Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
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December 2003 |
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. Section News Section News is available ONLY on theworld-wide-web. See the NLI site at: http://www.arrl.org/sections/?sect=NLI HAPPENINGS Happy Holidays from all of us on the NLI staff to you and your family! Frank Fallon N2FF reelected as ARRL Hudson Division Director! Incumbent Director Frank Fallon, N2FF, of East Williston, New York, defeated his current Vice Director and former Director Stephen A. Mendelsohn, W2ML, of Dumont, New Jersey, in the recently concluded election. See full story at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/11/21/3/?nc=1 Section hams come through at Riverhead Town Variance Hearing On Thursday, November 13, 5 hams from the NLI section testified at the variance hearing of Sal Console in the town of Riverhead, Long Island, NY. Mr. Console, also known as "Ted" holds the callsign K2QMF and has been a ham since 1956. He moved to Riverhead in May, 2003, and submitted plans for a 70 foot crank-up tower. Norm Wesler K2YEW, a professional engineer in NY state, testified on the need for the height. Richard Knadle K2RIW testified about RF emission and safety. Howard Liebman W2QUV testified about television and telephone interference. George Tranos N2GA testified on the value of Amateur Radio. Frank Fallon N2FF was on hand to testify about the national organization for Amateur Radio, the ARRL. The town board, in an unusual decision, decided to issue a variance that night and included Mr. Console's tower under the town's existing 50 foot Amateur Radio exemption. The town issued the variance with the proviso that the tower can only be cranked up above 50 foot for 1500 hours a year. Congratulations to K2QMF and to the entire team! Next Ham Radio University 2004 planning meeting December 8. Planning for HRU 2004 is well along. See below for a preliminary list of forums. The next meeting will be held on Monday, December 8, at 7 PM in the ARES/RACES room (downstairs) in Babylon Town Hall, Sunrise Highway, North Lindenhurst. It is open to anyone interested in helping with the logistics and planning of HRU 2004. Please let me know if you're planning on attending. HRU 2004 will be held at East Woods School in Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY, on Sunday, January 18, 2004. 73, George Tranos N2GA, ARRL Section Manager NYC/LI, Chairman, Ham Radio University 2004, n2ga@arrl.org . Please see the HRU 2004 website at http://www.hudson.arrl.org/nli/hru2004.htm Preliminary HRU 2004 Forum Schedule: 9:00 - 10:50 AM CCE Seminar - ARRL CCE ECC Seminar - Dan Miller K3UFG 9:00 - 9:50 AM Mobiling - Mobile Radio Installation and Setup Internet Linking - Ham Radio Communications & the Internet DX'ing - Techniques of the best DX operators - Marty Miller NN2C (LIDXA) 10:00 - 10:50 AM Digital Modes - Communicating with Digital Modes - Bob Wexelbaum W2ILP Emergency Operations - Operating under emergency conditions Logging Programs - Using Logging Programs in your shack 11:00 - 11:50 AM Public Relations - Public Relations for Amateur Radio Logbook of the World - What is it and how to use it - Tom Carrubba KA2D Antennas - The art and science of Antennas - Sid Wolin K2LJH & Walter Wenzel KA2RGI Computer / Radio Interfacing - The Ins and Outs of Computer / Radio Interfacing 12 noon - 12:50 PM (Keynote presentation) BPL - Broadband over Power Lines - Ed Hare W1RFI 1:00 - 1:50 PM Test Equipment - Using Test Equipment & Soldering - Neil Heft KC2KY Contesting - Amateur Radio Contesting - Mel Granick KS2G NWS Weather Info - How to use Weather Info for emergency planning - Scott Reynolds KC2JCB (NWS) Radio Programming - How to program your radio 2:00 - 2:50 PM Intro to Ham Radio - Introduction to Amateur Radio - Walter Wenzel KA2RGI LI Wireless History - History of Radio on Long Island Satellite - How to work Amateur Radio Satellites Stealth Antennas - The Installation and Use of Stealth Antennas 3:00 - 3:50 PM Volunteer Examination Session - Testing for all levels of Amateur Licenses NOTE - Forum Moderators are NEEDED for the following seminars: Mobiling, Internet Linking, Computer / Radio Interfacing, Logging Programs. If you are interested in volunteering as a forum moderator, please contact the HRU Committee by sending e-mail to n2ga@arrl.org NYC/LI Skywarn Recognition Day on December 6 Scott Reynolds KC2JCB of the NYC NWS Office is organizing the 2003 NWS/ARRL SKYWARN Recognition Day at Upton, NY. The Upton Office will be signing their call WX2OKX. December 6, 2003 from 0000 UTC to 2359 UTC. Check the Skywarn page for updates; http://www.erh.noaa.gov/okx/Skywarn/skywarn.html It is a good opportunity to come out and visit the site and operate HF. In addition to working HF, we are allowed contacts on VHF/UHF. So, we will be running 2 special Skywarn Recognition Day nets on 2 meters. We'll be on the 145.150 W2RC repeater from 7 to 8 pm. From 8 to 9 pm, we'll be on the 145.310 K2SPD repeater, which will also allow for Echolink users to check in. Thanks to both Radio Central and Suffolk Police ARCs for use of their repeaters for these nets. Contact Scott direct for details at scott.reynolds@noaa.gov From Tom Carrubba KA2D, Section Emergency Coordinator: New York City: from DEC Charles Hargrove N2NOV: Public Service Events Miles for Midwives 5K - Brooklyn (October 4th) 9 operators x 3 hours = 27 man/hours Deborah Hospital 5K - Brooklyn (October 11th) 10 operators x 3 hours = 30 man/hours Half Marathon - Staten Island (October 12th) 5 operators x 6 hours = 30 man/hours Race Against Violence 5K - Brooklyn (October 19th) 5 operators x 3 hours = 15 man/hours Diabetes Walk - Manhattan (October 19th) 10 operators x 8 hours = 80 man/hours ACS 5K - Brooklyn (October 19th) 8 operators x 3 hours = 24 man/hours Ft. Totten Trot 5K - Queens (October 25th) 5 operators x 4 hours = 20 man/hours Nassau County; EC Mario Maltese WF2T reporting for DEC George Gluck WA2WKV: General Meeting took place on October 14, where Mario WF2T made a PowerPoint presentation on the differences between ARES and RACES, and presented the recap of the Services Log for the 9-14-02 to 9-14-03 year. On October 19, a walkathon for the American Diabetes Association took place with 8 Nassau ARES operators in support. Fire Services Coordinator Jim Mezzey W2KFV made a presentation to the Fire Chiefs regarding ARES, which is receiving much interest since the 2003 Blackout. During the Blackout,ARES was handling traffic normally handled by the Fire Services, but the 800 MHz trunk radio system was down when the backup generator failed to come on line. Suffolk County: from Tom KA2D: no reports. KA2D did speak with DEC Bill Scheibel N2NFI as is our routine. SC is in process of ARES renewals. SC ARES/RACES net meets each Monday night at 9:00 PM local time. SEC; participated or monitored the three districts SET exercises. Only one district managed to send packet traffic to SEC, that was Nassau County. As you can see, no district included a mention of their SET exercise in their reports. Oct 29 KA2D was the guest speaker at Radio Central ARC. The topic was Emergency Communications, how members should be active in ARES and the importance of the ARRL CCE EC courses. I was accompanied by local EC Joe Werner KC2BPS and NLI ACC Phil Lewis N2MUN. Joe supplied the group with local ARES info and applications, Phil spoke about the upcoming HRU 2004 / NLI Convention, where emergency communications will be one of featured topics. Continue to solicit reports and monitor nets, emails and newsletters. This month was focused on NLI ARES policy issues in the NYC District. Note from the Section Manager: Brooklyn Emergency Coordinator Adam Fine AB2IZ resigned from his position in November. The NLI Section staff thanks Adam for his years of service as EC. 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 Suffolk Co. VHF Net 8pm (Mon. through Thurs.) on 145.210 MHz. The ARRL PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL Month of October 2003 New York City/Long Island Section Monthly qualifying total: 70 or more points AB2IZ 391, N2ECR 234, N2YBB 106, KC2GOW 100, KB2KLH 100 N2AKZ 100, KE2SX 90, W2DSX 86, WB2APP 18 NTS Section or Local nets Net Name Abbrev Sessions QNI QTC/QSP Net anager NY State/morning/cw NYS/M 28 116 47/41 KA2GJV NY State/early/cw NYS/E 31 273 127/110 WB2QIX NY State/late/cw NYS/L 31 205 165/146 W2YGW NY Phone NYP 31 161 337/317 N2LTC NY Public Opr. Net NYPON 31 325 223/210 N2YJZ Empire Slow Speed net ESS 31 415 0/48 WI2G NYC-LI/cw NLI * WA2YOW Big Apple VHF BAVHF 31 514 146/144 KB2KLH Nassau Co. VHF NCVHF 30 139 23/23 WA2VZK Suffolk Co. VHF SCVHF 17 63 14/14 WA2VZK (*) report not received in time for this list Please contact Claire if you are interested in being an Net Control Station for the Suffolk County VHF traffic net on Tuesday or Wednesday nights at 8:00 PM. One requirement is to be able to access the repeater on 145.210 Mhz. Contact Claire at CAHEIL@aol.com Congratulations to the Peconic Amateur Radio Club for renewing as an ARRL special service club! For more information on PARC, see their website at www.peconic-arc.org Nassau County Police Amateur Radio Club reelects officers. George Geller WB2GTC has been re-elected to President of NCPARC, Also reelected are Vice President Angelo N2ZKN, Secretary Jeff KC2DAQ and Treasurer Jim W2KFV. Transmitter hunting used to be a very popular activity on Long Island, but lately interest has declined. We want to let you know that 2 meter hunts have been sponsored and conducted by the Plaza Repeater Group (146.640/Mineola) for at least the past 25 years. The hunts are normally held in Nassau County, but we are willing to travel into Queens or Suffolk if there is interest. It's an exciting activity and we think you'll have a great time. For further information, contact Larry Berger, WA2SUH at 516-223-4611, or e-mail at wa2suh@aol.com. 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. 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 club as December meetings may be preempted by holiday parties and/or elections! Grumman ARC will hold a VE session on Tuesday, Dec. 2 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, Dec. 2, 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.kc2ra.org/ American Red Cross Emergency Communications Service club meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 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, Dec. 4, 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. It is their annual election meeting. Peconic ARC monthly meeting is Friday, December 5, 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. Larkfield ARC will hold a VE Session on Saturday, Dec. 6, 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, Dec. 8 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 The next planning meeting for Ham Radio University 2004 will be held on Monday, December 8, at 7 PM in the ARES/RACES room (downstairs) in Babylon Town Hall, Sunrise Highway, North Lindenhurst. It is open to anyone interested in helping with the logistics and planning of HRU 2004. Please let me know if you're planning on attending. HRU 2004 will be held at East Woods School in Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY, on Sunday, January 18, 2004. 73, George Tranos N2GA, ARRL Section Manager NYC/LI, Chairman, Ham Radio University 2004, n2ga@arrl.org . Please see the HRU 2004 website at http://www.hudson.arrl.org/nli/hru2004.htm HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, Dec. 9, 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. Nassau County ARES meeting will be held at the Red Cross Chapter at 195 Willis Avenue Mineola, at 7:30 pm, on Tuesday, Dec. 9. The topic will be "End of year meeting: accomplishments, goals". For more info, contact Nassau DEC George Gluck WA2WKV at wa2wkv@arrl.net LIMARC will hold their next regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, December 10, in Hicksville at 8 pm. This meeting is their annual holiday party and election of officers. 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, Dec. 11, 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, Dec. 11, 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, Dec. 11, in Port Washington. Contact Joe K2KYQ at jreekie@wawnc.org for more information. The Long Island DX Association will not be meeting in December. A Holiday Party will be held on Thursday December 11 at "Mary's Backyard" restaurant (Tel: 433-3338) in Bethpage at 7PM. Contact Marty Miller NN2C, President of the LIDXA, at mmiller4@optonline.net for further information. The next regular scheduled meeting of the LIDXA we be at 8PM on Friday, January 16, 2004 at Briarcliffe College, 1055 Stewart Ave., Bethpage (Room 10 in the Huntington Hallway). In January we go back to our regular scheduled meetings (the third Friday of each month). See the Web at http://www.qsl.net/lidxa/ for more information. Wantagh ARC monthly meeting is Friday, Dec. 12 at 8 pm at Wantagh Library. Please contact Vic Panzica K2IY at vpanzica@optonline.net or www.qsl.net/w2va for more information. The monthly Queens County ARES meeting will be Sunday, Dec. 14 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, Dec. 16 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, Dec. 16 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. 17, 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, Dec. 17 at the New Village Rec Center in Centereach at 7:30 pm. Topic this month will be radio controlled airplanes. See http://www.rcarc.org Manhattan & Bronx ARES meeting will be on Thursday, Dec. 18 at 7:30 PM at Red Cross HQ, 150 Amsterdam Avenue (66th Street). Contact John KE2UN at ke2un@arrl.net for info. The Town of Babylon Amateur Radio Emergency Services meetings are on the third Thursday each month @ 8:00 PM. This month's meeting will be held on Thursday, Dec. 18. Location is the basement of Babylon Town Hall in the Emergency Operations Center, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst, NY. For more information, see their Website: http://www.tobares.org or contact Babylon town EC Walter Wenzel, KA2RGI at 631-957-0218 or via e-mail at ka2rgi@arrl.net. GSBARC Monthly meeting is Thursday, Dec. 18 at 7:00 PM at the Babylon Town Hall EOC, 200 East Sunrise Hwy, North Lindenhurst. This month is GSBARC's annual end of year party. For more information, see http://www.gsbarc.org Nassau ARC Monthly Meeting is Monday, Dec. 29 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 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) |