, 1200Z-2359Z, KD3KA, Saxonburg, PA. – Butler County Amateur Radio Public Service Group. KDKA, Pittsburgh, PA is the longest continuously scheduled commercial broadcast radio station in the world and holds many “firsts” in radio history. The first radio broadcast of a professional baseball game was on KDKA on August 5, 1921, from Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. BCARPSG will celebrate this centennial milestone with a special event station from Roebling Park in Saxonburg, near the site of KDKA mediumwave and W8XK shortwave transmitters in the 1930’s. A commemorative QSL is available via BCARPSG, P.O. Box 141, Prospect, PA 16052. Please send SASE. Donations gratefully accepted. https://www.kdka100.org
Frequencies: 7.040 7.240 14.040 14.240.
QSL:
BCARPSG
P.O. Box 141
Prospect, PA 16052
Please send SASE. Donations gratefully accepted.
Work Party At The Club House
Saturday – Aug 7th @ 10:00 AM
It is time to clean up the place before the picnic. We need some much needed work done at the club house. The weeds along the drive way need cut down and cleared out. Painting of the shed. Grass and Trim work around the building needs done. And the old club house needs clean up and organize before our guest show up.
Please show up and help the club out!
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When you see Nate don’t forget to congratulate him on his 70 years in ham radio!! Next to Nate is Captain Jack KA3HPM the President of the QCWA.
Member Pat Lang, KC3QDG caught the ISS passing over the Steel City Club House during our Field Day event. Below is what he receive sitting in his car during field day.
Want to here what a SSTV signal sounds like over two meters. Pat also gave us the audio recording too. List below are two of the recording. Try using these to decode your own SSTV image. {Note: Pat was simply using his phone up next to the speaker so at times there are background noises. – But it still worked!}
Photos from other ham that weekend:
https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php
Hello Steel City Members you should have received an group email with the 13 Colonies Log Form. Use this form to enter your club contacts. At the end of the event we will gather up all the contact and submit it for the certificate. If you did not get the email and need the link to them form please let me know. n3lrg@w3kwh.com
Use this link to report your contacts:
https://forms.gle/ATWUTxBWSmS731W49
Here are the stations we still need to work…..
| GB13COL – Great Britain | |
| TM13COL – France |
Today I move some photo into our “Old Time Pictures” page. These are some of the pictures from the club from 2010 through 2020. It is interesting to see how the club membership has changed over the years. And how our equipment has changed too from Tandy Model 100 laptops to today Windows PC. If you have additional photos you would like to see be included please send them to me.
Here is one of John KC3MMC great videos
Well Field Day 2021 is over now and I got to say everyone that came up to the top of the hill had a lot of fun. I do want to take some time and thank all the people that help setup, support, and clean up from this year field day.
Contact Per Band:
80m – 98
40m – 631
20m – 160
15m – 25
10m – 28
6m – 71
2m – 2
Total Contacts = 1,015
Total Per Mode:
CW – 558
Phone – 262
Digital – 195
Operators:
WQ3T, KC3MMC, WA3VXJ, N3LRG, KA3SZO, WA3BKD, KC3QDG, K3IQ,
KC3MXP, KC3LED, WA3FWA, WB3AGB, AG5FX, AD3AA, WA2YEZ
And thank you to all the loggers that help our operators out!
UTAH??? What happen? Did the state go on vacation?