Eastern Massachusetts ARRL

The fourth New England QSO Party will be held on May 7-8, 2005. It’s a great operating event and it is easy to participate in. The object is to contact as many New England stations in as many New England counties as possible on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters.

The contest periods are:

2000Z (1600 EDT) Saturday until 0500Z (0100 EDT)
Sunday

1300Z (0900 EDT) Sunday until 2400Z (2000 EDT) Sunday

Join in the fun—at least for a short period of time to make some QSOs. The full set of rules, suggested frequencies, maps, awards and related tools can be found at http://www.neqp.org.

—Thanks, Boston ARC’s The SPARC, April, 2005

Hello to all….

….Eastern Massachusetts ARES Assistance Requested by the Massachusetts Bay Red Cross for the Operation Atlas Boston Logan Airport Drill….
….Drill Rescheduled for Saturday June 4th, 2005 with the same timeline to be utilized. A backup date of Sunday June 5th, 2005 has already been defined as well….

The Operation Atlas, Boston Logan Airport Drill, has been rescheduled for Saturday June 4th with the same timeline to be utilized by Massachusets By Red Cross. A backup date of Sunday June 5th has also been designed in case of weather issues on Saturday June 4th. The Red Cross has defined their timeline and we had 10-20 Amateurs assigned for this exercise for the orignial date, however, given the new rescheduled date of June 4th, we may need different Amateurs to step forward in case the ones previously assigned cannot make the new data. In particular, we are looking for Hams in the Metro Boston area to provide additional support for the drill.

The Massachusetts Bay Red Cross Chapter has requested Eastern Massachusetts ARES to assist in the Operation Atlas-Boston Logan Airport Drill. This drill is being conducted by the Department of Homeland Security and the Red Cross has a role in the drill to provide a Disaster Mental Health Services Team, Mass. Care Team, and will have their Boston and Waltham offices active for this exercise. The Red Cross has requested communications assistance from Eastern Massachusetts ARES for this drill.

Currently, we are anticipating a need for approximately 15-20 Amateurs. The town of Bridgewater EOC will be setup as a Net Control center similar to what was done for the Democratic National Convention. Amateurs will be needed at the Waltham and Boston Red Cross chapters and several Amateurs will be needed on “Go” teams that will be going into the city or to the airport itself. Home stations will also be needed for this exercise.

This is the first major drill that we have participated in with Red Cross since the Democratic National Convention. While not as large as the TOPOFF exercise just completed in Connecticut, the Department of Homeland Security is running the Operation Atlas-Logan Airport Drill and all eyes will be on the performance of Amateur Radio during this drill. It is widely known through several federal government agencies of the tremendous effort that the ARES/RACES/SKYWARN and MARS operators played during the Democratic National Convention and this is an opportunity to prove that the high level of organization that existed last year has been sustained since the DNC by a strong performance in this exercise.

Please contact your DEC or myself if you’re interested in participating in this exercise. Please note that deployments to the Red Cross and as go teams for the Red Cross will have requirements set forth by our ARES staff. For Net Control duties in Bridgewater, please contact Carl Aveni-N1FY at caave@peoplepc.com or myself.

This is a worthwhile event to practice deployment skills not utilized since the Democratic National Convention. Also, remember that in this drill, much like a real emergency communications situation, unexpected things may happen so remember one of the most important aspects to supporting a drill or real emergency communications situation, Blessed are the flexible for they will not get bent out of shape.

This announcement will be updated again as further information becomes available.

Respectfully Submitted,

Robert Macedo (KD1CY)
ARES SKYWARN Coordinator
Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator
Pager #: (508) 354-3142
Home Phone #: (508) 994-1875 (After 6 PM)
Home/Data #: (508) 997-4503 (After 6 PM)
Work Phone #: 1-800-445-2588 Ext.: 72929 (8 AM-5 PM)
Email Address: rmacedo@rcn.com
http://users.rcn.com/rmacedo
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About 16 members of the Algonquin Amateur Radio Club recently completed CERT training sponsored by Marlborough Emergency Management Agency. The class was very interesting and much was learned. A special thanks goes out to Don Cusson, EMA Director, for putting on the course for the members.

The Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club has begun sponsoring the Worked All Massachusetts Counties Award.

The Club’s main page is http://www.n1nc.org and a direct link to the award page is http://www.n1nc.org/WAMC/WAMC.htm.

The Award was timed to coincide with the 2005 New England QSO Party. It has a lot of support from Tom Frenaye, K1KI, who has posted a link on the NEQP page. Ted Malinosky, K1BV, has also shown support, and hopes to include the club in his July column in CQ Amateur Radio Magazine. The club has put alot of hard work on this award.

For more information, contact John Griswold, KB1HDO, at KB1HDO@verizon.net.

Two local college radio clubs–the MIT Radio Society and the Harvard Wireless Club–received mention in Surfin’: About the Old: College Radio Clubs and Surfin’: Continuing College Clubs Recollections published on April 1 and April 8. The stories, written by Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, a regular contributor, look at web sites dedicated to the history of Amateur Radio clubs at institutions of higher learning. They carried links to the two clubs’ respective historical archives.

The Walpole Emergency Management Agency is offering a CERT training course April 19-21, 2005.

Walpole Emergency Management is pleased to announce our second CERT training course. This training program will begin on Tuesday Night April 19th and end on June 21st. One Saturday Morning or early evening outside class will also be held. CERT (Citizen Emergency Response Team) training progtam is one of the programs that was first established in California after the North Bridge Earthquakes and was subsequently adopted under the Department of Homeland Security, Citizen Corps initaitive. The CERT program is a 10-week program that includes the following modules and a field activity.The CERT Program training includes modules on:

1.) Disaster Preparedness and the CERT program
2.) Fire Safety
3.) Disaster Medical Operations, Part 1
4.) Disaster Medical Operations, Part 2
5.) Light Search and Rescue
6.) Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS) and CERT Organization
7.) Disaster Psychology
8.) Terrorism and CERT
9.) Intro to Neighborhood Watch and other programs

The instructors for this program will be Philip Dubois, EMT, CPR and National Safety Council Instructor; Steve Smith, Captain, Walpole Fire Department, Fred Leland, Lieutenant, Walpole Police Department and other guest speakers. Roger Turner-W1ZSA, Walpole EMA Director is the course coordinator.

This course is made possible with the assistance of a Massachusetts Home Land Security, Region 5, Citizen Corps, CERT grant.

Amateur Radio Technician Class licensing course will be offered during the summer and other programs are in the planning stages.

For more information about Citizen Corps, go to http://www.citizencorps.com/ or contact Roger Turner-W1ZSA at 508-660-7365.

An application for the program is available at the Walpole Police Sation, 972 Main Street in Walpole Massachusetts. 1 1

Harvard Wireless Club (HWC) members participated in the Boston Minuteman Council’s “Merit Badge University” on April 9, 2005. The program serves Scouts in the greater Boston area. According to the Boston Minuteman Council’s web site, “Scouts can earn up to three merit badges in such diverse areas as American Cultures, Journalism, and Radio. Classes are taught by counselors from the Boston Minuteman Council and by Harvard students with Scouting experience.” The event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Friends of Scouting and the Boston Minuteman Council Activities Committee.

HWC members KG2OT, N1QZY, N1EXQ, and W1HFA participated in the event. “[Approximately] twenty-five scouts came through the club and divided their time up between a class upstairs […] and some good solid radio contact with our off-site reps down in the station under [N1QZY’s] supervision,” wrote Matt Gline, KG2OT. “It was nice to see the club active and nice to see people genuinely interested in radio.”

Gline added, “The people in charge of Merit Badge University thanked us for being around, and I promised our services in years to come.”

Terry Stader, KA8SCP writes:

I have been speaking to the Emergency Management Director in Dracut over the last several months and they are interested in establishing an Amateur Radio liason for communications. There is a major drill coming up in September and we would like to get a team of hams in place to support this exercise.

If you are a Dracut ham or can pass this message on to one, please have them contact me directly so we can connect up the interested parties.

Thanks.

Terry M. Stader – KA8SCP
MEMA Region 1 Communications Coordinator/RACES Officer
ARRL EMA DEC for Region 1 RACES

Bo Budinger, WA1QYM, writes on PART-L:

“If you have ever been interested in the various fields of science–even from a layman’s perspective–the web site 101 Science is for you. It has links to over 20,000 other web sites that relate to physics, chemistry, electronics, astronomy, etc. Of real interest to most of us is the Amateur Radio section that contains two pages of some of the best internet links I have ever seen. Enjoy!”

The Framingham Amateur Radio Association has announced that plans are underway for a joint trip with the Boston Amateur Radio Club to visit the New England Wireless and Steam Museum in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

“We are tentatively looking at either Saturday, June 4 or 11,” writes FARA’s Vice President Gordy Bello, K1GB. “After the visit we may stop for a bite at a reasonably-priced restaurant.”

According to the museum’s web site, the wireless building “shows the span of electric communication from telegraph to TV. It features keys, sounders, crystal sets, tubes, microphones, ocean cable instruments, spark transmitters, detectors, an 1881 Dolbear receiver, an 1899 Marconi coherer, and a jigger and spark set exactly like the one used on to call for help on the Titanic in 1912.”

Additional information about the New England Wireless & Steam Museum can be found at its web site, http://users.ids.net/~newsm/.

Bello asks individuals who are interested in the trip to please contact him if they have a preference for the date.

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2,3 April Watertown MA Photographica ~photo~            Ed Shaw 617 965 0807  +
3 April Framingham MA  FARA @Walsh Sch $5@9 $20/T     Bev N1LOO 508 626 2012 F+ 
9 Ap Londonderry NH IRS @Lions Club $10@6 $3@8        Paul K1NL 603 883 3308 F
9 April Montreal PQ MARC @RCLegion $4@8:30 $8@7:30  James VE2VE 514 697 7205 W
9 Ap Norwich CT RANSON Auction @ Fire House         Gary WT1SND 860 884 4218 A+
10 Ap Enfield CT VHF/UHF Conf @Radisson              Mark K1MAP 413 566 2445  
10 Ap Henniker NH CVRC @Comm School B@8 S@7            Jim NS1E 603 428 7436 A 
10 April Unionvale NY MtBARC                     Colleen KC2HUT 845 497 3687 A+
16 April S Portland ME PAWA @AmLegion                Roger N1XP 207 671 0671 W
17 April Cambridge MA          FLEA at MIT                 Nick 617 253 3776

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23 Ap Nashua NH NE Antique RC $15/T@7 $2@9 @StStan's      Marty 603 938 5051 F
23 Ap Rochester NH GBRA 150 WakefieldSt @9AM $10/T Karen KB1KBE 207 698 1618  +
24 Ap Southington CT SARA @HS $5@9 $10@8:30 $18/T@6:30     Alex 860 214 3013 F
6,7 May Hopkinton NH HossTraders @FG x7 I89           Joe K1RQG 207 469 3492  
9 May Whately MA FCARC @ElSc Monday $3@5PM $5/T      Walt W1ZPB 413 498 2729  +
14 May Goshen CT  SoBARC @ FG Rte 63 $3@8 $10/T@6     Lee K1LEE 860 435 0051  +
15 May Cambridge MA          FLEA at MIT                   Nick 617 253 3776  
20-22 May Dayton OH                                                           
21 May E Greenbush NY EGARA @FireHS $5@8 $10/T@6    Betty N2POS 518 785 0727 F+
28 May WashTownship NJ BARA @WestwoodHS $5@8 $15@6     Jim K2ZO 201 664 6725 F 
28 May Vernon CT NARC @Tolland Ag Ctr               Wayne N1GUS 860 487 1921 A 
3-5 June Rochester NY $9@6AM+$10/sp                 Harold K2HC 585 424 7184 W
3 June Feeding Hills MA HCRA @CongCh $5/T@6:30PM     Dave KB1MU 413 596 6605  
4 June Herman ME PSARC                             Roger KA!TKS 207 848 3846 A+
5 June Queens NY HoSARC @9A                      Stephen WB2KDG 718 898 5599 W+

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3 Dec Windsor CT VintgeR Museum @8AM @115 Pierson Ln       John 860 673 0518 W+

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18 Mar Pomfret CT ECARA @CommSch Rt101+169 $2@8 $10/TPaul KE1LI 860 928 2456 T+
25-27 Aug Boxboro MA FEMARA NE Conv @HI              Mike K1TWF 978 250 1236 A+

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Cambridge MA    Flea at MIT     http://www.swapfest.us                        
Hopkinton NH    Hosstraders     http://www.qsl.net/k1rqg/
Amherst MA      Mt. Tom ARC     http://www.mtara.org/hamfest/flea.html
Adams MA	N BerkshireARC	http://www.nobarc.org/hamfest                 
Boxborough MA   NE ARRL Conv    http://www.boxboro.org/
Framingham MA	FARA		http://www.fara.org/                          
Newton MA       Waltham ARA Auction    http://www.wara64.org/auction/
S Dartmouth MA  SEMARA          http://www.semara.org/flea/fleamkt.htm       
Whately MA	FranklinCARC 	http://www.fcarc.org/flea.html                
Enfield CT      VHF/UHF Conf    http://www.newsvhf.com                       
Newington CT 	NARL 		http://www.narl.net/1.htm
Southington CT  SARA            http://www.chetbacon.com/sara.htm
Wallingford CT  Nutmeg CT Conv  http://www.nutmeghamfest.com                 
Windsor CT      Vintage R Mus   http://www.NationalCommunicationsMuseum.org/  
Lewiston ME     AARC		http://www.mainearrl.org/convent.htm         +
Portland ME     PAWA            http://www.qsl.net/pawa/fleamarket.html       
Henniker NH     CVRC            http://www.qsl.net/k1bke/                     
Bergen NJ	BARA		http://www.bara.org/
Lake Placid NY  NNY ARA	 http://www.northnet.org/nnyham/hamfest_flyer2004.htm 
Lindenhurst NY  ToB ARES 	http://www.tobares.org/hamfest.html           
Long Island NY  LIMARC          http://www.limarc.org/fest.htm                
Massapequa NY   GSB ARA	        http://www.gsbarc.org/          
Queens NY       Hall of Science http://hosarc.org/hamfest.html               +
Rensselaer NY   E Greenbush ARA http://www.com-tech.org/EGARA.html            
Rochester NY 	AWA		http://www.antiquewireless.org/
Rochester NY    RARA            http://www.rochesterhamfest.org/            +
Greenwich RI    Fidelity ARC    http://users.ids.net/~newsm/dates.html
Essex Junction VT   Burlington ARC  http://www.vtstetson.net/fest02.pdf
Milton VT       RANV VT Conv    http://www.ranv.org/milton.html
Montreal PQ     MARC            http://www.marc.qc.ca/fest/fest.html        
Montreal PQ	WIARC		http://www.pubnix.net/wiarc/hamfest.htm       
Montreal PQ     MS-SARC         http://www.ve2clm.ca/hamfesta.htm
Sorel-Tracy PQ  CRAS-T		http://www.hamfest.qc.ca/                     
St Therese PQ	CRALL		http://www.ve2crl.qc.ca/hamfest2002.htm       
Halafax NS 	HARC            http://www.halifax-arc.org/
Canada          RAC List   http://rac.eton.ca/data/racfleas.taf?function=form
Phila. Area	VARA List	http://www.qsl.net/w2vtm/hamfest.html         
USA             ARRL List       http://www.arrl.org/hamfests.html