St. John Catholic School XTAL radio build 11-10
The first deployment of the TARC Mobile Ham Radio Station was in April 2023 at St. John Catholic School in North Charleston where the students learned all about Amateur…
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Parks On the Air – Botany Bay Plantation – Mobile Marine Park Activation – Testing Emergency Comms
This is a joint POTA radio park activation between Rich (K4ZRL) and Jim (KO4MNB). This is a mobile marine activation in which we travelled from Charleston to Edisto to…
Stone Mountain Hamfest
I am going to the Stone Mountain Hamfest, https://stonemountainhamfest.com/ Nov 4-5, in my motorhome and looking for someone to go with me. I’ll be parked at the hamfest and…
“Little David” (W4D) Special Event on October 7
On the night of October 5, 1863, “Little David”, commanded by Lieutenant William T. Glassell, CSN, left Charleston Harbor to attack the casemated ironclad steamer USS New Ironsides. The…
Tag Along for SC POTA part II
As special thanks to Steve Behr, K4OPZ, for allowing me to tag along this past Saturday for SC POTA activations. It was a blast! I’ve never activated a park…
Conquering the waves for another exciting MM POTA adventure
If you read our previous post from July 2022 “Mobile Marine POTA Assault on Old Island” https://www.tridenthams.org/marine-mobile-pota-assault-on-old-island-k-3906/ then you are aware that I enjoy boating and POTA, and what could be better…
Radio contacts from a parachute
Morning all, I just wanted to share my experience from the Huntsville hamfest. I headed out to Huntsville on Thursday before to hang out with some friends. At dinner…
Tag along for SC POTA
Is anyone going to do SC POTA locally on September 16 and 17? If so, I would like to tag along and help. Just started POTA Hunting and would…
Listening to the ISS
Article by: AA2RR – Ron Richards The International Space Station has a FM repeater that can be used by amateur radio. I’ve been listening with my HT with a…
STEM Education Day at ECPI on June 23
The Tri-County STEMersion Student Camp is a unique program designed to advance hands-on STEM skills and introduce rising 9th and 10th graders to local career opportunities. As such, TARC…