Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
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June 2002 |
Welcome! This is the June 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 July issue prior to the end of June. QST Section News The QST Section News column for August 2002 is due on June 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 June 12. HAPPENINGS June 22 and 23 is Field Day. A special Field Day bulletin will be sent out later in the month. Clubs - please send me your plans for Field Day. Let me know where you are planning on operating, when setup will begin, your Field Day entry classification, and directions to your site with a contact person, phone #, website and e-mail address. This information will be distributed to as many people as possible and to the press. Please make this information readable and send it to me in plain text via e-mail. New York Congressman Steve Israel on CC&R's: Congressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington) spoke to a special meeting of Amateur Radio Clubs on Long Island on Wednesday, May 29, 2002. Congressman Israel discussed the basis unfairness of the application of Federal Regulation PRB-1. He has introduced a bill in the US Congress to correct this unfairness, H.R. 4720, the "Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Consistency Act". The bill would alleviate a problem facing many federally licensed Amateur Radio operators living within development communities who are subject to unreasonable restrictions or outright prohibitions regarding the installation of external antennas. Under current law, the Federal Communications Commission applies a policy that instructs states and localities that they must reasonably accommodate Amateur Radio antenna. The policy, however, fails to address situations affecting private land-use groups. Rep. Israel's bill would ensure consistent application of these regulations. This legislation seeks to ensure that Amateur Radio operators are available for emergency communications in all sections of the country, regardless of whether they live in a development, such as a retirement community, or townhouse subdivision. Restrictions against antennas render Amateur Radio operators unable to utilize their licenses, which in turn may ultimately hinder their emergency communication role during times of disaster or national crisis. Please call, write or your US Congressman and ask that they too co-sponsor H.R. 4720 to help insure the future of Amateur Radio. Two NLI Hamfests slated for June: LIMARC is holding their Spring Hamfest on Sunday, June 9, at Briarcliffe College in Bethpage. See http://www.limarc.org for info. HOSARC is holding their hamfest on Sunday, June 30 at the Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows. See http://www.qsl.net/hosarc for info. Kenwood names Tom Carrubba KA2D as recipient of their annual "Top Gun" award. Tom was invited to the Dayton Hamvention as a guest of Kenwood USA and accepted the award on May 16 at a special awards presentation. Tom also was the keynote speaker at the ARES forum at the Hamvention on Friday, May 17. Congratulations Tom! From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator: KA2D reports for Nassau County; WA2WKV reports that ARES supported the Nassau Marathon on May 5. In Suffolk County, N2NFI reports all ARES units are active in local A-thons. Tom also reports: "I attended a Larkfield Amateur Radio Club meeting and spoke about ARES/RACES. I took this opportunity to thank to members of LARC for their response on 9.11. Members of LARC were among the first amateurs to relieve the NYC ARES/RACES. On April 12, I went to Albany, NY,the NY State capital with Hudson Director Frank Fallon N2FF to accept citations from the NY State Senate and Assembly for the amateur radio response of 9.11 in New York City. These citations were accepted on behalf of the 800 amateur radio people who responded to the NYC 9.11 incident. I continue to reply to questions received from students who are participating in the ARRL CCE program. I also continue to solicit reports for the NLI ARES Staff. Annual renewals are still in progress". 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 April 2002 New York City/Long Island Section Monthly qualifying total: 70 or more points WB2GTG 159, N2AKZ 141, KB2KLH 140, AB2IZ 123, WA2YOW 104, KE2SX 94, N2AVY 77 NTS Section or Local nets Net Name Abbrev Sessions QNI QTC/QSP Net Manager NY State/morning/cw NYS/M 30 174 35/27 KA2GJV NY State/early/cw NYS/E 30 356 207/201 WB2QIX NY State/late/cw NYS/L 30 250 228/214 W2YGW NY Phone NYP 30 224 380/379 N2LTC NY Public Opr. Net NYPON (*) N2YJZ Empire Slow Speed net ESS 30 389 0/102 WI2G NYC-LI/cw NLI 22 82 58/57 ** Big Apple VHF BAVHF 30 607 128/128 KB2KLH Nassau Co. VHF NCVHF (*) N2WGF Suffolk Co. VHF SCVHF 18 135 9/7 WA2VZK (**)--stats kept and reported by WA2YOW (*) report not received in time for this list LIMARC plans a one day Extra Class license study course on Saturday, June 15, 2002. For more information, please contact George Tranos N2GA at n2ga@arrl.org MetroCor is the new coordinating body for the New York City metropolitan area. See their website at http://www.qsl.net/metrocor/ Congratulations to Broadcast Employees Amateur Radio Society for renewing as a Special Service Club with the ARRL! BEARS was renewed on May 1 by Affiliated Club Coordinator Phil Lewis N2MUN. Congratulations to Kings County Repeater Association for renewing as a Special Service Club with the ARRL! KCRA was renewed on May 9 by Affiliated Club Coordinator Phil Lewis N2MUN. KCRA Officers for 2002 are President: Ed Madison W2SN, VP: Ken Shaw AB2LB, Secretary: Hyman Melamed KB2MQT, and Treasurer: Jay Hyman W2CSS. For more information see www.kcra.org CQ Magazine's June 2002 issue contained a story on Ham Radio University 2002 written by Diane Ortiz K2DO. This story documents the success of HRU and describes the methodology used to create a successful educational event. Pick up June CQ at a newsstand near you today. Congratulations to Diane and the entire HRU committee! The Atlantic Hurricane Season officially begins in June. As we all know, hurricanes, tropical storms, and the flood waters that often accompany them can affect a very large portion of the country and beyond. Be alert for Hurricane watches and warnings, have plenty of spare batteries available and be prepared to operate on emergency power. Tune in to your local ARES or SKYWARN nets. 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 The Kings County Repeater Association's (KCRA) monthly VE exam will be held on Tuesday, June 4th, 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 American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service club meeting on Thursday, June 6, at 7:30 PM at 138-02 Queens Blvd, 1st Floor, Briarwood, New York 11435. Contact Lenny Smith N2LDV at N2LDV@yahoo.com. A special event station will be set up at the AIR POWER MUSEUM in Farmingdale on June 8 and 9. It will be staffed by Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club members. To help out, please contact Dom WA2UJI at dstengel@suffolk.lib.ny.us. Nassau County Police ARC will have a meeting on Thursday, June 6, 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, June 7, at the 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. Southold and Shleter Island ARES will support the Shelter Island 10k race on Saturday, June 8. Contact Don Fisher N2QHV at dofisher@suffolk.lib.ny.us or 631-765-2757. LIMARC Hamfest is Sunday, June 9th at Briarcliffe College on Stewart Avenue in Bethpage, New York; rain or shine. The gates open at 6:30 AM for vendors, no pre-registration is necessary. The general public will be let in at 8:30AM. Tailgate spots are $15 which includes admission for one person, additional people as well as general attendees are $6 each. For more info visit the LIMARC web site at: http://www.limarc.org, e-mail hamfest@limarc.org or call the 24-hour info line at: 516-520-9311 Mid Island Amateur Radio Repeater Association Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, June 11, at 7 PM at the Brookhaven Rec Center in Centereach. See http://www.qsl.net/mid-islandarc HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, June 11, 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, June 11, 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 w2ilp@juno.com LIMARC regular monthly meeting is Wednesday, June 12, in Hicksville at 8 pm. A demonstration of IRLP is planned as the meeting program. See http://www.limarc.org Larkfield ARC regular monthly meeting is Thursday, June 13, in Huntington at 7:30 pm. E-mail n2nki@arrl.net or see http://www.larkfield.org Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, June 14 at 8 pm at Wantagh Library. Topic will be Field Day plans for 2002. If you are interested, please contact Vic Panzica K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for more information. County Line ARA is running a special event station to celebrate our 10th year anniversary. According to Chris Linne N2OPO, the special event station is to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the County Line ARA. They will be on the air as W2C on June 15 from 0900-2100 EDT. Look for W2C approx. 30KHz up from the lower edge of the General class phone sub-band on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters. A certificate will be available, please QSL to KF2EW. LIMARC plans a one day Extra Class license study course on Saturday, June 15, 2002 at Levittown Hall, Hicksville. For more information, please contact George Tranos N2GA at n2ga@arrl.org Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, June 18 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, June 18, at The Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn. See http://www.kcra.org KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, June 19, 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, June 20, 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 Manhattan / Bronx ARES meeting on Thursday, June 20 at 7:30 PM at Red Cross HQ, 150 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan. Contact John KE2UN at JOHNKE2@nyc-ares.org for more info. Long Island DX Association will meet on Friday, June 21 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 Field Day Weekend is Saturday, June 22, and Sunday, June 23. See the NLI website for more information on Field Day sites throughout the NYC/LI section. A special Field Day bulletin will be sent out later in June with a list of club sites - send N2GA your club Field Day plans today! NY City ARES is supporting The Swim Race around Manhattan on Sunday, June 23. To volunteer to help out for this event, contact ARRL District Emergency Coordinator for NYC Charles Hargrove at n2nov@arrl.net Nassau ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, June 24, 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, June 24 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, June 27 at 8:00 PM at the Babylon Town Hall EOC, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst. For more information, see http://www.gsbarc.org The Hall of Science Amateur Radio Club Hamfest will be held at the New York Hall of Science parking lot, Flushing Meadow Corona Park, 47-01 111th Street, Queens, New York on Sunday, June 30. Doors open for Vendors to set up at 7:30 AM. Buyers admitted at 9:00 AM. Free parking, door prizes, food and refreshments. VE Exams at 10:00 AM Admission by donation, Buyers $5.00 - Sellers $10.00 per space. Talk in on 444.200, PL 136.5, 146.52 Simplex. For further information, call Stephen Greenbaum WB2KDG 718-898-5599 at night only or see www.qsl.net/hosarc Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club will be supporting the USPS Family Day at their Mid Island Processing and Distribution Center located at Duryea Road in Melville on Sunday, June 30, 2002 from 11AM to 4PM. The club will have a table with information flyers and ARRL literature. Anyone interested, please E-Mail N2MUN at n2mun@arrl.net 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 New York City-Long Island Section Section Manager: George A. Tranos, N2GA n2ga@arrl.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- |