Welcome to the home of the St. Croix Amateur Radio Club! The St. Croix Amateur Radio Club (STXARC) is an organization dedicated to Amateur Radio primarily on the island of St. Croix and throughout the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). Members meet on the first Saturday of every month, generally at the Deep End Bar & Grill. Nets are held daily (weather) and weekly (ARES). More information about nets & repeater frequencies can be found here and here
Information on clubs on other islands can be found elsewhere on this website. All local and visiting amateurs are welcome to join us!
Latest NewsField Day 2020 – The Impact of COVID-19
Amateur Radio Field Day Readiness Exercise Modified by COVID-19 On the fourth weekend of June ham radio clubs in the territory traditionally conduct annual “Field Day” emergency readiness exercises. Radio amateurs (hams)literally head to the field and install portable antennas and operate on emergency power to simulate a real […]
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NCS Cheat Sheet
This spreadsheet is meant to assist those stations acting as net control for nets in the USVI. It contains the suffixes of those stations known to be active on VHF nets. Callsign suffixes (the letters after the number in the call) are bold faced. If there are multiple instances of […]
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HAMS in Paradise – Spring 2019
Wow, what a difference a year makes! Ham radio is coming alive in the USVI, both in infrastructure and new hams joining our ranks. It’s a known fact that following hurricanes there is logically an increase in interest in ham radio, but what’s happened over the past year is beyond […]
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Technician License Class Begins on STX!
The VI Ham Radio Club welcomed 30 students on April 16, 2019 to their first classes at the American Red Cross of the Virgin Islands in Sunny Isles.
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Public Service in Paradise
Public Service in Paradise: The US Virgin Islands The Territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands is comprised of three islands: St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. St. Thomas (population 40,000) is familiar to most as the busiest Caribbean cruise-ship destination, with some 1,500,000 annual passengers. St. John (population 1,500), […]
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Ham Radio Isn’t Just for Hurricanes: Ham Radio Assists in Rescue of Missing Mariner
by Larry Pruss, NP2LP & Fred Kleber, K9VV / NP2X [St. John, US Virgin Islands, October 3, 2018] It was Thursday night and I was nodding in and out while watching TV. From the other room I heard what sounded like a weak scratchy signal trying to access the local […]
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YASME FOUNDATION SUPPORTING GRANT TO ARISS AND EXCELLENCE AWARDS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 25, 2018 St. Charles, MO YASME FOUNDATION SUPPORTING GRANT TO ARISS AND EXCELLENCE AWARDS The Board of Directors of The Yasme Foundation announces that it has made a significant grant to ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, www.ariss.org) in support of the Critical Infrastructure […]
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HAMS In Paradise – Fall 2018
Wow, hard to believe we’re back in “season”. Here at the peak of hurricane season, the Atlantic looks like a conga-line of storms. The below photo doesn’t show the remnants of hurricane Gordon which has dissipated over CONUS. The seasonal conga line of storms is strewn across the Atlantic like […]
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Field Day 2018 Highlights
Highlights of 2018 Field Day include: 504 QSOs (Phone and CW) 69 of 80 participating ARRL Section QSOs (USA and Canada) 1,606 total points (656 QSOs and 950 bonus) 2 HF stations operated on emergency power – generator 1 VHF station operated on emergency power – generator 40 visitors to […]
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Weekly ARES Net will be back on the St. Croix NP2VI Repeater starting on 4/30/2018
Effective Monday, 30 April 2018, the 2000hrs (local), St. Croix ARES net call will once again be conducted on the St. Croix repeater; NP2VI – 147.25 MHz (+) offset; 100 Hz tone. The audio on the repeater has been corrected although there still is a odd noise being made at the […]
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