Hello everyone – this summer is speeding by despite being stuck mostly at home and getting wacked by a tropical storm. Hopefully everyone has power back and things cleaned up.
It is time for our NCRC meeting, which will be held via ZOOM. After a short business meeting and induction of new members, Mike James AC1GM, will be giving a presentation on “Field Day in the Boondocks”
Invitations will be mailed to members shortly. See everyone at 7 PM on Monday!
It is time for the Newport County Radio Club monthly meeting. We will continue to hold our meetings via Zoom. The next one will be Monday July 13 at 7:00 PM. Check your email for your invitation!
In addition to our usual business items and induction of new members (153 now), the meeting will discuss the results of our 2A Club Field Day Station.
Following the presentation there will be a 45 minute overview on Digital Radios (DSTAR, DMR & Fusion) as well as HotSpots and AMBE Servers given by Bob WB4SON
Last months meeting was conducted on ZOOM and was a resounding success, with more people online than at our usual physical meetings. As we are still under gathering restrictions, Monday’s meeting will be online as well.
This is the last chance we have to discuss our summer Field Day plans (June 27 & 28). There have been some interesting developments that will be discussed. There will be a Round Table discussion on “Stepping down from 10 meters” covering HF topics of interest to new General license holders.
Please be on the lookout for your invitation email and join us at 7 PM on Monday June 8th.
NCRC held its May club meeting via Zoom last night. Things went very well. We had 48 people in attendance, which is a bit more than one of our traditional in-person meetings. It was nice to see members in FLA (Pete W1LAB), PA (Bruce NJ3K), and NH (Art W1AGW) join in as well. The business meeting ran just about an hour, including a long discussion of Field Day 2020, with two new members being voted into membership. Congratulations:
After the meeting there was a 30 minute presentation on learning Morse Code given by Bob WB4SON. The slides can be found here.
Perhaps the best part of the night was the 30 minutes that followed the presentation, with very lively conversation among the 40+ remaining members. A good time was had by all.
Several folks offered up some interesting books on the history of Morse Code and telegraphy in general. Thanks (Peter KQ1X and Bruce NJ3K) including these titles:
In keeping with our goal to continue to provide fun for our members while remaining safe, our next club meeting will be on Monday May 11th at 7 PM via Zoom. We will have our usual business meeting along with an extended discussion of our Field Day plans. Following the meeting, Bob WB4SON will give a brief presentation on Learning Morse Code.
Invitations to join the Zoom meeting will be sent out via eMail. Usually it is no more complicated than clicking on the link within the email to join. We will have the meeting opened up around 6:30 PM in case you need some time to get things adjusted before the meeting begins at 7 PM.
To avoid chaos, everyone will be muted when they join. During the meeting, you can unmute yourself to ask a question or use the Chat feature of Zoom — sort of like sending a text message. If you do use Chat, please send it to everyone (the default “to” choice).
For those of you new to Zoom, here is a link to a short one minute video explaining how you can join a meeting: https://www.youtube.com/embed/hIkCmbvAHQQ?rel=0&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=1
While you do NOT need an account with Zoom to participate in our meetings, you may want to setup a free account anyway by going to this link: https://zoom.us/
If you don’t receive an email with the meeting details, please reach out to WB4SON at GMAIL dot COM