Upon consultation with the National Park Service we learned that we will not be able to conduct our operating event on the grounds of Castillo de San Marcos this Saturday, October 25, 2025 (due to the government shutdown and its associated restrictions).
We would still like to conduct one more operating event before the end of 2025 and are targeting the mid-November timeframe. This is something we will discuss at our next monthly meeting.
The St Augustine Amateur Radio Society will meet Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 6:30 pm. The meeting local will be at the Fraternal Order of Police, St. Johns County Lodge #113
5050 Inman Road, St. Augustine, FL 32084. (MAP).
The gate will be opened at approximately 6 pm.
Program: Space Limited Antennas – Work the world with Digital Modes – wire, loops and low power, by John Smith, K3GO, and Bill Kisse, W3MSH
Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
HR 1094, S 459.
The ARRL is making it easy for individuals and clubs to send letters of support to legislators: ARRL Support page.
The St Augustine Amateur Radio Society will meet Tuesday, Sept 2, 2025, 6:30 pm. The meeting local will be at the Fraternal Order of Police, St. Johns County Lodge #113
5050 Inman Road, St. Augustine, FL 32084. (MAP).
The lodge is located in the vicinity of the I-95/SR-16 interchange.
Upon turning onto Inman Road (next to the Wawa), proceed north about 9/10 of a mile. The entrance to the lodge will be on your right.
The gate will be opened at approximately 6 pm.
Program:Radio programming workshop
Bring your radios, computers, software, and interface cables
For DMR radios — you need a DMR ID registered to your call sign, so you will want to take care of that ahead of time. See attached document, Some DMR programming hints.
We will be adding two new (and recurring) items to our meeting agenda:
Volunteer Opportunities.
We’re calling on the membership to help out with the club in a variety of ways, and we’ll discuss our needs during this agenda topic.
New hams corner.
Sometimes it can be overwhelming for those new to the ham radio hobby – a foreign vocabulary, new technology, and just plain old, “where do I begin?” We’ll take some time (10 minutes or so) during each meeting to introduce ham radio topics for new hams.
This weekend is the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend. The St Augustine Amateur Radio Society will be activating the Saint Augustine Lighthouse as N4AUG. Our plan is to setup at 8:30-10:00 and begin operating 10:00 am Saturday morning and continue until 2:00pm. We’ll leave our antennas installed overnight Saturday to Sunday. We will also operate on Sunday from about 10 am – 2pm. Please be sure to wear your SAARS membership ID and club shirt.
QSL information on QRZ.com – callsign N4AUG
Lighthouse weekend is a good opportunity for those that don’t get to operate on HF very often… Technician through Extra. Come join us, operate and have a good ole time.
The St Augustine Amateur Radio Society will meet Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 6:30 pm. The meeting local will be at the Fraternal Order of Police, St. Johns County Lodge #113
5050 Inman Road, St. Augustine, FL 32084. (MAP).
The lodge is located in the vicinity of the I-95/SR-16 interchange.
Upon turning onto Inman Road (next to the Wawa), proceed north about 9/10 of a mile. The entrance to the lodge will be on your right.
The gate will be opened at approximately 6 pm.
Program: Seeing Through Clouds: A High-Level Overview of Synthetic Aperture Radar and Capella Space, Jim Klucar, KR4BQT
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As a part of the ongoing modernization of the ARRL systems infrastructure, LoTW will be receiving major upgrades to the operating system it is running on, the relational database system it uses to store and access logbook and awards data, and server hosting, where it will be fully migrated to the cloud. These changes will, among other improvements, ensure LoTW performance needs can be better met based on user demand.
LoTW will be unavailable from June 27 to July 2, 2025, to complete these upgrades. We will bring LoTW back online if it is available sooner than July 2.
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When: Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29, 2025.
Set up begins Saturday at about 09:30 local time and operation is from 1400 Saturday to 1700 Sunday (or earlier if we decide to leave earlier) (local time).
Where: St Johns County Fairgrounds (schoolhouse building), 5840 FL-207 E, Elkton, FL 32033 Map
The club will be serving lunch on Saturday from about 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm. (We are looking for a chef). Other meals and drinks will be on a “bring your own” or ad hoc “food run” basis.
For more information on Field Day you can visit: http://www.arrl.org/field-day
We hope to see you all at Field Day!
The St Augustine Amateur Radio Society will meet Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 6:30 pm. The meeting local will be at the Fraternal Order of Police, St. Johns County Lodge #113
5050 Inman Road, St. Augustine, FL 32084. (MAP).
The lodge is located in the vicinity of the I-95/SR-16 interchange.
Upon turning onto Inman Road (next to the Wawa), proceed north about 9/10 of a mile. The entrance to the lodge will be on your right.
The gate will be opened at approximately 6 pm.
The program will be “Logging Programs” by John Smith, K3GO
The St Augustine Amateur Radio Society will meet Tuesday May 6th at 6:30 PM via Google Meet. Please see Bob’s email for meeting information.
Program – PSK Reporter – Digimode Automatic Propagation Reporter by Philip Gladstone, N1DQ
