Public service events that SARC has assisted with in the past are returning. We are working with the event organizers to get additional details and exact times that they will need our support. If you’re interested in helping please mark these dates in your calendar:
In following State and Village of Schaumburg guidelines and requirements masks and proof of vaccination will not be required for club events starting March 1, 2022.
We are also happy to announce that this means the club will now be able to provide refreshments at some events as we have in the past.
This announcement comes just short of two years after we had to begin cancelling meetings and events in March of 2020. We were optimistic at that time and thought the cancellations would only be through the month of March. You can read our first COVID-19 response post when we made this announcement.
Thank you to club member Robert W9RKK for sending in a photo of a well attended Construction Project meeting this month.
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 of the amateur radio clubs in the southern part of the state as well as being active in ARES and the National Traffic System. In addition to serving as the Illinois Section Manager he holds appointments as an Official Emergency Station, ARRL licensed instructor, ARRL Field Instructor, Volunteer Examiner, Volunteer Examiner Liaison, and AUXCOMM operator. He is also Intro to AUXCOMM instructor, MARS operator and NWS Skywarn spotter.
He holds a PhD and is a retired university administrator as well as a past corporate CEO. He is also a strong proponent of recruiting young people to the radio hobby and frequently talks with young people about amateur radio.
In his spare time he enjoys operating CW on an Icom 718, a FT857 for NTS messages and tinkering with technology. He runs a Raspberry Pi (single board computer) powered 2 meter Winlink Illinois Digital Emergency Network gateway on 145.610 mHz as part of ARES and his PSK, RTTY, Olivia, ARDOP, and VARA modes run on other Raspberry Pi’s connected to a TS-50 and FT-857.