Monthly Archives: April 2019

Com Volunteers Needed for May 6 Hurricane Awareness Tour

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As many of you know, the National Weather Service is hosting a Hurricane Awareness Tour that is coming to RI, at Quonset Point Airfield on Monday May 6th… Our membership, will provide communications support for the first Hurricane Awareness Tour to visit New England in 11 yrs.

We need as many volunteers as we can muster. Tasks include making contact with the National Hurricane Center on HF, guiding visitors to planes, to exhibits, controlling flow of visitors through the demonstrations, and at least one net control station for VHF. We will have at least one VHF Station set up for local communications, and one HF Station set up for comms with the NHC

We need volunteers to arrive at AT 8AM. Bring your HT.

We are seeking as many members as we can muster. I realize this is a weekday, and many of us work. But I do hope we can get a good number of you to support this event.

Contact Paul N1PSX (N1PSX@arrl.org) with your availability…

Thank you on behalf of RI ARES

https://www.weather.gov/box/2019HAT

Congrats KA1BQP and WB4SON

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Two NCRC members, Matt KA1BQP and Bob WB4SON, participated in the April 2019 ARRL Frequency Measuring Test (FMT).  Both had results in the “Green Band”, along with 72 others out of the 112 global participants.  For this FMT, Green Band was better than 1 Hz accuracy. Matt and Bob turned in readings about 1/3 of that.

At these levels of precision, Doppler due to a constantly changing ionosphere becomes a major factor in off-the-air HF measurements, and can eat up most of the allowable error.

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FMT April 12

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It’s spring, so it must be time for another Frequency Measuring Test (FMT).  Here’s the ARRL Announcement from the April 2019 QST (Note: This is actually 10 PM EDT on THURSDAY):

A few NCRC members have been known to participate in the FMT in the past.

Meeting Reminder: Monday April 8, 7PM KVH

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The second Monday of the month is just a few days away and that means it’s time for a NCRC meeting:  Monday April 8, 7:00 PM at KVH Manufacturing (75 Enterprise Drive, Middletown).

Following a short business meeting, we will be having a presentation on the Titanic Radios given by Mark Rudd, as well as an introduction to the upcoming Hands On Radio event in May on Software Defined Radios (SDR) by Paul K1YBE.

See everyone Monday!

Congratulations to NCRC for OUTSTANDING WFD Results!

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Congratulations to Willy W1LY and the entire Winter Field Day crew for an OUTSTANDING performance in the 2019 Winter Field Day.  W1SYE came in 4th place nationally among all Outdoor stations.  We should point out that places 1/2/3 were for 6/4/4 transmitters — so two to three times the number of stations as our “2O” entry, which makes the performance even more exceptional.

In just the 2O category, as mentioned above, we were #1 nationally.  Only one other station in New England came in the top 10.

Sadly there was no other entry posted for RI, nor was there an entry from MA or VT.  There were two entries in Maine, one entry in Connecticut, two in New Hampshire.

Great job to all that participated!