Annual Membership Dues for January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021 are coming up soon. Please consider sending in your annual dues if you have not paid in advance. These dues help the club purchase things for HamFest, prizes for meetings, awards for Field Day, and to fix repeaters when they breakdown, to Join or Renew Membership!!! (Click Here)

Winter Field Day is coming, January 30/31 2021 For details about the Winter Field Day

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The Radio Society of Tucson’s Annual Christmas Party

Download the Christmas Party Flyer

When:

Saturday, December 12, 2020

5 P.M. – 9 P.M.

Cocktail Hour: 5 P.M. – 6 P.M.
Hors D’oeuvres provided (BYOB)

Dinner 6 P.M.

Menu:
• Salad
• Homemade Dinner Rolls with Butter
• Choice of Chicken or Beef Entree
• Potatoes and Vegetable
• Assorted Desserts

Where:

Home of Dave & Rosie Paszkiet
527 S Placita Quince, Tucson, AZ 85748

Cost:

$20 per person

Agenda:

Dinner!!!!

New this year: Ugly Sweater Contest!

Winner will receive a $25 Target gift card

White Elephant gift exchange (optional)

$25 limit

Bring a gift to get a gift

Items MUST be new and wrapped/bagged
(Size can be a surprise!!!)

Raffle:

Raffle prize is a Kenwood TH-D74A handheld radio with D-Star

Tickets are $2 ea, 3 for $5, 7 for $10, 15 for $20 or 40 for $40

RSVP:

Please RSVP to Shari K7GPC or Brenda N3QVK with your payment via check or cash (at meeting) or PayPal and your choice of entrée

No Later Than: Saturday, December 5, 2020

White Elephant Rules:
1. Each player brings one wrapped gift to contribute to a common pool
2. Players draw numbers to determine what order they will go in
• Alternatively, someone can draw names from a hat, or the order can be set by the organizer prior to the event
3. Players display gifts so everyone can see them
4. The first player selects a gift from the pool and opens it
5. The following players can choose to either pick an unwrapped gift from the pool or steal a previous player’s gift
6. Anyone who gets their gift stolen in this way can do the same – choose a new gift or steal from someone else
7. After all players have had a turn, the first player gets a chance to swap the gift he or she is holding for any other opened gift

Additional Notes:
• Three Swaps and You’re Out
  If you get stolen from three times during the game, you are out of the game and can no longer be stolen from
• Three Swaps and the Gift is Out
  If a present gets stolen three times, it’s out of the game and the person who holds it gets to walk away with it

RST TUCSON SPRING HAMFEST

To Download the Flyer: Click Here

Saturday March 27, 2021

Time: 7:00 AM - 12:00 AM

FREE ADMISSION & PARKING

FREE Testing by The Laurel VEC

Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Seller setup starts at 6:00 AM

Seller/Vendor spaces are $10/space

ARCA Meeting

Time: 11:00 AM

Location: TBD

Morning Snacks brought to you by BSA Troop 157

ARRL Awards/Card Checking

LOCATION:

Target, NORTH PARKING LOT

9615 E. Old Spanish Trail

Tucson, AZ

Talk-in Frequencies:

FM: 145.250 MHz, Tone: 156.7 Hz

DSTAR: 445.900, K7RST B

Fusion: 146.800

RAFFLE

Tickets: $2 each, 3 for $5, 7 for $10

Need not be present to win

PRIZES:

• Yaesu FT70D, Fusion Ready Handheld
• Predator 2000 Watt Generator
• MFJ – 822 SWR HF/VHF Mobile SWR Meter
• Target Gift Cards, $100 and $25

The 2020 ARRL Field Day is June 27-28.

With great disappointment, that RST must inform you that our usual Mt. Bigelow Field Day Site is well within the Evacuation Zone of the Bighorn Fire. According to the latest maps, the fire perimeter was approximately 1/4mi North of our Field Day site. The suspicion is that within 24hrs, if the wind and weather conditions continue, the Field Day site will be directly impacted.

Radio Society of Tucson is officially announcing an OPERATE FROM HOME Field Day Operation for Field Day, taking advantage of the special CovID-19 score aggregation rules the ARRL Field Day committee has set up. More information will be provided shortly.

RST hopes that Catalina Radio Club will join us in supporting this effort and we can use a combined "RST+CRC" aggregation for the results.

Possibilities for collaboration:

• Zoom Party from our Shacks
• Over The Air collaboration on operating conditions
  • 146.800 (RST Repeater)
  • 147.340 (CRC Repeater)
  • 147.000 (N7HND Repeater) or
  • 146.520 FM (National Simplex)

This year the ARRL is saying that "A Time to Adapt" (for full details visit Field Day 2020 — A Time to Adapt). The ARRL would like us to do Field Day in a different way. Their highlights are as follows:

• Encourage club members to operate from their home stations on emergency power (Class E)
• Use the club’s repeater as a means for individual participants to keep in touch during the event
• Family members interested in operating Field Day and unable to participate as part of a larger group may want to consider setting up a portable station in the backyard with a temporary antenna

The AZ QSO Party is coming in October!!

The Arizona QSO Party (AZQP) is a fun amateur radio competitive event. Join the party. Make some contacts. Have ham radio fun! The AZ QSO Party Website or see the AZ QSO FLYER has everything you need to know, including up-to-date information on Rules, Activated Counties, Awards, Resources, and more. You do NOT need to “compete” to have lots of fun in the AZQP. Casual non-competitive operation is highly encouraged and can be quite rewarding. Also, if you are just getting started in contesting, Check out the New Contester award.