A new tab has been added to our website “New Ham Info”.
This is part of our mentoring program for those new to the hobby. You will find information on VHF/UHF radios and antennas, HF radios and antennas, Digital Modes as well as Morse Code. Please check it out!
Because the Breakfast Meeting Zoom Link was inadvertently published online, it has been deleted. Participants will receive a new link via email for future meetings.
Please understand that the links from the first meeting in August and the email from early September will no longer work.
NCRC and Narragansett Council have teamed to provide an experience to Scouts in our area.
Help is needed for Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) on Saturday October 17 at Camp Yawgoog.
JOTA is the largest Scouting event in the world. Held annually the third full weekend in October. JOTA uses amateur radio to link Scouts and hams around the world, around the nation, and in the local community.
Given the COVID situation, a one-day event is planned on Saturday, Oct 17 to allow Scouts to experience radio operations as an element of the Radio Merit Badge. In the past, this is activity was at the Glen but this year it will be at Camp Yawgoog. Pico balloon with APRS, HF/VHF/FT-8 stations, and Fox Hunting are committed. Can you provide an educational booth or HAM station that would excite scouts about being HAM! Join our TEAM!
NCRC members are needed to supply equipment and mentoring as Scouts attempt contacts with the worldwide community. Local VHF operation and satellite contacts are contemplated. Please contact John Vecoli at john.vecoli@gmail.com with your availability and equipment ideas.
A significant contribution of equipment and parts from Werner Schmidt’s estate was donated to NCRC for distribution to support radio activities.
Pictures and descriptions are at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pm5N4k3deB01AOXMf6EJBGuLbZAWYhUQ?usp=sharing
Interested in anything you see? Just email k1ybe@yahoo.com
Thanks to Dave Fredette (KC1EBB) for the pickup vehicle and cataloging. Please help relieve him of storing it. Dave Emond (KC1IPA) and I picked it up (literally) and moved it to KC1EBB’s QTH.
73, K1YBE
The Newport County Radio Club VHF station will be on 2-meter Simplex 146.52 MHz Saturday June 27 at 7:30 PM, and will switch over to 70-cm Simplex 446.000 MHz at 8:00 PM. Anyone wishing to help the club with some Field Day points is encouraged to dust off your handheld radios and give it a try. You could expect to hear something like:
CQ Field Day, this is NE1RI
At which point you would respond with your callsign like this:
NE1RI this is WB4SON
Assuming they hear you, the club station would reply with their exchange “2 Alpha RI” (Two transmitters in the field with auxiliary power):
WB4SON 2 Alpha RI
And you would give your exchange “1 Delta RI” (one transmitter at home) in response:
NE1RI 1 Delta RI, 73 from WB4SON
If you happen to have a BaoFeng UV5R that was programmed by the club (there are 100+ members with that radio), then use Channel 10, which is 146.52 MHz, or Channel 13, which is 446.000 MHz
Note you don’t have to send in a log or even keep one unless you want to. Besides generating a few points for the club, this is a great way to know your gear is working.