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Southern Patuxent Amateur Radio Club
Welcome to the new web home of the Southern Patuxent Amateur Radio Club and the Southern Maryland Amateur Radio Technical Group! Please feel free to browse around. This site is new as of 9-19-07 and we are working on getting more content added on a daily basis. Enjoy!
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SMART Group: SMART Group Meeting - Grounding, Lightning, and RF!
The SMART group will hold it's monthly meeting on July 14th at 1900 hours. The topic this month is Lightning, how it strikes, how to protect your equipment, and the difference between RF and Lightning grounding. Our very own Larry Harrison (K3JRR) will be sharing his vast knowledge base with us. Larry has worked with radio's for most of his life and will share some very valuable tips with us. Hope to see you all there!
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Posted by kb3nds on Monday, July 07 @ 19:59:05 MDT (57 reads)
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SMART Group: N3PX Field Day Site to be broadcast LIVE!
The Southern Maryland Amateur Radio Technical (SMART) Group will broadcast their field day activites live via the internet this year. Thanks to Calvert Advanced Life Support and Ustream, N3PX activities will be streaming via the world wide web. Plans are to have video of different stations throughout the event, as well as live audio from the radio being watched. "If it all works out the way we want it to, it should be a great oppurtunity for someone to see what we do without even leaving the comfort of their own home" quoted Paul Lenharr (KB3NDS). "We will see what happens". Viewers can use the link below to see our operations LIVE!
N3PX Field Day LIVE!
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Posted by kb3nds on Friday, June 27 @ 04:14:36 MDT (58 reads)
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SMART Group: APRS Update
The second “mega-digi” was finally installed this month. This one (K3NAL-1) is just north of Lexington Park and is a joint effort between the SMART Group and the St. Mary’s County ARA. The project involved an upgrade of an older APRS digi from the same area with newer equipment and a new, higher location.
The new term “mega-digi” was invented for our region to define APRS digipeaters that cover a large area. The new digi in Lexington Park is right at 300 feet above sea level and covers an approximate radius of 25 miles. This includes all of St. Mary’s county, lower Calvert and most of Westmoreland county in Virginia.
The new digi is part of a region wide effort to provide 100% APRS coverage. The first mega-digi was installed in Sunderland last year and is one of the largest APRS digipeaters in Maryland.
Future plans include another mega-digi in Charles county later this year. Additional plans are in the works for more coverage of the Northern Neck area of VA. This will be a joint project with the RATS group from Richmond (www.rats.net).
Check out the www.n3px.com web site for future photo updates of the APRS system.
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Posted by kb3nds on Wednesday, June 11 @ 19:23:43 MDT (77 reads)
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SPARC News: Ham radio operators "Show Off" for Southern Maryland
Public Demo of Emergency Communications June 28th and 29th 2008
Prince Frederick, MD – Thousands of Ham Radio operators will be showing off their emergency capabilities this weekend. Over the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio operators providing critical communications in emergencies including the California wildfires, Oregon and Michigan storms, tornadoes and other events world-wide. During Hurricane Katrina, Amateur Radio – often called “Ham radio” - was often the ONLY way people could communicate, and hundreds of volunteer “hams” traveled south to save lives and property. When trouble is brewing, ham radio people are often the first to provide critical information and communications. On the weekend of June 28 - 29, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with these ham radio operators and see for themselves what the Amateur Radio Service is about. Showing the newest digital and satellite capabilities, voice communications and even historical Morse code, hams from across the USA will be holding public demonstrations of emergency communications abilities.
This annual event, called "Field Day" is the climax of the week long "Amateur Radio Week" sponsored by the ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and back yards around the country. Their slogan, "Ham radio works when other systems don't! " is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. More than 30,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year's event.
"We hope that people will come and see for themselves, this is not your grandfather's radio anymore," said Allen Pitts of the ARRL. "The communications networks that ham radio people can quickly create have saved many lives in the past months when other systems failed or were overloaded.”
In the Calvert County area, the Southern Patuxent Amateur Radio Club (SPARC) will be demonstrating Amateur Radio at Calvert Advanced Life Support from 2pm Saturday June 28th straight through the night until 5pm on Sunday June 29th. They invite the public to come and see ham radio’s new capabilities and learn how to get their own FCC radio license before the next disaster strikes. Calvert Advanced Life Support is located at 60 Industry Lane, Prince Frederick MD 20678. The club will be setup in the parking lot area just behind Ken-Mar Liquors.
There are 650,000 Amateur Radio licensees in the US, and more than 2.5 million around the world. Through the ARRL’s ARES program, ham volunteers provide emergency communications for thousands of state and local emergency response agencies, all for free.
To learn more about SPARC, go to www.n3px.com. The public is most cordially invited to come, meet and talk with the hams. See what modern Amateur Radio can do. They can even help you get on the air!
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Posted by kb3nds on Wednesday, May 21 @ 08:23:06 MDT (114 reads)
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SMART Group: LIVE Streaming video from meeting a great success!
The SMART Group tried something quite different tonight. Since we have members from the tri-county area and a few that have joined from even farther, AJ Farmer (AJ3U) decided to work on a project to stream audio/video LIVE from our meetings. It worked great and we actually had 8 people log on to watch via the internet.
Thanks to AJ, the video and audio was excellent quality and users were able to chat as well as watch the streaming audio. The other cool thing is that the presentation was archived for people to view at a future time. Below are the links to view the meeting via streaming. Thanks AJ!
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Posted by kb3nds on Monday, January 14 @ 17:47:27 MST (1940 reads)
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