The September 9th regular business meeting has been canceled. With no speaker planned, we are using our limited bandwidth to support the Outdoor Adventure, which is happening on September 15th at Colt State Park.
it isn’t too late to sign up. Hope to see everyone there!
Congratulations go out to NCRC member Ryan KC1KUF, who earned the distinction of United States Presidential Scholar as a graduating senior from North Kingstown High School.
Ryan is a long-time member of NCRC who earned his Technician license at age 13, and went on to earn his General license. Besides his obvious interest in Amateur Radio, Ryan has been a congressional page at the Rhode Island state house and has become the youngest person to author and introduce a bill (already approved by the House).
With his accomplishments, Ryan has been able to pick from many colleges, and has decided to enter Roger Williams’s 3 + 3 program in the fall, majoring in Political Science and hoping to obtain his Jurisprudence degree.
In response to multiple requests to simplify things, the menu system has been simplified.
All activities and the club calendar have now been combined into a single tab called “Activities” – so you will find ARTEN, JOTA, Field Day, Net, etc info on that page.
The Members tab will undergo further changes but for now all documentation, minutes, reports, can be found there, along with For Sale items.
All Contact Us and About Us information has been consolidated and now appears on the main page (Newport County Radio Club), along with the club History.
I want to thank everyone who helped with Winter Field Day 2024. NCRC operated 1O phone only (1 station, outdoors) this year instead of the usual 2O phone & CW. We completed 748 HF Contacts, 1 satellite QSO, and sent and received 1 Winlink Message. We did not have the best weather this year. Weather was fine on Saturday, but Sunday was raining all day and cold. However, it was nice and cozy in ticket booth shack. Midnight to 8 am we had no operators so we had to shut down the station. Again, Thank You to all.
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Dave Neal W2DAN
NCRC’s January 2024 Meeting will be a hybrid in-person and Zoom meeting from 7:00pm to 8:15pm on Monday, January 8. A ZOOM invitation will be sent out the weekend before. In-person will be at St. Barnabas Parish Hall, 1697 East Main Rd. at Fairview Lane, Portsmouth, RI. Minutes and Business Meeting slides will be posted as available.
Doors open at 6:00pm for setup and 6:30 for socializing. Zoom should be up and running by then. Join us!