Meetings

The June General Meeting of the Boston Amateur Radio Club will be held on Thursday, June 18, at 7:30 p.m. on the Zoom teleconferencing platform. Further information will be forthcoming.

Zoom clients for many platforms can be found at zoom.us.

The next BARC General Meeting will be held on Thursday, November 21, at 7:30 p.m. at Brookline Police Headquarters in Brookline. We do not have a speaker scheduled, so this will be a social meeting.

We have had a last-minute change in location for this month’s BARC General Meeting, which will take place  this Thursday, September 19, at 7:30 pm. It will be held at JP Licks, 659 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain. This is a few blocks from the old Eastern Bank meeting location we occasionally used in the winter. For directions,. see the website: https://jplicks.com/locations/f/Boston-~amp~-Brookline/30.

The June General Meeting of the Boston Amateur Radio Club will be held on Thursday, June 20, at 7:30 p.m., at Brookline Police Headquarters in Brookline Village. Annual elections will be held and final preparations for Field Day will be discussed.

Due to difficulties finding an acceptable meeting venue, the March General Meeting, scheduled for March 21, will not take place.

The next General Meeting of the Boston Amateur Radio Club will be held on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at Brookline Police Headquarters in Brookline. There will be a brief business meeting followed by Bruce Blain, K1BG, speaking on “The History of Entry Level Licensing.”

For those who wish to help, we will stuff membership renewal envelopes before the meeting, starting at about 6:45 p.m.

The next General Meeting of the Boston Amateur Radio Club will be held on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at Brookline Police Headquarters in Brookline. This will be a social meeting as no speaker is scheduled.

The next quarterly Business Meeting of the Boston Amateur Radio Club will be held on Thursday, September 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Brookline Police Headquarters.

Now that Field Day is over, BARC is entering relaxed summer mode. There will be no General Meetings in July and August; the next one will be on September 20, 2018. Have a great summer!

The March 2018 meeting of the Boston Amateur Radio Club will be held at MassPort Fire Rescue Headquarters, 261 Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday March 15, 2018. There is a slight change in the meeting time. A tour of MassPort Fire Department apparatus will commence at 6:45 p.m. followed by Santarpio’s pizza at 7:15 p.m. followed by the General Meeting at 8:00 p.m. Attendance for this event is limited to 25 BARC members.

We will have two speakers at this meeting. They are: Steve Staffier, K1SMS, Communications and Interoperability Manager for Massport and MassPort Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Robert Barnes. Steve will talk about Communications Interoperability and Deputy Barnes has an interesting presentation about MassPort Fire Rescue that he will give.

There is parking available at MassPort Fire Headquarters, 261 Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts. The Fire Department is located past the Hyatt Hotel. Please park in the marked spaces.

Since we’re literally in the neighborhood, we will have Santarpio’s Pizza for dinner. A suggested donation of $7.50 per person is requested.

There is a space limitation at the facility. We will only be able to accommodate 25 members. If you’re interested in attending this meeting, you will have to send an email to k1bth@arrl.net no later than March 7, 2018 indicating your interest in attending. Management reserves the right to cancel the evening if not enough people sign up by the 7th.

This should be an interesting meeting and we hope to see you there.