Month: August 2008

Members of the Whitman Amateur Radio Club are active right now at the annual Marshfield Fair with a special event station, NN1MF and Amateur Radio exhibit booth August 15-24. Bill Hayden, N1FRE is coordinating the event.

As in previous years, hams will explain Amateur Radio to the public and introduce youngsters to Morse code. In the past, the crew made approximately 150 contacts with 31 states, 15 foreign countries, and two Canadian provinces.

—Thanks, Whitman ARC Spectrum, August, 2008

Jeff Arnold, K1EMS writes:

On behalf of the American Red Cross First Aid Station Committee of Massachusetts Bay we are asking your help once again this year for the 2008 Head of the Charles Regatta.

This year’s dates are Friday through Sunday, October 17, 18, 19:

Friday, October 17, 12 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 18 7 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday, October 19 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

Because of road closures and ability to shift people around, we need you to be able to commit to a whole day. Please pass this message on to your friends and ham radio clubs.

If you are available to help with ham radio support of this event for any one or all of the days please reply to my email with the following information:

name
address
city
zip
call sign
home phone
cell phone
email address
jacket size
land station or boat station

If you have done this before and would like to be where you were, please let me know that location. We try to give station requests on a first-come, first-serve basis, but if you are returning this year, we will try to give you preference.

APRS–this year we once again hope to have APRS set up for each of the ten rescue boats. We’re not sure what frequency we will be using yet. If you have a tracker box set up and it works, we would like to use it for the weekend. Your unit must have a battery capable of operating the 12-hour day, and a charging cable so that we can charge them up overnight each day.

VHF and/or UHF capability (will let you know as soon as we figure out which we will be using).

We will program these units at CBC before the event or send you the file that will be with your unit.

Thank you all and look forward to hearing back from each of you.

Jeffrey Arnold, K1EMS

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Jeffrey Arnold
RWJeffA@comcast.net
jarnold@whensecondscount.net
K1EMS@arrl.net

The Harvard Wireless Club will hold its annual student activity fair from 4 to 7 p.m. on September 10, 2008. The rain date is September 17 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

“This year’s fair will be on the Quad, not at the usual Tercentenary Theater location,” writes HWC’s Clayton M. Nall, NF1R. “We could use at least three to four people to help. Please let me know if you plan to attend.”

The National Weather Service (NWS) and the Taunton Area Communications Group will be presenting a program about the “Realities of New England’s Hurricanes”.

The program will be held at the Morton Hospital and Medical Center, 55 Washington Street, Taunton, Mass. on MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH, 7:00 p.m. in the Margaret Stone Conference Room.

The speaker will be Matthew Belk, Hurricane Program Leader from the National Weather Service in Taunton Mass.

This seminar is open to the public at no charge. Everyone is welcome to attend, especially those who are interested in learning about hurricanes as they affect New England.

The program will discuss:

1. How and when hurricanes form, especially those that affect New England.

2. The strengths and damage potential of hurricanes.

3. The “Rules of Thumb” for hurricanes in New England.

4. Safety Rules for people living where hurricanes strike.

It is not necessary to pre-register for this talk. However, if you have any questions about the program, please contact Matthew Belk at 1-508 823-1900 ext. 405 during normal business hours.

Again, the following seminar is planned for Monday August 18, 2008

From 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at Morton Hospital, 55 Washington St., Taunton, MA

All are welcome.

The ARRL has chosen Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ, of Wayland, Massachusetts, as the recipient of the 2008 ARRL Technical Innovation Award. The ARRL board voted unanimously at its July 18-19, 2008 board of directors meeting to select AA6YQ for the prestigious annual award.

According to the meeting minutes, “Mr. Bernstein has written and published the DXLab Suite of Programs for Radio Amateurs that he has placed in the public domain for free use and collaboration. A world-class DXer in his own right, he was one of the earliest logging-program authors to integrate functions for ARRL’s Logbook of the World and programs from other developers. His DXLab suite consists of eight programs that cover every aspect of station operation which he supports in a fashion that rivals or exceeds commercial applications and companies. He goes beyond simply supporting DXLab and mentors users in other aspects of programming and Amateur Radio.”

Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ; photo courtesy www.qrz.com