W9SRC - The STARS Amateur Radio Club

Latest Club News

The CW Training and Practice Net will be going on hiatus. Tuesday February 28th will be the last session. The nets will resume Tuesday, September 4th 2012.

Field Day is coming upon us soon! Get the details here.

Our participation for Iron Dog 2012 has been confirmed! The date will be October 21st 2012. The last two years were very successful and we have been asked again to participate.

Our next VE session will be held on Saurday, May 26th. See the Licensing tab above for more info on our VE testing.

Our next club meeting will be on Thursday, June 14th 2012.


	Club Dues Please remember that the annual club membership dues for 2012 are coming due in June. Field Day 2012 Fiels Day is coming upon us soon! We will be hosting the STARS Field Day event at the Hawk Hollow Grove section of Messenger Woods in the Will Co. Forest Preserve. Get all the details here Club Meetings The STARS meeting and VE Testing locations have been moved to the Worth Public Library located at 6917 West 111th Street, Worth, IL 60482-1889. The library's phone number is 708-448-2855. The library's web site is located at www.worthlibrary.com. STARS will now meet on the second Thursday instead of the second Friday of each month. STARS Next Monthly Meeting The next regular STARS monthly meeting will be on Thursday, June 14th 2012 at 19:30 CST/CDT. Click Image Above For Google Map

Club Repeaters

STARS owns and operates two coordinated repeaters.

Our VHF repeater operates on a frequency of 146.640 MHz with a negative offset of 600 KHz using a PL access tone of 107.2 Hz. The repeater has emergency power and supports Skywarn.

Our UHF repeater operates on a frequency of 442.675 MHz with a positive offset of 5 MHz and a PL access tone of 131.8.

Both repeaters are located in Blue Island and use a call sign of W9SRC

VE Testing Sessions

Our next VE testing session will be on Saturday May 26th, 2012. Our VE testing sessions are held on the forth Saturday of each month. Please watch this website for any exceptions to this rule. Please arrive early if you can to avoid distrupting those taking tests. The VE testing session will start promptly at 09:00 CST/CDT. Walk-ins are welcome until 10:30 CST/CDT. See the Licensing tab above for details, location, costs, documentation, and identification requirements.

The STARS Blog

The STARS amateur radio club has a blog that is maintained by STARS board member Tammie Cekus KC9RFJ. The blog contains updates to events and club related activities as well as several photo galleries including our paricipation in the Iron Dog event in October of this year. You can visit our blog at http://stars-w9src.blogspot.com/