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The Somerset County Amateur Radio Club is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation promoting Amateur Radio services and education in Somerset County, PA

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Welcome KC3NEH

Demonstrations

April 25, 2019

Ed, K1ZE. will be visiting Somerset and will tell us how he helped set up a DMR repeater system for ARES in Connecticut. Ed retired in 2016 from the CT State Police after 20 years of keeping them communicating. Prior to that he worked for the RI State Police for 5 years and prior to that he was a technician for HEATHKIT for 18 years.

The demo will start at 7:00 PM in Room 13, Founders Hall.
Anyone interested in Amateur Radio is welcome to attend.

Technician License Training

Our new club location is perfect for teaching. We can offer weekly classes or one on one sessions.

We will use the ARRL Technicial License Manual that we can purchase for you at a slight discount. Classes will be free.
An ARRL VE test session will be offered following the class. The ARRL test fee is $15.

Classroom

With this option, all classes will be held in Room 13, Founders Hall. See address below.
Weekly classes meeting for about two hours for eight weeks. They can be evening classes, any evening except Thursday, or a Saturday or a Sunday afternoon.
Let us know what works for you.

One on One Mentoring

With this option you will be paired with a club member that lives close to you. You will study at your own pace. You can meet weekly or communicate via the telephone to talk about the training material.
Let us know what works for you.

Meetings

February, March and April meetings will start at 7:00

on the third Thursday of the month.

At our February 21, 2019 meeting
the club voted to move our meeting location to
Founders Hall
6022 Glades Pike, Route 31 east
Somerset, PA 15501
Room 13
FIND OUR ROOM HERE
The room will be available for our March 21 meeting.

Anyone interested in Amateur Radio is invited to attend any Thursday evening.

Directions to the new clubhouse location
Route 31 east of Somerset

When driving east from Somerset on Route 31, Glades Pike, continue
to the top of the hill beyond the turn to the Somerset County Technology Center. At the top of the hill look for the large sign for the Somerset County Education Center, turn left off of Route 31 and look for Founders Hall. It is the large building housing the Somerset County Federated Library and Career Link

Club Sponsored
Repeaters:

K3SMT - Somerset

Analog Repeaters:
VHF 147.195+ PL 123.0
UHF 443.250+ PL 123.0

EchoLink Node 506066

WA3P - Mt. Davis
443.725+ Primarily Digital
Controller: RB-STM32 DVM
D-Star in -> D-Star out
DMR in -> DMR out
Fusion in -> Fusion out
FM in -> FM out - PL 127.3
Pi-Star Status Page

W3DCW - Hays Mill
441.500+ Primarily Digital
Controller: RB-STM32 DVM
D-Star in -> D-Star out
DMR in -> DMR out
Fusion in -> Fusion out
FM in -> FM out - PL 123.0
Pi-Star Status Page

K3SMT is an ARRL Affiliated Club