Welcome to the Superstition Amateur Radio Club Home Page
Here you will find information our repeaters, monthly club meetings, board meetings, memberships, general contact information and activities. Including our SuperFest Website information.
Here you will find information our repeaters, monthly club meetings, board meetings, memberships, general contact information and activities. Including our SuperFest Website information.
The Superstition Amateur Radio Club has something for everyone - whatever your amateur radio interests are, you will find someone in the club to exchange ideas with, learn from, and or teach someone something new. Whether you want to learn CW (Morse code) and work other continents. Build and tune your own antennas, climb mountains and talk to other people around the world with portable equipment with Summits On The Air (SOTA). How about helping others build an Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network using 2.4 GHz , 3.3 GHz and or 5.8 GHz microwave nodes here in Mesa and the surrounding communities. Not only is it a lot of fun to build, you will be able to help out in case of an emergency with the services that you can help provide.
You can even help out the National Weather Service get “eyes on the ground” for weather reporting with Skywarn. Or any number of other activities with the new digital modes of communications that we as Amateur Radio Operators have available to us. You will find there’s always someone that you can chat with while you are learning something new with your Amateur Radio License...
Are held on the second Tuesday of the month except December and the location is the Black Bear Diner located at 1809 E. Baseline Rd, in Gilbert, just West of Gilbert Rd. The meeting starts at 6:30 PM
Are on the third Tuesday of the month except December and the location is the Charles K. Luster located at 640 N. Mesa Drive, in Mesa, just north of University Dr. The meetings start at 7:00 PM and are usually over around 9:00 PM.
If you’d like to help out with this year’s event, the SuperFest committee meets monthly except for December just before the general meeting. The meetings run from; 6:10 to 6:45 pm.
Also if your a Club Member and would like to help out at the 2019 SuperFest. Use this link to signup as a volunteer: SuperFest Signup Zone
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[ Superstition Amateur Radio Club On The Article Five Hour. ]
Listen to members of the Superstition Amateur Radio Club on the November 25th, 2019 show. We would like to thank JD Smaylis KF7VOX the host of the Article Five Hour for this show that was on Sunday afternoon on 1100 KFNX from 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
Superstition ARC On The Article Five Hour
[ Superstition SuperFest 2019 Event Information ]
[ Amateur Radio Newsline™ ]
Your independent source of Amateur Radio news for today's radio amateur. You can now listen to Amateur Radio NewsLine any time that is convenient for you and is usually updated on Friday of each week.
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[ Superstition ARC Net News ]
The morning Drive Time Net which runs from 7:00 to 8:00 AM Monday - Friday is looking for a few people to help out as a Net Control Operators. If your interested or have some questions about helping out, please send Dave Muller an email at: k7av@arrl.net
[ News From The Tech Committee ]
The repeaters have been replaced with Yaesu Fusion DR-2x machines. The repeaters were in our possession on Monday Night (10-29) and we had the repeaters bench tested and installed on the same night. Thanks to KB7KWK and N9EIV for assisting onsite, and K9ZSR and KD8PC for helping testing remotely. One of the more amusing parts of the night was trying to figure out why the link from Stone Castle to Usery was so noisy, as part of troubleshooting that, we re-aimed the Yagi link antenna. Funny thing is, the antenna actually had full quieting RX of the Stone Castle when pointed at South Mountain, instead of at the Stone Castle. Right now that antenna point approximately 30 degrees off azimuth from where you would expect it.
Currently, this is how the sites are configured. Since the repeaters have dual receivers, whatever one repeater hears and repeats, is heard by the other repeater, and that one transmits it also. The link Yagi antennas are now RX only antennas.
Also, with our current configuration FUSION is NOT linked between the repeaters, this will be addressed at another time.
A huge thanks goes out to all Tech Committee personnel for all their continued work on keeping everything running...
Thanks Again,
Dan W7TWR
Tech Committee Chairman
Tech@SuperstitionARC.org
(Last updated 10-31-2018)
| Report Repeater Problems: | Tech@SperstitionARC.org |
[ News From The IT Committee ]
The IT Committee has been working on making some changes to the club website. We recently added the Central Arizona Mesh Group’s mesh node map. Thanks to Eric KG6WXC for setting up the cloud server that collects the map data hourly and generates the link for displaying the map.
Dale N7QJK and Douglas W7ADD, have been working on the changes on the SuperFest Committees email server and moved it over to the club’s Google App account. This will make the mail flow better and less headaches when we have changes in the Committee Chairman.
The SuperFest Committee is also changing to a new mail list setup for those of you who have signed up to receive updates. The new list will make sending out updates much easier once it gets completed.
For those who are interested in receiving Email updates from the Central Arizona Mesh Group and or The SuperFest Committee you can use the mail forms lets your join or be removed from either Mail List. The SuperFest mail list is located on our Superstition SuperFest website..
The Officers and Board members would like to thank Dale for all of his hard work and the time he puts into keeping our website's looking good and working so well. We all hope the changes will help get clubs news and information out to the visitors of our website's than how it had been in the past.
The IT Committee is looking for a club member who has some experience with Facebook and would would like to help out on the clubs page, contact Dale N7QJK at the link below for more information...(Last updated 7-12-2019)
Email Our Webmaster webmaster@superstitionarc.org
[ Superstition Mesh Network News and Information ]
If you’re interested participating and or helping with this project please contact Steve KB7KWK. You can also signup to receive emails from the Mesh Group's mail list. While we are a part of the Superstition ARC, we are not directly funded by the club. Our funding comes from grants and donations from those who are interested in and have been working on this project. Click on the link below for more information. If your interested in making a donation, to the Mesh Group. We have provided a link below for Mesh Network Info page on the clubs website...
"Mesh Network Information Page."
[ A Note From The Communicator Editor ]
Have an idea for an news article, or something you would like to submit for publication? Then use the link below and send it to Dave Muller - K7AV. We can always use articles and photos each month. So help Dave out and submit something today.
A quick note from Dave, I would like to thank those of you who have recently sent in some great articles, Thank You and keep them coming...
Email Dave Muller - K7AV - editor@superstitionarc.org
[ News From The SuperFest Committee! ]
John Wolven KG7NSP SuperFest Chairman, Announced at the March Meeting the list of Prizes for our 2019 event. They have been ordered and have arrived along with the 2019 Raffle Tickets. We submitted the event to ARRL and ARCA and have been approved as a Sanctioned Event. At the annual Falcon Field Open Houset we started selling 2019 Raffle tickets and did pretty good.
If any of you are interested in helping out with the 2019 SuperFest contact John Wolven - KG7NSP or attend the meetings which are held just before each monthly club meeting from 6:10 to 6:45 pm. More information will get posted as we move forward with the 2019 SuperFest Event...
Email The SuperFest Committee Chairman: chairman@superstitionsuperfest.org
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for general SuperFest questions email: info@superstitionsuperfest.org
Are you a Club Member and would like to help out at the 2019 SuperFest? Use this link to signup to volunteer: SuperFest Signup Zone
(Last updated 07-15-2019)
[ Countdown To The SuperFest 2019 Grand Prize Drawing. ]
