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Beach to Bay 2025 is here, we are needing volunteers to help on leg assignments for the race on May 31,2025 , please contact me at 361-774-6809 K5BXN Rusty Serna.

Your 2025 Officers and 2025 – 2027 cycle Directors (4) have been chosen by the club members at the STARC Annual Meeting held Thursday Feb 27th. Three Directors will complete one remaining year on their current term. Rachel Wilken was elected to complete one remaining year created by Adam Davis to run for Club Secretary.

On January 17th 2025 Colonel Charles Petty W5HOP went Silent Key. We hope his family find comfort and peace during this difficult time. Charles was a huge asset to the ham radio community. He was very involved mentoring others in and out of the hobby. He was very active in the volunteer examiner program to

Fellow Hamsters and Future Hamsters, STARC has begun collecting 2025 Club Dues https://www.n5crp.org/dues-donations/ Dues and Donations can be paid online via PayPal with assistance of the link above or you can attend the next club function and pay in person. The club accepts in person payments by cash, check, or credit card with a chip or tap

W5LEX will be holding a work day on the USS Lexington October 12th. Meet up with be at 9am at the stage on the main hanger deck.

The next South Texas Amateur Radio Club eyeball meeting will be tomorrow Sept 26th 7pm at St Mark’s Fellowship Hall 2727 Airline Rd Corpus Christi, Texas. Hope to see you there. Assuming no issues we will be streaming live via N5CRP YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@n5crp under “LIVE”

The next Tailgate and VE Testing Session will be Saturday October 12th Tailgate setup at 7:30ish/ starts at 8 am. There will be a Testing Session starting in the St Mark’s Fellowship Hall 2727 Airline Corpus Christi Texas 78414 at 10 am  (check back for updates). Please check our VE Testing page https://www.n5crp.org/ve-testing/ for more details.

Field Day with VE Test session June 22, second VE Test session June 26, & Club Meeting June 27th …. see details below. Field Day 2024 event June 22 ** Test session June 22 onsite at 2 pm ** We will be operating only on June 22 starting at 10 am (but will try to get earlier access so check

The next VE Testing Session will be May 22, 2024 @ 6pm Dairy Queen 911 Dallas St Portland Texas (check back for updates). Please check our VE Testing page https://www.n5crp.org/ve-testing/ for more details. Please note that the test pool for EXTRA CLASS expires June 30, 2024. So study and come out and test under the current test pool.

STARC 442.250 + 107.2 tone is now On Air and linked to the Cross Roads Ham Radio Club Network. Please refrain from kurchunking as this will be affecting other repeaters on the network. Visit our link partner club at https://crhrc.org/ .