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Please come and join us for Field Day. This year, we are at an amazing site, the Santa Fe Prairie Nature Reserve in Hodgkins, IL. Please see our event page for the address and map.

The Worth Public Library is where STARS administers exams. We plan to hold sessions on the 4th Saturday of each month. Testing is held at 9:00 AM, and walk-ins are accepted until 10:30 AM. If you would like to take an exam, please get in touch with us using the… Read more »

The VE session on June 24th will be held at the Santa Fe Nature Reserve before the start of Field Day.  Feel free to stick around and get on the air or use your updated privileges after the session. https://w9src.org/event/field-day-2023

We are looking for ideas for the new year.  If you have any ideas for projects or presentations at a meeting or events that the club can attend or assist with, please bring them up at our next meeting.

Our club VP Patrick became a silent key on August 20, 2017. Visitation is Friday, August 25th from 3-9PM. Robert J. Sheehy & Sons Funeral Home – Orland Park 9000 W 151st St. Orland Park, IL 60462 Funeral Mass on Saturday, August 26th at 10AM. St Thomas More Catholic Church… Read more »

Jim Liston (N9HSH) passed away December 3rd at 8:30 PM.  Condolences to his family and friends. Funeral Friday, December 9, 10:00 am from Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 4727 W 103rd St, Oak Lawn to St Christina Church, 111th St and Christiana Ave, Chicago. Mass 11:00 am. Interment, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Alsip…. Read more »

Please join us for our yearly holiday party at Beggar’s Pizza in Oak Forest. We will be raffling off a Jetstream JT270MH dual band mobile radio. Tickets will be $1 each or 6 for $5. Map and address can be found on the event page at https://w9src.org/event/stars-holiday-party-2016/. Also note, the… Read more »

The STARS 2M repeater is now live on Echolink! We are still working on tweaking some of the settings, but we are currently running. The callsign is W9SRC-R and will show up in the repeater section of Echolink. For reference, the Node ID is 763923. Please try it out and… Read more »

We received the unfortunate news that Bob Koran (N9JYX) has become a silent key.  Visitation will be on Sunday, August 21 from 6-8PM at Sourek Funeral Home in Cicero. Sourek Funeral Home 5645 W. 35th St. Cicero, IL 60804 http://www.sourekfuneralhomes.com

Come join us Saturday, June 25 at Messenger Woods as we participate in Field Day 2016. We will have a VE session in the morning and will start setting up equipment shortly after that. We will be attempting to make satellite contacts this year with a computer controlled antenna array. … Read more »