Museum Ships Weekend
Frank Murphy, N1DHW writes on CEMARC list:
Mark your HF future event calendar for the “Museum Ships Weekend” commencing July 19th 0001Z thru 23:59 Z July 21st. Operating modes, and bands, will vary by ship, but all will operate SSB and CW. This will be a QSL card, special certificate event.
Here’s an event that honors the service of both military and merchant vessels that have been preserved as Museum Ships around the world. Here in the Northeast U.S., we’re fortunate to have at least four ships that will be on the air for the event weekend. In fact there are 57 registered participant Museum ships thus far, with more expected to join before the event.
This years event is sponsored by the USS Cassin Young radio group, callsign “WW2DD”. The ship is berthed in Charlestown Navy Yard, directly across from Old Iron Side, and is open to public tours thru the National Park Service. (click on NPS link on ships page below)
For more information, visit: http://www.qsl.net/ww2dd/event.html
If you haven’t worked “Museum Ship’s Weekend” before, be aware it’s more of a challenge than you think to get all the ships. But great fun. Give it a try.
These local ships would also be a great club visit event.
The 2003 EMa Field Day page is now up and running at http://ema.arrl.org/fd/. Thanks to a tremendous amount of effort and hard work by Bill Ricker, N1VUX with additional assistance from Peter Grace, KB1CVH, the Field Day page is a wonderful compendium of every resource one could want: directories of all clubs and groups operating in the section, including past scores, maps, locations (GPS coordinates, too!) and contact numbers. Also included is a full description of the Field Day rules. Be sure to check this out!
The 2003 EMA Field Day page is now up and running at 
WBUR Boston, 90.9 MHz, plans an hour on their program called “The Connection” devoted to Ham Radio at 11 AM EDT, Thursday June 12, 2003. It will be repeated at 10 PM. If you aren’t in range of the signal, you can listen live on RealAudio by going to their web site, 
Jim Ward, N1LKJ wrote:
The Town of Plainville, MA will be operating from their Emergency Operations Center during Field Day 2003. 
Last month’s Wellesley ARS meeting featured a highly informative presentation by Gary Schwartz, N1ZCE about the Global Positioning System, or GPS and its many applications for general and Amateur Radio use. Schwartz described how the constellation of satellites can pinpoint objects and is used in boating, automotive travel, hiking, and outdoor activities. He also explained how Amateur Radio can be ehanced by GPS as part of packet radio (APRS) emergency response, search and rescue, and public service events. —Wellesley ARS The Sparkgap
NEWINGTON, CT, Jun 6, 2003–ARRL and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will sign a Statement of Affiliation (SoA) at the League’s 2003 National Convention later this month in Texas. The convention will be held June 20-22 at the Arlington Convention Center in conjunction with Ham-Com. Since both ARRL and DHS view community disaster preparedness and response as top priorities, they will pledge mutual support for Citizen Corps–a community-based training and outreach initiative that brings together volunteers and first responders.”This is just the lead paragraph, and the complete ARRL Web article is at