Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager

STM Claire 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 (meeting irregularly
at present).
Suffolk Co. VHF Net  8pm (Mon. through Thurs.) on 145.210 MHz.

The ARRL PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL
     Month of April 2003
     New York City/Long Island Section
     Monthly qualifying total:  70  or more points
     N2AKZ 110, WB2GTG 100, KB2KLH 100,
     KE2SX 90, WA2YOW 83.

NTS Section or Local nets
Net Name                      Abbrev    Sessions QNI QTC/QSP  Net Manager
NY State/morning/cw   NYS/M        30      123   68/50       KA2GJV
NY State/early/cw        NYS/E          30     288    258/207   WB2QIX
NY State/late/cw          NYS/L          30     225    224/196   W2YGW
NY Phone                      NYP                       (*)                    N2LTC
NY Public Opr. Net      NYPON                  (*)                    N2YJZ
Empire Slow Speed net ESS              30      432    0/104      WI2G
NYC-LI/cw                    NLI              22       59    55/54        WA2YOW
Big Apple VHF              BAVHF        30     521   93/93        KB2KLH
Nassau Co. VHF           NCVHF                  (*)                    N2WGF
Suffolk Co. VHF           SCVHF        14       46     24/24      WA2VZK  
 (*) report not received in time for this list


Registration opens Monday, June 2, 12:01 AM EDT (0401 UTC),
for the on-line Level I Emergency Communications course (EC-001).
Registration remains open through the June 7-8 weekend or until
all available seats have been filled--whichever comes first. Class
begins Tuesday, June 17. Thanks to the United Technologies
Corporation grant, the $45 registration fee paid upon enrollment
will be reimbursed after successful completion of the course.
During this registration period, approximately 200 seats are being
offered to ARRL members on a first-come, first-served basis.
Senior amateurs are strongly encouraged to take advantage of
this opportunity.

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.

Congratulations to the Larkfield Amateur Radio Club for their official
renewed as a Special Service Club. Through the work of its members,
this club is recognized for its continued efforts on behalf of Amateur
Radio and services to its community.

Congratulations to the Nassau County Police ARC for their official
renewed as a Special Service Club. Through the work of its members,
this club is recognized for its continued efforts on behalf of Amateur
Radio and services to its community.

LIMARC Hamfest on Sunday, June 8 in Bethpage.  Long Island's
longest-running outdoor Hamfest, the LIMARC Outdoor Hamfair
will be held on Sunday, June 8, 2003 at Briarcliffe College, 1055
Stewart Avenue, Bethpage, New York 11714. There will be
Amateur Radio Equipment, Computers, Ham Equipment Dealers,
ARRL Information, CB Equipment, Television, VHF Tune-up Clinic
(Get your rig checked), Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club
Information. General Admission: $6.00*, Gates open 9:00 AM for
buyers, *children 11 and under (accompanied by a paying adult)
& non-ham sweethearts FREE! Free parking for buyers! Door Prizes!
Food & Refreshments Available Sellers: All spaces $15.00, each
space admits one person *Note - Gates open to sellers at 7:30 AM
Over 600 outdoor tailgate spaces available! no pre-registration is
necessary. Bring your own table/chair/umbrella Talk-in on W2VL,
146.85- repeater PL 136.5 For more information, e-mail Brian
Gelber WB2YMC: hamfest@limarc.org or http://www.limarc.org

Nassau ARC meets every Monday night @ 7:30 pm.  The General
meeting is the last Monday of the month at 8 pm. Contact is Lance
Aue, KA2EJD, President @ vze3db97@verizon.net or
see http://www.nassauarc.org

NYC ARES seeks Amateur Radio operators to help with June 22
bike tour.  On June 22, the Tour de Cure bike tour for the American
Diabetes Association will be held. This is a bike tour which has three
tours 15 mile, 25 mile and 50 mile rides. We be using APRS units
for the three sag trucks and three hams to man the trucks. On the
New York side we will need operators at the start and working
APRS. We will need operators at the George Washington Bridge
on the NYC side. The run will be from 7 AM to 6 PM. There will
be 4 rest stops that NJ ARES will cover. For more information,
contact John KE2UN at JOHNKE2@cs.com

AIDS bicycle ride requests ham radio support.  Hundreds of bicyclists
will be pedaling from Niagara Falls to New York City for charity from
August 18-23, 2003. It's called the Empire State AIDS Ride. It's a
500-mile trek. Some days they will be riding over 100 miles. You can
read more about the ride and the beneficiaries (as well as donate,
volunteer, ride or get your friends to donate/volunteer/ride) at:
http://www.empirestateaidsride.org/ If you would like to join the
discussion group specifically for Amateur Radio operators that will
be helping out then send an email to:
EmpireHam03-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Submitted by Mark Wintle, W1NTL,
http://www.wintle.com/w1ntl/empire03/ or MEW@gtsystems.com

Floyd Davis WA2SDI, sk. This information is from John Smale
K2IZ: This to me when I was SCM was always the hard job,
reporting a silent key. This one is made harder by the fact I knew
Floyd for almost 30 years. My XYL took the call this afternoon
that Floyd Davis WA2SDI had passed away.. I always noticed
Floyd wore a hearing aide but when he put the "cans" on, he
was an outstanding CW operator. I remember Field Day one
year, Floyd was sitting at another position near me and he asked
me if it was ok to work Hungary during Field Day. I told him I
didn't care as long as we got an exchange that counted towards
the point total. He was a good man and I shall miss him.
Thanks and 73, John Smale K2IZ

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.

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


UPCOMING Club Events
    
Grumman ARC will hold a VE session on Tuesday, June 3, 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

The Kings County Repeater Association's (KCRA) monthly VE exam will be
held on Tuesday, June 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

Mid Island Amateur Radio Repeater Association Monthly Meeting
is Tuesday, June 3, at 7 PM at the Brookhaven Rec Center in
Centereach. See http://www.qsl.net/mid-islandarc

American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service club
meeting on Thursday, June 5, 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, June 5, 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 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.

The Kings County Radio Club will hold a VE session Tuesday, June 10,
at 7:15 p.m. at the Ryan Center, Floyd Bennett Field. Fee is $12 payable
by cash or a check payable to the ARRL. You must bring 2 forms of ID
and if you have a license or a CSCE, bring the original license/CSCE and
a copy. Applicants must pre-register with George KD2AU at
kd2au@arrl.net or 718-859-9381 between 8 pm and 10 pm weekdays or
between 10 am and 9 pm weekends.

Nassau County ARES meeting  will be held at the Red Cross Chapter at
195 Willis Avenue Mineola, at 7:30 pm, on Tuesday, June 10.
For more info, contact Nassau DEC George Gluck WA2WKV at
wa2wkv@arrl.net

HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, June 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.

LIMARC will hold their next regular monthly meeting on Wednesday,
June 11, in Hicksville at 8 pm. This month's topic is Introduction to
APRS by Joe KC2BZB and Daniel NY2L.  The meetings are held at
Levittown Hall, 201 Levittown Parkway, Hicksville, NY 11801.  
See http://www.limarc.org

The Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) will hold its regular
monthly "Non-meeting Meeting" (social night) on Thursday, June 12,
at the Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, NY at
6:30 P.M. See http://www.kc2ra.org

Larkfield ARC regular monthly meeting is Thursday, June 12,
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,
June 12, in Port Washington.  Contact Joe K2KYQ at
jreekie@wawnc.org for more information.

Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, June 13 at 8 pm at
Wantagh Library. Please contact Vic Panzica K2IY at
vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for more information.

Larkfield ARC will hold a VE Session on Saturday, June 14, 2003
at 9 am at the Huntington Town Hall, 100 Main Street,
Room 114  (Entrance on Jackson Ave), Huntington, NY.
Contact: Stanley Mehlman  (631) 423-7132.

The Columbia University ARC VE Team 2002 will hold a VE
exam on Monday, June 16 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

Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, June 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, June 17 at The
Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn,
starting at 7 PM.  See http://www.kc2ra.org

KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, June 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 Long Island DX Association will meet at Briarcliffe College on
Friday, June 20, at 8:00 PM in Room Huntington 10. This will be our
 last meeting before the July/August summer hiatus (the first meeting f
or the new season will be on September 19).  Contact Marty Miller
NN2C, President of the LIDXA, at mmiller4@optonline.net. See
the Web at http://www.qsl.net/lidxa/ for more information.

Manhattan & Bronx ARES meeting will be on Thursday, June 19
at 7:30 PM at Red Cross HQ, 150 Amsterdam Avenue (66th Street).
Contact John KE2UN at ke2un@arrl.net for info.

The monthly Queens County ARES meeting will be Sunday, June 22
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

Kings County ARES meeting is on Wednesday, June 25
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.
*note Kings County ARES has changed it's meeting nights from the 4th Tuesday of the month to the 4th Wednesday of the month.  The time (7pm) and the location (UCP, 121 Lawrence Avenue) remain the same. Adam AB2IZ.


Radio Central ARC monthly meeting is Wednesday, June 25
at the New Village Rec Center in Centereach at 7:30 pm.
See http://www.rcarc.org

GSBARC Monthly meeting is Thursday, June 26 at 8:00 PM at the
Babylon Town Hall EOC, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst.
For more information, see http://www.gsbarc.org

Field Day: Many Amateur Radio clubs throughout the section will
be participating in Field Day on the weekend of June 28 and 29.
There will be a special bulletin about club field day sites later in
the month.  Club officers - please submit your field day plans to
me no later than Friday, June 20th so they can be published in advance!

Send all field day plans including name of club or organization,
location of field day site, field day chairman or contact name, phone
number and e-mail address, days and hours you are planning to be
on site, talk-in frequency, web-site address for more information and
 a description of your field day setup.

Nassau ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, June 30 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


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)