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Charlie, K1CB writes: On Friday evening, February 28 thru March 2, Falmouth Amateur Radio Association (FARA) held a special Technician class for public safety personnel in our area. Instructors Ralph Swenson, N1YHS, and Charlie Bresnahan, K1CB, are pleased to report that six new hams passed the Technician license test; one person failed to pass by one question.  We are sure we will see him back in the near future. —Charlie/K1CB, Secretary, Falmouth Amateur Radio Association

Chris Winczewski, W1TAT, writes on the Cape Ann ARA mailing list: The Saturday April 5th Fools Dual Half-Marathon in Gloucester is less than 3 weeks away and we are still short volunteers to staff this race.   Please help !   This is our kick-off to the season and while volunteers have signed up for races through the entire season, we need 3 more checkpoint volunteers for April 5th.   Can you help out? Please see the race details and open slots for this race and future races and email Chris, W1TAT, w1tat@outlook.com, as soon as possible.   RACE SCHEDULE, DETAILS, AND …

Peter Morrison, AC1KY, will be speaking on “Aircraft Tracking with SDR” at the Wellesley ARS Meeting on March 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM at the Wellesley Police Station at 485 Washington St. (Route 16), Wellesley, MA. (Please park on the street, not in the police station parking lot.) Aircraft Tracking using SDR will describe the ADS-B aircraft beaconing system, its development, and the use of low-cost RTL-SDR receivers to display aircraft data. Today, all aircraft worldwide are required to transmit ADSB signals. The ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast) is like radar in the sense that it also provides surveillance information …

Offered by: CAPE ANN AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION GLOUCESTER, MA Saturday, April 19,2025 8:00am to 5:00 pm Thank you for your interest in becoming an amateur radio operator. Our Technician In A Day session is a study course. The course allows you to become licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. You should obtain a copy of the ARRL Technician Class License Manual. You may purchase this book at Ham Radio Outlet in Salem, NH or any other amateur radio related store. You should read the book. The information contained therein will allow you to answer questions on a 35 question test for obtaining …

The March PART meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, beginning at 7:30 PM at the Cameron Senior Center, 20 Pleasant Street, Westford, MA, and via Webex video conference.  For those attending via video conference, a meeting link is below; just click on the green button to join in.  You can join the conference any time after 7:00 PM to check out your gear or just rag chew until the meeting starts. Bear in mind that internet connectivity from the senior center may be unreliable.   Our guest speaker for the meeting is Tom Schiller, N6BT, who will be connecting via video …

Eliot Mayer, W1MJ, writes on the NEMassFoxHunters list on March 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM:   The W1MJ Fox is on the air.    Location:  Lone Tree Hill Conservation Area, Belmont, MA   Parking:  Main parking lot is on Mill St.  Parking is also allowed at Belmont Day School, but might be full if there is a school event.   Trail Map:  PDF  (see also AllTrails)   Frequency:  147.54 MHz   Schedule:  Transmits every 60 seconds from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM daily.  Will be retrieved after 6:00 PM on Sunday.   The fox is transmitting with 4 watts to a roll-up J-Pole antenna.  …

Alan Hicks, KD1D, writes on the NEMassFoxHunters list on March 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM:   The KD1D Fox is on the loose in Littleton, MA, operating on 146.565 MHz FM and transmitting a short spoken message about once per minute.   It is located at the Yapp Conservation Land ( https://littletonconservationtrust.org/property/george-and-lucy-yapp-conservation-land/ ).     You should be able to hear it from Route 119.   Your best bet for entry is to take a road with a name similar to one of the USS Enterprise Starship Captains.   This is my old same Fox, operating on 146.565 MHz with a 25-second message …

Mike Walters, W8ZY writes: Ham Radio Open House is coming in April and clubs across the country are urged to participate. It’s now possible for a radio club or school to add their station open house to the ARRL Ham Radio Open House Locator. The Open House Locator is linked from the World Amateur Radio Day page at www.arrl.org/world-amateur-radio-day, or go directly to the locator at www.arrl.org/open-house. Details about Ham Radio Open House are at World Amateur Radio Day  

MMRA Membership Meeting: Wednesday, 19 March 2025 ~7:30 – 9:30 pm “FT8—An Update,” Larry Banks, W1DYJ This is a Hybrid meeting: New England Sci-Tech + ZOOM Location: New England Sci-Tech, 16 Tech Circle, Natick, MA Members: log into your account on MMRA.ORG to obtain the Zoom information. Non-members: email: contact@mmra.org to request the information. Bio: Larry first gave this talk in 2019. Since then a lot has changed and FT8 is now very popular. This talk will review the 2019 talk which discusses how to use WSJT-X and FT8, and will add some insights that Larry has discovered with the …

Tuesday, March 11: “The Highs and Lows of Aeronautical Mobile Operation” by Kim O. Peck, WA1PBU Description: This presentation will cover details of aeronautical mobile operation from light aircraft. The material covered will be useful to pilots who wish to explore aero mobile, as well as to non-pilot-hams who may be offered a plane ride and who would appreciate tips, experience, and advice. Bio: Kim Peck is an electrical engineer, was first licensed as a ham in 1971, and obtained his pilot’s license in 1975.

With the time change from Standard to Daylight Savings Time on March 9, 2025 the daytime sessions of the First Region Net will meet at 1445 and 1630 Eastern Daylight Time. This change accommodates the Eastern Area Net daytime session which will meet at 1530 EDT Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and at 1515 EDT on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  For now the First Region Net frequency will remain at 3950 kHz primary and 7243 kHz alternate for both sessions. EAN meets on 7243 kHz.

Here is the new ham report as of March 1, listing newly licensed hams. Club officials, please review the list and reach out to those in your footprint and invite, welcome them. To all: please welcome these folks when you hear them on local repeaters. Offer assistance as well! Report for 2025-03-01 Keith Maynard, KC1WFW – FCC 179 Whitney Rd Ashby, MA 01431-2218 Sai Subramanian, KC1WDS – FCC 2 Jennifer Path Acton, MA 01720-4177 Gregory S Adkins, KC1WFE – FCC 40 Hillside Rd Carlisle, MA 01741-1132 Tayler Pitkin, KC1WFQ – FCC 130 Prospect St Carlisle, MA 01741-1826 Theodore P Fiust, …

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!  I hope you all had a nice February, including, of course, Valentine’s Day. Staying warm and safe? I’m sorry this update is a little late – I try to get the monthly updates out around the 15th of each month – but the time just got away from me. On a happy note, the Section Manager email blast to all members in the section function is now BACK IN OPERATION so this monthly update is being sent direct to your email, no redistribution requests needed. Yay!    * 2025 Northeast HamXposition is Coming!  Mark your calendars! The …

Phil, K9HI writes: Many Technician class amateurs miss out on fun and skills learning of traffic handling because they reside in areas of the country where local traffic nets on VHF repeaters don’t exist. The Virtual NTS Training Net (VNTN) seeks to address this problem with the creation of a Zoom-based local traffic net that can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection.  VNTN will accept check-ins and radiogram traffic utilizing standard phonetics and prosigns; in short, participants will enjoy the same experiences as those who check into conventional “RF” traffic nets.  The net will incorporate a “hands-on” training …

Hello to all… The March Eastern Massachusetts ARES section net will be Monday March 3rd, 2025 at 830 PM on the MMRA Repeater system. For frequencies that will be linked into the ARES Net on the MMRA Network, please see the following link from the MMRA web site detailing the repeaters that will be linked in through Hub 1: https://mmra.org/repeaters/repeater_linking.html (Click the ARES box to see the repeaters and other systems linked) We look forward to your participation and remember, we are always looking for Net Controls to run the ARES Net. We will have several announcements for the net. …

Don Rolph, AB1PH, Walpole area ARES Emergency Coordinator writes: The MEMA RACES nets are held on the first Monday of the month, unless the first Monday is a holiday, when it is delayed one week. For Mar 2025, the MEMA RACES nets will be held on Mon Mar 3 at: ******************************************************************************** 80 meter Voice net 6:45 PM Frequency: 3930 KHz working up until the first free frequency Jeff N1JCM will be net control ********************************************************************************* Region 2D VHF net: 7:30 PM ET VHF net on 146.865 MHz PL 103.5 (Sharon Repeater) We will have a general call up of any RACES, …

There are only 172 days until HamX—the 2025 Northeast HamXposition and New England Division Convention!  Thursday evening, Juston McKinney returns for the second annual Comedy Kickoff.   Ned Stearns, AA7A, is our guest speaker for the Friday DXCC/Contest Dinner sponsored by DX Engineering.   Saturday morning, our Keynote Speaker will be Thomas Witherspoon, K4SWL, on how mentorship will carry the hobby into the future.    Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, will talk about the HamSCI project at the Saturday Evening Grand Banquet.   Purchase your tickets in advance, and book your hotel room!    

Here is the new ham report as of Feb 1, listing newly licensed hams. Club officials, please review the list and reach out to those in your footprint and invite, welcome them. To all: please welcome these folks when you hear them on local repeaters. Offer assistance as well! Report for 2025-02-01 Waiming Wong, KC1WCV – FCC 133 Foster St Littleton, MA 01460-1541 James N Gonthier, KC1WAY – FCC 8 Currier Dr Framingham, MA 01701-3623 David Kula, KC1VZH – FCC 29 Belcher Dr Sudbury, MA 01776-1244 Nicholas Cioffi, KC1WCS – FCC 10 Fieldstone Dr Burlington, MA 01803-4213 Alistair J McBrien, …

The Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club’s February meeting is Thursday, February 20th at 7:30 PM at the Pepperell Community Center (in Pepperell). We start gathering at 7 PM to socialize before the meeting starts. NVARC has an awesome speaker for February. Gerry Hull, W1VE, is an expert on remote amateur radio station setup and operation. Gerry has personally set up stations such as ZF9CW, 7Q6M, VY1AAA, VE4YH, VE9XX, and others for remote operation, and he has remotely operated these stations. Attend and discover how easy it is to either operate someone else’s station remotely or set up your station for …

The January 2025 STM report is now available at https://ema.arrl.org/massachusetts-rhode-island-stm-report-for-january-2025/. Note the new and fun “Boston Cape Cod Traffic Jam”, now operating on three local VHF traffic nets (EM2MN, CITN and HHTN) and the Mass Rhode Island Phone Net. This is a creative approach to generating and practicing radiogram message traffic developed by Peter Doherty, KC1HHO,  manager of EM2MN and in cooperation with Tim Doyle, W1TCD, manager of CITN, and has generated a lot of traffic while also providing a lot of fun. Note also NTS participation in the February 1 exercise, “Operation Clear Ice”.