SCHH ARC “This & That” — December 24, 2024
Merry Christmas! Happy Chanukah!
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season with hopes that Santa may bring some of you a new radio for 2025…if that’s on your Wish List!
Programs for January and February Firmed Up
On January 2nd, we will kick off the new ARC year with our Membership Meeting at 7 PM in the Bayside Room at the Lakehouse. Our program will be provided by Francis Donavan,W3LPL. He will discuss radio wave propagation. Here is a photo of his antenna farm. It looks like he has the “stuff” to still make some hay when the amateur radio bands go south!
Looks like he or someone he knows has a good drone also!
February 6th’s meeting will be held in Pinckney Hall so that we can take a tour of the SCTV area in that building. Sun City TV has provided our club with nice overage of our Field Days and also enabled us to tell our story about how we are planning an emergency preparedness and operations plan. They have agreed to show us around and tell us what they do and how they do it. After the tour, we will have a membership meeting in the Congaree River Room. More details will be included in “This & That” as we get into mid-January or so. Thanks to Ken Finke, KN8F, for helping with the arrangements for the February tour.
A Few Miles West of Here Many Moons Ago
Thanks to Bob Kennedy, N0DQD for this one! Looks like the sheriff was on the air there!
Humor
We may have run this one before but it appeared in some notes on line from a recent Weekend Sprintathon of the Straight Key Century Club (SKCC) and still evoked a chuckle or two.
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Thursday, January 2, 2025 7 PM at the Lakehouse – Our first membership meeting of the New Year 2025! Program on propagation by W3WPL will precede our general membership meeting. See above.
Saturday, January 25, 2025 – Winter Field Day (WFD) at Lake Somerset. WFD will be discussed at our January 2nd meeting. Our KE4HAM efforts will be organized by Bob Officer, WA6WAY, and Harve Hnatiuk, KB3FW. Mark your calendar and stay tuned for more details.
SCHH ARC Nets
Please note that we will not be having a net on Wednesday, December 25th.
Thanks to all who checked into our nets last week. These are our nets. Please enjoy them. They are very special and give us the opportunity to connect with each other on a regular basis while testing our equipment’s connectivity capabilities.
Please keep our nets alive and well by checking in when you can.
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) operates through the KK4ONF/Jasper repeater, 147.060+. The net can be accessed via EchoLink using the link KE4HAM-R.
Next 10m SSB Net: New Year’s Eve, December 31st, 8 PM on 28.450 Upper Sideband. Net Control will be K2OS, Frank Pollino.
Net Control Stations and EchoLink Coordinator
Thanks to our regular 2m Net Controls: Frank Pollino, K2OS; and Harve Hnatiuk, KB3FW.
Thanks to Bob, WA6WAY, for being an alternate Net Control Station and 10m Net Coordinator..
If you are interested in being a Net Control, please let Harve, Frank, or Ron know. We REALLY do need some help here!
Thanks to Ron Frick, AI4HH, for working diligently to keep EchoLink up and running for our nets.
Net Control Schedule:
— Wednesday, December 25 – The Net will NOT be held. The next Wednesday net will be on January 1, 2025 at 8 PM.
— Sunday, December 29 @ 8 PM ET Frank Pollino, K2OS (SIMPLEX)
SCHH ARC Net Reports:
Thanks to ALL who checked in to our SCHH ARC nets last week.
If you have the time, please check into our club’s nets on a regular basis.
Last week’s check-ins and traffic:
— Wednesday, December 18 : KE4HAM/K2OS, AI4HH. WA6WAY, KB3FW, K2ITZ, KQ4JKI, WB4KSG, WB1DXN. QNI=8 QTC=0.
— Sunday, December 22: KE4HAM/.K2OS, AI4HH, K2ITZ, N0DQD, WA6WAY, KB3FW, KQ4JKI, WB1DXN. QNI=8. QTC=0.
Note: QNI = Number of Check-ins to the net, including Net Control; QTC = Traffic handled (Radiograms).
Other Operating
Daily — Monitor the new 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.