20th Annual ARRL EMA Section Field Day Historic Map
June 22-23, 2019.

Eastern Mass ARRL

Tour Map

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Elected Leadership

• Fred Hopengarten K1VR (NE Div. Director)

  • First elected 2018, after Field Day '18.

  • 2019

  • New England Division Director Fred Hopengarten, K1VR, accompanied by Assistant Director Marty Sullaway, NN1C, covered five sites in Connecticut and Rhode Island on Saturday and two in Eastern Mass on Sunday.
  1. Hop River Radio Club, Bolton, CT
  2. Bears of Manchester ARC, Manchester, CT (at a former NIKE site)
  3. Eastern Connecticut ARA, Thompson, CT
  4. Blackstone Valley ARC, Scituate, RI
  5. RICOMU/RIEMA, North Scituate, RI
  6. Whitman ARC, Old Colony YMCA East Bridgewater
  7. North East ARC, Fourth Cliff USAF Campground, Humarock

  • (New England tours for 2019 can be seen by clicking the button under the map for NE DIV.).

• Mike Raisbeck K1TWF (NE Div. Vice Director)

  • Tours the EMA and adjacent sections in W1-land, but spent 2008-2009 in K7-land on FD. :-( Returned to W1 in 2010 touring Vermont.

  • 2019

    New England Vice Director Mike Raisbeck, K1TWF, reports he visited a total of twelve sites in New Hampshire and Eastern Massachusetts. K1TWF drove 248 miles during the course of the weekend.

    1. Cape Anne ARA Clubhouse
    2. North Shore RA Topsfield Fair-Ground
    3. PRA&PARC West Newbury Mill Pond park
    4. Nashua ARS N1FD (NH Section)
    5. Nashoba Valley ARC Heald Street Orchard, Pepperell Conservation land
    6. Algonquin ARC Marlboro EOC/CFS/Fire HQ
    7. Framingham Amateur Radio Assn Fara.org Christa McAuliffe Branch Library
    8. Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society hosting New England Amateur Radio, Inc. and MIT Lincoln Labs at New England Sci-Tech
    9. Wellesley ARS + Zola Center/Middlesex, Needham War Memorial Park,
    10. Waltham ARA Prospect Hill Park, Waltham MA
    11. Part of Westford Concord Rod and Gun Club
    12. Billerica ARS and EMA/CERT Billerica EMA Barracks

• Tom Walsh, K1TW (EMA Section Manager)

  • Traditionally the SM tours EMA.

  • 2019

    Phil Temples and I will be visiting clubs in EMA on Saturday.

    1. Boston ARC Bare Cove Fire Museum
    2. North East ARC, Fourth Cliff USAF Campground, Humarock
    3. Barnstable ARC Brewster Sportsman's Club
    4. Falmouth FARA Inc Barnstable County Fair Grounds
    5. South-East Mass ARA, W1AEC clubhouse station, Dartmouth

    Tom continued solo on Sunday:

    • Billerica ARS (& Billerica CERT), Billerica EMA Barracks
    • PART of Westford, The Concord Rod & Gun Club
    • Nashoba Valley ARC, Heald Street Orchard; Pepperell Conservation land

EMA Staff

For fully list of Section staff see the homepage.

• Phil Temples, K9HI (EMA ASM & NE DIV Asst Dir. )

  • Regularly toured as EMA SM and as EMA ACC. Likely still touring as ASM&ADIR

  • 2019 Phil K9HI will be riding with Tom K1TW/SM above. (Did likewise in 2018)

• Dan Brown W1DAN (TC)

  • regularly - organizes and operates Wellesley in Needham.

EMA ARES Leadership & Staff

• Rob Macedo KD1CY ( SEC+SKYWARN )

  • Sometimes operates at Acushnet EOC, or handles SKYWARN issues at NWS BOX, with touring as available.

  • 2012 - Operated WX1BOX in Class F between SKYWARN actications at NWS BOX.

• Michael Leger, N1YLQ ( ASEC:RACES Region 2 DEC:Bristol Co & Plymouth Co. )

  • commentary

• Marek Kozubal KB1NCG ( DEC )

  • As DEC-Metro-Boston, usually helped NEAR/SCITECH (and formerly Clay Center) set up.

• Steve Schwarm, W3EVE (DEC: Field Ops & Norfolk Co)

  • Usually tours, sometimes only one day in and around Norfolk County, e.g., Norwood, Sturdy , MITRE/BARS, or Wellesley .

  • 2014 - Plan on visiting several sites on Saturday near home in Wrentham. Also, plans to visit a couple sites on Cape Cod. Likely Whitman Club Saturday and Barnstable ARC and Falmouth ARA Clubs Sunday Morning.

• Frank O'Laughlin WQ1O (DEC-Cape/Isles)

  • Usually operates at FARA (Falmouth) &/or with Barnstable

  • 2014 - Operating with Barnstable ARC Field Day and will likely visit the Falmouth ARA site over the course of the weekend

• Jim Palmer KB1KQW (DEC-Essex & Middlesex)

  • Typically participating with NSRA

  • 2017 - Participating with NSRA, hosting Rob KD1CY/ASEC and Mike KI1U, ARRL HQ Emergency Preparedness Manager.