An amateur radio license is a license to learn. Look here for information about upcoming license classes and specialized training.
On Saturday, October 24, 2020, the SVRC was asked to participate as a community service at the Rochester Fall Festival sponsored by the Rochester Public Library. J.
The Special Event Station W9I, celebrating the 2020 Illinois State Fair, is now history. For ten days, W9I was operated by nine SVRC club members operating on any band and using any mode they wished. In addition to the traditional SSB and CW modes, several different digital modes were employed as well.
W9I – The official SVRC 2020 Illinois State Fair Special Event Station (SES). Event starts August 13 at 12:00 PM and ends August 23 at 12:00 PM
This year, Field Day is going to be quite different for the members of the SVRC. Since the Covid virus has restricted our movements and social distancing is the new normal, the SVRC is not going to assemble a team to conduct Field Day as it has in the past. Instead, we are recommending that our members run their own Field Day exercise on their own. As long as you follow the health guidelines, we hope you can work from home or from some personal outdoor area and make as many contacts as you can.
Modern Amateur radio incorporates digital computing systems like never before. The word “Binary” is tossed about freely with sometimes little understanding of what a binary numbering system is or how binary mathematics actually works. This elementary video helps explain how a group of solid state elements can apply basic binary math to perform a function. We hope this five-minute video helps remove some of the mystery from digital electronics.
During the week of April 7 to the 14th, 2020, the Sangamon Valley Radio Club sponsored a special event amateur radio station. The station is issued a special call-sign by the FCC which is only good for the time of the event. World-wide, amateur stations enjoy making contacts with stations that are only on the air for short periods of time. This spring, K9L was formed and tasked with remembering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 155 years ago.
Thanks in large part to Ben Kiningham, a massive collection of over 2,100 historical photos of the SVRC and related projects is now available to anyone! These photos are of club activities, private ham shacks, hamfests, radios, tours, sponsored events, faces, faces, and more faces! These photos have been sitting in a file collecting dust for a long, long time and have now been digitized and compiled on a single DVD.
Who knows - maybe you'll see a younger version of yourself. I did!
Here’s how you can get yours for a small donation!
FOXHUNTING / ARDF 101
These are license study classes for ham radio licensing.
We've all heard about parametric equalizers and have even had a recent program by Bob Heil concerning this subject. But, what exactly is a parametric equalizer, what can it do for me, and why should I care?
Well, Mitch Hopper, K9ZXO, produced a very short four-minute video that will explain it all in simple language and terms.
See it here: https://youtu.be/Kb2dZKQs2qw
