Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager

Season's Greetings.

This is the December 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 February 2002 is due on December
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 December 12.

HAPPENINGS

Happy Holidays!  The NLI Section Staff joins me in wishing you
and yours and wonderful and joyous Holiday Season.

NLI Website has moved!  Please visit us now at our new
location - http://www.hudson.arrl.org/nli

Ham Radio University 2002 - Make sure you mark your
calendars now for HRU 2002, the ARRL NLI Section
Convention.  It is planned for Sunday, January 21, 2002,
at Babylon Town Hall Annex on Phelps Lane in North
Babylon. It runs from 8 am to 4 pm. The next planning meeting
for this third annual event will be on Tuesday, December 11 at
7 pm at Babylon Town EOC.  Come down and help make this
the best HRU ever!  HRU is also the ARRL New York City /
Long Island Section Convention again this year.  Contact Phil
Lewis N2MUN at 631-226-0698 or n2mun@arrl.net.

Contest Season continues in December!  The ARRL 160
meter contest is December 7 through 9.  The ARRL 10
meter contest is December 14 through 16.

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

Manhattan VE Sessions are available - The Columbia University
VE Team holds VE sessions on the third Monday of the month
at 6:30 pm at Columbia University, Watson Labs, 6th Floor,
612 West 115th Street, Manhattan. Preregistration is suggested,
contact Alan Crosswell at (212) 854-3754 or alan@columbia.edu.
The next exam session is Monday, December 17.

Kings County Radio Club is holding a VE session on Tuesday,
December 11 at Gateway National Park.  Contact George
Donahue at georged1_us@yahoo.com to register or for
more information.

Section VE Sessions - available on the web at:
http://www.arrlhudson.org/nli/nlive.htm

Ham maps available online - All amateurs are invited to download
a copy of EI8IC's new ham maps at http://www.qsl.net/ei8ic/
Some of the available maps include: * ITU Zones, * ITU Regions,
* Grid Locators, * Ham Continents, * Time Zones, * CQ Zones.

UPCOMING Club Events

Special Event Station K2U will be on the air on Saturday,
December 1, as part of NWS/ARRL Skywarn Recognition
Day.  Amateurs from the Upton, NY (OKX) region will operate
from the National Weather Service office in Upton, NY.
This event will be from 00:00-24:00 UTC. K2U will be in the
general SSB portions of bands 40-10. All amateurs in the
region are encouraged to operate/visit. Contact Bob Giglio,
N2JJM, Regional Skywarn Coordinator, bob@gigdot.net.
For additional information visit http://hamradio.noaa.gov/
QSL to:SKYWARN Recognition Day - K2U, PO Box 1356,
West Babylon, NY 11704.

Mid Island Amateur Radio Repeater Association Monthly Meeting
is Tuesday, December 4, at 7 PM at the Brookhaven Rec Center in
Centereach. See http://www.qsl.net/mid-islandarc

NY City ARES will participate in "Operation Santa", a Christmas
party for disabled children, to be held at JFK airport on Wednesday,
December 5 starting at 8AM.

Nassau County Police ARC will hold their December
club meeting on Thursday, December 6 at 8 pm at
Long Beach Police Auxiliary Building, 859 East Park Ave,
Long Beach.  Contact George WB2GTC at
GeorgegeeG@aol.com or http://www.qsl.net/kb2uyp/
for more info.

American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service club
meeting on Thursday, December 6, at 7 PM at 138-02 Queens Blvd,
1st Floor, Briarwood, New York 11435.  Contact Lenny Smith
N2LDV at N2LDV@yahoo.com.

Peconic ARC annual "pot luck" party is Saturday, Dec. 8, at the home
of Roberta Keis in South Jamesport starting at 4 pm.  Contact
Roberta at 631-722-4060 for directions.  "Come for the fun,
bring a dish to pass or a bottle to share".  See
http://www.peconic-arc.org

There will be a citywide NYC ARES meeting on Sat. December 8th
at the 23rd Street location of UCP starting at Noon.  This meeting
is open to all ARES members or prospective members.  Contact
Charles Hargrove N2NOV at n2nov@nyc-ares.org for more
information.

Ham Radio University 2002 Planning meeting is Tuesday, Dec.
11, at 7 pm at Babylon Town Hall EOC, 200 East Sunrise Hwy,
North Lindenhurst.  This is the next planning meeting for the
2002 event. Anyone interested in helping out with the planning
process for this third annual event is invited.  Contact HRU
Chairman Phil Lewis N2MUN at 631-226-0698 or
n2mun@arrl.net for more information.

HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, Dec. 11, in Queens at 8 pm.
See http://www.qsl.net/hosarc.

SCRC VE Exams will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the Islip
Town Hall Annex, 401 Main St. Islip in room 302 starting 7:30 pm.
All classes of license exams will be given.  For information contact
Paul Beeman W2PB w2pb@arrl.net or Kathy Pearsall KC2ACJ at
kc2acj@arrl.net.

KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, Dec. 12, in Brooklyn at
7:30 pm.  See http://www.qsl.net/kcrc/

LIMARC regular monthly meeting is Wednesday, December 12,
in Hicksville at 8 pm. Election of officers and directions and their
annual holiday party will be held. See http://www.limarc.org

Larkfield ARC regular monthly meeting is Thursday, December
13, in Huntington at 7:30 pm. E-mail n2nki@arrl.net or see
http://www.larkfield.org

Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, December 14 at 8 pm at
Wantagh Library.   If you are interested, please contact Vic Panzica
K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for
more information.

Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, December 18, in
Bohemia at 8 pm. See
http://members.tripod.com/~parasca/index/scrc.html

Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) will hold a
regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 18, at The
Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn.
See http://www.kcra.org

GSBARC Holiday party is Tuesday, Dec. 18, in North Babylon
at the Town Hall Annex on Phelps Lane at 8 pm.
See http://www.gsbarc.org

Radio Central ARC monthly meeting is Thursday, Dec. 20, in
Rocky Point at 7:30 pm. See http://www.rcarc.org

Manhattan / Bronx ARES meeting will be on Thursday, Dec. 20,
at 7PM at Red Cross HQ, 150 Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan.

Long Island DX Association will meet on Friday, December 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 ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, Dec. 31, in Eisenhower
Park in East Meadow at the Senior Citizen's Center at 8 pm. 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://www.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.

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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 Communications - John Blowsky KB2SCS (kb2scs@arrl.net)