Southern Counties Amateur Radio Association or SCARA.

Our K2BR/R 146.745 is now on EchoLink.

SCARA does down load all QSOs into ARRL's Logbook of the World.

On May 21, 2011 We had a Special Event station at Lucy the Elephant in Margate City, NJ. Please send your QSL card to our club's Post Office Box, include a SASE. For more information on Lucy please go to their Web Site http://www.lucytheelephant.org.

On August 6 & 7, 2011 we had a Special Event Station on the air at the Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City, NJ to help celebrate National Lighthouse Weekend. Also during the weekend of August 20 & 21, 2011 we had another Special Event Station on the air at the Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City, NJ this time to help celebrate International Lighthouse Weekend. Please send your QSL card with a SASE and all other Club mail to, SCARA, P.O. Box 121, Linwood, NJ 08221.All QSL cards that we receive are put into a book and are on display at the light house during the Special Events. If you do visit the Light house and go up to the top, please note Step # 73.

Our Club runs two "OPEN" Repeaters, which are located in Egg Harbor Township at the Atlantic County EM center, 8 miles SW of Atlantic City, NJ. The Repeaters call is K2BR/R.The 2 meter machine is on 146.745 Mhz (-) offset and CTCSS tone is 146.2Hz & the 70 CM machine is on 448.775 (-) offset with a CTCSS tone of 118.8Hz.

SCARA members meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:30 PM in the Tony Canale Fire Training Center on English Creek Avenue in Egg Harbor Township, NJ. Visitors are always welcome.

SCARA members have an informal “breakfast get together” on Mondays at 8:45 AM at the Northfield Diner (old Athena's) ,1515 New Road (Highway 9), Northfiled, NJ 08225 the diner phone number is 609-641-5725. We have been going to this diner for over 30 years, great food, low price and the best Hams in the World.

CLUB ACTIVITIES

SCARA is active in various events throughout the year. Helping as a public service with communications at various events has been a strong point for our club. We have worked some of these events in conjunction with other radio clubs.

Field day is a big event for us. Over the years, it has provided the opportunity for experienced members ("Elmers") to pass on knowledge and operating expertise to those new in the hobby. Horizons have been opened as new modes and methods are explored. The old and the new blend together. Whatever your interests are, or your experience level is, there is a place for you at Field Day. Give it a try next year. All are welcome.

In the past two years our club has been active during the National and International Amateur Radio Lighthouse-Lightship Weekends in August. Using our club call-sign (K2BR), we have operated from the Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City, New Jersey, putting it "on the air" for the first time in 40 years! Click here for more information about ARLHS (Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society).

To sum things up, Public Service and promoting Amateur Radio is what our club has been doing for a long time. Along the way, many fond memories have been created. Hopefully, some of these memories will be visited on our pages of SCARA's website, http://www.k2br.org .

Larry KB2MN