You can find information on next January’s Winter Field Day (WFD) under the activities tab.

This year the focus will be on engaging Technician License holders with their own high performance VHF & HF station.

Check out information on WFD by clicking here.

If you need additional information, please email wfd@w1sye.org

Our next business meeting will be held on November 18th at St Barnabas Church (1697 E Main Rd Portsmouth, RI).  Doors will open around 6 pm, and the meeting will begin at 7 pm.

The primary purpose of the meeting will be to hold elections.  During our October meeting, nominations were put forth.  The office of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer were accepted without additions,  The bylaws provide for up to five additional members of the Executive Committee, and we have nominations for eight, so an election ballot will be required.

All currently paid licensed members are eligible to vote in person at the meeting, or via zoom remotely.

Please keep an eye on the weather, as Tropical Storm Debby is anticipated to make a run up the eastern coast.  Still about 5 days from our area, some models are calling for it to strengthen to a weak Cat 1 hurricane and making another landfall between RI and MA.

Under the influence of rather weak steering currents, while forecasting its position 5 days out, there is a lot of uncertainty, but it is a good time to get your preparations completed just in case.

The last time RI had a hurricane was Hurricane Bob in 1991.  Wind isn’t usually the biggest threat in any event, and tropical storms have done major damage from storm surge and flooding from rain in our area.

Excellent news was heard from the ARRL today:  “Effective 12:00pm ET / 16:00 UTC we will be returning Logbook of The World® (LoTW®) to service.”

The service went down around mid May, but users should check their logs as the last uploads from some users appear to be about a week before then.

Our thanks to the ARRL staff for restoring LotW to operation.

I encourage you to attend this month’s meeting in person.  Directions from Portsmouth to the Bristol Train of Artillery (BTA) and some parking locations were sent by email.  The building has a set of stairs to get into the hall and is not handicapped accessible.  Please use the Zoom option if the stairs prevent you from attending.