From k1dc.radio at gmail.com Fri Jan 3 15:29:55 2025 From: k1dc.radio at gmail.com (Tim - K1DC) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 16:29:55 -0500 Subject: [bars] WWA month long special event Message-ID: Greetings and Happy New Year, BARS! I'm a member of one of the teams activating the World Wide Award special event (https://hamaward.cloud/wwa/award).? This event is unique in that you can contact the event stations once per day, per band and per mode gathering points with each contact. There are over a hundred activating stations all around the world, perhaps in a DXCC entity you need!? There is an online dashboard where all the active stations are listed with band and mode AND DX cluster spots with their frequency - it's dead easy to find them! The event started on Jan 1 and as I write this over 42,000 hams have made over 300,000 QSOs with the activating event stations! The event runs through January 31st. I'm on the team operating the N1W event station.? I'll be doing mostly digital modes but I will hop on SSB for some pileup practice!? It's good radio fun when it's too cold to work on antennas! ;-) 73 Tim - K1DC -- Courageously sent from a non-Apple device that /includes/ a headphone jack. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim?Carter - K1DC +1.978.710.0133 k1dc.radio at gmail.com https://k1dc.com "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- /Albert Einstein/ Warning: Spelling errors in this message are the product of a poor school system. Pay teachures more than athletes. This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs. 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URL: From dmarcucci at gmail.com Sat Jan 11 11:01:53 2025 From: dmarcucci at gmail.com (David Marcucci) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:01:53 -0500 Subject: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? Message-ID: Are there any rules about not discussing the proposed changes to ARRL bylaw 18 on this email list? Some of the changes look pretty restrictive. If you haven't checked it out, you should IMHO. >From ARRL.ORG: *Current By-Law 18 * (PDF) *Proposed Revised By-Law 18* (PDF) 73, Dave KC1TLF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wa1emg at yahoo.com Sat Jan 11 12:01:33 2025 From: wa1emg at yahoo.com (Greg) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1372442612.6898592.1736618493752@mail.yahoo.com> Ain?t bureaucracies wonderful. Turn one page into three. Perhaps the league needs to explain the need for these changes based upon ?real? issues they have encountered for us to better evaluate them.?Thanks for bringing this to our attention.?73 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Saturday, January 11, 2025, 12:02, David Marcucci wrote: Are there any rules about not discussing the proposed changes to ARRL bylaw 18 on this email list? Some of the changes look pretty restrictive. If you haven't checked it out, you should IMHO. >From ARRL.ORG: Current By-Law 18?(PDF) Proposed Revised By-Law 18?(PDF) 73,Dave KC1TLF_______________________________________________ bars mailing list bars at w1hh.org http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wo1n at comcast.net Sat Jan 11 12:18:02 2025 From: wo1n at comcast.net (wo1n) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:18:02 -0500 Subject: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000001db6455$27ac6990$77053cb0$@comcast.net> Hi Dave, Like with any list discussion, for any Amateur Radio related subject, just keep it civil and you should be good to go. Thank you for sending the links. I was participating in K1KI?s New England Division cabinet meeting representing the Yankee Clipper Contest Club as the current President when your message arrived. I can pass along, Tom is not supportive of it in the current form. It will come up for a vote next week during the ARRL meeting. It will require a 2/3 vote to pass in its current form and if any changes are made in the real time, it would require ? vote to pass. It does seem pretty restrictive and I can?t tell if it addresses the real issues behind what is driving the change. What are your thoughts? 73, Ken ? WO1N From: bars On Behalf Of David Marcucci Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2025 12:02 PM To: BARS Subject: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? Are there any rules about not discussing the proposed changes to ARRL bylaw 18 on this email list? Some of the changes look pretty restrictive. If you haven't checked it out, you should IMHO. >From ARRL.ORG: Current By-Law 18 (PDF) Proposed Revised By-Law 18 (PDF) 73, Dave KC1TLF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k1tw at comcast.net Sat Jan 11 17:46:16 2025 From: k1tw at comcast.net (Tom Walsh) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:46:16 -0500 Subject: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? In-Reply-To: <1372442612.6898592.1736618493752@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1372442612.6898592.1736618493752@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <003901db6483$03971d10$0ac55730$@comcast.net> Hi Folks, Well, the recent ARRL election for Director had lots of problems including three candidates being dis-qualified before the election. Not sure that has ever happened before. So the longer by-laws version is an attempt to address some of the problems that occurred. They will surely be discussed and probably further modified at the January board meeting in a week or two. Tom K1TW From: bars On Behalf Of Greg via bars Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2025 1:02 PM To: David Marcucci ; BARS Subject: Re: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? Ain?t bureaucracies wonderful. Turn one page into three. Perhaps the league needs to explain the need for these changes based upon ?real? issues they have encountered for us to better evaluate them. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 73 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Saturday, January 11, 2025, 12:02, David Marcucci > wrote: Are there any rules about not discussing the proposed changes to ARRL bylaw 18 on this email list? Some of the changes look pretty restrictive. If you haven't checked it out, you should IMHO. >From ARRL.ORG : Current By-Law 18 (PDF) Proposed Revised By-Law 18 (PDF) 73, Dave KC1TLF _______________________________________________ bars mailing list bars at w1hh.org http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmarcucci at gmail.com Sat Jan 11 20:44:11 2025 From: dmarcucci at gmail.com (David Marcucci) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:44:11 -0500 Subject: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? In-Reply-To: <003901db6483$03971d10$0ac55730$@comcast.net> References: <1372442612.6898592.1736618493752@mail.yahoo.com> <003901db6483$03971d10$0ac55730$@comcast.net> Message-ID: My thoughts were the following: - I understand that we want directors who are active in their district but the 300 / 365 days for "full-time" residency is a bit extreme. In 2019 I spent more than 65 days travelling for work. Of course, with that schedule, I likely wouldn't be running but I know plenty of people who split time in FL and MA but travel back and forth often and could be a good director. Even some who I know are still active on the air in New England while avoiding our winter someplace south, either via HF or using Echolink, D-Star, Fusion, DMR, AllStarLink, Zoom, remote station control, or other technologies. - Restricting any comments about your opponent seems extreme. I'm sure some candidates have said stuff that was false, misleading, rude, etc. about their opponent but I think a candidate has to be able to say, "My opponent does XYZ and I disagree with that", "My opponent is not addressing ABC and I think it needs to be a higher priority." If they want to restrict derogatory comments, slander, or lying, that's fine with me but discourse needs to happen not only during formal debates. - The restriction on "communication vehicles" seems to restrict social media and email or any tool that could be used outside the district. I'm not sure how a candidate gets their message out without those. - There also seems to be a restriction on fundraising outside your district that is similar to the "communication vehicles" one, restricting any method that could be used outside of the district. - Finally, the part about making statements about complaints made to the Secretary seems easy to abuse. A candidate would just need to complain about something their opponent is discussing and now it can't be discussed. That's just on my initial read! I am sure there are better ways to address the issues they are trying to address but this seems very restrictive. 73, Dave KC1TLF On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 6:46?PM Tom Walsh wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > > Well, the recent ARRL election for Director had lots of problems including > three candidates being dis-qualified before the election. Not sure that > has ever happened before. So the longer by-laws version is an attempt to > address some of the problems that occurred. They will surely be discussed > and probably further modified at the January board meeting in a week or > two. > > > > Tom K1TW > > > > *From:* bars *On Behalf Of *Greg via bars > *Sent:* Saturday, January 11, 2025 1:02 PM > *To:* David Marcucci ; BARS > *Subject:* Re: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? > > > > Ain?t bureaucracies wonderful. Turn one page into three. Perhaps the > league needs to explain the need for these changes based upon ?real? issues > they have encountered for us to better evaluate them. > > Thanks for bringing this to our attention. > > 73 > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad > > > > > On Saturday, January 11, 2025, 12:02, David Marcucci > wrote: > > Are there any rules about not discussing the proposed changes to ARRL > bylaw 18 on this email list? > > > > Some of the changes look pretty restrictive. If you haven't checked it > out, you should IMHO. > > > > From ARRL.ORG: > > *Current By-Law 18 > * > (PDF) > > *Proposed Revised By-Law 18* > > (PDF) > > 73, > > Dave KC1TLF > > _______________________________________________ > bars mailing list > bars at w1hh.org > http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoffreyf at comcast.net Sat Jan 11 21:03:40 2025 From: geoffreyf at comcast.net (geoffreyf at comcast.net) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:03:40 +0000 Subject: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? In-Reply-To: References: <1372442612.6898592.1736618493752@mail.yahoo.com> <003901db6483$03971d10$0ac55730$@comcast.net> Message-ID: You raise some good points but actually some of these things are true in other electoral systems. I happen to be the ballot elected State Committeeman from the 1st Middlesex. If I don't attend most of the meetings, despite being elected by the people who voted here in the last presidential primary, I can be kicked out. Not to boast but the concern about the language should be in the context of other political groups. The ARRL is very influential in the marketing of Amateur Radio products. Many of those companies also make products for police, fire etc. There is money to spend that is worth spending for those who have it in their pursuit of profit. I agree with you, David, that the language is extreme. However, whatever your personal politics are - perhaps some sort of rules should apply to our state and national elections. I don't know how to write those rules, so they are both tasteful, constitutional and effective. I very much prefer when our leaders tell us of their work and the work, they want to do rather than dump on their opponents. These proposals for the ARRL are actually simpler than much of MA election law. Isn't an election an election? Somewhat yes but it's not a perfect comparison. One thing that I would add to the ARRL by laws, is that to run someone should get signature petitions from some number of Hams. That would require a candidate to show up at Amateur Radio clubs before even running. That rule IS part of the law for getting on a state ballot. In the ARRL directors do represent regions. Different regions have different needs. The director's job is to come up with policies that are fair for all regions, but a director should know and be in touch with Hams in their area. If the person is representing us in the North East and spending much of his operating time in the south east - can they do their job representing us here? Geoff Feldman / W1GCF PS - if you are interested in the Mass Politics part of this, PLEASE let's not clutter up Bars with that part. I only wanted to discuss other election rules in the context of these. You are more than welcome to reach out to me with your thoughts or questions about that other part of my life at geoffreyf at comcast.net. I'd be delighted to answer any questions about that off this forum. ________________________________ From: bars on behalf of David Marcucci Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2025 9:44 PM To: Tom Walsh Cc: BARS Subject: Re: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? My thoughts were the following: * I understand that we want directors who are active in their district but the 300 / 365 days for "full-time" residency is a bit extreme. In 2019 I spent more than 65 days travelling for work. Of course, with that schedule, I likely wouldn't be running but I know plenty of people who split time in FL and MA but travel back and forth often and could be a good director. Even some who I know are still active on the air in New England while avoiding our winter someplace south, either via HF or using Echolink, D-Star, Fusion, DMR, AllStarLink, Zoom, remote station control, or other technologies. * Restricting any comments about your opponent seems extreme. I'm sure some candidates have said stuff that was false, misleading, rude, etc. about their opponent but I think a candidate has to be able to say, "My opponent does XYZ and I disagree with that", "My opponent is not addressing ABC and I think it needs to be a higher priority." If they want to restrict derogatory comments, slander, or lying, that's fine with me but discourse needs to happen not only during formal debates. * The restriction on "communication vehicles" seems to restrict social media and email or any tool that could be used outside the district. I'm not sure how a candidate gets their message out without those. * There also seems to be a restriction on fundraising outside your district that is similar to the "communication vehicles" one, restricting any method that could be used outside of the district. * Finally, the part about making statements about complaints made to the Secretary seems easy to abuse. A candidate would just need to complain about something their opponent is discussing and now it can't be discussed. That's just on my initial read! I am sure there are better ways to address the issues they are trying to address but this seems very restrictive. 73, Dave KC1TLF On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 6:46?PM Tom Walsh > wrote: Hi Folks, Well, the recent ARRL election for Director had lots of problems including three candidates being dis-qualified before the election. Not sure that has ever happened before. So the longer by-laws version is an attempt to address some of the problems that occurred. They will surely be discussed and probably further modified at the January board meeting in a week or two. Tom K1TW From: bars > On Behalf Of Greg via bars Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2025 1:02 PM To: David Marcucci >; BARS > Subject: Re: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? Ain?t bureaucracies wonderful. Turn one page into three. Perhaps the league needs to explain the need for these changes based upon ?real? issues they have encountered for us to better evaluate them. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 73 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Saturday, January 11, 2025, 12:02, David Marcucci > wrote: Are there any rules about not discussing the proposed changes to ARRL bylaw 18 on this email list? Some of the changes look pretty restrictive. If you haven't checked it out, you should IMHO. From ARRL.ORG: Current By-Law 18 (PDF) Proposed Revised By-Law 18 (PDF) 73, Dave KC1TLF _______________________________________________ bars mailing list bars at w1hh.org http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jim at k1ir.com Sat Jan 11 22:30:34 2025 From: jim at k1ir.com (Jim Idelson) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 23:30:34 -0500 Subject: [bars] Discussing ARRL bylaw 18 proposed changes??? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey David and BARS, This is a pretty important topic. Happy to see that there's interest in it. In January 2024, the board approved a motion to have a committee recommend some changes related to the manner in which directors are held to standards of ethical behavior. Here's the part of the motion that created the committee and gave it its charter: *THEREFORE, be it resolved that:* *A committee of the members of the 2022 and 2023 E&E Committees (Directors* *Zygielbaum, Lippert, Norris, McIntyre, Luetzelschwab and Ryan), one member from ARRL?s* *Connecticut counsel in consultation as needed, and chair appointed by the ARRL Board* *President will* *a) Assure the existence of a set of ethical standards and guidelines as set for* *the in ARRL By-Law 42, by revising the proposed amendment to By-Law 46 to* *assure that the By-Law is concise, easily comprehended, and soundly based in* *Connecticut State Statute and ARRL Governing Documents. Concomitantly,* *specific attention will be given to defining appropriate, legal, and effective* *remediation which protects the organization and furthers the interest of ARRL* *members in the case of a confirmed violation.* *b) Investigate and, if determined to be in the best interest of the ARRL and its* *members, recommend modifications to By-Law 42, the charter for the E&E* *Committee, to facilitate delegation of ethical inquiries to an independent,* *appropriately vetted, and legally sanctioned third party.* *Additional committee members may be appointed as needed and appropriate by the* *committee chair. * These are the marching orders for this committee. The committee came back with recommendations to modify by-laws 42, 46, 20 and 18 . . . plus Article 7 of the Articles of Association. It's plausible that the changes to 42, 46 and article 7 are related to the charter of the committee. But, where do you see any mandate for the committee to redesign the elections process? I don't see it. It looks like a substantial overreach to me. I don't think any motion related to by-law 18 or 20 should be permitted as part of the work of this committee. If some other director wants to make such a motion independently, sure. Here's the summary of what's been put out for review: https://www.arrl.org/by-laws-update There's lots more to discuss here. When you dig into the proposal in detail, you'll find there are a lot of serious issues with it that are within the scope of the committee and should be addressed before we talk about redesigning the election and campaign processes. This thing is not ready for prime time and everyone should let their director know he should not allow this thing to go through. 73 Jim K1IR On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 12:02?PM David Marcucci wrote: > Are there any rules about not discussing the proposed changes to ARRL > bylaw 18 on this email list? > > Some of the changes look pretty restrictive. If you haven't checked it > out, you should IMHO. > > From ARRL.ORG: > > *Current By-Law 18 > * > (PDF) > > *Proposed Revised By-Law 18* > > (PDF) > 73, > Dave KC1TLF > _______________________________________________ > bars mailing list > bars at w1hh.org > http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From w2iry.kayla at gmail.com Sun Jan 12 08:25:37 2025 From: w2iry.kayla at gmail.com (Kayla Creamer) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:25:37 -0500 Subject: [bars] BARS January 2025 Newsletter Message-ID: Hi everyone, Happy 2025! We've got a great newsletter ready for your reading pleasure. Thanks, as always, to our newsletter editor, Marla, for putting this together every month. Also, thanks to those of you who contributed articles. Without articles, there is no newsletter. If you have something you'd like to submit for a future newsletter, be sure to send it to Marla at wa1gsf at comcast.net. Here's the link for this month's newsletter: https://bit.ly/Jan2025BARSNewsletter This Wednesday, 1/15, is our monthly membership meeting. Note that this month's meeting is the annual club holiday party at the Great Wall in Bedford, MA at 6:30 pm. The gathering is always a good time. See the Message from the President column in this month's newsletter for more details. As a reminder, BARS dues run from January 1 through December 31. Dues are just $15 for the year and help pay for the club Zoom account, the website, Field Day activities, etc. If you have not renewed, you can do so online at https://www.w1hh.org/join-or-renew/. If you're not sure if you are current or not, email our club treasurer, Bruce Anderson, at w1lus at hotmail.com. 73, Kayla W2IRY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There will be no net on Wednesday January 15, as we will be having the Club Holiday Party at The Great Wall Restaurant at 6:30 PM. Dinner Buffet is $26.00 per person, and we will be having a Yankee Swap with a $20.00 maximum gift amount for those who would like to participate. Hope to see everyone there! 73, Doug N1WRN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k1dc.radio at gmail.com Wed Jan 15 11:17:15 2025 From: k1dc.radio at gmail.com (Tim - K1DC) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:17:15 -0500 Subject: [bars] WWA month long special event In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: BARSians, We are at the midpoint of this event and I thought I'd share a few stats: ??? - 1.6M QSOs ??? - Over 104K hams from 270 countries have participated ??? - I've personally made over 5,600 contacts since Jan 1 as N1W. There is still plenty of time to get involved! https://hamaward.cloud/wwa 73, Tim - K1DC On 01/03/2025 16:29, Tim - K1DC wrote: > > Greetings and Happy New Year, BARS! > > I'm a member of one of the teams activating the World Wide Award > special event (https://hamaward.cloud/wwa/award). This event is unique > in that you can contact the event stations once per day, per band and > per mode gathering points with each contact. There are over a hundred > activating stations all around the world, perhaps in a DXCC entity you > need!? There is an online dashboard where all the active stations are > listed with band and mode AND DX cluster spots with their frequency - > it's dead easy to find them! > > The event started on Jan 1 and as I write this over 42,000 hams have > made over 300,000 QSOs with the activating event stations!? The event > runs through January 31st. > > I'm on the team operating the N1W event station.? I'll be doing mostly > digital modes but I will hop on SSB for some pileup practice!? It's > good radio fun when it's too cold to work on antennas! ;-) > > 73 > > Tim - K1DC > > -- > > Courageously sent from a non-Apple device that /includes/ a headphone > jack. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Tim?Carter - K1DC > > > > +1.978.710.0133 > > k1dc.radio at gmail.com > > https://k1dc.com > > "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are > incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful > beyond imagination." -- /Albert Einstein/ > > Warning: Spelling errors in this message are the product of a poor > school system. Pay teachures more than athletes. > This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) > named above and may contain information that is confidential > privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low > self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs. If you > are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or > copying of this email is not authorized (either explicitly or > implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social fauxpas. No animals > were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the mutt next > door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. > -- Courageously sent from a non-Apple device that /includes/ a headphone jack. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim?Carter - K1DC +1.978.710.0133 k1dc.radio at gmail.com https://k1dc.com "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- /Albert Einstein/ Warning: Spelling errors in this message are the product of a poor school system. Pay teachures more than athletes. This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorized (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social fauxpas. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the mutt next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ka1uln1 at gmail.com Thu Jan 16 08:31:44 2025 From: ka1uln1 at gmail.com (ka1uln@arrl.net) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:31:44 -0500 Subject: [bars] holiday party at Great Wall in Bedford Message-ID: there was a GREAT time and food we had last night. One thing that i took away from the gathering is BARS is ready for a GROUP POTA. so lets prepare for mid spring to do this. in the meantime. go to PARKSONTHEAIR.com and use the checklist for the items you would use for a POTA. review the rules for a POTA and then post which park you would like the group to activate. BARS can also have a POTA acct. so we can compete against other clubs-societies in the WORLD. so for the powers that be in BARS. i.e. officers can please. create a BARS-W1HH. pota acct please. so BARS can do this. there. were. about 28 people attended the party and about 5 were interested?at that point. thanx for a great 73 Niece Please listen for my 10m CW beacon 28.2235 ARRL member when hear YL on FREQ: they take precedence! Take YL QSO first check out: KA1ULN.BLOGSPOT.COM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k1dc.radio at gmail.com Sat Jan 18 12:38:09 2025 From: k1dc.radio at gmail.com (Tim - K1DC) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:38:09 -0500 Subject: [bars] North American QSO party TODAY! Message-ID: <1308de3c-0f0d-4d55-9b08-9314ecf54e89@gmail.com> Greetings all, Today is a great day to get on the radio!? Today starting at 1PM ET is the North American QSO Party, SSB edition.? The goal is to... have fun!? This is a very easy event; the exchange is simply your name and state (feel free to use abbreviated phonetics - 'Mike Alpha').? There will be plenty of activity on all HF bands and all stations are limited to 100w so a mostly even playing field for all.? The event runs until 1AM tomorrow. Full rules are available here: https://ncjweb.com/NAQP-Rules.pdf If you do choose to participate, please submit your logs to the event organizer (instructions in the rules).? This will ensure that the stations you contact get their points. Or, if you are more into VHF, the ARRL Jan. VHF contest is also this weekend.? It begins at 2PM and runs until the wee hours on Monday.? The bands in use are 6M and UP and all modes are encouraged.? The rules for this one are here: https://contests.arrl.org/ContestRules/JanJunSep-VHF-Rules.pdf Enjoy your radio! 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But that?s an older model and newer HF only Yaesus have better band scope displays etc. I?d recommend getting a rig with a bandscope/waterfall as it makes a world of difference in finding contacts. Icom and Yaesu entry level rigs have them; Kenwood makes you spend several thousand for some reason! Question, have you observed anyone operating HF or tuned it in during your Navy stint? There are 1000 facets to ham radio but HF and being able to talk across continents has always been my favorite. If you learn Morse code you basically double the size of the sandbox you can play in, too. By the way the latest BARS newsletter has an article by me highlighting some of the absolute magic of HF. I?ve had an IC-7300 for several years and would be happy to answer anyone?s questions. A better HT antenna (I have a Nagoya rubber whip) can help you reach the repeaters with what you have and you can put more into an HF rig instead. Like asking what camera lens or musclecar or fly rod to buy I am sure this all raises more questions than it answers but I hope you were helped by all this! Andy KA1GTT On Dec 27, 2024, at 12:36?AM, Richard Heckbert wrote: ? Happy Holidays everyone, I recently got into ham radio after retiring. I purchased a QRZ-1 Explorer handheld soon after getting my license and have been using it to check in to the Wednesday night net. I replaced the stubby antenna with a hamstuff one and seem to be getting out much better but occasionally I still hear ?I think I heard you say . . . ? My thought has always been to get a decent base unit eventually although to be honest I?m not sure if ham radio is for me (but I want to try!) My wife asked for my Christmas list this year and I mentioned several radios that had been recommended on the hamradio and amateur radio subreddits on Reddit. Unfortunately, if you follow those subreddits, you?ll know that for each recommendation asked you?ll get a hundred different suggestions that soon devolve into a Yaesu vs ICOM vs Kenwood battle. My wife was even more overwhelmed than I so rather than purchase one she put aside a budget of $1,000-$1,200 and asked me to purchase it myself. So, I?m not sure what I really want to do specifically, at this point I?d just love to be heard a little better Wednesday nights! I think I?d like a rig that gives me the most options ? a shack in a box as they say. I would also need an antenna and associated wiring although I?m not nearly as spry as I once was and I?m not putting anything in a tree any more. Maybe an attic antenna? I see ARRL has a new Indoor Antenna book out, has anyone looked at it yet? I?d ask on Reddit but I don?t want 100+ different opinions from 100+ fellow Redditors so I figured you all (the local Elmers!) would be a much better place to ask. I did get my Amateur Extra ticket recently so no band restrictions. The rigs I?ve heard mentioned are (in no particular order) Yaesu FTdx-10 (might be too much of a stretch) Yaesu FT-991A (did see a nice used one on one of the forums for $875 shipped) ICOM-7300 But I am definitely open to others. I?ve looked at used rigs but besides less features, there seem to be no bargains in that area! I?ve thought about asking to borrow the club loaner rig but I don?t want to set something up only to have to take it down in a bit ? it wouldn?t be fair to other new users/members to keep it too long (in my opinion). In addition to choosing a rig, I need to choose where to order if from. I primarily research and purchase online. A few places I?ve heard about are Gigaparts, DXEngineering, HRO in Salem, NH, any other good places to buy? I did look on eBay but right now, it seems lower power Japanese versions are the vast majority of offers. I also worry about warranty purchasing on eBay. Just to throw this out, I have a background in electronics courtesy of the USN and I taught electronics at a trade school for a number of years as well as retired from a career in IT so I have this crazy idea that pops up occasionally to build my own gear? Is this even done any more? I feel I might be biting off way more than I can chew with that approach. This might be a dumb question but are the included microphones decent enough? In my way younger CB radio days the mic was the first thing you upgraded So, thanks for taking the time to read through this and many, many thanks to those who take the time to answer (and many thanks to everyone in BARS who also made me feel welcome) 73s, Rick Heckbert W1OLU _______________________________________________ bars mailing list bars at w1hh.org http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It was pretty easy to tell the OT and OOT hams from the newbies by simply looking at the prefix. Also, back then your number had to match the district you lived in. The vanity call scheme has totally messed that up. I remember W1HH telling me he was operating on HF one day in 1941 when war was declared and suddenly there was this humongous signal that covered the whole band telling everybody to QRT. And, yes, I can solder (at least if I can see it!). I miss the older editions of the ARRL Handbook. They had nice construction articles. de WA1GSF (licensed ? technician class ? in 1966, now extra), certified old fogey. Me ke aloha -- Marla On January 19, 2025, at 08:55, Andy Wallace wrote: Rick, yes, hams were silenced during WWI and WWII. QST still published but it was probably not full of transmitter construction. :) 200 Meters and Down early history of ham radio is a dry read and I confess I?ve only started it. You can read it online at ? 200 Meters & Down : Clinton B. DeSoto : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org Andy KA1GTT On Dec 30, 2024, at 8:12?PM, Richard Heckbert wrote: ? @font-face { font-family: Helvetica; } @font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; } @font-face { font-family: Calibri; } @font-face { font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; } @font-face { font-family: Aptos; } p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; } a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; } span.EmailStyle19 { font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; } .MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; } @page WordSection1 { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 1in; } div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; } Juan, ? I also spent time learning soldering in lovely Millington.? I was a little before you (Feb 78 ? Dec 78).? I can attest to the quality of soldering taught there.? I ended up working repairing black boxes (actually, mostly gray!) in the fleet and we only had 1 tech qualified/permitted to solder aircraft equipment in the whole workcenter so I got tagged to go to soldering school and become his backup.? I ended up teaching electronics at a local trade school for a few years after getting out of the Navy and for some reason I had the least dropout rate (and trade schools are all about fannies in seats) so I taught the intro to electronics module most classes (lather, rinse, repeat).? One of the skills taught in intro was soldering.? Best way to learn a skill is to teach it! ? I remember the Iranian students well ? they would do anything to extend their stay and most if not all of them had way more money than brains (or so they tried to appear). ? NAS Memphis was actually great duty.? I had just turned 19 and had a motorcycle that I went all over that corner of Tennessee (as well as Mississippi and over the bridge to Arkansas) on. ? Andy, ? You mention hams were prohibited from using what is now the AM broadcast band.? Weren?t hams thrown completely off the air shortly after 1938?? I thought I read WW II put a complete kibosh on ham radio.? Everything prewar was different including call letter format.? From what I?ve read, ham radio really took off post-war with a lot of surplus radio equipment and a lot of ex-military trained on radio equipment.? I?m amazed they were able to work the old equipment as well as they did. ? Rick W1OLU ? From: bars on behalf of Juan Jim?nez Date: Monday, December 30, 2024 at 6:48?PM To: w1hh Subject: [bars] Fwd: Radio Book ? ? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Juan Jim?nez Date: Mon, Dec 30, 2024, 16:36 Subject: Re: [bars] Radio Book To: Andy Wallace ? "Sometimes I feel like I am one of the few club members left who knows how to solder." ? You're not. I graduated from the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Millington TN in 1979. We were taught how to solder, with lots of practice. I finished quickly near the top of my class. Not the Iranian officer candidates. Those kids took a minimum of two weeks to get through the initial one day Basic Aviation? Introduction. One of them crashed an RV on a clear sunny day with no traffic. Told the officers the autopilot didn't work. There's your sign... ? ? On Mon, Dec 30, 2024, 13:48 Andy Wallace wrote: Juan, bravo for finding this great book. And cheap, too.? ? Folks, you can read the entire PDF at the link below. My favorite sections are the receiver and transmitter construction.? ? See the 1938 Frank C. Jones Radio Handbook here: ? ENGINEERING HANDBOOKS MISCELLANEOUS: Radio engineering reference books worldradiohistory.com Error! Filename not specified. ? Main site: ? Radio Music Electronics Publications ALL FREE worldradiohistory.com Error! Filename not specified. ? (The person behind World Radio History deserves an award for scanning in thousands of radio books and magazines. You can spend days exploring here.) ? I?m a BARS member who enjoys using and fixing old gear. What Juan has discovered is the appeal of what came before. Before FT8. Before FM and repeaters. Even before single sideband.? ? Sometimes I feel like I am one of the few club members left who knows how to solder.? ? Does 468/f(MHz) mean anything to you? Regardless of when you got your license, it should! And it?s in the 1938 Jones handbook. It?s the length of a half wave dipole. So you should know if you?re going out to operate Parks on the Air you might need supports 66 feet apart to operate 40m?.so maybe 33? on 20m might be wiser.? ? In 1938 it had been about a decade since hams were thrown off what?s now the AM broadcast band to operate ?200 meters and down? - HF. People didn?t realize they gave us the bands which would allow easy worldwide communication by skywave and the ionosphere.? ? Things were still being discovered and invented in radio in 1938. Look at that Handbook and you?ll see construction articles where a handful of parts got you on the air. Simple receivers. Simple transmitters. It?s like making an iPhone in your basement in 2005. High tech.? ? We learn by what came before. That?s important. Even in a day when Venmo buys you a carton full of electronics to do FT8.? ? Andy KA1GTT ? ? ? ? Dec 29, 2024, at 4:03?PM, Juan Jim?nez wrote: ? ? Picked up a copy of The Radio Handbook, 1938 edition, for a couple of bucks several weeks ago. I started reading it today and realized it beats the ARRL handbooks by a long mile. Easy to read, concepts well-explained. $1.50 in 1938 would be $31.95 today.? ? Error! 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Here is the repeater info: QTH: Westford FREQ: 146.955 MHz CALL: WB1GOF Offset: - 0.6 MHz Tone: CTCSS 74.4 Hz NOTICE!! WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP OUT BY DOING THE NET ONCE EVERY FEW WEEKS!!!! Please contact Doug, N1WRN, for more info. 73, Doug N1WRN Billerica Amateur Radio Society Net Manager -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmarcucci at gmail.com Wed Jan 22 20:19:54 2025 From: dmarcucci at gmail.com (David Marcucci) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:19:54 -0500 Subject: [bars] Net Notes W1HH Net Wednesday Night January 22, 2025 In-Reply-To: <1663203127.2867210.1737558025463@connect.xfinity.com> References: <1663203127.2867210.1737558025463@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: *Thanks to all who checked in tonight! We had a great net and it's great to know others are working on learning CW too!* *We had 21 check-ins tonight with a few new operators so welcome to those first-time stations:* 1. *KC1TLE - John, North Billerica* 2. *W1OLU - Rick, Billerica* 3. *KA1ULN - Niece, Andover* 4. *WA1ESU - Fred, Newburyport* 5. *WB1HBU - Eric, Beautiful West Lynn* 6. *KC1FTJ - John, Beautiful and Frozen North Chelmsford* 7. *KC1ONM - Wayne, Tewksbury* 8. *N1CVO - Shawn, Lowell* 9. *N1ALO - Peter, Dracut* 10. *W1LPG - Brendan, Bedford* 11. *KC1VYX - Craig, Billerica* 12. *K1VK - Paul, Bedford* 13. *KD1TF - Gary, Andover* 14. *KC1IUK - Chris, Tewksbury* 15. *N1WRN - Doug, Reading* 16. *KB1USP - David, Methuen* 17. *WA1SCS - Al, Harvard* 18. *KC1NMX - Joanne, South Lowell* 19. *K1DXP - Dany, Maynard* 20. *KC1VPI - Mike, Weymouth* 21. *KC1TLF - Dave, Tyngsboro* *73 and DAH-DAH-DIT DAH-DAH-DAH DAH-DAH-DAH DAH-DIT-DIT DAH-DIT DIT-DIT DAH-DAH-DIT DIT-DIT-DIT-DIT DAH,* *Dave, KC1TLF* On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 10:00?AM DOUGLAS BRUCE wrote: > *Welcome to this week?s edition of "NET NOTES" !! * > > > * We will be having our BARS weekly net tonight at 08:00 pm EST or 01:00 > UTC Show your support!! 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Here is the repeater info: QTH: Westford FREQ: 146.955 MHz CALL: WB1GOF Offset: - 0.6 MHz Tone: CTCSS 74.4 Hz NOTICE!! WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP OUT BY DOING THE NET ONCE EVERY FEW WEEKS!!!! Please contact Doug, N1WRN, for more info. 73, Doug N1WRN Billerica Amateur Radio Society Net Manager -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From billpoulin01913 at gmail.com Wed Jan 29 13:24:12 2025 From: billpoulin01913 at gmail.com (Bill Poulin) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:24:12 -0500 Subject: [bars] Winter Storm Exercise Saturday, February 1, 2025 10:00am - 12:00 pm Message-ID: Greetings BARS MEMBERS! There will be an Eastern Massachusetts ARES Exercise "CLEAR ICE" which will run Saturday Morning, February 1, 2025 from 10:00am to 12 Noon. The reason for this email is to Alert you that the Westford Repeater (146.955) (PL: 74.4) will be utilized for the Drill on 30 minute intervals (10:00,10;30,11:00, 11:30 and 12 Noon for reporting incidents and weather related information preceded with : "THIS IS A DRILL" before passing information. Since there are scanners out there we don't want to confuse or upset the General Public! ? I see also the Boston Repeater (145.230) (PL 88.5) will also be utilized. More information available on the Eastern Mass ARES website at ema.arrl.org if you want to see what is going on. Give a listen, so that you can see what actually would occur in a REAL Emergency Situations, due to Winter Storm Conditions, loss of Power and possible Local solutions, i.e., Warning Centers for General Public. 73, Bill Poulin, WZ1L -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There are no lithium batteries in the equipment so it can be shipped by air, unlike the last time where the handies had lithium batteries. By air will cost around $400 delivered in Ukraine in a few days, by boat it will be 4-6 weeks and about $200. If anyone is interested in participating, I can receive donations via PayPal (twiter at herdhecats.com), Venmo (@juan-jimenez-677) or Zelle (781-491-3934). Please type "UKRAINE" in the comment field for any donations so i can identify them and set them aside. If I get enough to pay for this I will send out another email letting everyone know there is no need for further donations. If more money is received than the cost of the shipping, the difference will be set aside for the next Ukraine project. If there isn't enough then I will make up the difference. One way or another I will get this equipment out to them by next month. 73, Juan K1CPR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As a reminder, > members of this club work to distribute all sorts of HF/VHF/UHF equipment > across the country to act as a safety net in areas where the Russians are > destroying communications infrastructure. In many areas, the radios are the > only lifeline they have to communicate with the rest of the country. > > This time I am not shipping radios or supplies, I am shipping two key > pieces of test equipment they requested to be able to repair the radios > they already have, a Marconi Communications Test Set model 2955 and a BK > Precision 2630 spectrum analyzer which I bought last week. > > There are two ways to ship via Meest, by boat or by air. There are no > lithium batteries in the equipment so it can be shipped by air, unlike the > last time where the handies had lithium batteries. By air will cost around > $400 delivered in Ukraine in a few days, by boat it will be 4-6 weeks and > about $200. > > If anyone is interested in participating, I can receive donations via > PayPal (twiter at herdhecats.com), Venmo (@juan-jimenez-677) or Zelle > (781-491-3934). Please type "UKRAINE" in the comment field for any > donations so i can identify them and set them aside. > > If I get enough to pay for this I will send out another email letting > everyone know there is no need for further donations. If more money is > received than the cost of the shipping, the difference will be set aside > for the next Ukraine project. If there isn't enough then I will make up the > difference. One way or another I will get this equipment out to them by > next month. > > 73, > Juan > K1CPR > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: