Synton Amateur Radio Club
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
330D Everitt Lab
1406 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
+1 217.333.4320
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W9YH Synton Amateur Radio Club University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign 330D Everitt Lab 1406 W. Green St. Urbana, IL 61801 +1 217.333.4320 |
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330D Everitt Lab 1406 W. Green St. Urbana, IL 61801 +1 217.333.4320 |
| News - 12/10/08 Update: n9dn |
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Subject: Website update After a long hiatus, the website is being brought back into a semblence of support, with this year's officer info, etc. |
News - 09/08 Update: n9dn |
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Our Meetings (subject to change per request): Time: 2pm Thursdays on the 1st and 3rd full week of the month. Place: 330D Everitt |
News - 08/19/06 Update: kc8plb |
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Our Meetings (subject to change per request): Time: 12 noon Thursdays on the 1st and 3rd full week of the month. 8 pm Thursdays on the 2nd and 4th full week of the month. Place: 330D Everitt |
News - 09/11/05 Update: kc8plb |
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Subject: Synton Open House, September 15, 2005 Everyone is invited to join us at the Synton Open House, Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 8 PM. We will be meeting in room 330d of Everitt Lab. Come find out about the club, and get a tour of the shack. There will be pizza and drinks to follow. |
News - 09/11/05 Update: kc8plb |
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Our Meetings (subject to change per request): Time: 12 noon Wednesdays on the 1st and 3rd full week of the month. 8:00 PM Thursdays on the 2nd and 4th full week of the month. Place: 330D Everitt |
News - 01/22/05 Update: kc8plb |
| Token Update: Start of the new semester, meetings are in room el330d, at 12p on Wednesdays. Please feel free to stop by! | News - 08/24/04 Update: kc8plb |
| Synton made a showing at Quad Day today. Information will be sent out to everyone regarding the first meeting of the hear shortly. Synton will resume it's Wednesday @ 12pm lunch meetings, and have an informal meeting Thursday nights at 8pm, before the TCARC 2m net @ 9pm. | News - 04/25/04 Update: kc8plb |
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From Steve Hilberg: I just wanted to thank all of you again for helping out Saturday morning with the March of Dimes WalkAmerica. It's a good opportunity to publicize the public service aspect of ham radio and help out a good cause at the same time. Pictures are here. |
News - 04/10/04 Update: kc8plb |
| Congratulations to the team consisting of Synton member Chris Viger and area ham Josh Tolbert for finding the fox. | News - 04/08/04 Update: kc8plb |
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A couple people expressed interest in the foxhunt I proposed in
an email a while ago, and here are the details: This saturday, hunters will meet between Engineering Hall and Everitt Lab at 11am. The fox will be hiding on campus between the bounds of Lincoln Ave & University Avenue, to First St. & Flordia Ave. Since we are on campus, this is an on foot hunt. The frequency being used will be 446.50 MHz. If anyone needs some equipment, let me know and I can get some stuff togother. We have a spare antenna, a couple offset attenuators, and an HT. So the rundown: Saturday Apr 10 @ 11am. Meet at Everitt lab/Engineering Hall Lincoln & University - First & Flordia 446.50 MHz David kc8plb |
News - 02/22/04 Update: kc8plb |
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The 2m FM challenge is tomorrow night, Febuary 23, from 8 - 9 pm CST. We will be meeting in 330d at 7:30 to get setup. If anyone wants to be the club webmaster, let me know... (On a side note, I have fixed our old uiuc rso hosted web page to redirect to here now.) |
News - 08/28/03 Update: kc8plb |
| As the Fall semester starts, look here for information about the start of Synton for the semester. The meetings are going to be at a different time this semester; most likely Turrsday evenings at 1900 or 1930. I'll send mail to the list for when the first meeting is. Hope to see some new faces this year. And I'll try on keeping this website much more up to date than I have in the past. | News - 02/24/03 Update: kc8plb |
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After long waits, and much trial and tribulation, W9YH/R is now operational.
The club received the repeater (Motorola) last Thursday afternoon, and we got it operational that day. However, the next day after cleaning the repeater and trying to power it up again, we 'disturbed' the former residents of the power supply, and burnt them out... After yet another cleaning, and evicting the hornets nest and spiders, we had the machine back online, except it didn't transmit anymore. After spending a large chunk of time on Saturday, by the evening the machine was finally transmitting again after a mosfet mod. Thanks to n9goc for helping us test the machine... ~5 min after getting it on the air again. Today, we received the controller, and successfully interfaced it to the repeater via the mod to the squelch card that Mark did. Initially, the controller did not work, but after tracing down bad components, the controller finally started to respond on the air, but would not allow us to program it. Back to the drawing board, we were noticing that the receive audio was horrid, despite working fine on Saturday night. We later note that the metal plates for RFI shielding really do work, a lot. So all in all, the repeater is in pretty good shape now, the controller is programmed, and the audio is in relatively decent shape now. However, the machine is on a 'control op next to the repeater' mode right now, until we ensure the stability of the machine. Mark is going to be in the office most of the day tomorrow, so the machine will be up most of the day. Feel free to drop in or try it out. I'll post pictures of the machine on the club site soon. W9YH/R 444.65 DUP + PL 103.5 David |
News - 01/30/03 Update: kc4enn |
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Well, Even with access to a sane editor our updates are still slow. Sorry folks, We're students.
The first general meeting of Synton was held Wednesday January 29, 2003. We were delighted to receive one new ham. Several projects have been suggested, but most should wait until it is warmer. |
| News - 09/28/02 Update: kc8plb |
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Our site is now hosted at w9yh.ece.uiuc.edu on our 'new' Sun Ultra 1. Now that we can actually use a sane editor to modify the site, it will be updated more often. |
| News - 01/31/02 Update: kc8plb |
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The Synton Amateur Radio Club now has a new web site. Standby for further updates while I upload all the content. |
| (Very) Old News |
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Ex-president Tim Shy, KM4KS, tooks photos as our old building, Physics House III was being demolished. You can see them here . Please note that until I get an index page name, you'll have to click on each file name to see the picture, most pictures are 32k in size. They're in time order. |
| Upcoming Exams |
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The Twin Cities ARC sponsors exams this year on April 21, July 21, and October 20 at the Fire Service institute in Champaign. The exams start at 1pm. Please contact Debbie, N9DN, (n9dn@arrl.net) for more information. |
| Newsgroup |
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Synton has a net-news group, uiuc.org.synton (click here if you want to read it with your browser) for discussion of Amateur Radio & Synton related topics. |
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Synton also has a mailing list, synton-l (click here to browse the archives, and to sign up for the list.) The purpose of this list is for the discussion of Amateur Radio & Synton related topics. |