San Juan County Amateur Radio Society
Posted in Events, Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2017
This year’s ILLW was hampered by poor propagation as we head towards a sunspot minimum. However, we still had a good time. Mike, N7TLL, and Ed, KD7TUN, arrived at 8am and began setting up. Mike brought his trusty antenna rope launcher, a cut down fly rod with a golf ball on the end of the […]
Posted by Peter Dahl on behalf of Hoop, K9QJS This weekend, beginning at 5:00 pm on Friday or 00:00 May 6 UTC, is a fun contest weekend. If you have never done a contest before, you might try one or two QSOs or even more on any of these HF bands: 160, 80, 40, […]
Posted in Events, Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2016
This year’s ILLW (International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend) event, with the usual station set up at Lime Liln Lighthouse, was enhanced by Dan, N6AU, activating Cattle Point Lighthouse. There was some concern during the planning stage that Cattle Point might not qualify as a lighthouse, but Dan’s submission to illw.net was accepted, and Cattle Point […]
Posted in Events on Aug 24th, 2015
Another ILLW has come and gone! We had a great time, but due to bad band conditions, results this year failed to approach last year. We had only about half as many contacts, fewer lighthouses and fewer states/provinces. Mike, N7TLL, Hoop, K9QJS, Ed KD7TUN, and Chris, KG7BMU, arrived about 8a.m., and found Ranger Ted already had […]
(Posted on behalf of Hoop, K9QJS by Peter, WA7FUS) The US Islands Awards Program is having a “USI One-Day Getaway” this weekend, May 9, 2015, 0000z – 2359z, which is 5:00 pm this Friday local time to Saturday at 4:59 pm local time. You can learn more about it at the above link – scroll […]
(Posted on behalf of Hoop, K9QJS by Peter, WA7FUS) Dear SJCARS members and friends, Just a reminder note that our regularly scheduled second Friday of the month club meeting will be this coming Friday, May 8, on ORCAS Island and in picnic format. We will have a very nice time on the grounds of Moran […]
Our next SJCARS regular monthly meeting will be at 11:30 am on Friday, March 13, 2015, at the Mullis Street Fire Station on San Juan Island. Special guests include County Sheriff Ron Krebs and Department of Emergency Management Director Brendan Cowan. The Sheriff will give us an update on his directions after having recently been […]
Our neighbors in Whatcom County, MBARC sent this announcement to their members and the local ham community. SJCARS members might have fun participating too. FEBRUARY is CW/QRP Month for MBARC This is a fun and friendly competition for MBARC members and anyone else that wants to participate. Details are at https://sites.google.com/site/mtbakerarc/home/events/qrp-contest but here are the […]
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