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.
Field Day 2023
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Meetings for 2023
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We will hold our next meeting at the Bridgeview Community Center located at 7902 S. Oketo Avenue in Bridgeview, Illinois 60455, on June 8th, 2023, at 7:30 PM CDT. Our main topic of discussion will be Field Day 2023. Please visit the event page at https://w9src.org/events/month/2023-06/ for more info, including the address and a map.
VE Sessions
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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 Exam Request form. This helps us plan more effectively and allows us to contact you if anything changes.
June’s VE session will be held at our Field Day site
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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.
STARS is looking for program ideas
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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.
Iron Dog 2017
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Iron Dog is back on for October 28th. It is being run by K9s For Veterans this year. More details on the event page.
UPDATE: Vice President Patrick Shalloo (KB9KRT) has passed away
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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
2825 W 81st St.
Chicago, IL 60652
Field Day Site Aerial Video
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Special thanks go out to Troy (WD9DKE) and Sarah (KD9ETH) for meeting me at the Field Day site and allowing use of the hexacopter used for making this video.
New VHF Repeater Installed
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On Saturday, Tom (KA9ZXN) and Rudy (NF9Q) went to the repeater site to replace the VHF repeater. The old Vertex repeater was having issues with the ID volume dropping out. We now have a second Yaesu DR-1X repeater in service on the same frequencies as before.
Iron Dog pushed back
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We just got news that the Iron Dog event will be pushed back from sometime this spring to the fall. We will have more updates as we hear new info.