Section Happenings Newsletter
edited by George Tranos N2GA
NLI Section Manager
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| April 2001 | Welcome! This is the second monthly NY City / Long Island
"ehappenings" Section newsletter! This newsletter is here to serve the Amateur Radio community in our area. I welcome and encourage all submissions. Please help make this your newsletter! I especially encourage officers of the area's Amateur Radio clubs to submit their meeting announcements, guest speakers and special events. This is the second of a regular monthly series of Section newsletters. QST Section News The QST Section News column for June 2001 is due on April 12. If you or your club has anything which you feel is of interest to the other members in the section, please contact me before April 12. HAPPENINGS NLI Section Staff Meeting - the semiannual meeting of the NLI section staff was held on Sunday, March 18, 2001, in the ARES/RACES room at Babylon Town Hall on Sunrise Highway in North Lindenhurst. The representatives of the ARRL programs in our section were there to discuss the workings of their program. Attending Section staff were: N2GA, KA2D, K2DO, N2MUN, W2FX, N1XL, K2YEW, KB2SCS, WA2WKV, WA2YOW, K2LJH and N2NFI. Guests included: KB2PSM, KC2DKD, WB2GTC, KC2KY and KB2ZDZ. I would like to extend my thanks to those who attended. I would also like to thank the Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club for providing the facility for the meeting. The next Section Staff meeting will be Sunday, September 30, 2001. New York Makes Another Attempt at Ham Antenna Bill - True to their word, supporters of an Amateur Radio antenna bill in the State of New York are back this year with new bills introduced in both houses of the legislature. ARRL Hudson Division Director Frank Fallon, N2FF, says measures to incorporate the essence of the limited federal preemption known as PRB-1 into state law have been filed in the Senate as S.2893, with four sponsors, and in the Assembly as A.1565. Please write your State Assemblyman and State Senator asking for their support of this important legislation. Full story available at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2001/03/20/3/?nc=1 DXCC Card Checking Available in our section - Emil Tillona KD1F has been designated as a field checker of DXCC applications. Emil can check both new applications and updates. Emil can be reached via e-mail at kd1f@arrl.net or by snail mail at Emil Tillona KD1F, 19 Dorchester Ct, Farmingville, NY 11738-1158. His phone # is (631) 454-6583. Fort Hamilton 176th Anniversary Special Event - On June 10, the Kings County Repeater Association will operate club station WA2ZWP on 14.243, 21.343, 28.343 to celebrate the 176th Anniversary of Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. For a Special Event QSL, Send a SASE to PO Box 180312, Brooklyn, NY 11218-0312. See www.kcra.org for more information or call the KCRA Hotline (718) 284-0752. ARRL Field Day - is the weekend of June 22, 23 and 24, 2001. Many clubs will have Field Day sites - send your info to me for listing in a future e-happening newsletter! Hudson Division Beacon e-mail newsletter unveiled - ARRL Hudson Division Director Frank Fallon N2FF has recently introduced a monthly Division newsletter. The initial Beacon was just delivered and looks great! It's coverage area is all three sections of the Hudson Division - NY City / Long Island, Northern New Jersey and Eastern New York. If you have anything of interest to the entire division, please e-mail Frank at n2ff@arrl.org and he'll try to include it. Local Government Liaisons needed - I am looking for a few good men and women to serve in the LGL appointment. A Local Government Liaison serves in their local area as the "eyes and ears" for Amateur Radio. They are on the lookout for Amateur Radio zoning ordinances and other laws and regulations which may affect Amateur Radio. LGL's are needed in all areas and there should be one assigned for each Amateur Radio club! New LGL's will help will the NY State PRB-1 bill to encourage hams to write letters and keep the campaign rolling. Contact Section Manager George Tranos N2GA (n2ga@arrl.org) for more information or to apply. Section VE Sessions - available on the web at: http://www.arrlhudson.org/nli/nlive.htm UPCOMING Club Events Peconic ARC Monthly Meeting is Friday, April 6, in Southold at 6:30 pm. The program is a "Chinese Auction" hosted by Warren Melhado, WM2X. See http://www.peconic-arc.org HOSARC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, April 10, in Queens at 8 pm. Program is a viewing of Amateur Radio video tapes. See http://www.qsl.net/hosarc LIMARC Monthly Meeting is Wednesday, April 11, in Hicksville at 8 pm. Guest speaker is Mark Nadel W2UFO and Mark will conduct a blind auction. Bring down your merchandise in a bag or box to be auctioned off. Partial Proceeds can benefit LIMARC if you wish. See http://www.limarc.org KCRC monthly meeting is Wednesday, April 11, in Brooklyn at7:30 pm. See http://www.qsl.net/kcrc/ Larkfield ARC monthly meeting is Thursday, April 12, in Huntington at 7:30 pm. E-mail n2nki@town.huntington.us Suffolk County RC Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, April 17, in Bohemia at 8 pm. Guest speaker is Sid Wolin K2LJH and Sid will speak on "SWR Myths". See http://members.tripod.com/~parasca/index/scrc.html Kings County Repeater Association (KCRA) monthly meeting is Thursday, April 17, at The Guild for Exceptional Children, 260 68th Street, Brooklyn. Members will get KCRA Bylaws and Operating manual at this meeting. See http://www.kcra.org Radio Central ARC monthly meeting is Thursday, April 19, in Rocky Point at 7:30 pm. See http://www.rcarc.org Long Island DX Association monthly meeting is Friday, April 20 at Polytechnic Institute- Route 110 in East Farmingdale at 8pm. Come in the rear door of the main building adjacent to the East side of Rte. 110. Anyone interested in DX is welcome and refreshments are served. Contact NN2C, Marty Miller, president of the LIDXA, at nn2c@arrl.net GSBARC Monthly Meeting is Thursday, April 26, in N. Lindenhurst at 8 pm. Guest speaker Neil KC2KYK; topic Kit Building . www.gsbarc.org EDUCATION GSBARC is in the middle of a 5 WPM morse code class which started Tuesday March 20, 2001 and runs on Tuesday nights at 7:30 PM at Babylon Town Hall EOC. Additional info is available at http://www.gsbarc.org LIMARC is holding a one-day Technician License course on Saturday, April 28, 2001, at the Levittown Library in Hicksville. Further info is available on their webpage at http://www.limarc.org or contact George N2GA at n2ga@aol.com NLI Webpage The Section Webpage contains LOTS of great information on section happenings, VE session, Education, Clubs, section staff, and much more! See http://www.arrlhudson.org/nli Please contact the webmaster, Tom Carrubba KA2D (ka2d@arrl.net) to add events or other things to this page. That's about it for this month! Please help make this newsletter even more interesting and informative by sending me news about YOUR club and events. ---- NLI Section e-happenings Section Manager - George Tranos N2GA (n2ga@arrl.org) Assistant Section Managers NLI - Tom Carrubba KA2D (ka2d@arrl.net) New York City - Rob Todaro N1XL (rtodaro@myexcel.com) Nassau County - Norm Wesler K2YEW (k2yew@aol.com) Suffolk County - Len Battista W2FX (w2fx@arrl.net) Digital - John Blowsky KB2SCS (kb2scs@arrl.net) |