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...
[ Superstition ARC Field Day is Almost Here! ]
Field Day is June 23 and 24 this year and the club is heading north to the Mogollon Rim area for our annual Field Day outing. The GPS coordinates are: 34.632104, -111.261096, Charlie Brown (NJ7V) has arranged for this year’s location. The site is known as Lost Eden.
Field Day 2018 June 23 and 24 Information[ Become a Superstition ARC Sponsor ]
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[ Superstition SuperFest 2018 Grand Prize Drawing Tickets ]
[ Superstition ARC - 449.6000 MHz Repeater - Live Audio Feed ]
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[ 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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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; 6:15 to 6:45 pm. Contact the SuperFest Committee Chairman if have any questions.
Email John - KG7NSP chairman@superstitionsuperfest.org
[ 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 ]
On Saturday, March 3rd, the Tech Committee was out working on the repeaters.
We had decided to re-install the Arcom Controllers after they received hardware and software upgrades. The biggest benefit was remote reboot capability of the repeaters and the ID’er will no longer be keying on repeater users and muting their audio.
While installing the controllers, the Stone Castle was completely disassembled and the repeater, controller and link radio were moved from the rack and installed into an air Conditioned cabinet. There is still some work to do. We are not 100% done, some of the items left to do are:
Improved grounding at Usery, dialing in the audio better and balancing the audio between the Stone Castle and Usery repeaters along with bringing the 448.275 machine back online.
A huge thanks goes out to all Tech Committee personnel for all their work.
Thanks Again,
Dan W7TWR
Tech Committee Chairman
Tech@SuperstitionARC.org
(Last updated 3-15-2018)
| Report Repeater Problems: | tech@superstitionarc.org |
[ News From The IT Committee ]
Dale N7QJK has been working on needed changes and edits on superstitionarc.org site. The menu has been edited to remove the drop downs that didn't play well with Apple Products, he also changed the look of the menu. On the pages for the Communicator Newsletter was edited and moved everything to a single page. The Contact Us page and Contact page for the Officers and Board members were combined in to one page. The Club History page and the About US information was also combined together as one page alone with the Constitution and By-Laws. The footer section was also edited and a small menu was added for the Home, About Us, Contact Us and Membership pages. On the Membership page, Dale reports, that Ham Club Online - Amateur Radio Club Management System is now online and ready to go. Thanks to Douglas W7ADD for getting this setup and running. It will make renewing your membership or joining the club so much easier. Douglas has also made some last minute edits to take care of a couple of errors that occurred during the process to join the club...
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.
(Last updated 6-15-2018)
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. The club is not directly sponsoring the project, and is being funded by donations from those who are interested in and have been working on this project. Click on the link below for more information
"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! ]
At April club meeting John Wolven KG7NSP SuperFest Chairman announced they had locked in the Mesa Community College location and our December 1st date. In looking at the list of prizes for the 2018 Grand Prize Drawing, you can see we out did our 2017 event. Since then John has also announced we opened up Online Ticket Sales as well as Live Grand Prize. Tickets started at the Clubs April Meeting.
John would like to announce we have the ability to process your SuperFest Ticket purchases's using your Debit or Credit Cards via the Clubs Secure PayPal account.
If any of you are interested in helping out with the 2018 SuperFest contact John - KG7NSP or attend the meetings which are held just before each monthly club meeting from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. More information to come later...
Email The SuperFest Committee Chairman: chairman@superstitionsuperfest.org
For general SuperFest questions email: info@superstitionsuperfest.org
Check out our Superstition SuperFest Website for all of the latest information and to purchase tickets for our Grand Prize Raffle Drawing.
[ Countdown To The SuperFest 2018 Grand Prize Drawing. ]
