Affiliated Clubs

Bruce Blain, K1BG, writes: The Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club’s October meeting will be TOMORROW, Thursday, October 17th at 7:30 PM at the Pepperell Community Center (in Pepperell). George Whitehead, W1BOF, will be Ocober’s guest speaker. George worked at North American Aviation in Downey, CA from 1962 to 1967. This was the prime contractor for the Apollo Command and Service module. He worked in the Apollo Communications Subsystem Group mainly on the telemetry part of the radio system, the part that sent spacecraft status and astronaut medical information back to mission command. But sitting next to him was the rest …

John Iwuc, KB1VXY, writes on fara_news:   A reminder that we have a club meeting this Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 7:30 PM at the Framingham Police Department on one William Welch Way, across from the Terra Brasilis restaurant.     [FARA] club member, Dave Miscia, KB1YXL, will talk on “Fun Things to do with the ISS.”  

The North Shore Radio Association will hold its general meeting on Monday, September 16, 2019.  Doors open at 7 PM, and the meeting starts at 7:30 PM. Club meetings are held on the second Monday night of each month (except July and August) at 7:30 PM at the Peabody Municipal Light Plant Auditorium, 201 Warren Street Extension in Peabody, Massachusetts (talk-in 145.470/R). 

Attention club officers: The Eastern Massachusetts ARRL web site maintains a list of club presentations and speakers for use by affiliated clubs. The list is divided into two categories: A listing of speakers who have registered with local ARRL section leadership to present on ham related talks to any club within a designated traveling area; A “historical” listing of speakers who have presented–or will present–at a radio club on the date listed.  The latter “historical” category contains over five years of information. (Note: Inclusion in the historical section does not indicate a willingness or availability on the speaker’s part to present at other meetings, nor …

Dan Brown, W1DAN, writes in the Wellesley ARS’ The Spark Gap: Our September meeting will be very different. We will visit New England Sci-Tech at 16 Tech Circle in Natick on Tuesday September 17 (https://www.nescitech.org/). Here we will have a short business meeting, then join Bob [Phinney, K5TEC] and his crew to enjoy what they are doing. — New England Sci-Tech conducts classes and workshops in electronics, space science, ham radio, astronomy, robotics, photography, coding, computers, Arduinos, game theory, 3D design, spooky music, wearable technology, telescope making, edible 3D, Cubes-in-SpaceTM,  kite making, quadcopters, battle-bots, and more. It also provides a Maker …