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The June Business Meeting of the Minuteman Repeater Association will be held on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 7:30 PM via Zoom teleconference. Information will be available on the Association’s website by early June.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s annual meeting [of the Nantucket Amateur Radio Association] will not be held at the Nantucket Police Station. Instead, we will hold our meeting online [at 12:00 noon on June 6, 2020.]
The Algonquin Amateur Radio Club‘s June 11th virtual meeting will be hosted at a special time of 6:30 PM to allow the club to hear from the ARRL New England Division Director, Fred Hopengarten, K1VR. Information on joining the meeting will be provided via email prior to the meeting.
The Framingham Amateur Radio Association scholarship committee announced the club has awarded the 2020 Bev Lees Memorial Scholarship to the following two individuals:
Anderson and Weisman will receive $500 scholarships.
The Bev Lees Memorial Scholarship was created in 2015 to honor the memory of FARA member Bev Lees, N1LOO (SK) . Lees was a former club president, and was active on the nominating committee, Field Day, and organizing the club flea market. Her passing was a great loss to FARA.
Marcel Dumont, W1MLD, writes on the SEMARA mailing list:
Hi Everyone,
Well, it looks like we [the Southeastern MA ARA] are going to have another ZOOM meeting for the month of June. If anyone is interested in attending the meeting, please forward to me your email address. This is the only way I can make sure that your address is correct. We must have a minimum of ten members present to conduct a meeting. This type of meeting will assure that you will not get the Corona virus from the club. Please respond to the following address.
President@semara.org or chiefmld@comcast.net
Thanks for your cooperation.
Marcel, W1MLD
The Framingham Amateur Radio Association will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, June 4, 2020 via Zoom from 7:30 PM to 8:20 PM.
The business portion of the meeting will include the treasurer and webmasters, report, the clerk secretary’s report, discussion on the Bev Lee’s scholarship awards, repeater report, and election of officers.
Following the conclusion of the business meeting, Sumner Weisman, W1VIV, will present on Korean War radios.
Margaret Gaffney, KA1BZE, writes on the BCRA mailing list:
This month we will meet on Skype. With Skype we will be able to run the meeting for longer than 40 minutes. As usual the meeting will be held tomorrow June 1 at 7:00 PM.
Use the following link: [email mmgaffney -at- comcast -dot- net for meeting information.]
Note: one of the items to be discussed is field day from home.
Andy Wallace, KA1GTT, writes on the Billerica Amateur Radio Society website w1hh.org:
“I’m very happy to announce that our next virtual speaker will be David Kruh, WB2HTO, with his talk entitled Stories from the Shop. David enjoys repairing antique radios – ones using vacuum tubes – and has learned a lot about how they function and also about why they were designed and produced the way they were. I have enjoyed David’s blog posts immensely and he does a great job connecting the dots between the cutting-edge electrical engineering work of today and the heritage that came before. [Full story]
New Affiliated Club Service Offered: Your Club on the Web:
“We understand it’s difficult to recruit and retain a webmaster for your club. In fact, some clubs’ web sites have fallen into disrepair. That’s why we’re excited to offer this new service to ARRL affiliated clubs—a hosted page on the EMA ARRL web site. The address is of the form, https://ema.arrl.org/<Your Club Name>. The pages would be maintained by our webmaster, with input from your club officers.”
We’re pleased to announce the Nantucket Amateur Radio Association has accepted this service for its web presence. To view their new site, visit <https://ema.arrl.org/nara>.
Adriana Knouf Art Talk:
On May 26th (Tuesday!) at 11am, our faculty advisor Adriana Knouf (KC1EKK) will be presenting live online her art project that was recently flown to and returned from the International Space Station!
She will be speaking about the project itself, named TX-1, and the audacity of thinking about transgender people in space.
For more information about the project itself, see the link below:
https://tranxxenolab.net/
The details of how to connect to the livestream will be released on May 26th on the below page:
https://bioartsociety.fi/
Satellite Communications Seminar:
Are you interested in learning how to work with signals transmitted by satellites?
This fall, Adriana Knouf plans to give a talk about the antennas, hardware, and open source software used to schedule, track, receive, and decode those signals. She’ll also speak about how she used these techniques herself to create an art project using many recordings created through this process!
Please fill out this super quick survey to show your interest. We plan to schedule it sometime during the fall semester, and we’ll release more details then.
YCCC President Dennis Egan, W1UE, writes on the YCCC mailing list:
Since we can’t meet in person for the foreseeable future, and using Zoom allows us to make some presentations that are hard to do in person, I’ve decided to offer four sessions on operating specific contest modes, as outlined below:
Thur May 28 CW
Wed June 10 FT4
Tue June 23 SSB
Thur July 9 RTTY
?? VHF/UHF
The Zoom Sessions will start at 7 PM and plan to end at 8:30 PM, although if there is enough interest we could stay on until 9 PM.
I am looking for a moderator for the VHF/UHF session, as I don’t know enough about it to do so.
There will be some prepared material, but my hope is that members will step forward and we can make this a participatory roundtable. I, of course, have my preferences on how to set up N1MM and operate, but there are others that do it just as successfully.
Some of the topics that will be covered in the CW session:
1. Station Tune-up
2. Operating Game Plan
3. RX Tips
4. Tx Tips
5. N1MM+ Setup/Use
6. Telnet
7. How to Get to Carnegie Hall
If you are interested in preparing some material for any of the above sessions, please feel free to contact me. I hope these will become sessions with a lot of participation and questions answered.
We will also be recording the session, so you can concentrate on what’s being said without having to take copious notes. It should be available in the day or two after the session.
Log-in Info for the Zoom meetings will be sent out on Wednesday or Thursday for the CW session.
Dennis W1UE
President, YCCC
This presentation by Eliot Mayer, W1MJ, will include contesting basics, the age-old question about whether ARRL Field Day is a contest, some training for popular logging program N1MM Logger Plus, and some thoughts on goals for FD 2020.
Monthly meeting are now being held online. In order to receive emails with the meeting links, do one of the following:
The Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club’s May meeting is tomorrow, Thursday, May 21st at 7:30 PM . This meeting will be conducted via WebEx. Meeting details are below. Thanks to Jim Hein, N8VIM, and Medtronics for the WebEx conference.
This month’s presentation is by the “Science Program Around Communications Engineering with High Achieving Undergraduate Cadres (SPACE HAUC)” from UMASS Lowell. They have an interest including some elements of amateur radio in their project and will speak about this really impressive undertaking.
See their website here:
https://www.uml.edu/research/
Thanks and 73. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Bruce, K1BG
978-772-2773 or bruce.blain@charter.net
— Join WebEx meeting (contact K1BG for conference info)
Reminder: YCCC DMR Net
When: Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 8:00pm to 9:00pm, (GMT-04:00) America/New York
Where: DMR TG NETAC1
Organizer: ne1b.c6awb@gmail.com
Description: YCCCers!
Join us every Wednesday evening at 8pm ET for contesting talk on the DMR repeater network. There are several methods to access the Net:
73 and see you there!
The next K1USN Radio Club online meeting will feature guest presenter Bruce Blain, K1BG, who will speak about CWops CW Academy. Immediately prior to Bruce’s talk, Phil Temples, K9HI, will briefly recap his experiences in helping conduct remote VE tests with the New England Amateur Radio, Inc., VE team.
The meeting is tentatively scheduled for May 26, 2020 at 8 PM.
For Zoom conference details, contact Pi, K1RV, at k1rv -at- arrl -dot- net.
The Norwood Amateur Radio Club meets on Thursday, May 28th, 2020 at 7:30 PM over the air (due to COVID restrictions) via RF, EchoLink, and IRLP via the 147.20 repeater (PL 100).
Rick Savage, KB1LYJ, writes on the North Shore RA mailing list:
“We have a Zoom meeting set up for our May meeting. It will be on Monday, May 18th. The link is open at 7:00 if you want any pre-meeting discussions. Please share this information with the members on any and all formats available web page, email, Facebook etc.
Rick Savage is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: NSRA Meeting May 18th
Time: May 18, 2020 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
[Contact kb1lyj at nsradio dot org for Zoom meeting URL]
Meeting ID: 851 8789 8833
Password: [Contact kb1lyj at nsradio dot org for password]
Frank Ventura, N1FMV, writes on the Middlesex ARC mailing list:
Dear all,
The next meeting of the Zola amateur radio group will be online only, no in person component.
Date: Saturday, May 23, 2020
Time: 11 AM to 1 PM Eastern
Our very special guest speaker will be Jim Shaffer, KE5AL, developer of JJ Radio and JJ Flex Radio. He will join us in speaking about the origins of the blind-friendly CAT software, JJRadio, to operate his Flex-Radio and field our questions. All are welcome for this month’s meeting. Please use to conference information below my signature.
For conference URL and password, contact Frank at frank.ventura -AT- littlebreezes -DOT- com.
Please join us every Thursday evening at 7PM Eastern for our weekly net. We can be found at 147.360 MHz with a PL of 67.0 Hz tone, or on Echolink at call sign W1LJO-R node number 462341.
Dan Brown, W1DAN, writes on the Wellesley ARS mailing list:
QST!