The St. John Valley Amateur Radio Association (N1SJV) is an ARRL recognized amateur “ham” radio club located in Aroostook County, Maine along the Saint John River. In addition to serving the local and international amateur radio community, the SJVARA has been providing communication for emergencies, special community events and other organized activities since 1991.
Here in the St. John Valley, winter antenna work and radio communications are considered an extreme sport. One of our most challenging events is the Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Race, which takes place each year in early March. The race requires numerous ham and other community volunteers along with use of the club’s VHF radio and repeater equipment.
Our club hosts an open weekly radio net, Fridays at 7:00 PM (formerly Mondays at 7) local time on 146.640 MHz. If you would like to act as Net Control for this net, a net control form can be found here to be used to conduct the net. Just fill in the blanks!
Check out our newsletter, Feedpoint for the most recent club projects!
Check the members page for new member discounts!
You can download an SJVARA mail in membership application here.
If you are in the area, please feel free to give us a call on our N1SJV repeaters. Both sites are on solar/battery power so please be mindful of this at night.
- 146.640 MHz -600 CTCSS (Encode/Decode): 100.0
Conventional FM !! back online w/new batteries !!
Located: Fort Kent, Maine
Echolink Node: 733919 (or search N1SJV) - 146.715 MHz -600 CTCSS (Encode/Decode): 100.0
Conventional FM (temporarily offline)
Located: Eagle Lake, Maine
Derrick (kw1a) is putting together a class for new hams about where to go once you have your license. This will also cover some basic electronics and antenna theory, radio programming, and how to use common test equipment. If you are interested in a class of this nature contact James @James Jalbert or Derrick @Derrick Ouellette. If there is enough interest they will proceed with the class, stay tuned to learn more.
If you missed the Intro to the Maine DMR System or the Advanced DMR Programming online classes, click the images below to view the recordings any time!
The late, great, radio-telescope, Arecibo.
You can download an SJVARA mail in membership application here.
You can also connect with us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/sjvara
Email:
sjvarafk@gmail.com
Snail Mail:
Attn: SJVARA
St John Valley Amateur Radio Association
3191 Aroostook Rd
Eagle Lake, ME 04739
Background photo courtesy of Morgan Mitchell, SJVT/BDN.
The views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the SJVARA. Any content provided by our bloggers or authors are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, anyone or anything.
sjvara.com 