Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
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August 2003 |
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. Please submit any information for the September issue prior to the end of August. 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 Virginia "Jean" Chittenden WA2BGE, sk Jean Chittenden WA2BGE, a long-time LIMARC honorary member, passed away July 22. Jean was living in Oneonta, NY and was in the late stages of cancer the last few years. She resided on LI for 63 years before moving to Oneonta. Jeanne was very active in LIMARC in the '70s and '80s and also held office in many YL organizations including the YLRL Young Ladies Radio League) and SAYLARC (Second Area YL Amateur Radio Club). She is survived by sons, Theodore (Gloria) LeViness of Hicksville, LI; also, Leslie LeViness of Oneonta; three grandchildren; two great grandsons. She was predeceased by her husbands Theodore LeViness and Mainard L. Chittenden. Mrs. Chittenden had worked for Pan American Airways Flight Service and in the Long Island Public School system until retirement in 1971. She was a past regent in the Oyster Bay Daughter's of The American Revolution, a past matron of the Eastern Star in Hicksville, L.I., and an amateur radio operator since 1975, with extra class privileges. In that capacity, she accompanied two other amateur radio operators to Mainland China in 1980, to urge the government to permit their operators to return to worldwide radio privileges. They had been off the air for 40 years at that time. China was "on the air" 15 months later. (Source: Diane Ortiz K2DO, and The Oneonta Daily Star) NY City ARES seeks Amateur Radio Operators for NY City Triathalon NY City ARES will be supply communications support for the NY City Triathalon on August 10. The event will be starting early in the morning. 5 AM and be finished by noon. The event is a river and land event. The contestants will be starting at 100th Street on the Hudson River. The will enter the river at 100th Street and then swim to 79th Street boat basin. From there they will bike to the Yonkers boarder and return to 59th Street and turn to 79th Street. Then they will run from Riverside drive to Central Park and back to 72nd Street. The is an Olympic type event - there will be about 1500 people participating in the event. We will have to be in position by 5 AM. For more information or to participate, please contact John KE2UN, EC for Bronx/Manhattan for NYC ARES at JOHNKE2@cs.com Nassau County ARES meeting on Tuesday, August 12 Nassau County ARES will be holding their monthly meeting on Tuesday, August 12 at 7:30 PM. Contact George Gluck WA2WKV, DEC for Nassau County, at wa2wkv@arrl.net for more information. LIMARC Hamfest on Sunday, September 7 The Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club will hold its Fall Outdoor hamfest on Sunday, September 7, at Briarcliffe College, 1055 Stewart Ave, Bethpage NY. For more information, see http://www.limarc.org or e-mail hamfest@limarc.org TIME TO UPDATE YOUR CLUB AFFILIATION RECORDS!!!! For a club to remain actively listed with ARRL, we need to receive an update from the club, at least once per year, or as often as changes necessitate. If you have not submitted an update with us recently, please follow these instructions: To report changes in club data, please go to our web site at http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/club/forms/fsd2/ follow the instructions under the header "how to submit an update for your club records". Once the updates are received here, the database is updated and then at the end of the day, a report is run to update the club listing on the ARRL web page. ARE YOU AN SSC?? If your club is an SSC, please be sure that is also updated. The SSC renewal form is located at http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/club/forms/fsd7/renewal.html Contact ACC Phil Lewis N2MUN at n2mun@arrl.net for help or more information. ELECTRONIC CLUB NEWSLETTERS WANTED!! The ARRL is working to improve our club pages on the web. We need your help. We love receiving club newsletters! Our favorite way of receiving them is by email. If your club has an electronic newsletter, could you please send it that way? If you are already doing so, thank you. Receiving them this way will allow us to feature highlights and exerpts from club newsletters in our new club area. Thank you. 73, Margie Bourgoin, KB1DCO ARRL, Club & Educational Correspondent kb1dco@arrl.org or (860)-594-0267 Active Club Online Primer now live! If your club is looking for loads of helpful information to keep things moving, check out the Active Club Online Primer. Combining the best of the completely updated Club President's Workbook and the Special Service Club Manual, this online resource permits quick access to hundreds of pages that can enhance your club's functioning and help it to attract new members. Need to know how to get your club more involved in public service? How to present programs that make meetings more lively? How to help hams with disabilities? Find it fast on the Active Club Online Primer!". Please check it out. A link to the Active Club Online Primer is also found via the Club Companion Web page: http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/club/ ARRL re-soliciting 2003 McGan Award nominations During its July meeting, the ARRL Board of Directors voted to re-solicit nominations for the 2003 Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver Antenna Award. The ARRL Public Relations Committee has determined that none of the nominations submitted for this year's award adequately fit the award criteria. "All three nominees have achieved notable success in the area of public service," Committee Chairman Jeff Reinhardt, AA6JR, said, "but the committee did not feel that the nominations reflected the important volunteer public relations efforts for which the award is given." Public relations involves efforts specifically directed at bringing Amateur Radio to the attention of the general public and the news media in a positive light. Nomination forms are available on the ARRL Web site. Return completed entry forms and supporting materials to Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver Antenna Award, c/o Jennifer Hagy, N1TDY, ARRL, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111. Nominations must be received at ARRL Headquarters by 5 PM Eastern Daylight Time on September 2, 2003. HUDSON DIVISION AWARDS ANNOUNCED Just before July 4th the ARRL Hudson Division Awards Committee met to select the annual division award winners for 2003. Each year, the Committee selects the Technical Achievement and Ham of the Year winner as well as the Grand Ole Ham. 2003's Technical Achievement Award winner is Len Signoretti Jr, N2LEN, of Brooklyn, New York. The 2003 Grand Ole Ham is Jim Joyce, K2ZO, of Washington Township, New Jersey. The 2003 Hudson Division Amateur of the Year is Bruce Lordi, N2XP, of Flanders, New Jersey. The Hudson Division Awards Dinner will be held on November 8th in Northern New Jersey at Biaggio's. Congratulations to all the award winners! More information can be found at http://www.hudson.arrl.org QST "YL News" Editor Diane Ortiz, K2DO was among the crew members onboard the Jeanie Johnston, when the tall ship sailed into New York Harbor July 3. NYC Fire Department boats were on hand to send up streams of colored water and many hoots as a welcome. On hand to meet her were George Tranos N2GA, NLI Section Manager and Frank Fallon N2FF, Hudson Division Director. Ortiz, a member and former chairperson of the ARRL Public Relations Committee, is Public Information Coordinator for the ARRL New York City-Long Island Section as well as a Public I nformation Officer. The three-masted, 123-foot (LOA) barque is a replica of one of the so-called "famine ships" that brought some 3000 Irish immigrants to the US during the 19th century's potato famine. Ortiz operated Amateur Radio during the three-day sail from Bristol, Pennsylvania, to the North Cove Marina off Battery Park City in lower Manhattan. Ortiz is president of the Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club (LIMARC) in Levittown. The Jeanie Johnston remained in port at Lower Manhattan until July 14, when it departed for Port Jefferson on Long Island. For more information, visit the Jeanie Johnston Web page at http://www.jeaniejohnston.com/home.asp?id=1 Frank N2FF along with his wife had visited the Jeanie Johnston in Blennerville, Co Kerry, Ireland in 1999 while it was being built. Blennerville is only a few miles from where his wife's parents were born. Fallon said, "I have been waiting for five years to see the Jeanie Johnston in New York. I never expected to know any of the crew members; much less the only one of the crew with no Irish connections and also to have worked that crew member on 40 meter phone at sea. It's another of those great ham radio stories." (Source: Hudson Division Beacon newsletter) From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator: New York City: June was active with A-Thon support. Members of NYC ARES setup for Field Day in Greater New York American Red Cross HQ in NYC and run the new "F" class. This year it was only a few hours on Saturday. Plans for a 24 hr operation are in progress for next year. Kings County (from EC Adam Fine AB2IZ): Kings County ARES participated in the Salute to Israel Parade. Operators were KA2KDQ. Kings County ARES participated in the Bay Ridge/Bensonhurst/Dyker Heights CERT Licensing Class with AB2IZ, KB2TWY, KD2AU, N2KEN, N2ULX, W2MPL, WB2AAP. Kings county ARES participated in Al Ronaldson Memorial Run with operators KC2JXM, N2ECR. Participated in Diabetes Bike Tour with operators: KB2SUR, KC2CBL, N2YBB. Participated in the Liberty Outrigger Challenge with operators: KG4FXJ, N2ULX, N2YBB. Kings County ARES Kings County ARES meeting 06/25/03 withe topics: Upcoming events, teamwork, building trust in the group, problems in the chain of command, social gatherings for the group. In attendance were AB2IZ, KA2KDQ, KB2TWY, KB2VDV, KC2CBL, KC2EDR, KC2JXM, KC2LLN, KC2LQX, N2ECR, N2RGA, N2UJG, N2YBB, NI2L, WA2JNF and WB2AAP. Nassau County: No report Suffolk County; On June 7 and 8 Islip ARES provided communications for the Good Sam's Remembrance Walk, a 24 hour event and was covered by members of Islip ARES in very rainy weather conditions. Thanks John KB2SCS, Jerry KC2IWJ, Paul W2PB, Vinny N2KJV, Bob KC2ADN, and Dom WA2UJI. FD activity was good. The Town of Babylon operated from EOC and signed with the new "F" Class. W2FX, ASM for SC visited a number of SC FD sites. SEC; Toured FD sites in Nassau and Suffolk with NLI SM and ACC. Thanks George for driving. 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 (meeting irregularly at present). Suffolk Co. VHF Net 8pm (Mon. through Thurs.) on 145.210 MHz. The ARRL PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL Month of June 2003 New York City/Long Island Section Monthly qualifying total: 70 or more points AB2IZ 271, N2AKZ 110, KB2KLH 100, WB2GTG 90, KE2SX 78. NTS Section or Local nets Net Name Abbrev Sessions QNI QTC/QSP Net Manager NY State/morning/cw NYS/M 28 155 39/33 KA2GJV NY State/early/cw NYS/E 30 288 185/174 WB2QIX NY State/late/cw NYS/L 30 235 249/196 W2YGW NY Phone NYP 30 179 308/295 N2LTC NY Public Opr. Net NYPON 30 332 125/120 N2YJZ Empire Slow Speed net ESS 30 362 0/56 WI2G NYC-LI/cw NLI 17 39 24/24 WA2YOW Big Apple VHF BAVHF 30 579 81/81 KB2KLH Nassau Co. VHF NCVHF (*) Suffolk Co. VHF SCVHF 15 62 24/24 WA2VZK (*) report not received in time for this list Field Day report from Assistant Section Manager Len Battista W2FX Clubs Visited: (note these are ONLY the clubs that Len visited!) Great South Bay Radio Club- Class 'F' (EOC)- Beam Antenna - Satellite Station-Various Wire Antennas-VHF/UHF Station -80 thru 10 Meter Operation-Public Display-Located In Public Area (Babylon Town Hall)-Handouts About Ham Radio Available Larkfield Amateur Radio Club -Class 3A-Satellite Station-GOTA Station -Alternative Power (Solar)-Generator Power-QRP Station-Beam Antenna -Various Wire Antennas-VHF/UHF Station-80 thru 10 Meter Operation/Demo -APRS Operation-Public Display-Located In Public Area-Handouts About Ham Radio Available Suffolk County/BNL Joint Site (Brookhaven Ecology Center) -Class 2A-Generator Power-Alternative Power (Solar)-VHF/UHF Operation -80 thru 10 Meters HF-Wire Antennas Only-Operation in Public Location -Handouts to Public-Ham Radio Display-Mobile EOC On Site Radio Central Amateur Radio Club-Class 2A-Generator Power-Alternative Power (Solar)-Operation From Public Location (Sarnoff Preserve)-Handouts On Ham Radio Available-HF 80 thru 10 Meters-VHF/UHF + 6 Meters-Various Wire Antennas -Hamstick Beam-Vertical Antenna Peconic Amateur Radio Club (Combined With Staten Island Radio Association) -Class 4A-Generator Power-Alternative Power (Wind Generated)-80 thru 10 HF -VHF/UHF + 6 Meters-Satellite Station-GOTA Station-QRP Station-APRS Station/Demo-SSTV Demo Station-TRI-Band Beam Antenna-Trap Dipole Antenna -Mono Band Dipoles 40/80-Beverige Antenna-Held In Public Area (Horton's Point Lighthouse)-Handouts to The Public-Amateur Radio Exhibit/Display 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. 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. 73, Adam Fine AB2IZ, EC Kings County 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 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 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 NOTE! Please CHECK with the clubs listed below to verify that the events listed will take place. Many clubs do NOT hold meetings during the summer months. For your convenience, please double check all meetings prior to going to avoid an unnecessary trip! Peconic ARC monthly meeting is Friday, August 1, 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. Grumman ARC will hold a VE session on Tuesday, August 5, 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, August 5, 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, August 7, 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, August 7, 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. Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, August 8 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, August 9, 2003 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 Columbia University ARC VE Team 2002 will hold a VE exam on Monday, August 11 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 Nassau County ARES meeting will be held at the Red Cross Chapter at 195 Willis Avenue Mineola, at 7:30 pm, on Tuesday, August 12. For more info, contact Nassau DEC George Gluck WA2WKV at wa2wkv@arrl.net HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, August 12, 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 does not hold monthly meetings during the summer. Their next regular monthly meeting will be on Wednesday, September 10, in Hicksville at 8 pm. 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, August 14, 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, August 14, 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, August 14, in Port Washington. Contact Joe K2KYQ at jreekie@wawnc.org for more information. The monthly Queens County ARES meeting will be Sunday, August 17 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, August 19 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, August 19 at The Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, starting at 7 PM. See http://www.kcra.org KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, August 20, 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 not be meeting until September. They are taking their July/August summer hiatus (the first meeting of 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, August 21 at 7:30 PM at Red Cross HQ, 150 Amsterdam Avenue (66th Street). Contact John KE2UN at ke2un@arrl.net for info. Nassau ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, August 25 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 Kings County ARES meeting is on the Wednesday, August 27 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. Radio Central ARC monthly meeting is Wednesday, August 27 at the New Village Rec Center in Centereach at 7:30 pm. See http://www.rcarc.org GSBARC Monthly meeting is Thursday, August 28 at 8:00 PM at the Babylon Town Hall EOC, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst. For more information, 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. 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------- |