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Field Day 2024 – Everyone Invited!

May 20, 2024

Come join us for ARRL Field Day. Everyone is invited even if you don’t have a ham radio license! Our members will have all of the radios, antennas, microphones and oh-so-many cables all set up and ready for you to get on the air. Or, maybe you want to talk with one of our members … Continue reading

STEM Night at Anne Fox Elementary School

May 8, 2024

The Schaumburg Amateur Radio Club (SARC) was invited to participate in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Night at Anne Fox Elementary School in Hanover Park on Thursday May 2nd. Leo Ribordy (N9NBH), SARC Education Chair organized the effort and recruited Daryl Jenks (KB9RHR), Robert Benwitz (N9JAX), SARC Board Member, Bill Riess (KW9WR) SARC Board … Continue reading

SARC in the Park Starts May 11

April 12, 2024

By Paul KD9FMN Tonight, Howard ran another great [New Ham] net. The topic was on what to bring to a SARC in the PARK activity. I was asked to prepare a list of items that one needs to bring with them to have a successful QSO day. The list can be very short or quite … Continue reading

Local Radio Tower History

March 6, 2024

Our club has an active email reflector (SARC-All) which discusses all things related to radio as well as club business. From time to time we post excerpts from some of the general radio discussions. Kirk K9MSG started the discussion Recently I’ve been near the southeast corner of Bloomingdale [Illinois – Ed.]. I’ve often looked up … Continue reading

Construction Project February 10, 2023

February 12, 2024

By Joe KB9RCR We generally find equipment randomly coming through the door for repair and/or calibration. SARC is blessed to have rather extensive test equipment/parts and more importantly are blessed with several members with really good technical skills to find and solve circuit challenges. Over the years there have been many pre-organized construction projects that … Continue reading