Location:
Ohio Township Community Park | 325 Nicholson Road | Sewickley, PA 15143
On August 5-6, 2022 the Steel City ARC will be doing the Boy Scout of America Radio Merit Badge at the Steel City club house. Steel City ARC will be needing operators to help the scouts make contact so that they can finish their education and earn the Radio Merit badge. Members are encourage to let there local troop know of this event and they can be invite. More details to follow
For Merit Badge Information: Radio Merit Badge PDF
The Twenty-Fifth Annual Rachel Carson Trail Challenge will take place on June 18, 2022, the Saturday nearest the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. The Challenge is a 35-mile long, one-day, sunrise to sunset endurance hike on nearly the entire rugged Rachel Carson Trail. Unlike a footrace, the “challenge” is not to win, but to endure, to finish the hike in one day. This time, the Challenge starts in North Park at sunrise and ends 35 miles later in Harrison Hills Park. The deadline for finishing is sunset, 8:54 PM or 15 hours 4 minutes, whichever comes first.
They are going to need ham radio volunteers at many of the check point along the trail. There are many different shift from morning to late afternoon shift. Check out the signup form below to see where and at what times the shift are at. If you’d like to help out, review the Volunteer Roles and Responsibilities and sign up!
NOTE: It will require to sign in use “rctc” for both user-id and password.
Rachel Carson Trails Volunteer Signup
National Hurricane Center Annual Communications Test to be Held on May 28WX4NHC, the amateur radio station at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, Florida, will hold its annual communications test on Saturday, May 28, 2022, from 9 AM to 5 PM EDT (1300 – 2100 UTC).
The event is designed to evaluate WX4NHC’s amateur radio equipment and antennas at the headquarters in Florida, and to give operators an opportunity to evaluate their home equipment prior to this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, which starts on June 1 and runs through November 30. This event allows ham radio operators worldwide to hone their amateur radio communications skills for times of severe weather.
Brief contacts will be available on many frequencies and modes, as well as the exchange of signal reports and basic weather data with any station in any location.
WX4NHC will be on the air on HF, VHF, UHF, 2- and 30-meter APRS, and Winlink at wx4nhc@winlink.org (subject must contain “//WL2K”).
The Hurricane Watch Net 14.325 MHz frequency will be active for most of the test, as will 7.268 MHz, depending on propagation. Depending on man-made noise, the net may move to different frequencies, and participants can locate the net using one of the DX spotting networks, such as the DX Summit website at www.dxsummit.fi.
Read more at:
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2022-05-12#toc04
The Department of Defense will host this year’s Armed Forces Day (AFD) Cross-Band Test, scheduled for May 14th 2022. This annual event is open to all licensed amateur radio operators, and will not impact any public or private communications. For more than 50 years, military and amateur stations have taken part in this event, which is only an exercise scenario, designed to include hobbyist and government radio operators alike.
The AFD Cross-Band Test is a unique opportunity to test two-way communications between military communicators and radio stations in the Amateur Radio Service (ARS), as authorized in 47 CFR 97.111. These tests provide opportunities and challenges for radio operators to demonstrate individual technical skills in a tightly-controlled exercise scenario that does not impact any public or private communications.
Military stations will transmit on selected military frequencies and will announce the specific ARS frequencies monitored. All times are ZULU (Z), and all frequencies are Upper Side Band (USB) unless otherwise noted. The frequencies used for the test will not impact any public or private communications, and will not stray outside the confines of the exercise.
The following stations will be making two way radiotelephone contacts with stations in the ARS between the time periods listed on the frequencies listed in Kilohertz below.
For more information & scheduled:
https://www.dodmars.org/mars-comex-information-website/armed-forces-day
Volunteers needed
Race for the Cure
May 8th
Hi folks:
I need volunteers for the Race for the Cure Sunday morning May 8, 2022 in Schenley Park. If interested, please e-mail me at nu3q@nu3q.us or call me at 412-736-7385.
73 de NU3Q
Attention: The marathon is reporting a major shortage of ham radio operators. Please help out this worthy cause and volunteer for a spot along the race course.
Here is the next volunteer effort that is needed for the City of Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Marathon will be Sunday May 1st, 2022. Follow the link below to sign up for a check point.
Pittsburgh Marathon Ham Volunteers
It is community events like these that enable the Amateur Radio community keep our frequency. The Pittsburgh Marathon has a long history of ham radio supporting the event. The point of contact person here is Jeff, N3NHS jhutz@cmu.edu
Steel City Special Event Station
Carnegie Library Grand Opening of Library Park
April 23, 2022 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Click Here for Google Maps Directions: Carnegie Library
Library Web Page: Grand Opening Celebration
The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall (ACFL&MH) has served Carnegie and surrounding communities the “beacon on the hill” since 1901. The Library & Music Hall was Andrew Carnegie’s legacy gift to the town that incorporated to take his name in 1894. Though he funded 2,500 libraries around the world, the industrialist-turned-philanthropist endowed only five libraries. The ACFL&MH is proudly one of them.
Attention: Steel City members we have been ask to participate in this drill on Saturday April 2nd. As you can see below we will not know what is needed before the morning of the event. Our club station does quite well on the 60m band and maybe Mike or Bob can give us a refresher course on how to handle traffic some Wednesday night social meeting.
I made the announcement on this morning’s ARES net (less than great band condx) but still wanted to get the word out to the WPA section ECs with spring SET exercise information.
We’re doing things differently this spring…the date will remain the same, the first Saturday in April, the 2nd and run times will remain the same with the following change- the exercise scenario will only be given out during the ARES net that morning. participating counties will have from 0930-1000 to get their response organised and the exercise will run from 1000-1230 hrs.
In addition to the standard FM radio operations there will be HF radiogram traffic and 60m testing. Our served agencies will only be the American Red Cross, National Weather Service and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.
Best 73s and press on!
Steve Fazekas K3FAZ
WPA ASM/ASEC
724.316.6894
k3faz@arrl.net
March 19 & 20
Link to race organizer: Rabid Raccoon 100
