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

Come See SCTV on Thursday!

Membership Meeting at Pinckney Hall Will Follow Sun City TV Tour

The SCHH ARC will be welcomed guests at the Sun City Television (SCTV) facilities at Pinckney Hall on Thursday evening.

SCTV will provide tours for our members beginning around 6:30 PM.

Our monthly membership meeting will be held in the Congaree River Room at Pinckney after the tours.

Here is the plan for Thursday evening:

— Members are to arrive at the Congaree River Room at Pinckney Hall beginning at 6:15 PM.

— There will be a sign-up sheet on the counter/table just inside the door to the Congaree River Room. See below.

— Upon arrival, sign in using the sign-up sheet. As you can see, we will have groups of four. The first four sign-ups will go on the first tour. Ensuing groups will follow. Tours will be separated by at least five minutes.

— Members will be accommodated on a first come-first served basis.

— If we have more than 20 members coming out for the tour, we will try to accommodate any overflow…but, there are no guarantees.

— The general membership meeting will begin at the conclusion of the final tour of the evening and after any post-tour remarks by the SCTV team inside our meeting room.

— Note that the meeting room itself is relatively small. We may have Standing Room Only for the meeting.

Hope to see a good group of members at the tour and meeting!

There’s Still Time to Plan a Trip to HamCation!

Usually, a few members of the SCHH ARC make the trip to Orlando for HamCation. It is a huge ham radio event.

Certificates!

Maybe we should call this “Certificate Week”. If you have recently received a ham radio-related certificate or award, please send a scan of it to Harve (hnat463@gmail.com), This & That will try to periodically include these in upcoming issues.

What’s Coming Up?

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 — Emergency Preparedness Task Force Zoom, 12 Noon. Task Force members only.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 – Next 10m SSB Net, 28.450 MHz, 8 PM.

Thursday, February 6, 2025 — Tour of SCTV and General Membership Meeting, Pinckney Hall. Details above.

SCHH ARC Nets

Please keep our nets alive and well by checking in when you can.

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, February 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:

— Tuesday, February 4, 2025 @ 8 PM: Frank Pollino, K2OS (28.450, Upper Sideband)

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

— Sunday, February 9, 2025 @ 8 PM ET: Frank Pollino, K2OS (KE4HAM Okatie Repeater)

SCHH ARC Net Reports:

Thanks to ALL who checked in to our SCHH ARC nets last week. We had 10 or more check-ins on both nets!

Last week’s check-ins and traffic:.

— Wednesday, January 29: KE4HAM/K2OS, AI4HH, WA2LWO, K2ITZ, KQ4JKI, WB1DXN, AA4KK, WB4KSG, KB3FW, WA6WAY. QNI=10, QTC=0.

— Sunday, February 2: KE4HAM/K2OS, AI4HH, WA6WAY, AA4KK, KJ4BSM, K2ITZ, KB3FW, W1ZZ, N0DQD,WB4KSG, WB1DXN, K3WPA. QNI=12, 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.