Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
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November 2002 |
Welcome! This is the November 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 December issue prior to the end of November. QST Section News The QST Section News column for December 2002 was the last. From now on, Section News will be available ONLY on the world-wide-web. See the NLI site at: http://www.arrl.org/sections/?sect=NLI HAPPENINGS Section Emergency Coordinator Tom Carrubba KA2D named as ARRL Hudson Division Amateur of the Year. Tom will receive his award at the Hudson Division Awards Dinner on November 9 (see below). Congratulations Tom! Hudson Division Awards Dinner ticket deadline nears! The ARRL Hudson Division will hold its awards dinner on Saturday, Nov. 9. The event will be hosted by the 10-70 Repeater Association and will be held at Biagio's Ristorante in Paramus, New Jersey. Awards will be given for the Hudson Division Amateur of the Year, Grand Ole Ham, and Technical Achievement. Dinner includes an appetizer, a house salad, a choice of five entries, coffee and tea, dessert and unlimited soda. Dinner is $38 per person including gratuities and tax with unlimited soda. A cash bar will be available. The dinner will be from 7 to 11 PM. For tickets, mail check for $38 per person made payable to 10-70 Repeater Association, to 10-70 Repeater Association, 235 Van Emburgh Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450-2918. For further information, contact Joyce KA2ANF at 201-445-5924 or ka2anf@aol.com Ham Radio University 2003 planning meeting set for November 11. The next meeting for planning of the upcoming Ham Radio University 2003 will be held on Monday, November 11, in the Emergency Operations Center, Babylon Town Hall, North Lindenhurst, NY, starting at 7 PM. The initial meeting was held on Monday, October 14, and the date and location of HRU 2003 was confirmed. HRU 2003 is now scheduled for Sunday, January 19, 2003, at East Woods School, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. At the upcoming meeting, the focus will shift to the exact forum schedule, logistics and other aspects of HRU 2003. All are invited to attend. Please RSVP to n2ga@arrl.org if you will be attending. Please forward this meeting notice to anyone who you might think would be interested. Emergency Communications Level I course taken. Your Section Manager, Section Emergency Coordinator and three District Emergency Coordinators all took the ECC Level I course in October under the Homeland Security grant. More openings for course are now available. See www.arrl.org for more info. From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator: New York City: Mark Phillips, KC2ENI, has been appointed PIO for NYC ARES. NYC ARES participated in the 9/11 Ceremony in NYC, ARRL President Haynie spoke to the group via internet voice linked repeater. NYC ARES continues to support Athons. Nassau County: George WA2WKV appointed the following as Emergency Coordinators in Nassau: Daniel Reisman NY2L and Joseph Schierer KC2BZB. Nassau ARES supported the Ocean to Sound Relay with over 1000 runners and 13 ARES members on Sept 29. An ARES presentation by WA2WKV and KA2YRY was given at South Shore fire Assoc. on Sept 27. Nassau ARES monthly meeting was held on Sept 10 At Nassau Red Cross. Nassau ARES held its SET with over 30 ARES members on Sept 14. Suffolk County: Islip, Babylon and Brookhaven ARES supported the MS Walk for a Cure on 9/22. John Alloca WB2LUA finalized the Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Guidelines, which were adopted by SC ARES. John also made the volunteer handout and radiograms as separate files so they can be printed separately. See www.larkfield.org (see ARES/RACES Information). John also has online ARES and RACES application forms online. John is also working on digital ID cards for SC ARES/RACES. SEC Tom KA2D was the guest speaker at a local club, topic was Emergency Communications and ARES. Tom spent most of this month was dedicated to completing the ARRL CCE Level 1 online course and completing installation of a 70 ft communications tower. With sponsorship from my local club, Tom has taken over a DX Cluster node, now W2GSB. Access is on RF, 145.670 or telnet://24.187.239.170. The node will be used for a conference node during emergencies. Plans are to connect node to existing packet network via UHF. This will give the node packet connectivity in NLI, ENY, NNJ and CT. Also on the planning table is a working VHF/UHF repeater linking system that will able to link eastern NLI, through Suffolk, Nassau and NYC with ENY to Albany, NY. He hopes to have a detailed report next month. STM Charlie WA2YOW 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 September 2002 New York City/Long Island Section Monthly qualifying total: 70 or more points AB2IZ 220, KB2GEK 108, N2AKZ 105, WB2GTG 100, KB2KLH 100, WA2YOW 95, KE2SX 77 NTS Section or Local nets Net Name Abbrev Sessions QNI QTC/QSP Net Manager NY State/morning/cw NYS/M 30 181 46/38 KA2GJV NY State/early/cw NYS/E 30 351 204/194 WB2QIX NY State/late/cw NYS/L 30 261 235/221 W2YGW NY Phone NYP 30 216 351/347 N2LTC NY Public Opr. Net NYPON 30 344 139/138 N2YJZ Empire Slow Speed net ESS 30 335 0/82 WI2G NYC-LI/cw NLI 20 57 43/43 ** Big Apple VHF BAVHF 30 630 177/177 KB2KLH Nassau Co. VHF NCVHF (*) N2WGF Suffolk Co. VHF SCVHF 13 63 4/4 WA2VZK (**)--stats kept and reported by WA2YOW (*) report not received in time for this list Look for SM George Tranos N2GA QRV from Grenada as part of the J3A multi-multi contest team during the CQ WW CW Contest on November 23 and 24. George will be active outside the contest as J3/N2GA on SSB and CW from November 18 through 22. All QSL requests for J3/N2GA should go via the N2GA callbook address. QSL requests for J3A go via WA1S. 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/ MetroCor has asked the the following News Release be published: December 1, 2002 will be the "cut off" date for repeater systems (that were formerly coordinated by TSARC as well as current existing systems since 1996) to file with MetroCor, so that we may meet the publishing deadlines of the various repeater directories. If you have not yet filed coordination application(s) with MetroCor, please go to http://www.qsl.net/metrocor/ to download the required forms and mail them to the address posted on our web site. If this is not done we will be forced to list your repeater as uncoordinated. Thank You - The MetroCor Team Lawrence M. Lutzak/WA2CNV President - MetroCor, Inc. 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 Peconic ARC monthly meeting is Friday, November 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. The help of Amateur Radio operators is requested on Sunday, November 3 for the New York City Marathon. Contact Stephen Mendelsohn W2ML at w2ml@arrl.org ARRL November Sweepstakes CW is Saturday, November 2 starting at 4 PM EST and runs until Sunday at 10 PM EST. See www.arrl.org for more information. The Kings County Repeater Association's (KCRA) monthly VE exam will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 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, November 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, November 7, at 7 pm at Long Beach Auxiliary Police Headquarters. Agenda will include voting on Officers for 2003 Contact George WB2GTC at GeorgegeeG@aol.com or http://www.qsl.net/kb2uyp/ for more info. Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, November 8 at 8 pm at Wantagh Library. Please contact Vic Panzica K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for more information. Hudson Division Awards Dinner in Paramus, NJ, is on Saturday, November 9. See the announcement at the beginning of this newsletter. LIMARC Hamfest will be on Sunday, November 10, at Briarcliffe College, 1055 Stewart Ave, Bethpage. This outdoor event will open to buyers at 9 AM and to vendors at 7:30 AM. Anyone who attended the September LIMARC hamfest will be admitted free with their original admission ticket. For more information, see the website: http://www.limarc.org Ham Radio University 2003 planning meeting set for November 11. The next meeting for planning of the upcoming Ham Radio University 2003 will be held on Monday, November 11, in the Emergency Operations Center, Babylon Town Hall, North Lindenhurst, NY, starting at 7 PM. At this meeting we will discuss the forum schedule, logistics and other aspects of HRU 2003. All are invited to attend. Please RSVP to n2ga@arrl.org if you will be attending. Please forward this meeting notice to anyone who you might think would be interested. HRU 2003 is scheduled for Sunday, January 19, 2003, at the East Woods School in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Mid Island Amateur Radio Repeater Association Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, November 12, at 7 PM at the Brookhaven Rec Center in Centereach. See http://www.qsl.net/mid-islandarc HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, November 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 Grumman ARC will hold a VE session on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 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, November 12. The program will be Digital Emergency Communications, by NY2L and KC2BZB (includes a demo of APRS, as well as a presentation of proposed "standard practices"). For more info, contact Nassau DEC George Gluck WA2WKV at wa2wkv@arrl.net LIMARC will hold their next regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, November 13, in Hicksville at 8 pm. The topic will be nominations for office and discussions by the candidates. See http://www.limarc.org Larkfield ARC regular monthly meeting is Thursday, November 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, November 14, in Port Washington. Contact Joe K2KYQ at jreekie@wawnc.org for more information. ARRL November Sweepstakes SSB is Saturday, November 16 starting at 4 PM EST and runs until Sunday at 10 PM EST. See www.arrl.org for more information. The LIQRP Club will meet on Saturday, November 16, at Nicky's of Centerport, 6 Little Neck Road, Centerport, Long Island, NY (telephone: 631-757-7277). The gathering will start at 12 noon and last until at least 2:30 pm. Bring friends, family, and stuff for show-and-tell, or just bring yourself. If you arrive late, look for us in the little park across the street from Nicky's. If the weather is tolerable, we may string up an antenna and try out a rig or two. For more info, contact Jeff WB5GWB at wb5gwb@arrl.net or http://www.erols.com/tjmc/LIQRP Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, Nov. 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, Nov. 19, at The Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, starting at 7 PM. Election of officers for 2003 is scheduled. See http://www.kcra.org KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, Nov. 20, 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 Wednesday, November 20 at the New Village Rec Center in Centereach at 7:30 pm. See http://www.rcarc.org Manhattan & Bronx ARES meeting will be on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 PM at Red Cross HQ, 150 Amsterdam Avenue (66th Street). Contact John KE2UN at ke2un@arrl.net for info. GSBARC Monthly meeting is Thursday, Oct. 21 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 Long Island DX Association will meet at Briarcliffe College on Friday, November 22, at 8:00 PM in room 10. Contact NN2C, Marty Miller, president of the LIDXA, at nn2c@arrl.net The Columbia University ARC VE Team 2002 will hold a VE exam on Monday, November 25 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 ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, Nov. 25 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 Kings County ARES meeting is on the Tuesday, November 26, 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. 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) |