Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
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| August 2001 | ARRL NYC/LI August E-happenings Newsletter Written and Edited by George Tranos N2GA, Section Manager NYC/LI -- Welcome! This is the August 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. QST Section News The QST Section News column for October 2001 is due on August 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 August 12. HAPPENINGS New York Antenna Bill still in Assembly and Senate Rules Committees - the bill is still in both the Assembly and Senate Rules Committees. This is the last step prior to being released to the floor for a vote. The purpose of the bill is to incorporate the essence of the limited federal preemption known as PRB-1 into NY state law. We now need your help in asking the Senate and Assembly leadership to move the bill for a vote. Please immediately telephone, and e-mail the following legislators asking them to please bring these bills - A.1565 and S.2893 - to the floor for a vote: Senator Joe Bruno - Senate Rules Committee Majority Leader Telephone - 518-455-3191 E-mail - bruno@senate.state.ny.us Assemblyman - Sheldon Silver Chairman Assembly Rules Committee Telephone - 518-455-3791 E-mail - speaker@assembly.state.ny.us Our message to them: "Please bring these bills - A.1565 and S.2893 - to the floor so New York State Amateur Radio operators can continue to serve their communities, at no cost to the state, in times of communication emergencies like those now taking place during the Texas and Louisiana floods." More information is available on the ARRL Hudson Division website: http://www.arrlhudson.org Sad News - John Fredericksen KA2YMR passed away in early July. John was a former LIMARC President and ARRL Assistant Director. Ed Primavera K2YAW passed away on July 12. Ed was a member of the Suffolk County Radio Club. Warren Bogin W2GZA became a silent key in July. Warren was a director of the Radio Central Amateur Radio Club. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of these dedicated radio amateurs. IARU HF Worldchampionship Contest - Members of the Order of Boiled Owls Contest Club operated NU1AW as the official headquarters station of the International Amateur Radio Union on July 14 and 15. Operation was from Readsboro, Vermont at the stations of K2LE and W2AX. NU1AW made 4105 CW QSO's 3365 SSB QSO's with 280 multipliers. The station operators were W2AX, K2LE, W1RM, N2FF, KS2G, N2GA, K2DO, K2SX, W1VE, KM1P, K2VUI. Congratulations to section radio amateurs who participated in this operation! QSL NU1AW via ARRL HQ in Newington, CT, with an SASE. Ronnie M Hirsh, W2RMH, of Manhattan has been appointed an ARRL Public Information Officer. Ronnie has just finished an article about the Bike New York event held this past Spring which will appear shortly in a major ham radio magazine. Ronnie asks that any NY City area club needing help with publicity to contact him at w2rmh@arrl.net or call his work number at 212-995-0969. Congratulations and good luck Ronnie! National Traffic System News: NLI-CW Net (NLI/cw), 3630 KHz, 7:30 pm local, Monday through Friday accepts all stations regardless of speed, and our NCS's always answer calling stations at their own speed (the usual speed of the net call up on NLI is never faster than 17 wpm so even 10 wpm guys and gals can usually catch enough to figure out). Contact Section Traffic Manager Charlie Ferrando WA2YOW at wa2yow@arrl.net. Suffolk County VHF Traffic Net is on 145.210 repeater on Mondays thru Thursdays at 8:00 PM. Net control is Claire WA2VZK. Contact Claire at caheil@aol.com. Nassau County VHF Traffic Net is daily at 7:30 PM on 146.805 repeater. Section Emergency Coordinator, Tom Carrubba KA2D: Andy Borrok N2TZX, EC for Queens County, became a silent key at the early age of 43. Mark Philips KC2ENI of Astoria, NY has been appointed as N2TZX's successor. NYC members were very active with ATHONS in June. Al Ronaldson Memorial Run on June 17, Swimming Marathon Around Manhattan on June 23. In Nassau County there was a meeting with American Red Cross to renew MOU. DEC George Gluck WA2WKV toured with NLI Staff on Field Day. In Suffolk County there was good ATHON support. LI Bicycle Rider Association, Bike-Boat-Bike on June 3, Shelter Island 10k, Run on June 9, 24 Hr. Walk for Good Samaritan Hospital Hospice June 9-10. SKYWARN training was held at Southhold High School Auditorium in Southold, NY on June 19. A Suffolk County VOAD is now active. The packet network is not running at 100%. A backbone antenna is out of service due to lightning damage. Replacement is planned. To ALL ARES appointees. Support the ARES program by submitting timely reports. Reports are due before the end of the first week of each month. . .events, drills and net man hour reports are part of your duties as a manager. The SEC report goes to the SM and HQ promptly on the 10th of each month. "...the job is not complete until the paperwork is filed." Tom Carrubba KA2D, NLI SEC Emil Tillona KD1F is the section DXCC card checker and is avaiable for field checking of QSL cards for your DXCC Award. If interested, please contact Emil at etillona@interserv.com On a personal note, I'd just like to thank the many people who have called and e-mailed me their congratulations for being named as the recipient of the Herb Brier Instructor of the Year award. It is nice to be able to receive an award for doing something that I enjoy so much - teaching ham radio. I encourage each of you to make a personal commitment to try and help get at least one new person licensed this year. Please also try to help out a new ham and pass along that wonderful ham radio tradition of elmering! Thanks and 73, George N2GA Section VE Sessions - available on the web at: http://hudson.arrl.org/nli/nlive.htm UPCOMING Club Events (NOTE: Many clubs do NOT meet during the summer but hold special events such as picnics and VE sessions. Even if listed here, please check with the club to verify that the event is being held before setting out.) Empire Contest Club Meeting on Thursday, August 2, at the Olympic Diner, 1637 Forest Road, Staten Island at 8 pm. Contact Rich AA2MF at 718-980-1104 or aa2mf@arrl.net The Empire Contest Club is a new club whose primary interest will be Amateur Radio contesting and has applied for ARRL affiliation. NY City ARES requests the help of Amateur Radio Operators on Sunday, August 5, for the Manhattan Half Marathon in Manhattan at 8 am. Contact Charles Hargrove N2NOV at 718-876-7929 or n2nov@lsa.net. Peconic ARC Monthly Meeting is Friday, August 3, at the Southold Public Library in Southold at 6:30 pm. See http://www.peconic- arc.org Mid Island Amateur Radio Repeater Association Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, August 7, at 7 PM at the Brookhaven Rec Center in Centereach. See http://www.qsl.net/mid-islandarc Larkfield ARC has no general meetings in the summer. Their next monthly meeting is Thursday, September 13, in Huntington at 7:30 pm. E-mail n2nki@arrl.net or see http://www.larkfield.org Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, August 10 at 8 pm at Wantagh Library. If you are interested, please contact Vic Panzica K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net for more information. HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, August 14, in Queens at 8 pm. See http://www.qsl.net/hosarc KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, August 8, in Brooklyn at 7:30 pm. See http://www.qsl.net/kcrc/ LIMARC has no general meetings in the summer. The next monthly meeting is Wednesday, September 12, in Hicksville at 8 pm. See http://www.limarc.org Long Island DX Association has no general meetings in the summer. Their next meeting will be on Friday, September 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 Nassau County Police Amateur Radio Club has no August meeting. Their next meeting will be on Thursday, September 6, at Auxiliary Police Building at 859 East Park Avenue, Long Beach. Meetings are held the first Thursday of odd numbered months. Contact George Gellar at GeorgeGeeG@aol.com Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, August 21, in Bohemia at 8 pm. See http://members.tripod.com/~parasca/index/scrc.html Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) has no general meetings in the summer. Their next monthly meeting is Tuesday, September 18, at The Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn. See http://www.kcra.org Great South Bay ARC will activate Fire Island Lighthouse as part of International Lighthouse / Lightship Weekend. W2GSB will be QRV from 1400Z, Aug 18 to 2000Z, Aug 19. Frequencies used will be 7.260, 14.260, 21.260, 28.460, plus or minus QRM. For a special event QSL, please send SASE to W2GSB/LH, PO Box 1356, West Babylon, NY 11704. All Amateurs and their families are welcomed. Setup is at 7:00 AM Saturday, August 18. Contact: Tom Carrubba KA2D at ka2d@arrl.net or see the webpage at http://www.gsbarc.org/FI2001.htm The Peconic ARC will activate Horton's Point Lighthouse as part of International Lighthouse / Lightship Weekend. Contact: Warren Melhado, KG2BI, at 631-734-6929 or Don Fisher, N2QHV at dofisher@suffolk.lib.ny.us or 631-765-2757 Suffolk County Radio Club's First Annual Tail Gate Hamfest Fleamarket is Sunday, August 19th from 7:00 AM until 12:00 noon at Sam's Club, 2950 Horseblock Rd, Medford NY. Call 631-399-4041 or E-mail Leskb2zhf@aol.com for details. Radio Central ARC monthly meeting is Thursday, August 16, in Rocky Point at 7:30 pm. See http://www.rcarc.org Nassau ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, August 27, in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow at the Senior Citizen's Center at 8 pm. See http://www.nassauarc.org GSBARC Monthly Meeting is Thursday, August 30, 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 (rtodaro@myexcel.com) Nassau County - Norm Wesler K2YEW (k2yew@aol.com) Suffolk County - Len Battista W2FX (w2fx@arrl.net) Digital Comms - John Blowsky KB2SCS (kb2scs@arrl.net) |