SCHH ARC “This & That” — July 22, 2025
The Weekly Newsletter of the Sun City Hilton Head Amateur Radio Club (SCHH ARC)
Editor – Harve Hnatiuk, KB3FW
Lake Warren State Park POTA Activation Planning Today at 11 AM
SCHH ARC Will Go to Hampton County on August 9th!
The SCHH ARC will operate KE4HAM at Lake Warren State Park in a multi-station Parks on the Air (POTA) activation on Saturday, August 9th.
Jack Frisch, K2ITZ is coordinating the club’s efforts for our POTA activation.
A Zoom Meeting will be conducted today (July 22nd) at 11 AM to plan the outing. Zoom info has been emailed to all members.
All club members are invited to participate in both the planning and the activation.
Lake Warren State Park — Park US- 2903 — is one of over 12,000 parks that are in the POTA register and is about an hour’s drive from Sun City Hilton Head.
We will have a nice pavilion in which to operate KE4HAM.
Our ARC included a POTA activation when we were operating KE4HAM on Hunting Island last August. As such, KE4HAM will be activating its second park in early August. Hope to see you there!!
Additional details will be in next week’s This & That.
Do You Do POTA? If So, How Are You Doing?
As we move toward our club’s second POTA activation, let’s hear from club members regarding current “numbers”. How many parks have you worked? How many successful activations have you had? Any comments about POTA? What do you like about POTA? What don’t you like about it?
This & That will plan to provide a summary of what is sent back from our readership in the coming weeks!
Please email any relevant input to Harve at hnat463@gmail.com. Many thanks!
Telegraph History at Gettysburg Battlefield Museum
Ed Stratton, W1ZZ recently visited Gettysburg, PA and toured the national military park’s museum there.
How is this for a piece of historical Morse Code hardware?
Thanks for sharing the photos, Ed!
More on Thirteen Colonies
In addition to the members listed in last week’s This & That, Ken Finke (KN8F) also had a clean sweep. Congratulations, Ken!
Harve Hnatiuk (KB3FW) operated as K2L on CW and notched nearly 400 QSOs for the SC team. Ed Stratton (W1ZZ) was also a K2L operator.
Vanity Call Sign for Al E. Gator
We received two responses with vanity callsigns for Al…both very good!!
Bob McCormick, KD8IH suggested that Al looks like he’s from England and tagged him as “G8OR”. Charlie Bess, AD5EN followed the same tack but with a US callsign, “AG8ER”.
Well done!
What’s Coming Up
Today, Tuesday, July 22, 2025 –– Zoom Meeting to discuss plans for August 9th’s Parks on the Air Activation at Lake Warren State Park. Zoom info has been sent to all club members.
Saturday, August 9, 2025 — KE4HAM Parks on the Air Activation at Lake Warren State Park. See some news about this event in this issue of This & That. Additional info will be included in This & That in the coming weeks.
Thursday, September 4, 2025 — September Membership Meeting, Lakehouse, 7 PM. Our program will be provided by Frank Pollino, K2OS who will tell us how he was able to earn “Worked All States” on 432 MHz!
SCHH ARC Nets
Net News
Please check-in to our nets and let others know how you are doing and what you are doing in ham radio and in other areas.
If you would like to direct a net as an NCS, please contact Harve, KB3FW (hnat463@gmail.com). Your help would be greatly appreciated!
The club is attempting to get the 147.06 machine back into legal operation. For now, the .060 machine should be considered “off limits” for anything other than monitoring.
Weekly SCHH ARC Nets
Sunday’s Net (8 PM) operates on 147.550 MHz simplex on the last two Sundays of the calendar month. The Sunday net will be on the KE4HAM repeater (147.135 + with a tone of 91.5 on both the input and the output) on all other Sundays of the calendar month. Check-in can be done even if you don’t have a radio up and running via EchoLink by using the link KE4HAM-L when the net is on SIMPLEX and KE4HAM-R when the net is on the SCHH Okatie Repeater.
Wednesday‘s Net (8 PM) will operate until further notice on the KE4HAM Okatie Repeater (147.135 + with a tone of 91.5 on both input and output). The net can be accessed via EchoLink using the link KE4HAM-R.
Next 10m SSB Net: Tuesday, August 5th @ 8 PM Local Time on 28.450 MHz SSB.
Net Control Stations and EchoLink Coordinator
Thanks to our regular 2m Net Controls: Frank Pollino, K2OS; Rick Garan, WA8NLX; and Harve Hnatiuk, KB3FW.
Thanks to Frank, K2OS for also being the net control station of our monthly 10m SSB net.
Thanks to Bob Officer, WA6WAY, for being an alternate Net Control Station and overseer of our KE4HAM repeater.
Thanks to Ron Frick, AI4HH, for working diligently to keep EchoLink up and running for our nets.
Net Control Schedule:
— Wednesday, July 23rd @ 8 PM: Rick Garan, WA8NLX (KE4HAM Okatie Repeater).
— Sunday, July 27th @ 8 PM: Frank Pollino, K2OS (Simplex).
— Wednesday, July 30th @ 8 PM: Frank Pollino, K2OS (KE4HAM Okatie Repeater).
SCHH ARC Net Reports:
Thanks to ALL who checked in to our SCHH ARC nets last week.
Last week’s check-ins and traffic:
— Wednesday, July 16th 2m Repeater Net: KE4HAM/KB3FW, AI4HH, K2OS, AA4KK, WB4KSG, K2ITZ, KJ4BSM. QNI=7, QTC=0.
— Sunday, July 20th 2m Repeater Net: KE4HAM/K2OS, AI4HH, AA4KK, WA6WAY, KJ4BSM, WB1DXN, K2ITZ, KB3FW, KD8IH, KQ4JKI. QNI=10, QTC=0.
Note: QNI = Number of Check-ins to the net, including Net Control; QTC = Traffic handled (Radiograms).
Other Operating
Daily — Monitor the KE4HAM Repeater: 147.135 MHz + with a tone of 91.5. You may get some good DX spots from time to time and other members may be there if you want to connect/chat. If you are listening to the repeater, feel free to announce your call and that you are “monitoring”!