Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club (SPARC)
2010 Sterlingfest
The Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club worked a special event station at the 2010 Sterlingfest in Sterling,VA on 9 October 2010.
Pictures were taken by Duane Durst, K4UW, and Gordon Miller, NQ4K. High resolution images may be obtained from Gordon, NQ4K, at [email protected].

Set-up starts at 0900. A core group arrives with the tent, tables and chairs, radio, and power (batteries and back-up generator).

Disk, W2YE, (on left) hooks up radio, while Russ, W3RST, looks on.
Russ, W3RST, and Ray, KD4RSL, finding all the pieces.
Ray, KD4RSL, provided the batteries for power.

  Ray, KD4RSL, hooking up a power converter. The red go to red and black to black. Hummmmm.....Why doesn't it work?
Ray, KD4RSL, is tracing the wires to locate a fault. Russ, W3RST, finally located a broken wire; now, all is well.
Dick, W2YE, putting the radio on the air for the first time.

Gordon, NQ4K, laid out all the promotional material. Notice the two practice CW keys on the promotional table: the one on the left is from Dick, W3YE, recently discovered in a box of old parts, and the one of the right from Forrest, N4UTY.
From left, Mark, KI4OBT, Russ, W3RST, and Dick, WY2E. 
By 11:00, all is ready. Operators are standing by, promotional material is ready, and we are ready for Sterlingfest to start.
SPARC provided the booth staff and operators; other SPARC members stopped by.

Russ, W3RST, and Gordon, NQ4K.
Duane, K4UW, worked all day and took most of these excellent photographs.

Gary, K4SRX, worked his handheld radio.

Jim, KF4PQL, stopped by for a few minutes.

Dick, W2YE, at the radio.
Linda, K4LDT, helped out in the booth.

Gordon, NQ4K, helping Chris make a contact.

Chris successfully making a contact.

Gordon, NQ4K, helping Tyler make a few contacts.

Mark, KI4OBT, explaining ham radio to Tyler.
Mark, KI4OBT, showing Johnathan, K4DSU, the station.
Mark, KI4OBT, Johnathan, K4DSU, and Tyler talking radio stuff.

Joe, WB2SAI, past SPARC president, joined us for a few moments of conversation  - and rejected the offer to be our new Vice-President..
Mark, KI4OBT.
Forrest, N4UTY, and XYL stopped by.

Eric, AJ4LN, paid us a visit.
Paul, K4PDF, and his son, Chris, joined us.

Snadra, KJ4VTI, and Coleman, KJ4VHY, tried out their radio.
And of course, we had many visitors.

Candidate Jeff Arnett came to visit.
Gordon, NQ4K, and Candidate Eugene Delgauido hammed it up.

Mark, KI4OBT, found a new friend.

A ham joined us to remember the good old RTTY days. This ham remembers the golden age of radios, and still has a few old TTY machines to prove it.
A regular visitor to SPARC activities.

Gordon, NQ4K, and his XLY.


Sergeant Bill Nugent, Deputy Sheriff, Loudoun County. You guys are having too much fun!
Finally, it is the end of the day. The station has been taken down and it is time for one last picture before Sterlingfest is a memory.

Russ, W3RST, Dick, W2YE, Ray, KD4RSL, and Duane, K4UW, and Gordon, NQ4K, (the photographer, not shown) just before leaving.



Made on 11 October 2010