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Winter Field Day 2023 – January 28th & 29th

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Participating in Winter Field Day is a great way to start 2023. Newport County (RI) Radio Club has mapped out two paths to get involved.
First, using the club W1SYE call sign, NCRC will be operating a competitive HF station outdoors at Glen Park (exchange “1O RI”) and submitting a collective club score to Winter Field Day.  Plans to make a satellite contact are also underway.
Second, NCRC is offering another curated path for solo operators who want to participate in WFD operating under your own call sign.  Hoping club members will monitor the W1SYE Repeater and W1SYE Simplex frequency of 146.55 MHz during WFD to help other hams make at least one Simplex QSO as part of Winter Field Day 2023. (It’s so easy to forget how to move between the Repeater and a new or even programmed Simplex channel!)  WFD is here to help.

Please follow #WFD23 for updates.

For details contact President@w1sye.org

NCRC January Meeting

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NCRC’s January Meeting will be a hybrid in-person and remote meeting again.  It will be held at St. Barnabas Church, 1697 E Main Rd, Portsmouth, RI 02871.  The doors will open at 6:30 and the meeting will begin at 7:00 PM.  A zoom invitation will be sent out later this weekend.

The primary purpose of the meeting will be to discuss Winter Field Day and induct new members.

NCRC December Meeting

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NCRC’s December Meeting will be a hybrid in-person and remote meeting again.  It will be held at St. Barnabas Church, 1697 E Main Rd, Portsmouth, RI 02871.  The doors will open Monday December 12th at 6:00 PM for the purpose of mingling.  Donuts will be served along with some other tasty snacks.

While the purpose of this meeting is mostly social, it also gives us a chance to reflect back on our accomplishments.  There will be a very short business meeting to vote on new members as well as the proposed change to the Bylaws that was discussed in November.  The business meeting will begin at 7:00 PM.  Those joining remotely should connect at this time (although you can join earlier if you desire).  Of course there will be a Yankee Swap to liven things up!

The Zoom invitation will be sent later this weekend.

NCRC had an amazing year, and has a wonderful new set of officers ready to continue to move the club forward in 2023.  We share our best holiday wishes to one and all.

NCRC November Meeting

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NCRC’s November Meeting will be a hybrid in-person and remote meeting again.  It will be held at St. Barnabas Church, 1697 E Main Rd, Portsmouth, RI 02871.  The doors will open at 6:30 and the meeting will begin at 7:00 PM.  A zoom invitation will be sent out later this weekend.

The business meeting will be mostly centered on the election of officers for 2023.  We also have a minor Bylaw change that will be announced.

After the business meeting concludes, Cory KE1AK will give a presentation on the joys of QRP (low power) which makes backpacking, mountain topping, and other size/weight limited activites far more practical, as well as the ability to build one’s own simple gear.

More and more members have signed up for the club’s groups.io account, which will become more important as a means to keep members up to date, and provide a more organized way to support group discussion.  If you haven’t already done so, please consider joining groups.io.  It’s free for users.  Use to link to sign up:  https://groups.io/register

Don’t forget to check NCRC’s groups.io account here:  https://groups.io/g/W1SYE/messages