SCHH ARC “This & That” — March 4, 2025

Membership Meeting This Thursday!

ARC Will Meet at Lakehouse — Elmer Presentation at 6:45 PM, Main Program at 7 PM. Meeting to follow.

The SCHH ARC’s March Membership Meeting will include two presentations, an Elmer and a main program.

Frank Pollino, K2OS, will kick things off at 6:45 PM with an Elmer about a 2m antenna that he devised for mounting on his home’s gutters. A little extra height for an antenna never hurts…so, be sure to get to the meeting in the Bayside Room at the Lakehouse by 6:45 PM that evening.

Following Frank’s presentation Maureen Kilcoyne from the Sun City Hilton Head Computer Club will provide our main program at 7 PM: A presentation on AI including Large Language Models (LLM) and various AI Chatbots. ChatGPT and Co-Pilot will be included in the discussions. Maureen is the co-chair of the Computer Club’s Windows Special Interests Group (SIG).

Our monthly membership meeting will follow Maureen’s presentation. See highlights from the agenda for our membership meeting below.

Lots of Discussions Ahead for ARC Members at Thursday’s Meeting!

Here is a sampling of the agenda for this week’s meeting including both old and new business.

• Emergency Preparedness Update – Harve Hnatiuk
• POTA Activation – Bob McCormick
  • Membership Interest
  • Potential locations
  • Project lead, if we want to do an activation.
• Marketing with QST: Bob Mc
  • Description
  • Activity to date
• Civil Air Patrol SAREX Support: Bob Officer
• Virtual Library: Bob Mc
  • Concept
  • Current club inventory
  • Member feedback

The complete agenda will be emailed to all members of the club. All members are encouraged to participate in this Thursday’s meeting!

Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle!

This didn’t seem to “resonate” as no responses were received. There must have been a lot of skull-scratching out there. On a difficulty scale of 1 (easy) to 10 (very difficult), this puzzle probably checks in between 8 and 9.

As promised, here is the solution. Note that all words are things that can be or normally are white. Mourning Doves, which we have here in SCHH, are gray. Milk can be chocolate, right? There are brown eggs. And, there is yellow snow…just ask any dog-walker in the north!!!

1. D O V E
2. M I L K
3. E G G
4. S N O W
5. C O T T O N

Perhaps a Ham’s Favorite Wine?

Among one ham’s favorites, for sure. Note there’s quite a bit of missing product!

The label has a ham radio look to it, don’t you think?

What’s Coming Up?

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 — SCHH ARC 10m SSB Net. 28.450 MHz.

Thursday, March 6, 2025 — Elmer Presentation, Program, and General Membership Meeting, Bayside Room at the Lakehouse. More details are provided above.

SCHH ARC Nets

Please keep our nets alive and well by checking in when you can. Our repeater nets this past week had over 10 check-ins! That is awesome!!!

Should our nets practice formal “Message/Traffic Handling”? Plans are to have that be one topic of discussion on Wednesday night’s Repeater Net. Do you have any topics for discussion on our nets? It is always GREAT to hear everyone’s thoughts on areas of interest for hams in SCHH.

Can you help our nets by being a Net Control Station?

We have two regular net control stations…a third and fourth net control station would really help lighten the load. Please consider giving it a shot!!!

Weekly SCHH ARC Nets

Sunday’s Net (8 PM) operates on 147.550 MHz simplex on the last two Sundays of the calendar month. The Sunday net will be on the KE4HAM repeater (147.135 + with a tone of 91.5 on both the input and the output) on all other Sundays of the calendar month. Check-in can be done even if you don’t have a radio up and running via EchoLink by using the link KE4HAM-L when the net is on SIMPLEX and KE4HAM-R when the net is on the SCHH Okatie Repeater.

Wednesday‘s Net (8 PM) operates through the KK4ONF/Jasper repeater, 147.060+. The net can be accessed via EchoLink using the link KE4HAM-R.

Next 10m SSB Net: Currently set for Tuesday, March 4th at 8 PM on 28.450 Upper Sideband. Net Control will be K2OS, Frank Pollino.

Net Control Stations and EchoLink Coordinator

Thanks to our regular 2m Net Controls: Frank Pollino, K2OS; and Harve Hnatiuk, KB3FW.

Thanks to Bob, WA6WAY, for being an alternate Net Control Station and 10m Net Coordinator.

Thanks to Ron Frick, AI4HH, for working diligently to keep EchoLink up and running for our nets.

Net Control Schedule:

— Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 8 PM: Harve Hnatiuk, KB3FW (KK4ONF Jasper County Repeater)

— Sunday, March 9, 2025 @ 8 PM: Frank Pollino, K2OS (KE4HAM SCHH Repeater).

SCHH ARC Net Reports:

Thanks to ALL who checked in to our SCHH ARC nets last week.

Last week’s check-ins and traffic:

— Wednesday, February 26 2m KK4ONF Repeater Net: KE4HAM/K2OS, AI4HH, K2ITZ, W1ZZ, KO4AQI, WA2LWO, AA4KK, KQ4JKI, KB3FW, WB1DXN, AD5EN, WB4KSG. QNI=12, QTC=0.

— Sunday, March 2 2m KE4HAM Repeater Net: KE4HAM/K2OS, AI4HH, KJ4BSM, KD8IH, W8NCA, AA4KK, WA6WAY, K2ITZ, KB3FW, W1ZZ, KQ4JKI. QNI=11, QTC=0.

Note: QNI = Number of Check-ins to the net, including Net Control; QTC = Traffic handled (Radiograms).

Other Operating

Daily —  Monitor the new KE4HAM Repeater: 147.135 MHz + with a tone of 91.5. You may get some good DX spots from time to time and other members may be there if you want to connect/chat.