Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
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December 2002 |
ARRL NYC/LI December E-happenings Newsletter Written and Edited by George Tranos N2GA, ARRL Section Manager NYC/LI -- Welcome! 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. Please submit any information for the January issue prior to the end of December. Happy Holidays from all of us on the NY City / Long Island section staff! 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 Hudson Division Awards Dinner held on November 9. The ARRL Hudson Division held its awards dinner on Saturday, Nov. 9. The event was hosted by the 10-70 Repeater Association and was held at Biagio's Ristorante in Paramus, New Jersey. Awards were given for the Hudson Division Amateur of the Year, Grand Ole Ham, and Technical Achievement. Section Emergency Coordinator Tom Carrubba KA2D was presented with the award as ARRL Hudson Division Amateur of the Year. Tom was introduced and presented his plaque by SM George Tranos N2GA, who nominated him for the award. Dave Watrous WD2K, of Schodack Landing, New York, was named as Hudson Division Grand Ole Ham. Receiving the award for Dave was Eastern New York Section Manager Peter Cecere N2YJZ. Tom Marin W2RN, of Wood Ridge, New Jersey, was presented the award for Technical Achievement. Ham Radio University 2003 planning meeting set for December 9. The next meeting for planning of the upcoming Ham Radio University 2003 will be held on Monday, December 9, at East Woods School Oyster Bay, NY, starting at 7 PM. Two planning meetings have been held to date with most of the logistics now in place for the fourth annual HRU. HRU 2003 is scheduled for Sunday, January 19, 2003, at East Woods School, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. At the upcoming meeting, final planning of the schedule, logistics and other aspects of HRU 2003 will be discussed. 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. From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator: New York City: NYC continues to support A-Thon events including the10/13 Staten Island Half Marathon, the 10/19 Waterfront Festival (St. George), the10/20 NYC Diabetes Walk (Riverside Park), the 10/20 Multiple Sclerosis NY/NJ 100 mile Bike Tour. Red Cross Training continues. Nassau County: October 29, Nassau ARES provided communications for the ADA's annual boardwalk walkathon. Participants included: K2KYQ Joe, K2LJH Sid, KA2YRY Dave, KC2BZB Joe, WB2HPI George, WB2GTC George, N2ICD Tony, KC2E Ed, and WA2WKV George. Suffolk County: Suffolk ARES participated in the 10/26 Township of Babylon SET and the 10/27 Suffolk County Special Olympics. SEC Tom KA2D on 10/26, participated in local township SET. SET in NLI for 2002 was very disappointing. We will improve for 2003. Still in planning stage; a working VHF/UHF repeater linking system that will able to link eastern NLI, through Suffolk, Nassau and NYC with ENY to Albany, NY. NLI packet network continues to expand. Thank you John Papson WB2CIK. 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 October 2002 New York City/Long Island Section Monthly qualifying total: 70 or more points AB2IZ 275, N2ECR 111, N2AKZ 110, KC2JXM 110, WB2GTG 100, KB2KLH 100, WA2YOW 100, KB2GEK 91, KE2SX 86 NTS Section or Local nets Net Name Abbrev Sessions QNI QTC/QSP Net Manager NY State/morning/cw NYS/M 31 189 54/49 KA2GJV NY State/early/cw NYS/E 31 346 156/135 WB2QIX NY State/late/cw NYS/L * W2YGW NY Phone NYP 31 221 340/337 N2LTC NY Public Opr. Net NYPON * N2YJZ Empire Slow Speed net ESS 31 350 0/60 WI2G NYC-LI/cw NLI 23 68 43/43 ** Big Apple VHF BAVHF 31 577 103/103 KB2KLH Nassau Co. VHF NCVHF (*) N2WGF Suffolk Co. VHF SCVHF 18 88 6/6 WA2VZK (**)--stats kept and reported by WA2YOW (*) report not received in time for this list PIC Diane Ortiz K2DO reports that the new handbook for Public Information Officers or anyone interested in public relations is now available on-line at http://www.arrl.org/pio SM George Tranos N2GA QRV from Grenada in November. George was part of the J3A multi-multi contest team during the CQ WW CW Contest on November 23 and 24, QSL J3A via WA1S. George was 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. 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 The Kings County Repeater Association's (KCRA) monthly VE exam will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 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.kcra.org American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service club meeting on Thursday, December 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, December 5, at 7 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, December 6 at 8 pm at Wantagh Library. Please contact Vic Panzica K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for more information. Peconic ARC monthly meeting is Friday, December 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 4th annual Skywarn Recognition Day will be held on Saturday, December 7, from 0000-2400 UTC (Friday 7:00 pm - Saturday 7:00 pm). The National Weather Service in Upton will once again be participating, with amateurs from a number of area clubs operating station K2U. We will be operating on the following bands...10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 meters. We also hope to operate on 2 meters via Echolink, using the K2SPD repeater (145.310 mHz), courtesy of the Suffolk Police ARC. If you'd like to join us at the NWS office office to work the event, please email Tom Carrubba KA2D at ka2d@arrl.net no later than Tuesday, December 3rd, as we must provide a visitors list to Brookhaven Labs Security. If not, please be sure to work K2U during the event. Ham Radio University 2003 planning meeting set for December 9. The next meeting for planning of the upcoming Ham Radio University 2003 will be held on Monday, December 9, at East Woods School Oyster Bay, NY, starting at 7 PM. Two planning meetings have been held to date with most of the logistics now in place for the fourth annual HRU. HRU 2003 is scheduled for Sunday, January 19, 2003, at East Woods School, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. At the upcoming meeting, final planning of the schedule, logistics and other aspects of HRU 2003 will be discussed. 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. Kings County Radio Club (KCRC) will hold a VE session on Tuesday, December 10, at 7:30 PM at the Ryan Center, Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY. Contact George KD2AU at georged1_us@yahoo.com or see http://www.qsl.net/kcrc/ Mid Island Amateur Radio Repeater Association Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, December 10, at 7 PM at the Brookhaven Rec Center in Centereach. See http://www.qsl.net/mid-islandarc HOSARC Holiday Party is Tuesday, December 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 Grumman ARC will hold a VE session on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 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, December 10. For more info, contact Nassau DEC George Gluck WA2WKV at wa2wkv@arrl.net LIMARC will hold their next regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, December 11, in Hicksville at 8 pm. Voting for officers and directors will be followed by their annual holiday party. See http://www.limarc.org The KCRA Non-Meeting Meeting (social gathering) will be held on Thursday, Dec. 12th, at 6:30 PM at the Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, NY. Call Ed W2SN at 718-833-7120 for further information. Larkfield ARC regular monthly meeting is Thursday, December 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, December 12, in Port Washington. Contact Joe K2KYQ at jreekie@wawnc.org for more information. Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, Dec. 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 annual Holiday Party on Tuesday, December 17, at The Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, starting at 7 PM. See http://www.kcra.org KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, Dec. 18, 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, December 18 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, Dec. 19, 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, Dec. 19 at 7:00 PM at the Babylon Town Hall EOC, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst. This will be their annual holiday party. Members are asked to bring a covered dish to share. For more information, see http://www.gsbarc.org The Long Island DX Association will meet at Briarcliffe College on Friday, December 20, 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, December 23 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, Dec. 23 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 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) |