We are pleased to announce that several different types of personalized merchandise bearing our Club logo are now available for purchase through two different vendors: HamThreads and The SignMan of Baton Rouge HamThreads offers a plethora of high quality shirts, caps, jackets, high-visibility vests, and other products that you can personalize with your name, callsign,…
Public Acknowledgment of Gratitude to the ARDC Foundation The San Angelo Amateur Radio Club (SAARC) extends its deepest gratitude to the Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Foundation for their generous grant funding, which has been instrumental in completing a critical infrastructure improvement project for our club. With the ARDC Foundation’s support, we successfully executed a…
Upcoming ham radio test session and prep class details are as follows: We will have three test prep sessions for the Technician license test. The plan is that we cover all the material Thursday and Friday, then the Saturday session is considered review or 1:1 time for whatever concepts you might still have questions on….
Good evening, Thank you to our local Volunteer Examiner Team Liaison with the ARRL, Chad KD5SMK, for providing info on tonight’s CV 2m Net about how easy it is to become a volunteer examiner and assist with amateur license testing sessions. The Application consists of essentially an open book test, no fee. (As a point…
Schedule of events: 8:30am-11:30am Skywarn Recognition Meet and Greet / Open House at NWS Office The National Weather Service office in San Angelo Texas will host their Skywarn Recognition Day meet & greet/open house on Saturday, December 7, 2024 from 8:30am to 11:30am. Address is 7654 Knickerbocker Rd, San Angelo, TX 76904. Contact Mike Castillo,…
Optional Study/Prep sessions on Friday June 21st 6p-9p, and Saturday June 22 9a-12p The next FCC Amateur license testing session in San Angelo will be held on Sat., June 22nd at 1pm, for Technician, General, and Extra licenses. $15 exam fee as required by the ARRL. Location: SAARC Clubhouse, 5513 Stewart Lane, Near the Airport. What…
Graciously displayed to the public during much of 2024.
The opening reception house for the exhibit is Thursday March 21st between 17:00 and 18:30. We can’t wait to see you there! The address for the Mayer Museum is: 2501 W Ave N, San Angelo, TX 76904
A new antenna/radio was added to the W5QX clubhouse tower last Thursday, utilizing LoRa technology and Meshtastic you can send text messages to other people or channels over 915mhz using Meshtastic “nodes” powered by solar, completely separated from the grid and other infrastructure. Meshtastic radios connect to an app on your phone using BLE or…
If you already own a radio and have not programmed it yet, you can bring your radio to a club meeting, and we will program amateur radio frequencies, SKYWARN, weather, and local emergency frequencies worth monitoring for free! We can even recommend a first radio if you don’t own one. Please email contact@w5qx.org with the…
