We will have a General Meeting of the Boston Amateur Radio Club tonight, Thursday, Dec. 21, on Zoom only. A period of socializing will begin at 7:00 and the meeting proper will begin at 7:30. There is no speaker; we will discuss the Holiday Party and Winter Field Day.
Topic: Boston ARC’s Zoom Meeting
Time: Dec 21, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83802534391?pwd=doIbiHepUSOvTdHLXL8tO9OxOPbwBJ.1
Meeting ID: 838 0253 4391
Passcode: BARC
The packages for 2024 Boston Amateur Radio Club membership renewals will be mailed out some time next week. If your membership expires at the end of 2023, you will receive the mail by default. Current members are eligible to renew at a 20% discount—$20 for general members, and $10 for juniors, seniors, and family members. You must renew by January 31, 2024 to take advantage of the discount. The grace period for renewals extends through March, 2024.
You can renew (as well as join) on the web by going to the Join page. When you click through to the PayPal payment page, you will see a section for renewals at the bottom of the page.
If you do not want to receive the mailing (thereby saving the club the cost of two stamps), please send me a message at joechapman@alum.mit.edu saying so, or renew on the web before Wednesday, December 6.
If you wish to join as an Advanced Member, please do not renew using this website or the paper renewal form; instead, you should contact a member of the Executive Committee or send mail to w1bos@arrl.net. Current Advanced Member dues are $1400 annually and there are a limited number available.
Both renewals and new memberships made now using the website will give you BARC membership through December 31, 2024.
Thank you in advance for your support of the club and its activities and repeaters.
There will be a BARC General Meeting on Thursday, November 16, both at the Artisans Asylum Holton St. building and on Zoom. A period of socializing will start at 7:00, and the meeting proper will start at 7:30.
Zoom Meeting ID: 833 7348 9937
Passcode: BARC
It’s finally done, after some delays due to me being new and some minor but annoying health issues. I’ll do better next time! Get it here…
There will be a BARC General Meeting on Thursday, October 19, both at the Artisans Asylum Holton St. building and on Zoom. A period of socializing will start at 7:00, and the meeting proper will start at 7:30.
Zoom Meeting ID: 886 1767 2771
Passcode: BARC
Shirley Dulcey KE1L is taking over editing The SPARC as of the October 2023 issue (the next one). All submissions for that issue and subsequent issues should be sent to her at shirleymarquez@gmail.com and not to Joe Chapman. (Joe will send along anything that he has already received.) The deadline for submissions for the next issue is still Saturday, October 7.
Shirley has been a ham since the summer of 1970, receiving her ticket just a bit too late to ever operate her junior high station. (All was not lost; the high school had an even better station.) She is active in the New England QRP Club and especially enjoys operating from field locations. (She is likely to sneak some QRP content into this newsletter, especially if you don’t submit articles!) She has published newsletters for other organizations, including the Boston Computer Society and the Eastern Massachusetts unit of the American Contract Bridge League. She was a member of BARC in its early years, and rejoined in December 2022 to become active in the BARC at Artisans Asylum station and to participate in Winter Field Day 2023, and later at the ARRL Field Day station.
A big thank you to Joe for his service as editor.
There will be a BARC General Meeting on Thursday, September 21, both at the Artisans Asylum Holton St. building and on Zoom. A period of socializing will start at 7:00, and the meeting proper will start at 7:30.
Our speaker will be John Portune, W6NBC, and he will be talking about: A Double Inverted Delta No-Radial All-Band HF Vertical. A 30 ft, lower, horizontally polarized vertical with the azimuth gain less noticeable but comparable to a small beam on a tower but with similar electrically-steerable azimuth gain. Excellent for Field Day and portable operation.
Information about John:
– Licensed Advanced WB6ZCT 1965 Extra 1972 Commercial Licenses: GROL, General Radio Telegraph
– Bachelor’s degree, Physics, Oregon State University 1960
– Career (Retired) Television broadcast engineer/instructor KNBC Ch 4 Los Angeles, Sony Broadcast
– San Francisco Ham magazine author: QST/OTA (over 35 to date) and others
– Frequent Zoom live radio club and ham expo presentations
– Active on HF, VHF, UHF – SSB, FM, digital modes and ham satellites
– Native of Los Angeles, CA 10 yr. resident of UK. Ham license MØGCK
– Married KF6OEB. 3 children, 12 grandchildren
– Steam railroading, pipe organ and sushi enthusiast
– w6nbcmail@gmail.com, website: w6nbc.com
Here is the Zoom information. As always, if we have problems with the meeting, we will post any updates on this website.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81732522755?pwd=N2pxUHF3NEdvVXZNYng1RlRrUmx6UT09
Meeting ID: 817 3252 2755
Passcode: BARC
The September issue of The SPARC is now available and can be gotten here!
Hi all,
Please find the request from Paul Topolski, W1SEX below:
Fellow Radio Amateurs,
The City of Gardner is celebrating our centennial, 100 years as a city, with a large parade on Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 13:00 hours.
The City of Gardner Office of Emergency Management is seeking assistance from the ham radio community to provide safety and parade logistics communications. We need about fifteen hams to shadow division Marshalls and three command/relay trailers. A minimum of nine hams will need to be able to walk the parade route of up to 1.8 miles. The first half mile is on a slight uphill grade but it’s all downhill from there. Hams are requested to marshal at 11:00 hours and the parade steps off at 13:00.
To volunteer, please reply to ptopolski@gardner-ma.gov
Please feel free to forward this message to any hams that you know may be interested in helping out.
Be safe es 73,
Paul Topolski, W1SEX, Director
City of Gardner Office of Emergency Management
73,
Ethan KC1OIP
BARC Public Service Chair
Hi all,
If you’ve volunteered for the Head Of The Charles before then you’ve probably already seen this but if you haven’t and want to apply to be a volunteer read on!
Amateur Radio is part of the Emergency Services team for the HOCR and the shifts are as follows:
Friday, October 20, from 7:00am to 6:00pm
Saturday, October 21, from 7:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday, October 22, from 7:00am to 6:00pm
There are no partial shifts. We ask that you only apply if you’re available for the entirety of one or more of the above listed shifts. We would like you to be able to do multiple days if possible, but we will allow single shifts. You must posses a Technician license or higher prior to your first volunteer day.
To register, go to https://volunteer.regattacentral.com/hocr/login and create an account. After logging in you will see two options for Amateur Radio: Land Station and Safety Launch. Please note that Safety Launch is on the water. I don’t believe a PIN is required anymore but if it asks it’s 5713 for all Emergency Services positions.
Finally if you happen to know any certified lifeguards that might be interested please pass the website information along.
73,
Ethan KC1OIP
BARC Public Service Chair