The following four folks were voted into membership at last nights meeting. Congratulations to you all. That brings the club membership to 115.
NCRC had three folks (WA1ABI, KA1BQP and WB4SON) participating in the ARRL’s April FMT a few days ago. The results put all three in the “Green Band” (less than 1 Hz error), and they placed 7th, 12th, and 18th out of the global contestants (John WA1ABI had the top score in RI). Their results had errors of around 12 parts per billion. These days the limiting factor is one’s ability (through luck and skill) to divine the influence of Doppler, caused by changes in the ionosphere, which shifts the apparent frequency by 200 parts per billion or more.
Our April Newport County Radio Club meeting will be held this coming Monday April 9 at 7 PM (KVH 75 Enterprise Ave, Middletown, RI).
In addition to our regular business items we have three new member applicants to vote in, plus discussion of our Winter Field Day results.
ED ED ED – CHANGE – Our postponement was canceled. Alan rushed back from a trip to give us his wonderful presentation on Ladder Safety. Thanks Alan!
Hope to see everyone there on Monday!
Just a reminder for the Thursday breakfast crowd that usually gets together at Chelsea’s. On the FIRST THURSDAY of the month some of us will be having breakfast at Rome Point Cafe in North Kingstown to give the West Bay folks a chance to not drive so far once a month.
Folks are welcomed to join us!
Just a reminder that the NCRC Meeting is tomorrow night, Monday March 12th, at 7 PM at KVH. We were a bit concerned about the weather but it appears that any snow our area gets will not begin until after 10 PM on Monday and we should all be home before then.
The program for Monday will be given by John King on VHF repeaters.
On another topic, please be aware that The Consortium meeting at the Asia Grille (622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln) covering Antenna Analyzer use has been rescheduled for Monday March 19th so that NCRC members can attend. The presentation starts at 6:30 PM, but many folks arrive around 5 PM so they can enjoy a dinner. The concept for The Consortium was featured on page 67 of the April QST.