Nice time at BVARC Consortium Meeting Jan 2nd

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Bob, WB4SON, attended the BVARC “Consortium” meeting held last night.  A well-attended forum for new hams, last night’s meeting was on QRP.

Frank, W1EYH, describes a QRP GoKit (1.8MHz to 900MHz)

The Consortium meeting was well attended with 38 people listening to Frank’s presentation

About the Consortium:  Jim K1GND and Bob W1YRC host a monthly basic radio tutorial event that they call “The Consortium“. They meet at the Asia Grille at Lincoln Mall on Rte. 116 in Lincoln, usually on the first Monday of the month.  Meetings start at 6:30 PM, however, people start arriving after 5:00 PM for dinner before the meeting.  Guests are invited.

W1AAD DSTAR Repeater Back on the Air

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Our thanks to Paul, K1YBE, and Pete, W1LAB, who ventured to the repeater site to reset the computer to restore gateway functions.

There was a bad wind-storm about two weeks ago, that took out internet services in the neighborhood where the repeater is located.  While the internet service was restored a few days later, the PC that we use did not recover from the the loss of internet connectivity.  A manual restart was required to fix things.

We are exploring ways to do this remotely in the future, as we can’t always gain access to the repeater which was in a building that was locked down during the holidays.

Happy New Year

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Can’t believe it is 2017.  What an odd year it’s going to be.  Just a reminder that your officers for 2017 are as follows:

  • President Paul Fredette
  • Vice President Pete Lawson
  • Secretary Bob Beatty
  • Treasurer Ted Wrobel
  • Director Willy MacLean
  • Director John King
  • Director Jim Sammons

QRP Symposium Jan 2, 2017

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Jim K1GND and Bob W1YRC host a monthly basic radio tutorial event that they call
“The Consortium“. They meet at the Asia Grille at Lincoln Mall on Rte. 116 in
Lincoln, usually on the first Monday of the month.  Meetings start at 6:30 PM, however, people start arriving after 5:00 PM for dinner before the meeting.

The next event on January 2nd will be on QRP that seems to be gaining popularity.  They will have two guests who are accomplished QRPers; Peter WA1ISA and Frank W1EYH.

Each will bring QRP units that he has designed and/or built. They will describe their work and interests in QRP.  Bob says “Believe me when I say that It will be worth your while to come just to hear what these two experts have to say”.