SouthSide Amateur Radio Club Blog

2022 Hamfest

Raytown ARC and SouthSide ARC are combining our efforts this year and are co hosting a fall Hamfest. Full details on the Hamfest page.

Club email list

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Dec 2022 Club Meeting

We meet at Casa Mexico in Belton the evening of the 20th and had a very brief business meeting to open the floor for officer nominations. Followed by a quick vote among the assembled...

2022 Hamfest

Off to a wet start which latter turned to snow and wrapped up as a brisk blue-sky day. Good turnout of vendors, sellers and buyers. Raffle winners FTM-200 donated by the Kansas City Wide...

Hamfest Raffle

The Kansas City Wide room has donated a Yaesu FTM-200dr as a raffle prize. Proceeds go to the clubs, raffle tickets are a dollar a ticket at the door. Drawing will be held at...

High Altitude Balloon

Received the following today. From: Bret Chilcott <BretChilcott@Gmail.com>Subject: Balloon launch with cross-band repeater Message Body:Hello: We are launching a high attitude weather balloon Saturday June 4th at 9:30 AM.  It is expected to reach...

AllStar Link

Looking for resources for a new ham in Harrisonville I stumbled across the BlindHub which is available via AllStar, DMR and Fusion. I updated the repeater page with the commands to drive AllStar along...

2021 Hamfest canceled

Several have enquired as to if the club will be hosting a Hamfest in 2021. No plans for 2021 and we look forward to resuming the event in 2022.

Resumption of in person activities

The club has resumed some in person activities, Saturday breakfast and the third Tuesday of the month evening gathering. The club will not be hosting a hamfest in 2021. Recommend joining the clubs groups.io...