From nt1k at nt1k.com Wed Jun 1 15:17:36 2016 From: nt1k at nt1k.com (Jeffrey Bail - NT1K) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 15:17:36 -0400 Subject: [HCRA] New Zero Beat hot off the press Message-ID: FYI To all that a new edition of Zero Beat is available for download. http://www.hcra.org/zb/jun16.pdf Don't forget there is a meeting this Friday at 7:30pm at the Holyoke Medical Center's auxiliary conference center. Hope to see you there. We have plenty to talk about. - Jeffrey Bail (NT1K) From computercare at comcast.net Mon Jun 6 10:07:15 2016 From: computercare at comcast.net (Larry Krainson) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 10:07:15 -0400 Subject: [HCRA] Can you help at my Antenna Party this Saturday? Message-ID: I'm looking for help at my antenna party this Saturday. Starting at 9 am and going until completed. Lunch & drinks will be provided for all that help. Rain will postpone. What I hope to accomplish: - take down existing 3 ele beam - take down existing rotor - take down exisiting coax and rotor cable - replace above with - new rotor & cable - new beam and coax - run cables back into house - Get it all on the air I hope to get the new antenna assembled during the week. I desperately need 2 qualified people on the roof (not steep) and roof tower (only 8 feet). I've had a few maybe's but no commitment. Ground crew should be plentiful. If you can help, please let me know. My address is good in QRZ for my call W1AST. Thank you and 73, Larry, W1AST From kk1w.jim at gmail.com Sat Jun 18 10:58:54 2016 From: kk1w.jim at gmail.com (Jim Mullen) Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 10:58:54 -0400 Subject: [HCRA] HCRA Field Day - Schools St. Park, Agawam, MA - are you coming??? Message-ID: About seven days from now HCRA will be blasting the airwaves with "CQ Field" day from School St. Park in nearby Agawam, MA. Our plans have solidified to a 5A operation, perhaps even 6A, the usual superb four towers with beams on 40, 20, 15 and 10 and dipoles for 80/75. a Saturday VE session, lots of operators, KX2 raffle tickets and.... *FOOD!* *Alan/AB1XW will be serving up dogs and burgers, "on the house" Saturday evening. A perfect way to stoke the fires for an all-night operation.* Read all the details and see the participants by clicking here . After looking through the list you'll see a few spots where we could use *YOUR* help. What would you like to do? 1. We can make 100 points by simply originating an NTS message to our Section Manager and up to an additional 100 points by sending 10 radiograms. Are you ready for the challenge? It's easy and shouldn't take more than an hour at most. Want to give it a try? Contact Jim/KK1W for more info. 2. Are you a good teacher? There's another 100 points on the table for organizing an educational activity. It could be as simple as showing how to get active on digital modes or constructing a wire dipole. Interested, contact Jeff/NT1K or Jim/KK1W and we can get you going. 3. Finally, we can make up to another 100 points for "Youth Participation". Any operator under 18, that makes at least one FD QSO earns HCRA 20 points. If we get five youth operators we make another 100 points! How cool is that? Remember they (or you) don't have to be licensed to operate at Field Day. It's a perfect opportunity to expose youngsters to a hobby that could shape their future. No need to contact anyone about this, grab a kid and bring them to School St. Park. Time your visit just before Saturday evening and have a burger or hot dog for your (and their) efforts. Don't forget to pick up a KX2 raffle ticket while visiting Field Day. A mere $10 donation could bring you a spanking new Elecraft KX2! The weather forecast looks promising and plans are in place. What are you waiting for, all we need is *YOU*! From kb1vky at gmail.com Sat Jun 18 12:46:04 2016 From: kb1vky at gmail.com (AB1WT Jeff) Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:46:04 -0400 Subject: [HCRA] HCRA Field Day - Schools St. Park, Agawam, MA - are you coming??? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: i wish i could help this year but i had surgery on my arm and i am not doing very well. i hope i at least feel well enough to stop by and say hi. jeff ab1wt On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Jim Mullen wrote: > ______________________________________________ > -------Hampden County Radio Association------- > -----------e-mail list (reflector)------------- > ______________________________________________ > About seven days from now HCRA will be blasting the airwaves with "CQ > Field" day from School St. Park in nearby Agawam, MA. Our plans > have solidified to a 5A operation, perhaps even 6A, the usual superb four > towers with beams on 40, 20, 15 and 10 and dipoles for 80/75. a Saturday VE > session, lots of operators, KX2 raffle tickets and.... > > *FOOD!* *Alan/AB1XW will be serving up dogs and burgers, "on the house" > Saturday evening. A perfect way to stoke the fires for an all-night > operation.* > > Read all the details and see the participants by clicking here > . After looking through > the > list you'll see a few spots where we could use *YOUR* help. What would you > like to do? > > 1. We can make 100 points by simply originating an NTS message to our > Section Manager and up to an additional 100 points by sending 10 > radiograms. Are you ready for the challenge? It's easy and shouldn't take > more than an hour at most. Want to give it a try? Contact Jim/KK1W for more > info. > > 2. Are you a good teacher? There's another 100 points on the table for > organizing an educational activity. It could be as simple as showing how to > get active on digital modes or constructing a wire dipole. Interested, > contact Jeff/NT1K or Jim/KK1W and we can get you going. > > 3. Finally, we can make up to another 100 points for "Youth Participation". > Any operator under 18, that makes at least one FD QSO earns HCRA 20 points. > If we get five youth operators we make another 100 points! How cool is > that? Remember they (or you) don't have to be licensed to operate at Field > Day. It's a perfect opportunity to expose youngsters to a hobby that could > shape their future. No need to contact anyone about this, grab a kid and > bring them to School St. Park. Time your visit just before Saturday > evening and have a burger or hot dog for your (and their) efforts. > > Don't forget to pick up a KX2 raffle ticket while visiting Field Day. A > mere $10 donation could bring you a spanking new Elecraft KX2! > > The weather forecast looks promising and plans are in place. What are you > waiting for, all we need is *YOU*! > ______________________________________________________________ > HCRA mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcra > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCRA at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. From nt1k at nt1k.com Mon Jun 20 08:37:11 2016 From: nt1k at nt1k.com (Jeffrey Bail - NT1K) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 08:37:11 -0400 Subject: [HCRA] HCRA Field Day This Weekend - Need Picnic Headcount Message-ID: As you already know, Field Day is this upcoming weekend on June 25th and 26th. This year HCRA is bringing back food thanks to Alan Dove (AB1XW). Food is what brings a lot of people together and we want to thank you all for being members. Field Day is HCRA's biggest event and it's encouraged that you at least visit the field day site. We will be having hot dogs and burgers with some sides. If you would like to help out and bring your own side to share, please do! We're looking for a head count to get an idea of how much food to purchase. We don't want to buy too little and we don't want to buy too much. If you are not listed on the HCRA's Field Day Page, please reply just to me and let me know if you coming for the food. Please bring a chair just in-case. http://www.hcra.org/field-day/field-day-2016/ Hope to see you there. So far the weekend is looking to be great for radio. - Jeffrey Bail (NT1K) HCRA President. From nt1k at nt1k.com Wed Jun 22 09:30:29 2016 From: nt1k at nt1k.com (Jeffrey Bail - NT1K) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:30:29 -0400 Subject: [HCRA] HCRA Field Day Is Just A Couple Days Away! Message-ID: That's right. Starting this Friday (June 24th), HCRA will be starting to setup for Field Day 2016. Then on Saturday (June 25th), HCRA has a bunch of events besides field day planned. Please support your club by volunteering to help with setup, operating and tear down. You could also show support by just showing up and saying hello. This is HCRA's only event where we interact with the general public. Here are some other events that will be going on during field day Saturday 4:00pm - Educational Activity with Frandy (N1FJ). Saturday 5:00pm - Food (Burgers, Hotdogs) with Alan (AB1XW) Saturday 6:00pm - VE session with Jeff (NT1K) Elecraft KX2 Tickets will be sold throughout the weekend. This is will your chance to win the newest radio from elecraft. Tickets are $10ea and only 250 tickets were printed. We're also including the elecraft microphone and internal automatic tuner (match) which puts the package at a $1000 value. The drawing will happen when all 250 tickets are sold or at the MTARA hamfest in March of 2017. Please visit HCRA's Field Day 2016 page http://www.hcra.org/field-day/field-day-2016/ If your name isn't on the page, don't worry, you are still invited. Hope to see you there, Jeffrey Bail (NT1K) HCRA President From nt1k at nt1k.com Fri Jun 24 08:34:03 2016 From: nt1k at nt1k.com (Jeffrey Bail - NT1K) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:34:03 -0400 Subject: [HCRA] HCRA Field Day Setup Starts Today! Message-ID: This is it, HCRA's big event. We will be at school street park in Agawam today (June 24th) to start setting up for ARRL's Annual Field Day. Thanks to all who volunteered to help with setup, operations, cooking and tear down. Setup will start at 10:00am Please visit http://www.hcra.org for more details. We ask that you please use the parking lots to avoid damaging the field. HCRA is very grateful to Agawam and their parks and rec dept for their kindness, let's repay them by making sure the park is how we found it, if not better. There is limited parking behind the band shell and we want to reserve it for the band, tower and antenna captains as they will be bringing in a lot of equipment. Field Day will offically start at 2pm on Saturday the 25th, ALL are welcome to attend, operate and even eat some food. This is an excellent event to show Agawam and the surrounding communities what amateur radio is about. Hope to see you there. Let's have fun and most of all... Stay Safe. Thank you, Jeffrey Bail (NT1K)