St. Mary's County Amateur Radio Assn.
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Next Meeting:
Thursday, 28 May 2009 at 7:30 PM
in the main conference room at the Naval Air Museum in Lexington Park. The museum is located just north of Gate #1 of the Naval Air Station Patuxent River at the intersection of MD Route 235 and Pegg Road (northbound side of Rt. 235). We hope to see you there! |
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Meeting Agenda: Field Day preparations - final planning session |
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President's Welcome: Thank you for visiting our Web Site! We would be delighted if you would like to know more about the oldest, continuously operating amateur radio club (established in 1956) in the Southern Maryland area. The St. Mary's County Amateur Radio Association is a general interest group whose goal is to advance the state of the art of and get others interested in the greatest hobby in the world. If you would like to learn more about amateur radio in general or perhaps find out what some of our specific activities are, come to the next meeting (see date/time above). At each meeting, we attempt to have a special guest speaker scheduled to provide an overview of a specific interesting facet of the hobby. Please feel free to join us at one of our monthly meetings! If you can't make it to a meeting, give me a call at 301-862-2214 or fill out the membership application available (below) on this web site.
73 and have fun in ham radio this month!
Pete Butt, WA3UMY President, St. Mary's County Amateur Radio Association Updated: Saturday, 23 May 2009
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Would you like to be a ham radio operator?
First, you need to learn a little about the hobby and find out how to get a license!
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Click [ HERE ] to link to a special section of the ARRL (The National Association for AMATEUR RADIO) called "Hello"... Celebrating 100 years of Voice over Radio Worldwide. There, you will find everything you will need to understand what this hobby is all about and where to get information about licensing. Of course, when you are done, come back here to our site and we will help you with everything you will need to participate in ham radio activities here in Southern Maryland. If the video player is visible (below), double click on the play ( ►) button to watch a short, 4-minute movie. If you can NOT see the flash video player, your firewall setting for Active X is too stringent and you are incorrectly blocking web media you should be able to see.So, What are you waiting for! GET CONNECTED with Amateur Radio today!
NOTE: This video is 2.4 Mbytes in size and is best viewed using a Broad-band (Cable, DSL) Internet connection. Dial-up users can view the video if they wait for it to load (may take a few minutes). Load status can be viewed by watching the data bar located just above the video player controls. |
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Interested in seeing how the
SMCARA gets involved with emergency preparedness? Here is a short
movie that we made to give you an idea of what we do.
Double click
on the play (►) button below the video screen to see a short movie
about our Field Day activities.
If you can NOT see the flash video player, your firewall setting for Active
X is too stringent and you are incorrectly blocking web media you should be
able to see.
You can
adjust the sound level using the slider below the screen...
NOTE: This video is 6.3 Mbytes in size and is best viewed using a Broad-band (Cable, DSL) Internet connection. Dial-up users can view the video if they wait for it to load (may take a few minutes). Load status can be viewed by watching the data bar located just above the video player controls. |
The ARRL launched a new web site dedicated to emergency communications. Click [ here ] to take a look.
May 23 & 24 (Saturday - Sunday)
Featuring the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team
Participate in the SMCARA static display at the air show!
We need volunteers to talk to the public and hand out
information about Amateur Radio
Amateur Radio in Action! 24 hours of continuous operating...
Keep the weekend free on your calendar... 27-28 June 2009
Please welcome our newest members!
Mark Dayton - KB3SEP
(Joined in January 2009)Walt King - KB3JVB (Joined in February 2009)
Toby & Agatha Lakin - WD6BAA (Joined in April 2009)
Be sure to say 'hello' to these folks when you hear them on the air
(Thanks for joining!)
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The 23 April SMCARA club meeting featured talks by Aaron, N8TVQ on 'Software Defined Radios' and Gene, N3NO who demonstrated his multi-computer Ad Hoc wireless network for contact logging
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Aaron, N8TVQ talked about his experiments with software defined radios
Gene, N3NO demonstrating an Ad Hoc wireless networking setup for Field Day logging
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Upcoming Events:
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Club Resource Pages: (click on applicable link to view) |
Southern Maryland Amateur Radio VHF/UHF Repeater Status
(as of 10 May 2009):
| Repeater Callsign/Location | Frequency/Offset | Operational Status | Notes |
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2 M (144 MHz Repeaters): |
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| KA3TQD Waldorf, MD (See note 2) |
145.350 MHz (-), PL 156.7 Hz |
 Up
(operational) |
No reported problems |
| W3ZO Hughesville, MD |
145.390 MHz (+), PL 186.2 Hz |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems |
| W3SMD/L Golden Beach, MD (See note 1) |
146.535 simplex, PL 186.2 Hz |
Up(operational) |
Echolink status:
Up |
| K3HKI Lexington Park, MD (SMCARA Club Repeater) Click [ HERE ] for more information |
146.640 MHz (-), carrier access |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems
Transmit audio and frequency was re-adjusted on 6 September 2008 |
| N3HRT Patuxent River, MD |
146.775 MHz (-), PL 156.7 Hz |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems Currently running very low power |
| K3CAL Sunderland, MD (northern Calvert County) |
146.985 MHz (-), PL 156.7 Hz |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems |
| W3SMR Brandywine, MD (See note 2) |
147.150 MHz (+), PL 114.8 Hz |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems |
| N3PX Hollywood, MD (See note 2) |
147.195 (+), PL 156.7 Hz |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems |
| N3PX Prince Frederick, MD (See note 2) |
147.255 (+), PL 146.2 Hz |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems |
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N3NO Lexington Park, MD (See note 2) |
147.390 (+), PL 146.2 Hz |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems |
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1.25 M (220 MHz Repeaters): |
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| WA3UMY Lexington Park, MD |
223.900 MHz (-), carrier access |
 Down |
Getting ready to relocate the repeater! |
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70 CM (440 MHz Repeaters): |
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| WA3UMY Lexington Park, MD Remote Base System (See note 3) |
443.050 MHz (+) |
Up
(operational) |
IRLP status:
Remote Base status:
Up
10 Meters: Available |
| N3PX Lusby, MD (See note 2) |
443.300 MHz (+), PL 156.7 Hz |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems |
| N3NO Leonardtown, MD (See note 2) |
444.350 MHz (+), PL 156.7 Hz |
Up
(operational) |
No reported problems |
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NOTE 1: This simplex repeater can be connected via user command to the Echolink Internet Linking System. A clickable user guide will be posted shortly containing complete information on how to access this network. NOTE 2: These repeaters are linked together full-time as part of the Southern Maryland Link System (SMLS). All of these linked repeaters provide access to the Echolink Internet Linking System (Node # 345591) and the Internet Repeater Linking Project (Node # 4879). Click [ HERE ] to see a briefing about the linked system. NOTE 3: This repeater can be connected via user command to the Internet Repeater Linking Project (Node # 4820). Click [ HERE ] for operating instructions on using the remote bases and the IRLP node. |
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PRINT OUT the chart shown above as a handy 2-page guide for your car or ham shack (Microsoft Word document). Simply right-click your mouse [ HERE ] then 'save target as...' to download to your computer! |
Club Resources:
(updated
09 May 2009) ]
(fill out on your computer,
then print out and mail to Garner Hayden, W3SI at the address shown.
Thanks to J. R. Smullen, WJ3R for making the form)
or [ Microsoft Word/RTF format ]
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