Affiliated Clubs

Andy Wallace, KA1GTT, writes in the Billerica Amateur Radio Society December, 2019 newsletter: I would like you to think back to the time you first had interest in ham radio. Who got you involved? What did you see (equipment) or heard (QSOs) that fascinated you? How easy – or difficult – was it for you to get into this wonderful hobby? And then, what kept your interest and motivation to stick with it? Your Board has met several times to brainstorm how we can capture some of the people who are newly licensed. Anyone who gets a ham license and …

Bill Kretschmer, N2KNL writes on the Pilgrim ARC Facebook page:   [The next Pilgrim Amateur Radio Club]  meeting will be Monday, December 9, 2019, 7 PM at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School, 195 MA-137, East Harwich, MA 02645.  Reminder: Don’t forget 2020 Membership dues.   73. See you there!   https://pilgrimarc.org/index.php/membership/

A number of Eastern Massachusetts clubs are holding holiday dinners and informal parties in lieu of their December meetings.  The Waltham Amateur Radio Association will hold a festive holiday dinner at Sichuan’s Garden in Waltham on December  18. The Middlesex ARC/Zola Center ARC will also converge on Sichuan’s Garden on December 10 for their annual holiday get-together. On December 7, Wellesley Amateur Radio Society will gather with members of the New England Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society (STARS) for a holiday gathering. They plan to invite members of the Natick High Robotics Team, the Olin Collegiate Amateur Radio Club and the …

KB1NYT writes on the bcra-club list on December 1, 2019 at 8:12 PM:   Tomorrow night’s meeting is cancelled due to the weather.   The Bristol County Repeater Association and Fall River Amateur Radio Club will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, December 2, 2019 from 7 to 9 PM at the Stop and Shop, 816 Grand Army Highway, Somerset, MA in the Community Room (2nd floor). (Enter on the Fall River side near the Dunkin Donuts in the store. The stairs and elevator will be on the right. Go left on second floor.)

The Genesis Amateur Radio Society will hold its next meeting on Monday, November 25, 2019 at 7 PM in the Plymouth Airport Community Room, 246 South Meadow Road, in Plymouth. The club thanks the Plymouth Municipal Airport for their many years of support for allowing the use of their facilities for monthly meetings and annual Field Day events.  

Greg Troxel, N1DAM, writes on the PART of Westford mailing list: At the PART [of Westford] meeting on Tuesday (November 19), Paul Topolski, W1SEX will be speaking on test equipment and measurements for amateur radio, focusing on the utility of an oscilloscope beyond just measuring signals in a circuit.  Paul will be bringing a lot of equipment to demonstrate. Paul will probably be video recording his presentation (but not the social time before/after or the other meeting parts).  I am guessing this is fine with everyone, but if not let me know.  (I am mentioning it because it’s unusual at …

The Wellesley Amateur Radio Society will hold its November meeting on a different date than usual. The next meeting will be on Monday, November 25, 2019–NOT Tuesday, November 19. Presenter Bruce MacKinnon, KC1FSZ, will discuss homebrewing and the details of his home-made transceiver.   WARS meetings are normally held on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM in the Kingsbury room of the Wellesley Police Station, 485 Washington Street (Route 16), in Wellesley. Attendees are requested to park on the street.

Dan Pedtke, KW2T, writes: TechNight is tomorrow night, Thursday, Nov 14th.  7:00 PM in Ayer as usual. See www.DansTechNight.com for details and directions. This month we’ll use SPICE circuit simulator in more detail, analyzing part of the TechNight Radio IF amplifier stages.  Also I’ll talk briefly about my tour of the Museum of Broadcast Technology, and I’ll show the beginnings of a user interface for the TN Radio, and anything else you want to talk about. Hope to see you there.  

Michael Powell, W1KU, writes on the Algonquin ARC mailing list: Our November meeting will be on Thursday at 7:30.  I hope to see you there.  Our featured speaker will be Skip Youngberg, K1NKR, on “Radio Interference. ” ========== Let’s talk about radio interference.  Not RFI, not EMI, not EMC–but station-to-station interference.  What is interference?  What’s the “interference neighborhood?”  Who’s protected?  What classic cases are there that we can learn from?  And what do we Amateurs do about it? “Radio Interference,” by Skip Youngberg K1NKR, is an evolving talk addressing these issues by looking at who our RF neighbors are and …

Nick Magliano, KC1MA, writes on the Mystic Valley Amateur Radio group mailing list: The November meeting of the Mystic Valley Amateur Radio Group will be held on Sunday, November 17, 2019 @ 9 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Milton Auxiliary Fire Department Station, 2nd floor, 509 Canton Ave. Milton, Mass. The building is a little beyond the gazebo to the right of the Milton Fire Headquarters where we’ve held our Field Day Operations in past years.  Local map is attached below as a post script. We will be monitoring the 145.43 Belmont repeater for talk-in.  Please feel …