[bars] August BARS Newsletter

[Kayla Creamer]

Hi everyone,

It was brought to my attention that we have a typo in the newsletter. On
page 6 the WB1GOF repeater frequency is shown as 146.995 MHz. Please be
advised that the correct frequency is 146.955 MHz.

73,
Kayla
W2IRY

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:56 PM Kayla Creamer <w2iry.kayla at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Follow up to my previous email. Here's the info on our guest speaker for
> this month from BARS President, Doug Bruce:
>
> *Our featured speaker will be Rob Macedo, KD1CY, who will be giving the
> club an overview on SKYWARN.*
>
> *Skywarn is something virtually every BARS member can participate in and
> it uses the Westford Repeater for all local Skywarn activations. It is very
> helpful during winter weather and summer storms. Skywarn reports are used
> by virtually all the major Boston TV stations too. It would be good to get
> BARS more involved in this.*
>
> *Rob is also on Tom Walsh K1TW’s ARRL staff and has close ties to the
> National Weather service and the Weather Channel. Rob may also appear at
> times on local TV and Radio.*
>
> I have personally seen Rob's presentation a few times now and it's
> excellent. I hope you will join us on Wednesday at 7 pm to learn more about
> SKYWARN. As I mentioned previously, you should be receiving an email from
> Bruce Anderson in the next day or so with the Zoom info for this meeting.
>
> 73,
> Kayla
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:25 PM Kayla Creamer <w2iry.kayla at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Hard to believe it's August already! We've got another great newsletter
>> for you. Thanks to our editor, Marla, for putting this together and to
>> everyone who contributed articles. Without you, there is no newsletter.
>> Check out this month's newsletter at https://bit.ly/BARSAug2021Newsletter.
>> If you'd like to contribute an article to a future newsletter, you can send
>> it to Marla at wa1gsf at comcast.net.
>>
>> Our monthly meeting of the membership is this Wednesday at 7 pm via Zoom.
>> Our guest speaker is TBD. You should receive a meeting invite from Bruce in
>> the next day or so.
>>
>> As a reminder, BARS dues run from January 1 through December 31. If you
>> haven't renewed your membership, you can do so at
>> https://www.w1hh.org/join-or-renew/. Dues are just $15 for the year. If
>> you're not sure if you're current, you can contact our treasurer, Bruce
>> Anderson at w1lus at hotmail.com.
>>
>> 73,
>> Kayla
>> W2IRY
>>
>
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