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Bob Hall, W1RRH, writes on the Nantucket ARA mailing list: This is the first time NARA has been mentioned in DayBreak Nantucket.  It is a nice article: — Celebrating Lighthouses In case you missed it, last month the Nantucket Amateur Radio Associationcelebrated International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend for 2023 at Nantucket’s Sankaty Lighthouse. The event is part of the US National Lighthouse Week from the Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society. In 1989, the United States Congress declared August 7 as National Lighthouse Day, so during August amateur radio operators in America set up portable stations at lighthouses and try to contact each other.    On Saturday, August 19, the Nantucket …

Matt Brennan, NM1B, writes on the Worcester Emergency Communications Team mailing list: I’m looking for about fifteen hams to provide communications assistance for the Buzzard’s Bay Triathlon in Westport on Sunday, September 17th. It occurs from 9AM (hams will meet at 8AM) until about 1PM (some assignments should secure by noon). It will be held in Horseneck Beach State Park and includes a swim, bike and run that travels through the town of Westport. There is also a duathlon option. More info  online: www.maxperformanceonline.com. It is a very scenic area. If you are interested, please fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/fNtP44THUG42xcoV9 …

Hello to all…   ..Hurricane Lee will impact portions of Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island with tropical storm conditions late Friday Night into Saturday. Preparations for tropical storm conditions should begin now in eastern areas of Southern New England..   ..A Tropical Storm Watch is now in effect from Watch Hill Rhode Island to Stonington Maine including Marthas Vineyard, Nantucket and Block Island. The Tropical Storm Watch includes Eastern Essex, Suffolk, Eastern Norfolk, Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket Counties of Massachusetts and Bristol, Newport and Washington Counties of Rhode Island for sustained winds of 20-40 MPH and gusts 50-70 MPH …

The New England Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society will meet on-line and in-person on September 12, 2023 at 7 PM and feature: “The CQ DX Marathon Program – A DX Program for Everybody” by Mark Wohlschlegel, WC3W. The CQ DX Marathon Program is a worldwide program for hams who love to pursue DX. In 2022, it was the fastest growing DX program in the world, realizing a 42% growth from 2021. The Marathon is a program, not a contest. Many participants choose not to compete but instead use the program as a metric to do self-evaluation on how they are improving year …

Hello to all… The September Eastern Massachusetts ARES section net will be Monday September 11th, 2023 at 830 PM on the MMRA Repeater system. It is on the second Monday of the month due to the Labor Day holiday last week. 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 …

AB1PH-Don Rolph-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, Since the first Monday in Sep, Sep 4, was labor day, for Sep., the RACES nets will be held on Mon Sep 11. The RACES nets will be held on Mon Sep 11 at: ******************************************************************************** The HF net will start at 6:45 PM ET: using the following frequency plan: We will start at 3930 KHz moving up to 3955 KHz until there is a clear frequency, Marc …

Ethan Hansen, KC1OIP, writes on the Boston ARC mailing list: Some of you may have already seen this from the B.A.A but Volunteer Registration for the Half Marathon on November 12th is open! Please see the information below from the B.A.A. The B.A.A. Half Marathon, presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund, returns to Franklin Park on Sunday, November 12, 2023. We invite you to join us as a volunteer to support the third and final event of the 2023 B.A.A. Distance Medley.    Volunteer Registration is ongoing within your B.A.A. Athletes’ Village Account   To apply, log in …

N1SOM-Jeff – Secretary of the South Shore Hospital (SSH) group writes: Good evening, On Saturday September 9, 2023, the Mansfield EMA will hold an Eastern MA Hospital Net commencing at 10:00AM. We realize that the usual locations for some individuals and groups are still unavailable due to ongoing COVID restrictions. We encourage everyone who is affected by these restrictions to utilize their home or mobile stations to check into the net. We will use the following repeaters in the order listed. 1. Plymouth Repeater 146.685 tone 131.8 2. West Bridgewater 146.775 dcs 244​ 3. Attleboro Repeater 147.195 tone 127.3 4. …

Ken Horton, KA1GFN, writes on the Algonquin ARC mailing list: The next MMRA VE exam session will be held on September 16th at 9:00 AM at the City Church Marlborough, 72 Jefferson Street , Second Floor (Shoe Box Building), Marlborough. For further information check the MMRA website at https://mmra.org/ which includes additional information on their home page. Ken, KA1GFN

Mike Antoine, K1UVH, writes in K1USN Happenings, 9/7/23: CQ – CQ – CQ, The Great Hill Gang Radio Club – K1GHG Mark you calendar for Saturday September 16th, our next “ Day of Radio” on the Summit at Great Hill Park in North Weymouth. Please bring “your own chair, table, radio, antenna and power source” ! If you are planning on operating. Or just come with “your own chair” and rag chew with some of the best Hams around! Some sort of food item will be planned, and hopefully the weather will be nice!

Ethan Hansen, KC1OIP, writes on the Boston ARC mailing list: Fellow Radio Amateurs, The City of Gardner is celebrating our centennial, 100 years as a city, with a large parade on Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 13:00 hours. The City of Gardner Office of Emergency Management is seeking assistance from the ham radio community to provide safety and parade logistics communications. We need about fifteen hams to shadow division Marshalls and three command/relay trailers. A minimum of nine hams will need to be able to walk the parade route of up to 1.8 miles. The first half mile is on …

Please join us at the Billerica Amateur Radio Society meeting on September 6, 2023 at 7:00 PM. Mark Noe, KE1IU will present “9-Band DXCC On A Covenant Restricted Lot.”   This presentation will cover Mark’s journey as a DXer—from lowly beginnings as a teenager with only 4 countries to his name before going off to college—to achieving 9-Band DXCC (which happened last year). He will cover how to set up a very capable DX station with only wire antennas, tips for working common DX and the rare ones, the DX Code of Conduct, how to properly work split without getting …

Fred Beaulieu, WA1ESU, writes on the Cape Ann ARA mailing list: We are looking for operators to staff the YuKanRun Half Marathon by the Sea. Sun September 17, 2023, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA 01944 US Please let us know if you can staff a communications checkpoint for the event so we can plan staffing positions for the event. While CAARA’s repeater performance has greatly improved some regions of this course may still experience some difficulty with communications especially with low-powered HTs, so we’ll be looking for higher powered equipment to staff those areas Please let us know what type of equipment you …

Hello to all…   We hope everyone is enjoying some well deserved excellent late summer/early fall weather during this long Labor Day Holiday Weekend. A reminder that the Eastern Massachusetts ARES Net and the Massachusetts RACES Nets will be on the second Monday of the month – Monday 9/11/23 at their usual times due to the Labor Day Holiday weekend. Notices of the various ARES/RACES Nets will be posted on the email lists and the Eastern Mass ARES web site at https://ema.arrl.org/ares this coming weekend/Monday Morning 9/11/23. Thanks to all for their continued support of ARES and RACES at the …

Jeff N1SOM, Secretary, and the SSH group writes: Good evening, Due to the upcoming Labor Day holiday, the Eastern MA Hospital Net will be on Saturday September 9, 2023 instead of the customary 1st Saturday of the month. I will be sending the Net details and repeaters that will be used for the Net next week. Jeff N1SOM, Secretary, and the SSH group N1SOM – W1SSH

[For more information about Project BIG E, visit the Project BIG E page at https://nediv.arrl.org/project-big-e/.] Larry Krainson, W1AST, writes: We still need 43 people to fill time slots for the Big E booth. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do so ASAP. We need your help to make this a success this year. Here are the dates, # of people needed and a “Y” for the session time frame. Here is the sign up link:  bit.ly/45Cv6mn Or contact me direct at W1AST@arrl.net We need more people to sign up to make this a success! — Larry Krainson – W1AST Project Big …

A new radio club in Quincy has been formed called the Quincy Radio Club. It has been issued the call sign “KW1NZE.” According to Quincy Radio Club trustee Peter Doherty, KC1HHO, the club will host “a series of special events that focus on the extraordinary cultural, political and social history of Quincy (pronounced “Kwinzee”) and its contribution to our nation and the world.” “We are excited about our first upcoming event. The list of significant ‘Who, What and Here’  is long and varied.” Peter adds, “It will be difficult to choose the first.” The Quincy Radio Club will commentate each …

Eliot Mayer, W1MJ, writes on the NEMassFoxHunters list at 11:01 AM on September 3, 2023: Due to technical difficulties, the double fox hunt in Beverly has been terminated early. This was Mike’s first deployment of this new fox design, and it is likely that the low-battery cutoff setting was too high for his battery.  My fox became intermittent, apparently due to a bad cable going to the radio (or, hopefully not, a bad jack in the radio).  We will address these issues and try again.  For now, go find the W1MWS fox in North Chelmsford.   Eliot Mayer, W1MJ, writes …

The New England Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society will meet on-line and in-person on August 29, 2023 at 7 PM and feature: “2m – 70cm Satellite Dish Slot Antennas” by John Portune, W6NBC. Description: Have you ever wondered if you could hide a 2m – 70 cm base antenna in a television satellite dish?  By cutting a slot antenna into the reflector of a TV satellite dish, neighbors and homeowner associations are unlikely to notice it and, even if they do, federal Law prevents them from telling you to take it down. Bio: John is a native of Los Angeles, CA and was first …

Barry Fox, W1HFN, writes on the NEMassFoxHunters list at 6:04 PM on August 24, 2023: Finally got a chance to deploy my fox.  Too much rain this summer.  My favorite spot, Hartwell Family Memorial Preserve in Littleton.  Freq 146.565 MHz with a 20 second voice ID every minute.  Please sign the log when found.  I doubled up the battery, so should run until at least next week. 73, Barry, W1HFN