Did you take any noteworthy photos from this weekend’s Northeast HamXposition / New England-Hudson Division ARRL Convention? If so, send them (or a link) to K9HI and he will publish them on a photo gallery page and credit you as the photographer!
Serving ARRL members who reside in the New England sections
Did you take any noteworthy photos from this weekend’s Northeast HamXposition / New England-Hudson Division ARRL Convention? If so, send them (or a link) to K9HI and he will publish them on a photo gallery page and credit you as the photographer!
Shawn Takatsu, NR1T, writes on the Greater Bridgeport ARC mailing list:
Tomorrow [August 21, 2022] at 10 am we’re hosting our monthly fox hunt by Shawn, NR1T.
As always, all are welcome to join in the fox hunt, both members and non-members as well as non-licensed operators as you don’t need to transmit to direction find.
The recommended starting areas are the park and ride off route 15, exit 46 and the Stop and Shop in Newtown on route 25.
Details can be found here: Foxhunt Details
If you have never ‘hunted a fox’ before and would like to team up, please reach out to me and I’ll find someone you can team with.
We look forward to seeing you at the fox!
From wma.arrl.org:
The Northern Berkshire Amateur Radio Club will be holding its annual hamfest on Sunday, August 21. The hamfest will be held at the George Bowe Field (Adams Agricultural Fair Grounds), located directly off of Route 8 in Adams, MA.
Gates open at 6:30 AM for vendors and sellers, 7:00 AM for buyers. Admission is $5 for adult, kids under 12 are free. Sellers and vendors cot will be an additional $10. Talk-in will be on the K1FFK Mt. Greylock repeater, 146.91 MHz, PL 162.2. There will be an amateur radio exam session at 9:00 AM at the hamfest, for anyone wishing to get licensed or upgrade.
There will also be a raffle at 11:00 AM. Presence not required to win the raffle. Tickets at $4.00 each or 3 for $10.00. Prizes are:
Further details available on the hamfest flyer.
London (CNN) – When Isabella Payne heads back to elementary school in September, she’s going to have the best “what I did in my vacation” story to tell.
The August, 2022 Eastern MA Section Newsletter is now available at https://ema.arrl.org/august-2022-section-news/.
To our Cubes in Space Students and Friends of New England Sci-Tech:
NASA Balloon Launch attempt will be TOMORROW morning – Tuesday, 16 August 2022, from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in New Mexico.
TWO TEAMS of NESciTech students have Cubes-in-Space projects on board to fly.
Video of inflation should begin around 5-5:30 AM EDT (-4GMT).
Launch attempt between 7-9 AM EDT (-4GMT).
NASA says: “Tomorrow we have a VERY small window before monsoonal moisture and winds move in after late morning. Next attempt COULD be Friday if models are correct in predicting a small window of opportunity. It’s going to get rainy and windy in southwest Texas and New Mexico.”
For live location and coordinates: https://towerfts.csbf.nasa.gov/Maps/ConvGPS721NT.htm.
For live stream video: https://video.ibm.com/channel/nasa-csbf-ldsd
Our other two teams’ projects have already flown on the sounding rocket successfully launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in June. Congratulations to those teams!
Don’t forget – NESciTech students will be doing a “Space Chat” with the astronauts at the BIG E state fair in September. We have room for two more students to join our contact with the International Space Station. Call me ASAP to participate. INFO FLYER HERE: https://nescitech.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Poster-for-ARISS-RADIO.pdf
Best regards,
Bob
Bob Phinney, K5TEC, President
New England Sci-Tech Inc.
16 Tech Circle
Natick MA 01760
508-720-4179
www.NESciTech.org
From ema.arrl.org:
Algonquin Amateur Radio Club [Marlborough, MA] President Ann Weldon, KA1PON, and AARC Emergency Operations Center Liaison Eric Williams, KV1J, were featured on a recent edition of “Marlborough Minute” on cable station WMCT-TV.
Ann and Eric presented a basic overview of Amateur Radio, in addition to describing the club and the club members’ involvement with emergency communications.
James Geschwindner, N1PZP, writes:
Calling all weather fans.
Every Thursday night there is a New England Wide SKYWARN Net which is held for the purpose of training and education and weather awarness in the New England Area.
The net meets at 7:30pm on the NEDECN DMR System Talkgroup #759 SKYWARN and also uses the K1QVC-L Echolink Node which requires authorization from the owner. Send an Email to Bill, NE1B.
We will soon be approaching our fiftieth net.
Each week we will try to have a brief presentation, as well as your observations which are not required to check in and, of course, questions and comments and a weather related trivia question. We also have a Facebook page called “THE NEW ENGLAND WIDE SKYWARN NET.”
Your net managers are James G, N1PZP and Kevin L, N1WSD.
Project BIG E Coordinator Larry Krainson, W1AST, has announced a new sponsor of the BIG E booth and special event station: Remote Ham Radio (RHR). RHR has offered a donation of 17 days of RHR service for the N1E station at the booth in West Springfield, MA.
Many thanks to Mark (K8LSB) who shares the following announcement: Sharing POTA/SOTA with the Public Greetings POTA/SOTA activators, This year the Big E (exposition)—a “combined” state fair for the six New England states (CT MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)—will run for 17 days: from September 16 to October 2. In the past, 1.5 million people […] [Full story]