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Members of the Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club along with members of the Billerica Amateur Radio Society, Montachusett Amateur Radio Association, Worcester Emergency Communications Team and the Crocker Public Service Grout provided vitial Communications for the 14th annual Groton Road Race on April 24th. This is also Groton’s 350th anniversry
The weather cleared just in time for the start of the 5K race which didn’t seem to dampen the spirts of the 1400+ runners in this years event. Officials involed in the race expressed deep appreciation for the vital communications provided by the hams. Congradulations and Thank You Stan KD1LE and Ralph KD1SM and all who participated from NVARC and the other organizations.

Terry Stader, KA8SCP, writes on PART-L:

There is a new CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) class starting June 2nd in Lowell. Additional information can be obtained on the http://www.merrimackvalleycert.org website. Use the Training Application Form (in PDF format) located on this site to apply.

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. CERT members also are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community.

More information on CERT can be obtained from links on the above website or by navigating to the http://www.citizencorps.gov/programs/cert.shtm website directly.

Keith Lamonica, W7DXX, reports that the YI9DXX gateway in Baghdad, Iraq is hooked up and almost ready to go.

“We have a couple of port conflicts to work out but the Iraq remote base software is communicating with the main system.”

Lamonica says that as soon as port problem is solved he will allow access to a few control operators for testing.

(See also “YI9DXX Gateway Plans ‘Hit A Snag'” and “YI9 Internet Gateway Close to Reality”.)

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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

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28 May WashTownship NJ BARA @WestwoodHS $5@8 $15@6     Jim K2ZO 201 664 6725 F 
28 May Vernon CT NARC @TollandAgCtr I84x67 $4@9     Wayne N1GUS 860 487 1921 F

 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+
11 Jun Windsor CT VintgeR Museum new site@115 Pierson Ln   John 860 673 0518 W
11-12 June Newington CT NARL @HS  $20/T@5 $8@8:45     Dan K3UFG 860 206 3379 W
12 June Bethpage NY LIMARC                            Rick K2RB 516 526 6975 A
19 June Cambridge MA         FLEA at MIT                   Nick 617 253 3776  
9 July Union ME PBARC @ComCtr Rt17+131 $5@8 $3/T@7 Scott KB1ESW 207 354 6809   
16 July Nashua NH NE Antique RC $15/T@7 $2@9 @StStan's    Marty 603 938 5051 F
17 July Cambridge MA         FLEA at MIT                   Nick 617 253 3776  
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10 Sept Windsor CT VintgeR Museum @6AM  @115 Pierson Ln    John 860 673 0518 W
17 Sept Alexander ME SCVARC                         Skip KB1HCX 207 454 2156 A
17 Sept Forestdale RI RIFMRS @VFW rt146 8A flea+auct Rick K1KYI 401 725 7507

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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/
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Lindenhurst NY  ToB ARES 	http://www.tobares.org/hamfest.html           
Long Island NY  LIMARC          http://www.limarc.org/fest.htm                
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A Fall River amateur is seeking other hams with mutual interests in QRP, QRPp, home brewing/kit building, and portable- and mobile operation.

“With the better QRP rigs and kits out there, there seems to be a lot more hams getting into this area,” writes Ed Duclos, WA1ZCB. Duclos has built a Norcal keyer, Norcal BLT tuner, DSW II-40, Rock Mite (20, 40 and 80 meters) and a Elecraft KX1. “If you have not tried QRPing and kit building, you are missing out on a lot of fun. Better look into it,” adds Duclos.

WA1ZCB would like to organize interested hams, and possibly meet 1-2 times per month at the Southeastern Massachusetts Amateur Radio Association club house in Dartmouth. “Or, if it’s a nice warm day [we could] set up portable some place.”

[photo: WA1ZCB/portable, courtesy QRZ.com]

W1AA will be operational from the Borden Flats Lighthouse in Fall River, Massachusetts on May 14, 2005 from 1100 to 1800 UTC, according to Bob “Whitey” Doherty, K1VV. He and N1DT will operate on SSB on 7270.0 and 14270.0 kHz plus/minus QRM and any nets. CW operation will occur on the half hour on 14035.0 and 7035.0 kHz, plus/minus.

DX stations may QSL to W1AA via the bureau; stateside should QSL via W1AA to the callbook address with a regular size self-addressed, stamped envelope. QSLs will be returned within two days.

For additional information on lighthouse DXpeditions/activations, visit the Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society at http://www.arlhs.com.

The e-mail lists are buzzing with news about a message sending/receiving contest between a cell phone text messaging team and a Morse code team to be performed on the Tonight Show May 13 on NBC.

The Morse code team will consist of well-known contesters/DXers Chip Margelli, K7JA, and Ken Miller, K6CTW. The “props manager” for the show is KF6OCP.

[In a recent competition staged by an Australian museum, Gordon Hill, a 93-year-old Morse code specialist and a telegraph operator since 1927, was pitted against 13-year-old Brittany Devlin in a battle of the messengers. Hill was armed with nearly a lifetime of experience using Morse code; Devlin, with two years of text messaging experience and a slew of slang popular with chronic texters. A sentence was chosen at random from a teen magazine, and both contestants had to transmit the message as quickly as possible. Hill reportedly won the contest.]

The April, 2005 EMA traffic net and Public Service Honor Roll totals have been posted to http://nts.ema.arrl.org under “Main Menu | STM Monthly Report“.

Bill O’Hara, N1EY, writes:

* 14 May – 247 K1RV
* 21 May – 225
* 4 June – 151
* 11 June – 209
* 18 June – 85
* 16 July – 58

This is our current schedule. I have not received any updates. Pi will be there on this Saturday. Can I get anyone to help us with Radio Room 5? Does anyone want to do the Morse Code Room?
I have not heard of plans for Memorial Day, yet. Please be prepared to come operate the radio room for the Veterans.

Maura always calls me asking for radio operators. She has told me that we put together a good program and the ship needs us.

Additional news regarding the scouting program is the apparent installation of a computer to the PA system to provide announcements. The class whistle is prompt. Do not expect any delay and manage your time very well while giving demonstrations or morse code instruction.

For those who have an interest in emergency preparedness the CERT instructor has successfully introduced many scouts and their parents to the CERT program. They have been a good part of the scouting program and show up every week.

We had a successful day with the Morse Code instruction, yesterday. Jack W1JAW led the class and got many scouts tapping away on their practice oscillators.

I have reviewed Radio Shack’s website. They no longer list the one piece code practice oscillator.

One of the only choices to recommend to scouts is to get the MFJ through HRO at $34.95. I remember seeing a sale at Radio Shack for less than $20.

N1EY

For more info:
Allen Pitts, W1AGP
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Hams and Military to Jointly Test Communications May 14-15

May 3, 2005 Newington CT– The 2005 Armed Forces Military/Amateur crossband communications test will take place May 14-15. The US Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual event in celebration of the 55th anniversary of Armed Forces Day, which is Saturday, May 21. The test features military-to-amateur crossband communications using both voice radio and digital communications. The Secretary of Defense will also have his own message-receiving test. The Armed Forces Day radio event is scheduled a week earlier to avoid conflicts with the ham operators national “Hamvention”, May 20-22. Special cards confirming the contacts will be provided to those Amateur Radio operators making contact with the military stations and certificates will be awarded to those hams who receive and copies the digital Armed Forces Day message from the Secretary of Defense.

Amateur Radio, often called “ham” radio, has been shown to be a critical piece in modern emergency management planning. Amateur Radio operators provide volunteer communications for the Red Cross, Salvation Army, and thousands of state and local emergency management offices across the country. The hams are also an integral part of the new DHS Citizen Corps home defense programs. In the recent tsunamis and in many areas during the 2004 Florida hurricanes, Amateur Radio was the only effective communications that survived.

Military/Amateur Radio cross band operations will take place on selected radio frequencies. Voice contacts will include operations on single sideband radios. Digital communications using a blend of radios and computers will also be used. Participating military stations will transmit on selected Military Amateur Radio Service frequencies and listen for amateur radio stations in the Amateur bands. Each of the military station operators will announce the specific amateur band frequency being monitored at their location. The duration of each individual contact will be limited to 1-2 minutes to allow as many stations as possible to participate

Arlene Arruda, KB1KGG, writes on SEMARA members list:

The [Southeastern Massachusetts Amateur Radio Assocation] 2 meter YL Net will be held weekly starting on Tuesday evening June 7, 2005 at 8 PM local time on The W1AEC Repeater, 147.000 with a PL tone of 67.0.

All YLs in RI, southeast MA , Cape Cod and beyond are welcome and encouraged to participate.

OK……your husband or boyfriend is a ham and finally convinces you to take that Technician Class Exam. You study hard and get your ticket! Congratulations! Now what???

Most YLs talk to their OMs, maybe a few friends close by, and then disappear into the woodwork or at best seldom hit that PTT button!

Well ladies……here is a great opportunity for us to have our own net, with some operating time to talk about the many things we have in common. It gives us a chance to have some fun as a group in a relaxing low key manner.

I would welcome your help in passing this info on to as many YLs as possible via internet, the local repeaters and some of the club newsletters.

First YL Net is Tuesday June 7, 2005 at 8PM local time on The SEMARA Club Repeater.

Hope to hear you on the air.

73,

Arlene – KB1KGG,
NCS, SEMARA YL Net

To: ARRL members in New England

Just over a week ago Representative Michael Ross, WD5DVR, of Arkansas, introduced a resolution in the US House of Representatives calling on the FCC to “conduct a full and complete analysis” of radio interference from broadband over power line (BPL). A copy of HRes 230 is available on the ARRL Web site in .PDF format at:

http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/filings/hres230/HRes230.pdf

It was too late to get the news into June QST but it did go out via ARRL Bulletins and the ARRL Letter: http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/2005-arlb012.html and http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/05/0429/

This is an important step in our effort to slow and stop the deployment of BPL. In recent months there have been a couple of test BPL systems installed in Massachusetts (Western Massachusetts Electric) and Connecticut (United Illuminating). They really do cause significant interference even in the limited test areas that already have been installed.
1) It is important for you to contact your representative in the House of Representatives now and ask them to support House Resolution 230. Please send a letter in the next two weeks if at all possible. Ask him or her to sign on as a co-sponsor for H Res 230. There are roughly 1500 licensed Amateurs in each congressional district. A sample letter is available on the ARRL Web site:

http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/filings/hres230/HRes230-SampleLtr.doc

Express your support in your own words. If you’re not sure who represents your congressional district, visit the United States House of Representatives Web site at http://www.house.gov/

To expedite delivery, send all correspondence bound for Members of Congress–preferably as an attachment–to hres230@arrl.org; or fax it to 703-684-7594. The ARRL will bundle correspondence addressed to each Member of Congress for hand delivery.

2) Two New England Congressmen are on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and will have a direct role in what happens with H Res 230. They are Rep Charles Bass (D-2) who represents much of southern and all of western New Hampshire, and Rep Tom Allen (R) who represents northern and eastern Maine. We’re interested in working with ARRL Members in those districts who know either Representative or someone on their staff – we’d like to make sure they are well informed about BPL. Please contact me if you can help out.

3) Finally, we need those of you with contacts within the law enforcement and public safety community to help us out. If you know any officials in your area who participate in the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) or the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International (APCO), please encourage them to continue their efforts to block BPL interference. These two groups have filed comments with the FCC with concerns of BPL interference. These groups represent associations such as the American Red Cross, The International Association of Chiefs of Police, the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the International Association of Emergency Managers.

In summary, it is important to get the point across that this resolution does not hinder Broadband, but, rather seeks to delay the BPL docket (FCC ET 04-37) until further study can be made. We need to stress the importance of how BPL is not only causing interference to Amateur Radio operators, but it is causing interference within the Law Enforcement and Public Safety area. While contacting your representatives it needs to be mentioned that ARRL has filed a petition for reconsideration to the FCC.

Thanks for your support and direct action on this important topic!

Tom Frenaye, K1KI
ARRL Director
New England Division
860-668-5444
k1ki@arrl.org

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The establishment of an internet gateway/ remote base in Iraq using the callsign YI9DXX is a step closer now, according to Easton amateur Keith Lamonica, W7DXX.

Lamonica reports delivery of the remote base equipment to Baghdad is “scheduled to arrive this Friday or Monday.”

(See also “YI9DXX Gateway Plans ‘Hit A Snag'” and “YI9 Internet Gateway Close to Reality”.)

Ben Kellman, WA1SYH and several other members of the Billerica Amateur Radio Society have expressed an interest in starting a ham radio class at the Marshall Middle School in Billerica.

Kellman is considering “basing the class curriculum on the MCAS communications requirements for the 8th grade.” In a presentation at the April BARS meeting Kellman asked for suggestions and volunteers to both organize the class and contribute to the course content.

—Billerica ARS The SPARK, May 2005