VHF Traffic Net for Field Day

NE1RI will be holding a NTS Traffic Net at 18:00 local time on Saturday June 27 on the W1SYE Repeater during Field Day for the purposes of passing Bonus Point messages.  Usually a single message is passed to the RI Section Manager Bob Beaudet W1YRC, and ten messages can be sent to anyone else.  NCS will be NE1RI, with an alternate of WB4SON.

N1CKT will be NCS on the regular Thursday W1SYE net at 7:00 PM, and will do a practice session for those interested after the regular net clears.

The standard ARRL Message Form should be used and a fillable copy is available by clicking on this link.

Chuck says the following YouTube video explains the process quite well:

 

Applicable Field Day 2020 Rules for message bonuses are:

7.3.5. Message Origination to Section Manager: 100 bonus points for origination of a formal message to the ARRL Section Manager or Section Emergency Coordinator by your group from its site. You should include the club name, number of participants, Field Day location, and number of ARES operators involved with your station. The message must be transmitted during the Field Day period and a copy of it must be included in your submission in standard ARRL radiogram or no credit will be given. The message must leave or enter the Field Day operation via amateur radio RF.

The Section Manager message is separate from the messages handled in Rule 7.3.6. and may not be claimed for bonus points under that rule. Available to all Classes.

 7.3.6. Message Handling: 10 points for each formal message originated, relayed or received and delivered during the Field Day period, up to a maximum of 100 points (ten messages). Copies of each message must be included with the Field Day report. The message to the ARRL SM or SEC under Rule 7.3.5. does not count towards the total of 10 for this bonus. Available to all Classes. All messages claimed for bonus points must leave or enter the Field Day operation via amateur radio RF.

 

2-meter band under attack in Region 1

The upcoming WRC 2023 meeting has a proposal from a French company to allocate all the Region 1 2-meter band to aircraft use.  The proposal had no justification as to why 2-meters was appropriate or why other frequencies would not be suitable.  While this doesn’t impact us in Region 2, that low 2 MHz contains all the weak signal, DX and satellite bands.

The IARU says not to worry here: http://www.arrl.org/news/iaru-president-offers-assurances-regarding-french-144-146-mhz-allocation-proposal

This just points out that Amateur Bands are always under attack and we must defend our allocations.  The ARRL is the only group that provides funding in our region for this effort.

W1SYE.ORG Now Hosted by HostGator

The W1SYE website moved to HostGator.

This move has been underway for the past 40 days, but was completed this afternoon.  It may take a few hours for the DNS entries to propagate (in other words for the new server to be located).  Eventually this should allow us to enable a secure (https) website.