James Lathan

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Area Nets

Paul Finan, N4PRF, Net Manager

Daily Nets South Carolina Single Sideband Net: 7:00 pm at 3.915 LSB (scssb.net) Coastal Carolina Emergency Net: 7:00 pm 3.907 LSB (ccen.blogspot.com) The Carolinas Slow Net (CSN): 8:00 pm on 3.695 CW Southcars: 8 a.m. to 1 pm, 7.251 LSB (southcars.com) 7240 Club: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to noon …

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Roster

Our roster is in PDF format. 

Membership Roster as of August 5, 2024

If you have a question, feel free to send an email to the address below at any time. Thanks for being part of this unique group of people.

Please send all questions to [email protected]

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FT4

FT4 is an experimental digital mode designed specifically for radio contesting. Like FT8, it uses fixed-length transmissions, structured messages with formats optimized for minimal QSOs, and strong forward error correction. T/R sequences are 6 seconds long, so FT4 is 2.5 × faster than FT8 and about the same speed as RTTY for radio contesting.

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2019 Winter Field Day at Doko

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1/2in Type M Copper Tubing Slim Jim VHF/UHF Antenna

   Click on the picture for the full report.

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Message from ARRL, South Carolina, Public Information Coordinator

South Carolina Amateur Radio Volunteers Assist with Emergency Communication 09/16/2018

Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) volunteers from several South Carolina counties are pitching in to help support emergency communication, as the state deals with the aftereffects of Hurricane Florence. The storm, now a tropical depression, continues to generate heavy rainfall in the Carolinas.

“Amateur Radio …

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International Space Station. Details

You know you want to try and contact someone on the International Space Station, just one time.

Well this is how you do it.

Find out when the Space Station will orbit over South Carolina, to do that we go to this link and it will give us the dates and times.

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_States&region=South_Carolina&city=Columbia#.W6QZgWhKiUk

Next we …

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