Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
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February 2004 |
Welcome! This is the February edition of the NY City / Long Island "ehappenings" Section newsletter! 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. Section News Section News is available ONLY on the world-wide-web. See the NLI site at: http://www.arrl.org/sections/?sect=NLI IN THIS ISSUE: * Ham Radio University 2004 a success! * Ham Radio University 2004 Wrap-Up Meeting * ARRL Hudson Division Cabinet and Club Presidents Meeting * From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator * From Claire Heil WA2VZK, Section Traffic Manager * From Daniel Reisman NY2L, Official Observer Coordinator * First Section hamfest set for February 29 * ARRL C-CE course advance registration opportunities via e-mail * New ARES apparel available with "Amateur Radio Communications" * MetroCor is coordinating body for the New York metro area * Emil Tillona KD1F is the section DXCC card checker * Section VE Sessions * UPCOMING Club Events * NLI Section Website: http://hudson.arrl.org/nli HAPPENINGS * Ham Radio University 2004 a success! Ham Radio University 2004 ARRL NY City / Long Island Section Convention Spreading Ham Radio Knowledge and Know How Despite the snow, radio amateurs from throughout the tri-state area gathered on Sunday, January 18, for the fifth annual Ham Radio University. This year's event was held at the East Woods School in Oyster Bay. Ham Radio University is "A day of education to share ideas, experiences, knowledge and fellowship among Amateur Radio operators" Forums were held about many different aspects of Amateur Radio. In addition, clubs and organizations from around the section set up information tables. A volunteer exam session held at 3 PM served over twenty people who took every level of Amateur Radio license exam. A special event station W2V was run by John Nistico NY6DX. Ed Hare W1RFI from ARRL Headquarters gave the keynote address at 12 noon. His talk on Broadband Over Powerlines was well received by an audience of over fifty people. Dan Miller K3UFG gave a two hour seminar on the ARRL's certification and continuing information program with an emphasis on the Emergency Communication course. This event is totally self-funded, with donations from the attendees used to help defray the expenses of running the event. Any surplus will be used toward future events. Making a donation provided each person with a raffle ticket in a door prize drawing. Over twenty door prizes were drawn and many attendees walked away happy! Door prizes were donated by Carl Smith N4AA, Heil Sound, AES, CQ Communications, BUXCOMM, MFJ, Yaesu/ Vertex Standard, ARRL and W&R Enterprises. Special thanks to Gail Schieber K2RED for coordinating door prize donations and organizing the "goodie bags" which were handed out to each attendee. Thank you to all the volunteers who stepped forward to help make this event a success! Thanks also to LIMARC and Larkfield for the use of their repeaters for the event. Special thanks to the East Woods School and Harris Stein KG2HO for providing the facility! Please see the HRU 2004 website at http://www.hudson.arrl.org/nli/hru2004.htm * Ham Radio University 2004 Wrap-Up Meeting The Wrap-up meeting for Ham Radio University 2004 will be held on Monday, February 16, at 7 PM in the ARES/RACES room (downstairs) in Babylon Town Hall, Sunrise Highway, North Lindenhurst. It is open to anyone interested in assessing the success of this year's event and the logistics and planning of HRU 2004. Please let me know if you're planning on attending. 73, George Tranos N2GA, ARRL Section Manager NYC/LI, Chairman, Ham Radio University 2004, n2ga@arrl.org . Please see the HRU 2004 website at http://www.hudson.arrl.org/nli/hru2004.htm * ARRL Hudson Division Cabinet and Club Presidents Meeting Saturday February 7th there will be a joint Hudson Division Cabinet and Club Presidents Meeting starting at 9:30 AM at the at the Paramus Congregational Church. Bagels and coffee will be served at at 9 AM. Section Managers, Assistant Directors and Club Presidents or their representatives are invited to attend. Please let Joyce Birmingham, KA2ANF, Hudson Division Vice Director know you are coming. Send e-mail to: ka2anf@arrl.org Coffee and bagels will be provided and the meeting will start promptly at 9:30 AM. We will provide pizza for lunch. The meeting will end by 2 PM. Please bring your ideas and input. We think your input is important! If you have any items for the agenda please send an e-mail at n2ff@arl.org IMPORTANT: All division affiliated clubs should send a representative if the Club President is unable to attend. Submitted by ARRL Hudson Division Director Frank Fallon N2FF. * From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator New York City District - DEC Michael Licenco N2YBB: December was a rather tumultuous month for ARES in New York City. With a change in management, NYC has renewed its commitment to ARES. The first net under new tutelage, which occurred on Monday night December 29th, was attended by nearly 60 check-ins. The hams who stopped by included many present and former ARES members, and representatives of two served clients - the Red Cross and SATERN. NYC District ARES now has four Emergency Coordinators. Joining John Kiernan, KE2UN of Manhattan will be Adam Fine, AB2IZ (Brooklyn); Charles Gallo, KC2IXE (Queens); and Chris Sierra, KC2KFW (Bronx). An EC for Staten Island will be appointed shortly (Mike Bartmon, KF2EO was appointed EC Staten Island later). I have also asked Joe Prego, N2ECR, an OES from Brooklyn to serve as Public Information Officer for New York City District ARES. He graciously accepted my offer. He has served as P.I.O. for Kings County, and will continue in both roles. Earlier this month I attended, as an observer, the New York City Office of Emergency Management's table top exercise dealing with how a large scale emergency would be handled by the various City and Private agencies that act as first responders. The scenario dealt with three separate terrorist attacks occurring throughout the city. The exercise took place over a two day period. Day one dealt with the response 24 -48 hours after the event. Day two dealt with the aftermath one month later. Over 250 people participated in the event. I was allowed full access to all the participants as an observer - to watch and listen to them, and to learn. Earlier this month ARES participated in the annual Community of Mayors Christmas event at Kennedy Airport. I don't know how many or who attended the event. I've also attached the Manhattan report from KE2UN. If you require any additional information for the monthly report, please let me know. From Manhattan EC - John Kiernan KE2UN: EC report Manhattan Bronx December: City wide Meeting 12/13/03 we did not have out local ARES meeting for December, 9 Bronx/Manhattan members attended. 12/31/03 5 Operators Manhattan 3 Bronx were on standby from 1800 to 0145. 01/01/04 Red Cross GNY stand down. Columbia VE session 12/15/03 2 Manhattan operators worked 18:00 to 20:30 - KE2UN and W2BH. 4 ARES NETs From Brooklyn EC - Adam Fine AB2IZ: Kings County December 2003: Total ARES Members - 30 Change since last report - 0. Number of drills, nets and training sessions this month: 0. Man-hours: 0 Number of public service events this month: 1 Man-hours: 1. Number of emergency operations this month: 0 Man-hours: 0 Total number of ARES operations this month: 1 Total Man-hours: 23. As I was not EC for the month of December, I do not have all the information I need to file a accurate report. This information was garnered through some phone calls. Public Service Events: Operation Santa Claus: N2KEN, W2/8R1B, W2DEA and WA2JNF. Kings County ARES meeting: There was no meeting for the month of December as no EC had been selected as my replacement. However, there was a citywide District meeting led by Charlie Hargrove on the 6th of December. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, January 14th, 2004 at 7:30pm. The location is UCP, 121 Lawrence Street, between Ocean Parkway and Seton Place, Brooklyn, NY. Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, the new DEC will be speaking. All NYC District ARES members have been invited. Each EC has also been personally invited to meet the membership here in Kings County ARES and show all that NYC ARES is in fact, alive and well. Nassau County - EC Mario Maltese WF2T reporting for DEC George Gluck WA2WKV: At the December Meeting, a recap of the significant accomplishments of Nassau ARES for the year was summarized, and a discussion for next year's goals took place. A video highlighting the major accomplishments as also shown. Suffolk County - no report. KA2D did speak with DEC Bill Scheibel N2NFI as is our routine. SC is in progress of ARES renewals. SC ARES/RACES net meets each Monday night at 9:00 PM local time. Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator: Effective 12/23/03 I relieved Charles J Hargrove N2NOV as DEC for NYC. A certified letter was mailed 12/21/03 and received by Mr. Hargrove on 12/23/03. Copies of this letter were emailed to NLI SM George Tranos N2GA, ARRL Field Organization representative Steve Ewald WV1X, Hudson Division Director Frank Fallon N2FF. I did not receive any response or any of requested NYC ARES material from Mr Hargrove. On 12/27/03 KA2D, with the approval of SM N2GA appointed Michael Licenco N2YBB as DEC of NYC. I have spoken with the Greater NY American Red Cross Director of Disaster Services to assure GNY ARC that ARES will continue to serve its clients. This was also done with Salvation Army and NYC VOAD. I Continue to solicit reports and monitor nets, emails and newsletters. * From Claire Heil WA2VZK, Section Traffic Manager STM Claire Heil WA2VZK reports the following: 1)NTS "section level" CW nets : NYS/M 10am local time daily NYS/E 7pm local time daily NYS/L 10pm local time daily All our "section level" cw nets meet on 3677 KHz . 2)NTS "section level" phone nets: New York Phone (NYP) 1pm daily (currently meeting on 7237 KHz but usually meets on 3925 KHz during the winter months.) New York Public Operations Net (NYPON) 5pm daily on 3913 KHz (alternate freq. 3925 KHz +/- QRM). 3)"Independent nets" which maintain close association with the NTS. Empire Slow Speed Net (ESS) 6pm daily on 3590 KHz . Hit and Bounce Net (HBN) 8:30am daily on 7042 KHz . Hit and Bounce Slow Net (HBSN) 7:30am daily on 3714 KHz (alternate freq. 7114 KHz). New York City -Long Island cw net (NLI) 7:30pm Mon. through Fri. on 3630 KHz . (all times listed are local eastern times) 4)The NTS "local nets" are: Big Apple Net 8pm daily on 146.430 MHz Nassau Co. VHF Net 7:30pm on 146.805 MHz Suffolk Co. VHF Net 8pm (Mon. through Thurs.) on 145.210 MHz. The ARRL PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL Month of December 2003 New York City/Long Island Section Monthly qualifying total: 70 or more points AB2IZ 290, N2YBB 173, N2AKZ, 105, KC2GOW, 100, KB2KLH 100, KE2SX 88. NTS Section or Local nets Net Name Abbrev Sessions QNI QTC/QSP Net Manager NY State/morning/cw NYS/M 31 136 41/39 KA2GJV NY State/early/cw NYS/E 31 279 162/144 WB2QIX NY State/late/cw NYS/L 31 185 117/83 W2YGW NY Phone NYP 31 284 469/448 N2LTC NY Public Opr. Net NYPON 31 423 191/191 N2YJZ Empire Slow Speed net ESS 31 412 0/78 WI2G NYC-LI/cw NLI * WA2YOW Big Apple VHF BAVHF 31 553 119/119 KB2KLH Nassau Co. VHF NCVHF 29 138 19/19 WA2VZK Suffolk Co. VHF SCVHF 17 76 26/21 WA2VZK (*) report not received in time for this list 73, Claire Heil WA2VZK, Section Traffic Manager. Contact Claire at CAHEIL@aol.com * From Daniel Reisman NY2L, Official Observer Coordinator: Daniel reports that there has been significant activity by Official Observers in the NY City / Long Island area. Some of this activity resulted in action taken by the Federal Communications Commission. Official Observers (OO's) spend many hours listening to help keep our frequencies clear and clean. They deserve our recognition and thanks! Because of privacy concerns, their efforts sometimes cannot be publicized, but they are there non-the-less. If you have any concerns about Amateur Radio monitoring and enforcement, please contact Daniel at ny2l@arrl.net * First Section hamfest set for February 29 The Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club (LIMARC) will hold their annual winter hamfest on Sunday, February 29. It will be at Levittown Hall, 201 Levittown Parkway, Hicksville, New York 11801. General admission $6, doors open at 9 AM for buyers. Vendor spaces $20 plus admission, doors open at 8 AM for vendors. For more information, see: http://www.limarc.org/fest.htm * ARRL C-CE course advance registration opportunities via e-mail A service now allows those interested in taking an ARRL Certification and Continuing Education (C-CE) course in the future to receive advance word of registration opportunities via e-mail. To take advantage, send an e-mail to prereg@arrl.org. On the subject line, include the course name or number (eg, EC-00#). In the message body, include your name, call sign, e-mail address, and the month you want to start the course. To learn more, visit the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education Web page <http://www.arrl.org/cce/> and the C-CE Links found there. For more information, contact Emergency Communications Course Manager Dan Miller, K3UFG, <dmiller@arrl.org>; 860-594-0340. * New ARES apparel available with "Amateur Radio Communications" New ARES apparel available with "Amateur Radio Communications". The items are: 1. Orange reflective vest with "Amateur Radio Communications" on the back, $9.95; 2. Blue windbreaker with ARES logo on the front and "Amateur Radio Communications" on the back, $30.95 (can be personalized with name/call); and 3. Black equipment bag with ARES logo, $24.95. To see these products, please visit http://www.barkerspecialty.com/arrl/ and click on "ARES Products". * MetroCor is coordinating body for the New York metro area MetroCor is the new coordinating body for the New York City metropolitan area. See their website at http://www.qsl.net/metrocor/ * Emil Tillona KD1F is the section DXCC card checker 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 Section VE Sessions - available on the web at: http://hudson.arrl.org/nli/nlive.htm * UPCOMING Club Events NOTE - As usual, please check with the club to verify the date and time of all events, especially during inclement weather! The Kings County Repeater Association's (KCRA) monthly VE exam will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, NY at 7 P.M. Preregister with Harvey (KB2EA) at 718-948-2290 or Ed (W2SN) at 718-833-7120. See http://www.kc2ra.org/ American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service club meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 PM at 138-02 Queens Blvd, 1st Floor, Briarwood, New York 11435. Contact Lenny Smith N2LDV at N2LDV@yahoo.com. Larkfield ARC regular monthly meeting is Thursday, Feb. 5, in Huntington at 7:30 pm. E-mail n2nki@arrl.net or see http://www.larkfield.org Peconic ARC monthly meeting is Friday, February 6, at the Southold Public Library in Southold at 6:30 pm. See http://www.peconic-arc.org or contact Roberta Keis N2RBU at 631-722-4060 for directions. Larkfield ARC will hold a VE Session on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 9 am at the Huntington Town Hall, 100 Main Street, Room 114 (Entrance on Jackson Ave), Huntington, NY. Contact: Stanley Mehlman N2YKT (631) 423-7132 The monthly Queens County ARES meeting will be Sunday, Feb. 9 at 2:00 pm at Elmhurst General Hospital, 79-01 Broadway, Queens in conference room A1-15. The meeting topic is to be determined. New Members welcome. Please Contact Queens Emergency Coordinator Charles Gallo at Charlie@TheGallos.com The Columbia University ARC VE Team 2002 will hold a VE exam on Monday, Feb. 10 at 612 West 115th Street, New York, NY 10025 at 6:00 pm. Preregister by calling Alan N2YGK at 212-854-3754 or alan@columbia.edu HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, Feb. 10, in Queens at 8 pm. Meetings are held at the New York Hall of Science Museum cafeteria, 47-01 111th Street, Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, Queens NY. Please enter the cafeteria through the back science playground behind the museum. See their website at http://www.qsl.net/hosarc or call 718-760-2022. Grumman ARC will hold a VE session on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 5 PM, at Underwriters Lab in Mellville, NY. Contact Bob Wexelbaum, W2ILP for more information or to pre-register at (631) 499-2214 or via e-mail w2ilp@juno.com Nassau County ARES meeting will be held at the Red Cross Chapter at 195 Willis Avenue Mineola, at 7:30 pm, on Tuesday, Feb. 10. For more info, contact Nassau DEC George Gluck WA2WKV at wa2wkv@arrl.net LIMARC will hold their next regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, February 11, in Hicksville at 8 pm. The presentation will be by Mel Granick KS2G on Contesting. The meetings are held at Levittown Hall, 201 Levittown Parkway, Hicksville, NY 11801. See http://www.limarc.org Knickerbocker Amateur Radio Club meeting will be on Thursday, Feb. 12, in Port Washington. Contact Joe K2KYQ at jreekie@wawnc.org for more information. The Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) will hold its regular monthly "Non-meeting Meeting" (social night) on Thursday, Feb. 12, at the Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, NY at 6:30 P.M. See http://www.kc2ra.org/ Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, Feb. 13 at 8 pm at Wantagh Library. Please be prepared to suggest club goals including projects, subjects for speakers, etc. Please contact Vic Panzica K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for more information. The final wrap-up meeting for Ham Radio University 2004 will be held on Monday, February 16, at 7 PM in the ARES/RACES room (downstairs) in Babylon Town Hall, Sunrise Highway, North Lindenhurst. It is open to anyone interested in reviewing the success of HRU 2004 or helping with the logistics and planning of HRU 2005. Please let me know if you're planning on attending. 73, George Tranos N2GA, ARRL Section Manager NYC/LI, Chairman, Ham Radio University 2004, n2ga@arrl.org . Please see the HRU 2004 website at http://www.hudson.arrl.org/nli/hru2004.htm Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, Feb. 17 in Bohemia at 8 pm. The meeting site is the Bohemia Recreation Center on Ruzicka Way, in Bohemia. Contact Les KB2ZHF at Leskb2zhf@aol.com or call 631-399-4041 or see their webpage at http://members.tripod.com/~parasca/index/scrc.html Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) will hold a regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at The Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, starting at 7 PM. http://www.kc2ra.org/ KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the Ryan's Visitor Center, Floyd Bennett Field, Room A, in Brooklyn at 7:30 pm See http://www.qsl.net/kcrc/ The Town of Babylon Amateur Radio Emergency Services meetings are on the third Thursday each month @ 8:00 PM. This month's meeting will be held on Thursday, Feb. 19. Location is the basement of Babylon Town Hall in the Emergency Operations Center, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst, NY. For more information, see their Website: http://www.tobares.org or contact Babylon town EC Walter Wenzel, KA2RGI at 631-957-0218 or via e-mail at ka2rgi@arrl.net. The Long Island DX Association regular meeting will be at 8PM on Friday, February20, 2004 at Briarcliffe College, 1055 Stewart Ave., Bethpage (Room 10 in the Huntington Hallway). In February we go back to our regular scheduled meetings (the third Friday of each month). See the Web at http://www.qsl.net/lidxa/ or contact Marty Miller NN2C, President of the LIDXA, at mmiller4@optonline.net for further information. Nassau ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, Feb. 23 in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow at the Senior Citizen's Center at 8 pm. Nassau ARC meets every Monday night @ 7:30 pm. The General meeting is the last Monday of the month at 8 pm. All are welcome. Contact Lance Aue, KA2EJD, President at vze3db97@verizon.net or see http://www.nassauarc.org LIMARC Technician class and Morse Code 5 word-per-minute study class begin at Huntington High School on Tuesday, February 24. This is part of the Huntington Adult Education program and there is a registration few to the school district. The class runs for 7 consecutive Tuesday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30. A student may take either the Technician theory class or the Morse Code 5 word-per-minute class. For more information, contact Norm Wesler, K2YEW at k2yew@aol.com Radio Central ARC monthly meeting is Wednesday, Feb. 25 at the New Village Rec Center in Centereach at 7:30 pm. The speaker will be ARRL NYC/LI Section Manager George Tranos N2GA and he will speak on the ARRL. See http://www.rcarc.org Manhattan ARES meeting will be on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 PM at Red Cross HQ, 150 Amsterdam Avenue (66th Street). Contact John KE2UN at ke2un@arrl.net for info. GSBARC Monthly meeting is Thursday, Feb. 26 at 7:00 PM at the Babylon Town Hall EOC, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst. For more information, see http://www.gsbarc.org The Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club (LIMARC) will hold their annual winter hamfest on Sunday, February 29. It will be at Levittown Hall, 201 Levittown Parkway, Hicksville, New York 11801. General admission $6, doors open at 9 AM for buyers. Vendor spaces $20 plus admission, doors open at 8 AM for vendors. There will also be a VE test for all levels of Amateur Radio licenses at 10 AM. For more information, see: http://www.limarc.org/fest.htm 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. NLI Section News is available at http://www.arrl.org/sections/?sect=NLI 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) |