The March 2021 edition of the SPARC is now available!
Author: ke1ml
Get Your Article in NOW!
Have something to tell your club? Been working on something that has been exciting you? Know something that the rest of the club would be interested in? (DMR comes to mind!)
Write something up for the upcoming March SPARC. Doesn’t have to be big. Make your mark now! Send it off to your harried Editor, KE1ML at ke1ml@arrl.net!
February 2021 SPARC Now Available
The February 2021 edition of the SPARC is now available!
New Zoom Link for January Meeting!
We just discovered that the meeting link in the SPARC was invalid. The Zoom Meeting link for the January Meeting is:
https://zoom.us/j/4814478829?pwd=R0JTKzVNNEl5MCsraHpyYmF6U3Axdz09
January 2021 SPARC Now Available
The January 2021 edition of the SPARC is now available.
Club PayPay System Back UP!
The Club PayPal system has been restored! All praise and thanks for this goes to Joe Harris, N1QD. We had a perfect storm over here where the person who normally dealt with the site was unavailable, and I myself was in Somerville Hospital for a diagnostic test.
Again, many, many thanks to N1QD, and we’re back on the Net (as it were)!
December 2020 SPARC Now Available!
The December 2020 edition of the SPARC is now available!
November 2020 SPARC Now Available!
The November 2020 edition of the SPARC is now available!
News from our New England Vice Director
New England Vice Director, and BARC member, Phil Temples, K9HI, reminds us of the new FCC Notice for Proposed Rulemaking about increased/reinstated fees that are being considered for the Amateur Service.
We need to have a flood of high-quality comments in response to the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking to reinstate fees for amateurs. The story linked here supplies some strong talking points, courtesy of ARRL Washington Counsel K3ZJ, that should be included in our individually filed comments.
We encourage all BARC members to file comments to FCC 20-116, MD Docket No. 20-270.
BARC Member to Activate Park on the Air!
In a VERY exciting development, BARC member Brendan Baldonado, the newly licensed KC1NEF, lets us know about an upcoming Parks On The Air (POTA) activation he’s about to attempt. He says:
“As you may know I am getting ready to take my General and Extra exam, but thought it could be a fun challenge to “Activate” a park using only Tech bands and Abilities. My Plan is to activate using 5 bands, if I can, with no data and no CW and mostly VHF!
The activation is not a contest so spotting is allowed, I only need to make 10 contacts to activate. For more information on POTA, go to http://parksontheair.com/
I am asking for help in activating the park by trying to contact me on the frequencies and modes listed below. I will submit a log through Parks On The Air where your callsign will receive hunter credit for you as well as activation credit for me! In addition to uploading the logs to eQSL and LoTW, I plan to buy either post cards as QSLs, or take a few pictures and turn them into Special Edition QSL cards for all the people who help me activate.
I plan to activate on Wednesday October 21, 2020. I’ll be at the Bunker Hill Monument and Park, a registered National Park, with my battery powered FT897 and Matchbox Random Length End Fed Dipole in a Tree. I’ll be starting around 2:00 PM (1800z) and going until about 6:00pm (2200z).
If you can reach out via these frequencies and let any other hams know to try and reach me I would be greatly appreciative.
Wednesday OCT 21 2020
10 Meters: 28.450 – USB
6 Meters: 50.294 – USB
2 Meters: 146.450 – FM
1.25 Meters: 223.450 – FM
70 CM: 446.00 – FM
For the most up to date spots please look at www.pota.us and look for my callsign: KC1NEF