SCARC Happenings

NEXT MEETING – Wednesday, February 9 – 7pm

December 11, 2021 By W9VCL

NEXT MEETING – Wednesday, February 9, 2022 – Sheboygan Senior Community, 3505 CTY Road Y – Willow Lane Entrance (to the left of the main entrance) – in the Township of Sheboygan. Meetings will begin at 7:00 PM. Please note the COVID protocols currently in place. They are listed below.

o Masks must be worn at all times.

o Visitors are required to check in to the kiosk, which will print a sticker that must be worn the duration of visit.

Our club meetings welcome interested hams, experienced operators or folks who are just getting started in the hobby. If we can’t answer your questions, we’ll find someone who can!

Topics to be discussed vary from month to month. Do you have an idea for a presentation or speaker?

If you have a topic you would like to see discussed, or have an idea for a presentation or a guest speaker, please contact one of the officers, or post to the Facebook group.

Please sign up for Groups.IO to receiving notices posted on the reflector. The group name is:

SCARC Sheboygan County Amateur Radio Club

2021-2022 Officers:

- President – Mike G. KD9TZ
- Vice President – Mike J. WI9MJ

Secretary – Anne KC9YL
Treasurer – Steve AA9SJ
Directors –Lyle WE9R, John AB9HH, and Doug AB9QP

If you have questions, answers or other tidbits to share, please use the CONTACT US tab (upper right).

2021 Holiday party postponed to March-ish

December 8, 2019 By W9VCL

We will keep you posted once set a date.

W9B 2021 Johnsonville Brat Days Special Event – Aug 7, 1500Z-2259Z – 10:00a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CDT

July 10, 2019 By W9VCL

We had another successful W9B special event. There are brat lovers EVERYWHERE!

We had a total of 245 contacts between the 5 ops. Not bad for a day’s work! The PDF version (emailed upon request) was very popular.

Thanks for helping us celebrate!

QSL: Certificates featuring hand-drawn artwork from Joe Ash W9ODV are still available: W9VCL Sheboygan County Amateur Radio Club, 4235 N 29th Street, Sheboygan, WI 53083.

Please include $2.00 for an 8-1/2×11 certificate which will be mailed unfolded in a manila envelope or send $1 and SASE #10 (certificate will be folded). Please do NOT send large folded envelopes with postage affixed (the certificates get all bend-y) – we will use our own envelopes. Just want a FREE PDF certificate? Email kc9yl@arrl.net to receive one at no charge!

Thanks for helping us celebrate Sheboygan’s 67th annual Brat Days!

Due to the unknown restrictions would have been in effect June, we opted out of operating in person and took advantage of the emergency rules. Members used their own callsigns and were able to submit their scores toward the Club’s total. We had a meager 3 club members submit scores, but hey, they got on the air!

Overall, 2021 saw more than 10,213 entries and 18,886 participants. Before the pandemic, in 2019, 3,113 entries were submitted, with 36,420 total participants. “It appears that larger groups were more the norm in pre-pandemic times, as expected,” ARRL Contest Program Manager Paul Bourque, N1SFE, observed.

Field Day

In past years we have set up at the former Sheboygan Red Cross office, and most recently, at the Town of Sheboygan Firehouse Park for a one-day event on Saturday and are looking forward to that next year!

Brat Fry 2016

November 15, 2016 By W9VCL

Brat Fry 2016 – another successful year!

The brat fry is our yearly fund raiser that helps to defray the costs of insurance and other club operating expenses as well as provides funds for equipment upgrades that are needed. On April 30, 2016 we held our brat fry at the South Side Piggly Wiggly in Sheboygan.

This year John AB9HH and Linda K9TZU were gracious enough to organize this year’s event. Other members stepped to to lend a hand at our only fund raiser for the year.