Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager

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Addendum

- see the Newsday web article:
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-liham212559332jan21.story
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An ARRL forum was held at 12 noon and was well attended.
Thanks to all the ARRL appointees who participated and
helped wave the ARRL flag to the public.

A special event station was run by John Nistico NY6DX using
callsign W2V and made over 200 contacts! Thanks and
congratulations to John. Please QSL W2V via N2MUN.

Pictures were sent from the event to the NLI website via
the Automatic Picture Relay Network (APRN). The pictures
may be viewed at http://hudson.arrl.org/nli
Thanks to John KB2SCS, Tom KA2D, Neil KC2KY,
Walter KA2RGI and Len W2FX for making this happen!

DXCC card checking was performed by Emil KD1F.

A full volunteer exam session was held at 3 pm, with
Tom KA2D as the Liaison. Congratulations to all of
those who obtained their licenses or upgraded at this
session and thanks to all the VE's who participated.

A special thanks to those who made the coffee, set up and
took down the chairs and tables, and staffed the front table
collecting money for the event.

Thanks to the Town of Babylon for providing the excellent
facility at Phelps Lane, for BACCA for letting us use one
of its rooms. Thanks to the Great South Bay Amateur
Radio Club for sponsoring the event and providing all of
the manpower to make it go.

Thanks to anyone else who helped out in any way.

I am extremely proud of the way people and organizations
from throughout the section pulled together again to make this
day a success! Each of you should feel good about this
convention. It is through efforts like this that Amateur Radio
will grow and prosper. Ham Radio University makes the future
look bright for hams.

NLI Website has moved!  Please visit us now at our new
location - http://www.hudson.arrl.org/nli

From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator:
KA2D reports the following DEC's reporting activity in December:
Charles N2NOV for NYC reports 26 hams participated in Operation
Santa on Dec. 5, George WA2WKV for Nassau reports 20 new 2002
ARES applications and a monthly meeting on Dec. 11, Bill N2NFI
for Suffolk received reports from Islip and Smithtown ARES and a
donation of handhelds and mobiles from Suffolk County PD. SEC
Tom KA2D has continued to answer questions about the events of 9/11.
Tom also participated in NWS/Skywarn Recognition day and was a
speaker there.

STM Charlie WA2YOW reports Bill, WB2GTG has made the
BPL again this month.  Charlie also reports the following:
The ARRL PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL
Month of December 2001
New York City/Long Island Section
Monthly qualifying total:  70  or more points
WB2GTG 157, KB2KLH 152, N2AKZ 138, AB2IZ 118,
WA2YOW 110, KE2SX  87, N2AVY 81

  Though not eligible for the PSHR this month, the
  following station would like their activity recorded:
  WA2VZK 34

NTS Section or Local nets

(**)--stats kept and reported by WA2YOW

Congratulations to the 2002 Elected Officers of the
American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service:
               President       George Sau   WB2ZTH
               Vice President Gail Bloom   AB2JG
               Secretary       Cesare Mancini  KB2NOW
               Treasurer       Don Halmy    AB2IF
               Director        Leonard Smith  N2LDV
               Director        Steve Friedman  WB2KHO

Emil Tillona KD1F is the section DXCC card checker and is
available for field checking of QSL cards for your DXCC Award.
If interested, please contact Emil at etillona@interserv.com

Section VE Sessions - available on the web at:
http://hudson.arrl.org/nli/nlive.htm

UPCOMING Club Events

Nassau County Police ARC will not have a meeting
in February.  Their next meeting will be Thursday, March 7,
at 7:30 pm at Long Beach Auxiliary Police Headquarters.
Contact George WB2GTC at GeorgegeeG@aol.com or
http://www.qsl.net/kb2uyp/ for more info.

Peconic ARC monthly meeting is Friday, Feb. 1, at the
at the Southold Public Library in Southold at 6:30 pm.
Bill Norris N2YKH will present a slide show on his recent
trip to Uzbekistan.  Following this will be a discussion of the
PARC participation in the planned Quogue school - ISS
communication. See http://www.peconic-arc.org or contact
Roberta Keis N2RBU at 631-722-4060 for directions.

American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service club
meeting on Thursday, February 7, at 7 PM at 138-02 Queens Blvd,
1st Floor, Briarwood, New York 11435.  Contact Lenny Smith
N2LDV at N2LDV@yahoo.com.

Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, February 8 at 8 pm at
Wantagh Library.   If you are interested, please contact Vic Panzica
K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for
more information.

The Larkfield Amateur Radio Club VE Team is holding a VE session
on Saturday, February 9 starting at 9 am at Huntington Town Hall,
Main St., Huntington, NY.  Contact Stan Mehlman N2YKT
631-423-7132 or via e-mail mehlmasp@farmingdale.edu

Mid Island Amateur Radio Repeater Association Monthly Meeting
is Tuesday, February 12, at 7 PM at the Brookhaven Rec Center in
Centereach. See http://www.qsl.net/mid-islandarc

HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, Feb 12, in Queens at 8 pm.
See their website at http://www.qsl.net/hosarc. Or call 718-760-2022

LIMARC regular monthly meeting is Wednesday, February 13,
in Hicksville at 8 pm. ARRL Hudson Division Director Frank
Fallon N2FF will be the featured speaker. See http://www.limarc.org

Larkfield ARC regular monthly meeting is Thursday, February
14, in Huntington at 7:30 pm. E-mail n2nki@arrl.net or see
http://www.larkfield.org

Long Island DX Association will meet on Friday, February 15 at
the Polytechnic Institute- Route 110 in East Farmingdale at 8pm.
Come in the rear door of the main building adjacent to the East side
of Rte. 110. Anyone interested in DX is welcome and refreshments
are served.  Contact NN2C, Marty Miller, president of the LIDXA,
at nn2c@arrl.net

Manhattan / Bronx ARES meeting on Monday, February 18.
Contact John KE2UN at JOHNKE2@nyc-ares.org for more info.

Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, February 19  in
Bohemia at 8 pm. The guest speaker will be the Suffolk County
VHF Traffic Net Manager, Claire Heil WA2VZK. All are invited.
See http://members.tripod.com/~parasca/index/scrc.html
For Suffolk County Radio Club information call 631-399-4041.

Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) will hold a
regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 19, at The
Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn.
See http://www.kcra.org

KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, Feb. 20, at the Ryan's Visitor
Center, Floyd Bennett Field, Room A, in Brooklyn at 7:30 pm
See http://www.qsl.net/kcrc/

Radio Central ARC monthly meeting is Thursday, February 21, in
Shoreham at 7:30 pm at the Shoreham Recreation Center
just east of William Floyd Parkway on Route 25A.
See http://www.rcarc.org

Nassau ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, Feb. 25, in Eisenhower
Park in East Meadow at the Senior Citizen's Center at 8 pm. See
http://www.nassauarc.org

The Columbia University ARC VE Team 2002 will hold a VE
exam on Monday, February 25 at 612 West 115th Street,
New York, NY 10025 at 6:30 pm.  Preregister by calling
Alan N2YGK at 212-854-3754 or alan@columbia.edu

GSBARC Monthly Meeting is Thursday, Feb. 28, in N. Lindenhurst
at 8 pm. See http://www.gsbarc.org

NLI Webpage:

The Section Webpage contains LOTS of great information on
section happenings, VE session, Education, Clubs, section staff,
and much more! See http://hudson.arrl.org/nli
Please contact the webmaster, Tom Carrubba KA2D (ka2d@arrl.net)
to add events or other things to this page.

That's about it for this month! Please help make this newsletter
even more interesting and informative by sending me news
about YOUR club and events.

NLI Section e-happenings
Section Manager - George Tranos N2GA (n2ga@arrl.org)

Assistant Section Managers
NLI - Tom Carrubba KA2D (ka2d@arrl.net)
New York City - Rob Todaro N1XL
Nassau County - Norm Wesler K2YEW (k2yew@arrl.net)
Suffolk County - Len Battista W2FX (w2fx@arrl.net)
Digital Communications - John Blowsky KB2SCS (kb2scs@arrl.net)

ARRL NYC/LI February E-happenings Newsletter Addendum
Written and Edited by George Tranos N2GA,
ARRL Section Manager NYC/LI
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This is additional information to supplement the February edition
of the NY City / Long Island "ehappenings" Section newsletter
recently distributed.

This newsletter is here to serve the Amateur Radio community
in our area.  I welcome and encourage all submissions.  Please
help make this your newsletter! I especially encourage officers
of the area's Amateur Radio clubs to submit their meeting
announcements, guest speakers and special events. Please submit
any information for the March issue prior to the end of February.

QST Section News

The QST Section News column for April 2002 is due on February
12.  If you or your club has anything which you feel is of interest to
the other members in the section, please contact me before February 12.

HAPPENINGS

Quogue School to speak with International Space Station
Students at the Quogue School have been selected to
communicate with the astronauts on the International
Space Station via 2 meter Amateur Radio.  This event
will take place on Friday, February 8, 2002, between
3:51 and 4:01 PM local time.  It can be viewed on-line
via the Internet Radio linking project at
http://live365.com/stations/253404
For more information, contact Roberta Keis N2RBU
at 631-722-4060 or See the Peconic Amateur Radio
Club website at http://www.peconic-arc.org

Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club Hamfair to be
held on Sunday, February 24, 2002.   LIMARC is holding
its annual winter hamfest on Sunday, February 24, 2002,
at Levittown Hall, 201 Levittown Parkway, Hicksville, NY.
Doors open to buyers at 9 AM. Over 100 tables will be
piled high with Amateur Radio parts and equipment, from
antique morse code keys to the latest in transceiver technology.
Computer equipment and wireless communications devices of
all types (and vintages) in all prices ranges will be in evidence.
This is the place to be to purchase everything from a callsign
badge to an antenna, a handheld radio, accessory or full HF
station.  An ARRL VE Exam session for all classes of license
starting promptly at 10 AM (FCC exam fee is $10, please bring
photo ID and your original and a copy of your license and CSCE
if applicable). A VHF tune-up clinic will be available to test your
radio and there will be information about Amateur Radio from
the ARRL and LIMARC.  Check out the LIMARC web page at
http://www.limarc.org for more information, vendor reservation
forms and directions. Talkin will be on LIMARC's W2VL on
146.85 Mhz. General admission is $6, children 11 and under free.
Hamfair tables are $25 and include one admission. Tables will be
available in advance only. There is special close in parking and
dropoff available for vendors. Doors open to vendors at 8AM.
For more information contact LIMARC Winter Hamfest Chairman
Rich Rosner N2STU at hamfest@limarc.org or 631-563-1859.

Great South Bay ARC will be sponsoring a entry level
Technician License Class starting on March 5, 2002.  It will
run on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 - 9:30 PM and will be held at
Town of Babylon Town Hall - ARES/RACES Emergency
Operations Center. Contact: Phil Lewis N2MUN for additional info
at 631-226-0698.

Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club will be sponsoring a
Extra Class One Day course on Saturday, March 23, 2002.
The place and time have yet to be determined, but we are aiming
for either Levittown or Wantagh, probably 9 am to 5 pm.
Check the LIMARC website at http://www.limarc.org for updated
information. Students will be expected to obtain an Extra class study
guide (available from the ARRL, Radio Shack or any ham radio
publication supplier) and begin reading it. The course will
be designed as a one-day "crash" course in Extra class theory.
As such it is intended as a refresher and tune up for the test.
We will have enough instructors to make it interesting and
informative but we don't pretend to be able to teach you ALL
of the material in one day. We do promise you will learn
something from the course, increase your chances of passing
the Extra class test and wet your knowledge for more!
As usual, a full Volunteer Examination session will follow the
completion of the course at about 4 pm. Contact: George
Tranos N2GA at n2ga@limarc.org or 631-286-7562


NLI Webpage:

The Section Webpage contains LOTS of great information on
section happenings, VE session, Education, Clubs, section staff,
and much more! See http://hudson.arrl.org/nli
Please contact the webmaster, Tom Carrubba KA2D (ka2d@arrl.net)
to add events or other things to this page.

That's about it for this month! Please help make this newsletter
even more interesting and informative by sending me news
about YOUR club and events.

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NLI Section e-happenings
Section Manager - George Tranos N2GA (n2ga@arrl.org)

Assistant Section Managers
NLI - Tom Carrubba KA2D (ka2d@arrl.net)
New York City - Rob Todaro N1XL
Nassau County - Norm Wesler K2YEW (k2yew@arrl.net)
Suffolk County - Len Battista W2FX (w2fx@arrl.net)
Digital Communications - John Blowsky KB2SCS (kb2scs@arrl.net)