Club News

Every June, the ARRL sponsors Field Day, when clubs and individuals set up stations at temporary locations. As we have done the past two years, the Club will set up operations in Penn Forest Recreational Park on 903 on June 28-29 with two HF transmitters and one VHF transmitter. The coordinates of our station are 40.92769° N, 75.69486° W, if you to put it in your GPS. In 2023, we made 168 contacts and achieved a score of 620. In 2024 we made 272 contacts and our score was 918. Even more significant was the increase in participants from 7 in 2023 to 20 this year. Unfortunately, it was very hot that weekend and we didn't get very many visitors. We are hoping for not hot and not rainy, but we deal with what comes.

On the weekend of October 12-13, we participated in the PA QSO Party, where Pennsylvania clubs and individuals made contacts with in-state operators and operators in the US and abroad. We logged 233 contacts with 47 PA counties, 27states, three Canadian provinces and even made one contact in the Slovak Republic.