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4/23/2010
Congratulations to Dusty Zeeman for getting Best of Show for his
Science Fair Project on Amateur Radio Antennas titled "Capabilities of
Antennas". Here are some pictures of his project.
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4/22/2010
The Hub repeater at Bruin Point is offline for the foreseeable future.
Hopefully a power reset scheduled for Monday morning (4/26) will reset the
repeater.
3/19/2010
The Horn Mountain Repeater is now online again. Thanks to Bret Mills
(WX7Y) in his efforts to bring the repeaters back online.
3/16/2010
The Horn Mountain repeater is currently down till the site can be
accessed. The outage encompasses both the VHF and UHF repeaters. For those in
the Castle Dale area please use one of the other repeaters in the area: Cedar
Mountain, Bruin Point, or Ford Ridge.
1/21/2010
There will be a VE exam for all license levels on January 27th at 6:30
pm at the Emery County Sheriff Office in Castle Dale. Also a Technician Class
will be starting on February 3rd at 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Emery County Sheriff
Office and will be held weekly every Wednesday. Contact Bret Mills for more
info.
1/1/2010
The 2010 club officers are:
President - Ross Sacco (AA7AM)
North Vice President - Allen Henrie (KE7PDO)
South Vice President - Bret Mills (WX7Y)
Secretary/Treasurer - Anita Mills (KB7GFV)
Communications - Jim Anderson (KJ7S)
11/6/2009
Nominations for club officers have started. Nominations will be opened
again at the December meeting and will them be voted on. Also the meeting will
be catered so please RSVP to a current club officer or let Jim (KJ7S) know on
the SDARC net.
11/1/2009
The Horn Mountain repeaters have now been replaced with new equipment. The VHF
system repeater, the UHF Wx7Y repeater, and the Cactus Repeater are also tone
squelched for those who want to use that feature with their radios.
10/7/2009
Nominations for 2010 Club Officers will be held during the November
club meeting in Orangeville.
10/5/2009
The 220 repeater at Boardinghouse Ridge and subsequently the link to
Lake Mountain and the Skyline system has changed frequencies. The new frequency
pair for the 220 repeater is 222.840 MHz, positive offset with a PL of 88.5.
Saturday Scott (KB7YOT) changed Lake Mountain while Bret (WX7Y) and Jim (KJ7S)
changed and retuned the repeater.
10/1/2009
The remote base radios at Bruin have had a problem, probably from the
lightning strike from 2007 and have been replaced.
9/30/2009
The Grizzly Ridge repeater has been replaced and is back to its
original frequency, check it out here. Also the remote base at Bruin is down
again due to a dead VHF/UHF radio and is down till parts can be replaced or
fixed.
9/22/2009
The Bruin Point repeater is now in its new home. Thanks to all those
that helped with the move and the installation of the Remote Base antenna.
Thanks to Bret Mills (WX7Y) for all of the time and hard work he puts in to keep
these repeaters in tip top shape.
9/14/2009
The Ford Ridge repeater has been fixed. The repeater and link radio has
been replaced along with the repeater antenna. Ford Ridge's frequency and tone
has not been changed, it is still 145.310 MHz with a minus offset and 88.5 Hz
tone. This repeater is now Tone Squelched also for those that would like to use
that feature. Thanks to all that participated Saturday.
9/8/2009
The Grizzly Ridge repeater has been replaced and is now doing better
and coverage has improved. Thanks to those that went to the site to repair the
repeater.
8/13/2009
The Point of the Mountain repeater is now located on Lake Mountain in Utah
County. The frequency and tone access is still the same at 147.080 +600 with a
77.0Hz tone. This repeater is also tone squelched. Thanks to those that helped
get this machine back on the air.
8/4/2009
The Point of the Mountain repeater has been removed from that site due to
interference issues. We are in the process of getting the repeater back on the
air at a different site. Look here or listen during the club's Tuesday net for
more information.
7/6/2009
The Boarding House Ridge repeaters have been replaced. There is now a Kenwood
VHF repeater and an Alinco 1.25cm repeater installed. The VHF repeater is also
now tone squelched with a tone of 88.5 Hz.
6/16/2009
The Bruin repeater has now been moved to a different site on Bruin Point. Hopefully this will
solve some noise issues that have been plaguing the old site for some time. The link to Monroe
is currently down along with the Remote Base radios until a later time.
6/10/2009
This years Friendship Cruise was a success. Thanks to all the people that helped to make the
event a success for this year. Participant turn out was low this year probably due to the cooler
and wetter weather on Memorial Weekend. Another change this year was the exit
point was moved from the Moab ramp to the ramp at MGM.
5/21/2009
The club's Field Day location is now on the
ARRL's Field Day Locator website. Just search
by the club's callsign K7SDC. This will also be the
club's annual summer campout. A
general location map is here and
a detailed map is here.
5/5/2009
The Club was reported on by the local newspaper about the spring campout.
Read about it on the Emery County Progress'
website.
3/6/2009
Warm weather is almost here, ready for some outdoor activities? The club is holding
their annual spring campout on April 17-19. The location will be the same as last
year on the San Rafael Swell near the Wedge overlook. For Maps look here. There will
be a test session for those who are interested at 10:00 am on Saturday - April 18th.
12/11/2008
DUES are due for 2009. The amount for club dues are $25.00 per individual or
first family member and $20.00 for other family members. They can be sent to the
following address:
SDARC
P.O. Box 1073
Castle Dale, UT 84513
Make sure to make checks out to SDARC.
11/14/2008
There will be a VE Exam session on December 3rd, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.
at the Business Building on the campus of the
College of Eastern Utah. Listen to the weekly nets or contact Ross Sacco
(KB7UZX) for more information.
9/27/2008
The Ford work trip has been rescheduled for October 4th. The work party will need any
one that can and will climb the tower to replace the current antenna. Please contact any
club officer if you want information.
9/21/2008
Bruin work party was partially a success. The work crew accomplished what they
set out to do by grounding the antenna mount and ladder to the tower. They also
grounded the notch and bandpass cavities but the noise issue is still there,
although
at a diminished level.
9/5/2008
There will be two work parties on the mountain tops before the weather turns
bad. The first one will be at Bruin Point to fix the noise issue. The second
party will be at Ford Ridge to replace the repeater. Listen for any changes
on the weekly net.
9/4/2008
There has been a lightning strike at the Mt. Ellen communications site in the
Henry Mountains. Thanks to Bret Mills (WX7Y) the repeater is now back on the
air.
8/7/2008
The club is having a fall campout on September 12-14 located in the San Rafael
Desert at the same location that the spring campout was held. Maps are located
here. Call in frequencies
will be the system and simplex - 146.520.
6/6/2008
The club is having a summer campout for Field Day at the same location as last
year up Cottonwood Canyon off of State Highway 29. The ARRL has a Field Day Site
locator
here. Just enter the club's callsign -
K7SDC and it will create a map. There is two maps also on our
download page, one that is a regional map and one
that is a detailed map.
4/5/2008
There was a test session held during the SDARC's spring campout. Two Hams were able to upgrade
Jim Anderson (KA7YIV) and Allen Henrie (KE7PDO). Congratulations to both.
2/7/2008
The Sinbad Desert Amateur Radio Club in now an ARRL Affiliate Club.
12/6/2007
Nominations and voting took place for the 2008 Club Officers. Click here
for more info.
11/2/2007
Nominations for 2008 Club Officers took place during the November club meeting.
10/6/2007
There seems to be another problem at Bruin. Bret Mills (WX7Y) and Ross Sacco (KB7UZX)
took a trip up to Bruin Point to solve a de-sense problem and to find the noise problem.
The main VHF antenna has high SWR and Bret thinks that it is the either a problem with
the duplexer or with one of the pigtails. It looks like another trip will be needed soon.
9/14/2007
The Henry Mountain repeater is now on the air. Bret Mills (WX7Y) and Ross Sacco
(KB7UZX) along with one of his students traveled to Mt. Ellen to repair the SDARC
repeater (antenna damage) which appears to have been also taken out due to lightning.
9/10/2007
The Bruin Point repeater is back on the air!!! Thanks to all that donated
time and/or funds to complete the project. And extreme thanks to Bret Mills
(WX7Y) for all the extra time he put into this build.
7/29/2007
There is now a temporary repeater on loan at the Bruin Point repeater site
to link all of the other SDARC repeaters together again. The Monroe Link is
DOWN for the till the actual repeater can be replaced.
7/28/2007
Bruin Point repeater is DOWN for a while. It appears that Bruin took a lightning strike
and the damage is extensive. So far Jim (KJ7S) and Bret (WX7Y) found that the link controller is dead
and possibly the antenna.
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