Superstition Amateur Radio Club, Inc. 147.12

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Superstition Amateur Radio Club, Mesa, AZ

The Superstition ARC has been serving the East Valley since 1973.

Superstition ARC Membership

Join the club, Enter your name to see if your dues are current, See how many members we have.  Newly licensed hams can join for free for a year, you can pay dues by PayPal, by mail or in person.

Superstition ARC Meeting Information

For explicit meeting information, please see General Meeting and Board Meeting.

Membership Newsletter

We send a monthly newsletter to our members' inbox in PDF format.  Dave, K7AV is our newsletter editor since mid-2011.

• The latest newsletter is made available on this site at:  http://wb7tjd.org/Newsletter/ Broken link has been fixed!  by Larry, WB7C 14:28, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
• Most of our newsletters are available through the Club Archive. Another broken link fixed!  by Larry, WB7C 14:28, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Contacting the Superstition ARC

Please see Our Contact Page.

Club Activities

Please see the Activities page, which in turn links to more pages about local amateur radio breakfasts and other activities.

Superstition Repeater System in Mesa, AZ

147.12 MHz WB7TJD/R 449.60 MHz Northeast Mesa

Audio levels are now balanced between the two repeaters, so that different users on both sides of the link are of near equal volume.  Feel free to speak into your microphone as you normally would when using these repeaters!

Nets on the Mesa 147.12 and 449.60

Please see Club Nets for details on our Wednesday night net at 8 PM and the weekday morning Drivetime Nets.

There is also an important note about station identification in order to assure compliance with the FCC Rules, at the bottom of the Club Nets page.

"Club Repeaters" expanded to seven chapters

Look through the Club Repeaters series of pages for some rewrites and a reorganization of sorts.  For one, there was a 2009 photos page that for whatever reason was never filled out with pictures, so it was removed.  The tower work done in March of 2012 was included within the 2012 pictures chapter, and additional links to the pictures shot from the tower and a bunch more from the April 12 visit are included by way of a link.  The YouTube video of 34 minutes' duration is also on that page showing the lowering and raising of the tower, and in between the lowering and raising there is an excellent demonstration on how to do a hardline N connector.

"A short History" of the repeater system was rewritten and expanded with more information covering the last two decades or so of experiences with the repeater.

Field Day

• Field Day, June 23 and 24, 2012

W7W last February 25, 2012 QSLs Sent Out

At long last the cards from the February 25, 2012 W7W Special Event, which commemorated the Arizona Centennial together with the annual tribute to the Legend of the Lost Dutchman, have been answered.  It took awhile to get a card design done to my satisfaction, and time to get them printed.  Our thanks to Ed, K7EDT for his help in getting our cards done.

Did We answer every card sent to us?

I was told we had maybe twelve to fifteen (or so) QSL cards received at the club PO Box for W7W.  I first received the cards at our May club meeting, and filled one out on the spot for Steve, KY7W, who had mailed in his QSL.

I brought the rest home in the briefcase and started answering them.  There were only six more cards that I had to answer, or about half of the expected number.  Below are the seven cards we have answered:

• KB3WSU of Grantsville, MD, by way of EchoLink
• VE4MG of McCreary, MB by way of 15 meters
• K7NN of Tucson, AZ by way of 15 meters
• KB9NNW of Marinette, WI by way of 15 meters
• WK9X of Frankfort, IN by way of 15 meters
• K7EMI of Portland, OR by way of 15 meters
• KY7W of Tempe, AZ by way of the repeater (hand-delivered)

Please resubmit a QSL if we missed yours

If you worked W7W on Sunday, February 25, 2012 only and are not on the list above, and sent us a QSL with SASE, please resubmit a QSL with SAE, and we will cover the return postage.

There were two independent W7W operations in February celebrating the Arizona Centennial, both with Mesa, AZ postal addresses, and ours was run on February 25 on the day that stand-ins for Arizona's 1912 Governor Hunt and then-U.S. President Roosevelt were giving speeches out in front of the Superstition Mountain Museum in northeast Apache Junction.

Please send your card to:

W7W FEB 25 2012

SUPERSTITION ARC

PO BOX 21522

MESA, AZ 85277

We will get our card out on the return mail.

Please see the W7W page for more information about the event.