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The Whitman Amateur Radio Club is having it’s FIRST Ham R
adio Open House on Saturday July 19th at the Knights of Columbus on Rte 18 in Whitman. We’ll be promoting and explaining Amateur Radio to the public from 8- Noon. You are welcome to attend, the event is FREE and we can supply your club with a table indoors if you want to display any equipment/demonstrations or information. If you have any questions, please email me.
Thanks, Ross W1EKG 73
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) hosted its annual Field Day over the June 28-29 (2025) weekend at the Concord Rod and Gun Club on Strawberry Hill Road, within handheld radio broadcasting distance from the Acton town line. Around 40,000 amateur radio operators, also known as “hams,” participate each year over the fourth weekend of June in the most popular on-the-air event in North America. The event has been running since 1933, interrupted only by World War II, and the operators who set up at the Concord site are members of the PART (Police Amateur Radio Team) of Westford club. [Full story]
Bruce Semple, WA3SWJ, writes on the BARC mailing list:
The Barnstable Amateur Radio Club has created an amateur radio display at the Brewster Ladies Library. The display case can be found on the right after you enter the door. The library is located at 1822 Main Street in Brewster.
Barnstable Amateur Radio Club Press Release:
GRAND OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT – CAMP GREENOUGH AMATEUR RADIO STATION
We are very excited to announce the Grand Opening of the newly constructed Camp Greenough Amateur Radio Station scheduled for Saturday May 31st starting at 2PM, in conjunction with the Chuck Wagon Event. The station is located in the basement of the Maushop Lodge. Today’s amateur radio is a mix of cutting-edge computer technology and broadcast engineering offering a chance for Scouts to get a start on a science or engineering career.
This station is the culmination of the efforts by members of the Barnstable Amateur Radio Club, contributions of the American Radio Relay League, and many local businesses and the support of the Cape and Island council leadership.
The station provides an opportunity for scouts to experience and learn about the wonders and excitement of Amateur Radio also known as Ham Radio. Volunteers from the Barnstable Amateur Radio Club will be providing Radio Merit Badge training and Amateur Radio Licensing courses on an ongoing basis.
Amateur radio is grounded in wireless communications, community service and technology experimenting. There are endless opportunities to explore the many facets of radio from talking across town, around the world and even to astronauts on the International Space Station.
Please join us to experience this exciting new learning opportunity for Scouts and find out more about today’s amateur Radio. We will have refreshments and live on-air demonstrations.
From Harvard Magazine, May-June 2025:
“As Leo Koerner ’26 trudged upstairs with Declan Deady ’27, a three-minute timer started in his head. Once Koerner opened the door to the “radio shack,” its walls paneled with wood veneer and plastered with Soviet-era maps, he had just a few moments to convince Deady that this endeavor was magical.
“Koerner is trying to revive the Harvard Wireless Club, a group of amateur (“ham”) radio enthusiasts. Unlike the student DJs at WHRB, Koerner’s crew operates two-way radios: essentially superpowered, imprecise walkie-talkies. Harvard’s ham radio station is the sixth-oldest in the country, founded in 1909. But this 116-year-old club is at risk of disappearing. Few young people express interest in amateur radio, with waves (generally) full of old men. Can Koerner keep this time capsule alive?”
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Courtesy PART of Westford website:
Due to inclement weather, the PART POTA event scheduled for April 26 has been moved to May 3, 2025. All other details remain the same.
World Amateur Radio Day is Friday April 18th, celebrating the founding of the IARU 100 years ago. ARRL has suggested that member clubs hold “open house” events in April in recognition of the event, and in collaboration with HamSCI and SciStarter for “One Million Acts of Science” in April.
Conveniently, PART POTA [Parks On The Air] activators had been looking for a time to hold a first Club POTA activation, so we’re combining the events on a Saturday in April (weather permitting). Given our past activation experience, we’ll activate Great Brook Farm State Park (US-2435), at the area near the ski barn / ski touring center parking lot at 1018 Lowell Road, Great Brook Farm State Park, Carlisle, MA.
We anticipate setting up three stations at the Park, to welcome both club members and the public to the Open House and POTA events.
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The Massasoit Amateur Radio Association will hold an open house on April 26, 2025 at the Bridgewater Public Library, 15 South Street in Bridgewater from 10 AM until 3 PM.
Weather permitting, club members will set up a station outside in back of the library near the pavilion. In the event of inclement weather, the Judith Gabriel Room will be used.
“We hope to set up a HF Parks On The Air (POTA) station which is a ham radio activity to establish contacts with parks all over the US. We will also have portable radio go-kits and should have at least one of them talking to the local repeater.”
The group also intends to distribute flyers with information about amateur radio and, possibly, have a portable solar power supply on hand for the radios. The equipment will showcase how amateurs can communicate in situations where power, phone and internet are unavailable.
Mike Walters, W8ZY writes:
Ham Radio Open House is coming in April and clubs across the country are urged to participate.
It’s now possible for a radio club or school to add their station open house to the ARRL Ham Radio Open House Locator.
The Open House Locator is linked from the World Amateur Radio Day page at www.arrl.org/world-amateur-radio-day, or go directly to the locator at www.arrl.org/open-house.
Details about Ham Radio Open House are at World Amateur Radio Day
George Allison, K1IG, write on the PART of Westford mailing list:
PART member Wayne, AG1A, is a featured guest on the latest episode of the bi-weekly HamNation video podcast. Wayne is interviewed about the home seismograph he built that recorded the earthquake that occurred off the coast of Maine last week, but then he also discusses his ham radio activities, horses, and of course, his DeLorean.
Rol Anders, K3RA writes:
Eric Cottrell, WB1HBU, writes on the Billerica ARS mailing list:
Swampscott High School , MA, USA . SPECIAL EVENT
Listen for us on the on the Air today Wed 11/27 as W1B
2024 Permission For Fun Day! Wed 27 Nov, 2024
Each year on the day before Thanksgiving break, our school holds a “Permission for Fun” day where teachers and students share their hobbies and interests and take part in fun and creative activities together.
This year we will be hosting an amateur radio station using the special event 1×1 callsign, W1B and having students try their hand at making contacts around the globe!
Control operator for the station is Brian, KC1OOH, a Chemistry/AP Environmental Science/Earth Sciences teacher at the school.
We will be operating voice on 10m SSB (possibly 17m, and 20m) depending on band conditions and propagation.
Some local VHF/UHF possible too.
No digital modes
Lem Skidmore, W1LEM, writes on the Barnstable ARC mailing list:
From The Foxboro Reporter, September 26, 2024:
A local woman found a unique skill to be helpful to the community and beyond.
Joanne McLaughlin of Foxboro, a retired teacher, has been a licensed amateur radio operator since October 2000 when the Federal Communication Commission issued her call sign, KB1FVN.
McLaughlin said she started the hobby because she saw first hand some family members who are licensed amateur radio operators. Amateur radio operators can talk across town or across the world without a phone or internet.
“It also allowed me to learn something new and share a hobby with my husband and son,” she said.
[Full story]Lem Skidmore, W1LEM, writes on the Barnstable ARC mailing list:
We will present from 6 PM to about 7 PM, then do Q&A and demonstration. We will be on 2m (both the BARC 146.955 repeater, and the FARA 147.375 repeater as well as HF on 10m on 28.300 and upwards, depending on band activity, and 20m 14.225 and upwards. We should be on from about 7 PM to about 8 PM .
Please look for W1MA on the air. We did this last year and the students loved it. In particular, the female students enjoyed talking with Shannon, K1WIT, on VHF, so it would be great if some of our women members could join us.
Lem Skidmore, W1LEM, writes on the Barnstable ARC mailing list:
We will be setting up HF and VHF stations for GOTA and general contacts.
The objectives are: public awareness of BARC and Amateur Radio, operating practice, team building, and fellowship.
We will need [Barnstable ARC] members to set up Saturday AM and teardown Sunday PM, as well 4-hour shifts all all day Saturday and Sunday to operate, and to meet and greet the public.
Please contact Mark, K4LFL, the event leader.
Bill McIninch, KA1MOM, writes:
This is from the Facebook open group for Field Day, a page read almost entirely by hams:
