Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club (SPARC)
2021 Sterlingfest


The Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club hosted an information booth and special event station at the 2021 Sterling Festival on Saturday, 9 October 2021.

We had a good time.  We started with setup at 0900.  People started to stop by starting at about 1100.  We started to tear-down a little early about 1630 and by 1705, we were gone.

We had a few SPARC people come out to visit us at the booth. We had a good time and hope that others did also.

73, Gordon, NQ4K


John, KK4AHY, and John, W3XWT, helped set up.  On the table are are the radios from John, KK4AHY, and the manual antenna tuner from Gordon, NQ4K.

Kevin, W4KLS, helped set up and is seen here working with his small radio.

Gordon, NQ4K, helped set up and took a selfie.  

The vertical antenna from Eric, AJ4LN.  Worked well considering how short its is.

The booth all set to go.  SPARC banner in the back.  Ham radio magazines on the table in front, most of which are gone already.  





Duane, K4UW,
also joined
us but somehow we did not get his picture.

John, W3XWT, stayed all day.






We make six contacts on the radio.  We could hear a lot of stations, but could not get through the pile-ups.

John, KK4AHY, stayed all day.
We had plenty of visitors.

Two young ladies stopped by.  We did not win a prize.

John, KK4AHY, entertains a YL with ham radio lore.

Paul, KK4AIA, visited between stints as a auxiliary deputy sheriff.

Joe, W2SAI, arrives and stayed for several hours helping with the booth operation.

The view to the left of our booth along Commerce Street.  The VFW booth was next to us.

Our booth is the one with the blue canopy in the middle of the picture.  The vertical antenna is to the rear.

Joe, W2SAI, is talking to two youngsters.

Then stamping their scavenger hunt paper.  Floris Methodist Church ran a scavenger hunt.  Find the the little toy cars and get your paper stamped.  Collect many stamps and get a prize. Joe is pointing to the right at another car in the next booth.  It is setting on the purple pencil box.

All the magazines are gone except one. The yellow stamp and the small car for the scavenger hunt.
Near the end of the event.
The time from 0900 when we showed up until 1700 when we left went by very quickly.  

John, KK4AHY, is on the left folling up his antenna coax.  John, W3XWT, is on the right walking from from putting something in the blue pickup truck behind him.
And then it was over.
Once again this year, it was worthwhile to host the station.
Pictures were taken by Gordon, NQ4K.

Made on 11 October 2021