Serving ARRL members who reside in the New England sections
Jamie Pemantell, KB1HFP, writes on the Port City (NH) ARC mailing list:
I will be attempting a fox hunt on Saturday at Mine Falls Park in Nashua.
Jamey, AC1DC set it up and he will be there 9AM-12PM Saturday to assist people, but the fox will be out all weekend.
Jamie, KB1HFP
The Twin State Radio Club will host a Jamboree On The Air event on October 14-15, 2022, at LaSalette on Route 4A in Enfield, NH. The location is next to the Shaker Museum on Lake Mascoma.
“We will be monitoring 146.52,” reports the event’s organizer, Ray Chaffee, WA1ORT. “Help setting up the tower trailer on Friday would be appreciated. I will need one operator from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday. More [volunteers] are needed for Saturday. I hope to have a station on the air between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.”
Ray also reports that fox hunts will be conducted four times each day using two hidden foxes.
“It should be a good weekend. Please email me if available.”
Ray can be contacted at Rechafe@outlook.com.
Tom Ulrich, KC1OCY, writes on the Boston Amateur Radio Club mailing list:
As you likely have already heard, on October 15, the Blue Hills Wireless Society (BHO-WS) and the Scouts BSA Spirit of Adventure Council will hold a Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOTA) event at the council’s New England Base Camp in Milton (MA). The event will take place 10 AM-4 PM, and is open to all scouts, leaders, family members, and interested hams. We will operate under the BHO-WS callsign, W1BHO. Local scout troops may be operating their own individual JOTA stations that day as well.
If you’re interested in making contact with scouts nearby and far away, tune into the frequencies suggested by the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association (https://k2bsa.net/scout-
If you have any questions about the BHO-WS event, please contact me directly.
73,
Tom Ulrich KC1OCY
Dave Tipping, NZ1J, writes on the ctfoxhunter list on October 1, 2022:
Dave Tipping, NZ1J, writes on the ctfoxhunter list on September 24, 2022:
We’ll have a live Fox Hunt on Sunday (September 25, 2022) from 9:30 am until 11:00 am. The transmitters will be hidden within 3.2 miles of the Wallingford Senior Center (238 Washington St, Wallingford). This will be a 32 square mile search area; our usual hunts cover 40 square miles. The search area will be a perfect circle.
We’ll be using these three frequencies:
There will be a 2 watt signal continuously on 146.565 MHz. It will make a short beep every three seconds and will ID in Morse Code every minute.
The 10 mW transmitter is on 147.475 MHz and will beep every three seconds and will ID in Morse Code every minute.
The 1 mW transmitter is on 146.290 MHz and beeps every three seconds.
There is no central starting location. Other Fox Hunters can be contacted on the W1NRG repeater 147.360 with PL 162.2
Good luck.
Dave NZ1J
On September 25, [the Greater Bridgeport Amateur Radio Club] is hosting its annual picnic at Putnam Memorial Park in Bethel, CT. Putnam Memorial Park is a state park so along with conducting our business meeting, we’ll be activating park K-1707. Members, family, and friends are invited.
We will have radios setup for the activation. If you would like to bring yours, you are welcome to. Activating a park is a lot of fun and a great learning opportunity. Those who are unlicensed and wish to operate will have an opportunity to get on the air!
While there are picnic tables, it would be a good idea to bring a chair.
We’ll provide sandwiches from a local deli. Snacks, and water will be provided.
Setup: 11am
Activation: Noon until we wrap up
Meeting: 2pm
Directions:
153 Putnam Park Road
Bethel, CT 06801
Coming from the Fairfield area and Route 15.
Take exit 44 and head north on route 58 (Black Rock Turnpike)
Continue on 58 North for about 12.5 miles and the entrance will be on the right just past the pond.
Putnam Memorial Park is split by route 58 and the signs will lead you to the west side of the park (visitors center and museam), simply continue north for another quarter mile and you’ll see the pond on the right. Attached is a map and entrance photos.
We’ll listen to simplex – 146.52 as it is unlikely you’ll be able to hit our repeater while en route.
We hope to see you there!
– GBARC Officers
The Wireless Society of Southern Maine is sponsoring the Maine QSO Party to “encourage Maine stations to expand their knowledge of DX propagation on the HF and MF bands, improve their operating skills, and improve station capability by creating a competition in which W/VE, and DX stations have the incentive to work Maine.”
Contest Period: 1200 UTC Saturday, September 24 to 1200 UTC Sunday, September 25, 2022.
Full details can be found at http://www.ws1sm.com/MEQP.html.
Once someone has been able to bring it up and hear it, please report that information to the other fox hunters. Feel free to reply to the group. Do not reveal its location, just a location (and direction if possible) from which you are able to hear it. This then becomes a starting point for the other fox hunters to use.
You do not actually have to touch the box to claim finding it. Eye ball contact is sufficient. It is located less than 500 feet from a safe parking location.
Good luck,
Larry Banks, W1DYJ, writes:
The results of the CW WPX SSB contest were just published. Congratulations to Marty, NN1C; he operated from KC1XX in the Single Operator All Band High Power category: a score of 15,170,455. Here are his “places”:
To quote the article in CQ magazine: “In addition to achieving the top SO HP score in the USA, contest prodigy NN1C — using the call KC1XX — dominated the youth overlay.
73 / Larry / W1DYJ
Larry Krainson, W1AST, writes:I had ordered 1,000 cards and hoped that it would be enough this year. The team made 21,373 QSOs this year—over 6,000 more than in 2021. That made us think we’d have many more QSL requests this year.