Mary KC1NEB has setup the artwork for a very attractive black T-Shirt with NCRC logo on the front and the words “Newport County Radio Club” on the back.

If you are interested in ordering a shirt, please go to the SWAG tab.

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.

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.

Pete W1LAB, and Willy W1SYE are aboard Goblin today running alongside several lighthouses between Cuttyhunk Island and Martha’s Vineyard.

• 1510 UTC USA-215 CUTTYHUNK LIGHT
• 1640 UTC USA-835 TARPAULIN COVE LIGHT
• 1740 UTC USA-550 NOBSKA POINT LIGHT
• 1815 UTC USA-877 WEST CHOP LIGHT
• 1830 UTC USA-259 EAST CHOP LIGHT
• 1850 UTC USA-132 CAPE POGE LIGHT
• 1915 UTC USA-265 EDGARTOWN LIGHT

Funeral services for John will be held at the Portsmouth United Methodist Church Sunday September 16th with visitation starting at 3 pm, and the actual funeral service at 4 PM.

The service is open to the public.