February 22, 2022
Thank you to club member Robert W9RKK for sending in a photo of a well attended Construction Project meeting this month.
February 8, 2022
Thomas Beebe, W9RY, is the Illinois Section Manager. He will be joining us via Zoom at the next club meeting on Thursday, February 17, 2022. The meeting will be hybrid and take place in person and via Zoom. He was originally licensed as WN9QXW over 56 years ago. He is an active member of most …
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January 28, 2022
This event has been cancelled. The cold weather and lack of operators interested has caused us to cancel this event. You are still invited to operate from home and list your club affiliation as “Schaumburg Amateur Radio Club” You can view the original posting here: Winter Field Day 2022
January 14, 2022
The contagion rate of the Omicron virous is serious. For example, this last Fall there were typically five students absent from Huntley High School on any given day due to Covid; since the Holidays, that number has increased to 50+. In ham-speak, that is an increase of 10 dB and significant. Anecdotally, there have been …
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January 9, 2022
Jack W9YY is celebrating 60 years as a ham radio operator. He writes: On this day exactly 60 years ago, January 9, 1962, I was first licensed as a ham radio operator, WN8BVX, at the age of 12. The event made the news in three local papers. After 60 years, that constitutes a whole lot …
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