Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
|
|
April |
ARRL NYC/LI April E-happenings Newsletter Written and Edited by George Tranos N2GA, ARRL Section Manager NYC/LI -- Welcome! This is the April 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 May issue prior to the end of April. Section News Section News is available ONLY on the world-wide-web. See the NLI site at: http://www.arrl.org/sections/?sect=NLI HAPPENINGS NY State Antenna Bills reintroduced. The Assembly version of the bill A2662 was introduced at the end of January with Ron Tocci as sponsor and Paul Tonko as co-prime sponsor. Also on the bill are Paulin, Schimminger, Smith, and Weisenberg. But the fact that the Senate passed the same bill last year is a big advantage to our 2003 efforts. It's is now again time to write letter or contact your legislators. See http://hudson.arrl.org/ for more information on how you can help.. Claire Heil WA2VZK appointed as new Section Traffic Manager. Claire Heil WA2VZK of Ridge, New York, has been appointed Section Traffic Manager (STM) effective March 14, 2003. Claire replaces Charles Ferrando WA2YOW who served as STM for over 6 years. The STM is appointed by the Section Manager to supervise traffic handling organization at the section level--that is, to coordinate all traffic efforts within the section, regardless of mode or National Traffic System affiliation, so that routings within the section and connections with other networks and digital traffic nodes will result in orderly and efficient traffic flow. Claire has experience as an Official Relay Station since 1997 and is currently Net Manager of the Suffolk County VHF Traffic Net. Congratulations to Claire on her appointment! You can contact Claire via e-mail at wa2vzk@arrl.net Section Staff Meeting to be held on Saturday, April 12. The NLI section staff will meet at Babylon Town Hall, ARES/RACES room starting at 9:30 AM. This meeting is open to NLI Section Staff only and their designated representatives. Discussed will be plans and achievements for 2003. Contact SM George Tranos N2GA for more information at n2ga@arrl.org From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator: New York City: NY City ARES requests the help of Amateur Radio operators for the following events: MS Walk on Staten Island on April 5 and in Manhattan on April 6; the March of Dimes WalkAmerica, starting at the Staten Island Mall on April 27. Adam Fine AB2IZ, Kings County Emergency coordinator reports Kings County ARES held a meeting on February 25 with the topics discussed being the new ARRL video on Amateur Radio, J-Poles, and power inverters. The meeting was run by AEC's N2KEN and W2MPL. In attendance were: KA2FXR, KA2KDQ, KB2SUR, KB2GEK, KB2TWY, KB2VDV, KC2CBL, KC2JXM, N2ECR, N2KEN, N2ULX, W2/8R1B, W2MPL, WA2JNF and WW2W. Please note: Kings County ARES Meetings are moving to the 4th WEDNESDAY of each month starting in March.á The next meeting will be on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 7pm.á The location will remain the same: UCP, 121 Lawrence Avenue, Brooklyn. Charles Gallo KC2IXE, Queens County Emergency Coordinator reports that the March Meeting of Queens County ARES featured displays of portable antennas by WA2GUG, KC2JKD and KC2IXE. In addition, we had a display of N2UIH's "go Bag". In attendance were WA2USJ, WA2GUG, KB2QLE, N2ZWV, N2UJG, KC2GSW, N2UIH, WB2KDG, N2EOI, KC2JKD and KC2IXE. ID cards were handed out to N2EOI and WA2GUG. Thanks to KC2JKD for the coffee and doughnuts. There will be NO Queens County ARES meeting in April due to the Easter Holiday. The Next Meeting will be May 18th at 2:00pm at Elmhurst General Hospital, Room A1-15, Queens, NY. Nassau County: DEC George Gluck WA2WKV recently underwent bypass surgery. The NLI staff wishes George a speedy recovery. Suffolk County: Annual renewals in progress. Online data base is active. Charlie WA2YOW was kind enough to continue to take NTS reports and compile a monthly report in lieu of a new STM. He 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 (meeting irregularly at present). Suffolk Co. VHF Net 8pm (Mon. through Thurs.) on 145.210 MHz. The ARRL PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL Month of February 2003 New York City/Long Island Section Monthly qualifying total: 70 or more points AB2IZ 225, N2AKZ 110, WB2GTG 100, KB2KLH 100, KE2SX 87, WA2YOW 85, N2ECR 70. NTS Section or Local nets Net Name Abbrev Sessions QNI QTC/QSP Net Manager NY State/morning/cw NYS/M 28 153 57/48 KA2GJV NY State/early/cw NYS/E 28 294 194/179 WB2QIX NY State/late/cw NYS/L 28 186 173/160 W2YGW NY Phone NYP (*) N2LTC NY Public Opr. Net NYPON 28 341 101/99 N2YJZ Empire Slow Speed net ESS 28 402 0/88 WI2G NYC-LI/cw NLI 18 41 44/42 ** Big Apple VHF BAVHF 28 589 113/113 KB2KLH Nassau Co. VHF NCVHF (*) N2WGF Suffolk Co. VHF SCVHF (*) WA2VZK (**)--stats kept and reported by WA2YOW (*) report not received in time for this list Section Staff changes: Claire Heil WA2VZK has been appointed Section Traffic Manager. Charlie Ferrando WA2YOW resigned as Section Traffic Manager but has continued to file report. Charlie had been STM for over 6 years and has spent many hours and much effort helping Amateur Radio. His work and the work of the many section Traffic Handlers who consistently move radio traffic into and out of the NY City / Long Island section sometimes goes unnoticed but is an essential part of Amateur Radio communications. The section staff joins me in thanking Charlie for his time and contributions and in wishing Claire congratulations and good luck in her new position as STM. Help Save Our Frequencies! The Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 2003 has been introduced in the US House of Representatives. The measure is an ARRL legislative initiative. Florida Rep Michael Bilirakis filed the latest version of the bill, HR 713, on February 12. It has been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. HR 713 is aimed at ensuring the availability of spectrum to Amateur Radio operators. It would protect existing Amateur Radio spectrum against reallocations to or sharing with other services unless the FCC provides ''equivalent replacement spectrum'' elsewhere. The previous version of the Spectrum Protection Act attracted more than 50 cosponsors. An effort will be made to encourage additional House members to sign onto HR 713 as cosponsors. Additional details are on the ARRL Web site. You can locate your Congressional Representative at www.house.gov Send a QSL card or letter that identifies you as a ham and that you support HR 713. Congratulations and welcome to the following new ARRL affiliated club: the 575 Long Island Amateur Radio Simplex Club. Their new President is Frank Peppe, KB2WQU. Their new club website is http://www.liarsclub.tk or contact Frank at kb2wqu@arrl.net 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 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 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 CORRECTIONS: The Long Island QRP Club (LIQRP) has a new website. The old site was erroneously put into last month's newsletter. Their new site is: http://www.qsl.net/liqrp Phil Spampinato N2LVG of the Nassau Amateur Radio Club wrote to let me know that Lance Aue KA2EJD is the new President. Lance can be reached at ka2ejd@yahoo.com UPCOMING Club Events The Kings County Repeater Association's (KCRA) monthly VE exam will be held on Tuesday, April 1, 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.kcra.org LIMARC will hold their next regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 2, in Hicksville at 8 pm. The guest speaker will be Gary Conte from the National Weather Service and he will speak on Skywarn Weather Spotting and the National Weather Service. The meetings are held at Levittown Hall, 201 Levittown Parkway, Hicksville, NY 11801. See http://www.limarc.org American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service club meeting on Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 PM at 138-02 Queens Blvd, 1st Floor, Briarwood, New York 11435. Contact Lenny Smith N2LDV at N2LDV@yahoo.com. Nassau County Police ARC will have a meeting on Thursday, Thursday, April 3, at 7 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, April 4, 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. Mid Island Amateur Radio Repeater Association Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, April 8, at 7 PM at the Brookhaven Rec Center in Centereach. See http://www.qsl.net/mid-islandarc HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, April 8, 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. The meeting will be devoted to Sharpen Your Kit Building Skills. You can build your own ROCK-MITE kit. Please try to arrive by 7:30 PM so that we can set up early and get the most out of the meeting. Bring your own kit and tools. Even if you are not building, come anyway. See their website at http://www.qsl.net/hosarc or call 718-760-2022. Grumman ARC will hold a VE session on Tuesday, April 8, 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, April 8. For more info, contact Nassau DEC George Gluck WA2WKV at wa2wkv@arrl.net The Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) will hold its regular monthly "Non-meeting Meeting" (social night) on Thursday, April 10, at the Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, NY at 6:30 P.M. See http://www.kcra.org Larkfield ARC regular monthly meeting is Thursday, April 10, in Huntington at 7:30 pm. E-mail n2nki@arrl.net or see http://www.larkfield.org Knickerbocker Amateur Radio Club meeting will be on Thursday, April 10, in Port Washington. Contact Joe K2KYQ at jreekie@wawnc.org for more information. Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, April 11 at 8 pm at Wantagh Library. Please contact Vic Panzica K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for more information. A section staff meeting for NLI Section Staff will be held on Saturday, April 12, starting at 9:30 AM. The meeting will be held in the ARES/RACES room at Babylon Town Hall. For more information and directions, contact NLI SM George Tranos N2GA at n2ga@arrl.org Larkfield ARC will hold a VE Session on Saturday, April 12 at 9 am at the Huntington Town Hall, 100 Main Street, Huntington, NY. Contact: Ed, KC2E at 631-271-8637 or at kc2e@arrl.net. There will be NO Queens County ARES meeting in April due to the Easter Holiday. The Next Meeting will be May 18 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 Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, April 15 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, April 15 at The Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, starting at 7 PM. See http://www.kcra.org KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, April 16, at the Ryan's Visitor Center, Floyd Bennett Field, Room A, in Brooklyn at 7:30 pm See http://www.qsl.net/kcrc/ Manhattan & Bronx ARES meeting will be on Thursday, April 17 at 7:30 PM at Red Cross HQ, 150 Amsterdam Avenue (66th Street). Contact John KE2UN at ke2un@arrl.net for info. The Long Island DX Association will meet at Briarcliffe College on Friday, April 18, at 8:00 PM in room Huntington 10. Contact Marty Miller NN2C, president of the LIDXA, at mmiller4@optonline.net See the Web at http://www.qsl.net/lidxa/ for more information. The Columbia University ARC VE Team 2002 will hold a VE exam on Monday, Aprl 21 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 Kings County ARES meeting is on the Tuesday, April 23, at 7 PM at UCP, 121 Lawrence Avenue, between Ocean Parkway and Seton Place in Kensington, Brooklyn. For info, call Adam Fine AB2IZ at 917-804-3380. GSBARC Monthly meeting is Thursday, April 24 at 8:00 PM at the Babylon Town Hall EOC, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst. For more information, see http://www.gsbarc.org Radio Central Amateur Radio Club (RCARC) will be participating in International Marconi Day on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26. The operation for 2003 will be at the Carasiti Elementary School, in Rocky Point. Plans are to do an all out CW operation this year in keeping with out new format of sweeping changes for 2003. There are many other historical sites that Marconi operated from here on Long Island. One that comes to mind immediately is RCARC old Field Day Site. It was originally a commercial Marconi transmitting station, one of the first here in the USA. When the government discovered the value of radio during the First World War they saw how vulnerable we were as a Country having a foreign national controlling our air waves. The US Government nationalized the site and took it from Marconi and formed the Radio Corporation of American (RCA). For more information on Radio Central's Marconi Day, contact Emil Tillona KD1F at etillona@interserv.com or see their website at http://www.rcarc.org Nassau ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, April 28 in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow at the Senior Citizen's Center at 8 pm. All are welcome. Contact Phil Spampinato, N2LVG, President, NARC at phil2lvg@optonline.net or see http://www.nassauarc.org Radio Central ARC monthly meeting is Wednesday, April 30 at the New Village Rec Center in Centereach at 7:30 pm. The meeting program will be given by Friends of Long Island Wireless History. See http://www.rcarc.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. 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) |