People
The club is a small group of operators and collaborators who work together at a distance.
Not a local club
Although the WU1ITU callsign belongs to the first call district, Valley Swamp Amateur Radio Club is not a local club for that region. It doesn’t have periodic in-person meetings and runs no repeater or local net, and it does not offer licensing classes or exam sessions.
If you are looking for a club to meet in person in Massachusetts, the ARRL’s club search is a good place to start. If instead what interests you is remote operating, difficult propagation paths, or propagation research, this website may be a place to explore.
Remote operation and collaboration
The club’s activity is spread across remote stations, portable operations, and partners in other countries. People contribute in different ways:
- The core team (U.S. license required) that keeps the station on the air during openings on 160 m and 6 m.
- Operators outside the U.S. who share insights into marginal paths that may be workable.
- Software developers and testers who look at how decoders behave with weak and fading signals.
- Data analysts who compare logs with Reverse Beacon Network, pskreporter.info, and WSPRnet.org reports.
- Responses to the club email inbox come from Matt Power (KA1R) our trustee or Justin Wu (no callsign; exam prep underway!) our secretary.