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May 14, 2024 Eastern Massachusetts ARRL a field organization of the National Association for Amateur Radio® Latest News Introduction Section Organization Clubs Emergency Communications Field Day Licensing, Education & Training National Traffic System Operating Public Information Public Service Regulation & Advocacy Technical Youth Search for:Clubs NA1T: Emergency Management and American Red Cross,” Nashoba Valley ARC Meeting, May 16, 2024 May 13, 2024 - by k9hi - Leave a Comment The Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club ’s May meeting is Thursday, May 16th at 7:30 PM at the Pepperell Community Center (in Pepperell). We start gathering at 7 PM to socialize before the meeting starts. May’s guest speaker will be Steve Davidson, NA1T. Steve is heavily involved with emergency management and the Red Cross in the New Hampshire amateur radio community. Steve will be describing and demonstrating some of the equipment he uses in emergency deployments, as well as what he and his ARC cronies were up to during the recent Solar Eclipse. I’m looking forward to Steve’s presentation! Need directions? Click here and put your own address in box A”. Thanks and 73. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Bruce, K1BG 978-772-2773 or bruce.blain@charter.net Public Service Amateur Volunteers Requested, Dave Birtwell Memorial Walk for Alzheimer’s, Sandwich, May 18, 2024 May 13, 2024 - by k9hi - Leave a Comment We still need three or four more volunteers to for the Dave Birtwell Memorial Walk for Alzheimer’s at Scusset Beach Reservation, Sandwich this Saturday, May 18th, 2024. Volunteers to be at the walk from 10-3 with a 2 meter handheld radio. Jon, N1ILZ, will provide Net Control for a 2 meter simplex net and I will be coordinating our activities the walk headquarters. Time is short and we could really use your help. Christopher Ranney WA1CMR 508-681-9981 Clubs WO1VES: Fusion, C4FM, and Wires X Yaesu Digital Mode Echosystem” at Cape Ann ARA Meeting, May 11, 2024 May 6, 2024 May 6, 2024 - by k9hi - Leave a Comment Cape Ann ARA Presidenet Brandon Hockle, NQ1W, writes on the CAARA mailing list: Hello Members and Friends of Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association, Just a quick reminder that Brian Gudzevich, WO1VES, will be giving a talk on Yaesu System Fusion / C4FM / Wires X and the Yaesu digital mode radio ecosystem up at the CAARA Stanwood Clubhouse this weekend Saturday 5/11 @ noon. Lunch will be available for a small donation to our repeater maintenance fund, which will help CAARA in its mission to replace the damaged 2m antenna system at Blackburn Circle with a new commercial grade antenna setup. This should be another fun time for the club, as our tech talk series during the members meeting have all been really well attended. I think you’ll agree that this year’s speakers have been excellent, each bringing some fresh new insights on well traveled paths of our hobby as well completely new topics for us to learn. All levels of operator should find value in these great presentations on radio! I hope to see you all there! Regards, Brandon Hockle NQ1W Clubs / Foxhunting KC1TSA: Foxhunting 101: Lessons from a USGS Wildlife Tracker” May 6, 2024 - by k9hi - Leave a Comment This is a reminder that the Barnstable ARC will be holding its General Membership April Meeting on Monday May 6, 2024 at 7:30 PM at the Brewster Police Department 631 Harwich Rd, Brewster MA, and on Zoom. Chris LaRosee, KC1TSA, will present Foxhunting 101: Lessons from a USGS Wildlife Tracker.” [For Zoom invite, contact Bruce Semple atWA3SWJ@arrl.net .] All / Emergency Communications / NTS / Operating / Public Service Reminder: May 6th, 2024 MEMA RACES/ACS Communications Test Net May 6, 2024 May 6, 2024 - by kd1cy - Leave a Comment Hello to all, This email is the typical monthly message to let everyone know that Monday evening, May 6 th , 2024 is our first non-holiday Monday of the month and, as such, will be the next RACES/ACS/Preparedness Net night. I would like to thank the stations that checked into our nets last month as well as those stations that participated in the section emergency exercise that occurred this past weekend. As always, I am looking for Net Control stations to staff our sector nets for the evening. This month I am on my 24 hour Fire/EMS shift (Yes, Group A on my department has been landing on net night a lot in the last few months hopefully that will end soon!) and I may not be able to run the Sector 2A net. As such, I am looking for any interested operator that may want to take that net to prevent the net from not occurring. If there is no Net Control Operator at the start of the net I strongly encourage any of the on-frequency stations to take over as NCO and run the net and submit a net report via email. If anyone would like to act as NCO, for the 2A net please let me know! As always I am looking for NCS operators to lead the Sector 2B (Plymouth County) net. Sector 2D has already arranged for an NCS operator for this month’s net and Sector 2C is a Winlink only net on a monthly basis. For any operators interested in performing the duties of Net Control Station (NCS), there are materials available to make the task fairly simple and straight forward. The net pre-amble and role call lists are available at http://wc1mab.org/RACES_R2_Interim_Preamble.pdf and http://wc1mab.org/Month.php with the role-call lists on the left column near the bottom. If anyone is worried that they may mess up running a net, please remember that, in many cases, a less than perfect net is WAY better than no net at all! At the conclusion of any net, any operator that acted as Net Control Operator is asked to please send a note to WC1MAB@gmail.com letting me know who ran the net and who checked in so that the proper numbers can be reported to our served agencies. We cannot always count on our normal net control operators to be available in the event of a large scale emergency, so every RACES operator should be prepared to act as NCO if needed when disaster and emergency strikes! Winlink Net Instructions From Don Rolph: *Winlink Net* To participate: – create a check-in form using the Winlink standard checkin form – send via Winlink after 6 AM EST Mon. May 6 th and before midnight EST May 7 th (any mode, but include mode in check-in form) to KF1D I continue to ask that any operators who have the time, please try to check into sector nets from near-by sections. This will allow our Net Control Operators to practice fielding nets with a strong check-in count and will also serve to help practice with relays or modified sector assignments in the event that a single repeater is out of service. For those operators who serve as Net Control Operators, please try to remember to send me a list of the stations and communities that check into your nets. The numbers are reported to MEMA to show them our level of participation. I am continuing to work on a graphical map based report to show which parts of our section have strong coverage and which areas may need a more targeted recruitment campaign to improve our ability to provide back-up communications in an emergency. The Region #2 and State Net Schedule for this evening is as follows: Net Frequency/Offset Time Sector 2A 147.00 /+0.60 PL 19:30 Local Sector 2B 145.39/-0.60 PL 67.0 20:00 Local Sector 2C Winlink Net Check-In 6AM-Midnight Local Time Sector 2D 146.865/-0.60 PL 103.5 19:30 Local 6-Meter State Net 53.31 / -1.0 PL 71.9 Note: Net activity on this repeater has been hit and miss. Please report any activity. 19:00 Local MA RACES HF Net 3930 KHz LSB moving up to 3955 KHz until there is a clear frequency 18:45 Local MA MEMA NBEMS Net Frequency: 3584.5 MHx, Center Frequency: 1500 Hz, Initial mode: THOR22 19:00 Local I appreciate you all answering the call to help our communities remain prepared. Thank you all for helping us keep things on track and prove that we remain a consistent source of communication capability to the Commonwealth. This net provides a monthly...