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The Communicator November, 2015

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Next Club Meeting - Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 at 7:00 PM Gilford Community Church, Gilford NH

The

Monthly Newsletter of the Central New Hampshire Amateur Radio Club ARRL Special Service Club

Communicator November 2015 CNHARC Web Page - www.cnharc.org

From the President’s Key ………………..………….…... CNHARC 10 Years Ago ………………………………. Adam’s Junk Box ………………………………...……. The Head of the Charles Regatta .……………....…... Secretary’s Report ……………...……………………...

In This Issue

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November Meeting Program

Tamitha Skov, a NASA and NOAA PhD physicist, will discuss various aspects of the sun’s activities and how it affects propagation for amateur radio.

Jim Robinton will do a short presentation showing how to have all your radio manuals with you in the field, but not the real paper ones.

Rich Kumpf has a secret presentation. Dayton Hamvention New Location News – No More Hara Arena? Speculation and Rumor?

Search and Pounce Practice vs. Sending CQ – What is Best in Life?

Refreshments will be served! If you wish to present a program or have a specific subject covered please contact Cliff, N1RCQ @ 279-7763.

For directions to the meeting, the talk in repeater is 146.985 PL123.

From the President’s Key By Tim, W3ATB

What’s that old saying? “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.” That may be a variation, but I believe you understand

what it means. Perhaps you’ve lost something along life’s highway

and regretted not paying more attention to it before it disap-peared.

It’s happened to me.

What’s this have to do with your club? A few days ago we received a dues payment from a

club member, Rich - KA1BUC. Here’s what he sent back after Tom Persson sent him a

thank you note: “I was the initial owner of the Franklin repeater and

subsequently sold the equipment to Lindsey. As you can tell from the address we are no longer in the area. We moved to PA little over three years ago, to pursue a career oppor-tunity for Marcia. She is currently VP of Operations and Chief Nursing Office for a 135 bed hospital.

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CNHARC

Repeater Sustaining Members 2015 / 2016

Glen Aldrich KC1AAI Peter Jackson K2SNW

Nate Ayotte KC1DKE Robert MacGuffie K2HZN

Tim Carter W3ATB Bryan Medeiros KC1DVN

Dick Christopher N1LT James Robinton N1CRZ

Richard Wholey K1OBP Stephen Saunders K1NET

Lee Duncan W1LAD Bernie Quartaroli WI1I

Derek Fritz KB1YTQ Dick Sterry KB1OCE

Bill Guinther KC1BMM Dave Worrall N2IRO

Ronald Bryson Rick Zach K1RJZ

Edward Curley KC1CLA Thomas Edwards W1EDW

Ron Baker N1JJW Steve Davidson K1SMD

Jim Brown KB1FBQ Bryan Letourneau

Peter Drexel AE1T Bruce Hamel K1BRH

Frank Martin NG1J James White KA1OEO

Frank Towle KC1AAQ Aleda Nichols KC1CCU

Dana Ashton N1WXQ Ed Colby N1SCJ

Jack Barbera WA1ZDV Bob Carollo NHY1H

Richard Palmieri KC1BOW Ed O’Hearn N1EO

Dave Benson K1SWL Ron Deshamais N1GFD

Richard Hansen KA1BUC

CNHARC Monday Night Net at 8:00 PM on 146.985 MHz

It is unlikely that I will be a regular attendee at the meetings, but should I visit my favorite state again I might be able to attend. I decided to join because CNHARC is what I imagine a club should be.

I investigated three clubs in the area down here and

was not impressed with any. One meets strictly for breakfast once a month; another has no formal structure and has a cookout at their repeater site every Friday; the third has potential but no formal program for initiating new members (I haven't given up hope on the last but we'll see how it goes).

I do look forward to reading the newsletter every

month and I believe in supporting amateur radio in general and club repeaters in particular. I miss NH and the lakes and mountains and by joining, I sort of have a connection with the lakes region.

The club has come a long way since I last attended

meetings a number of years ago but I would certainly be an active member if I was still in the area.

Rich, KA1BUC” If Rich’s feelings are accurate, perhaps your club is a

diamond in the rough, heck, maybe it’s an exquisite heart-shaped award-winning diamond and we don’t know it.

The trouble is you may be too close to notice. Rich is

aware because he’s 800 miles away and can’t seem to locate a club like ours.

What makes CNHARC so special? Ask ten of our members and you’ll probably get ten

different answers. I feel CNHARC is blessed to have members that are

willing to step up and put their shoulder against the mill-stone to make it turn.

When was the last time you did that? When have you

volunteered to do something for the club? Remember, those pushing the millstone get tired and

need a break. Right now we have an immediate need for someone to

head up Field Day. The club needs help in arranging interesting meetings. Your club needs you. It’s not hard to push the mill-

stone when quite a few do it. Rich thinks we’ve come a long way. I feel we’ve got

quite a distance to go to fulfill my vision for CNHARC. Contact me and tell me how you’d like to help the club

continue its journey. I’m anxious to hear from you!.


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Social Media and CNHARC

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CNHARC 6-Meter Thurs. Night Net 8 PM, 53.770 MHz

CNHARC 10 Years Ago The following article appeared in the November 2005 edi-tion of ‘The Communicator’. -Ed.

FOR SALE

Icom IC-38A 220 MHz rig and Arrow yagi antenna: $100

Kenwood TW-4000A dual-band (2m/70cm) rig:

$100

Contact Adam at [email protected] or at 528-0678

Adam, N1RKW and Cliff, N1RCQ, at Adam’s QTH in Belmont. Adam’s last net before he moves to his new QTH, and the 600th CNHARC Six Meter net.

Six-meter Repeater Report The start of the club’s 6-meter project was the pur-

chase by club members of several modified GE Delta 6-meter transceivers. Recently club members have been working on a 6-meter repeater that should provide reliable coverage for the entire lakes region, enabling more people to check into the CNHARC Thursday Night 6-meter Net and increase our club’s ability to provide emergency and public service communications. Rick Zach K1RJZ is cur-rently tweaking the repeater and Bob Carollo KB1JCL, Dick Christopher N1LT, and Mike Stone N1VE have just finished modifying commercial low-band duplexers that were donated to CNHARC by Rick. Next, cabling for the duplexers will have to be fabricated and then the duplexers will be tuned. We’ll keep you posted on our progress.

Bob and Dick cleaning the inside of the tuning plunger after shortening by six inches. N1VE photo

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Normally I write these articles in advance of the dead-line, which is the 16th of each month. This month, however, I am banking on the good graces of our stalwart editor, Lee Hillsgrove KB1GNI, as I am already a day late and will probably be even later than that when I finally send this in to him. This is necessary in this case, as I am going to write about my experiences at NEARfest, which I attended only yesterday. The New England Amateur Radio Fest, for those who are unfamiliar with it, is a rather large ham radio flea market that happens twice a year. It is for many of us the biggest social gathering of the year, even though it happens bi-anually. It’s the best place to sell your junk, I mean prized possessions, to other unsuspecting suckers, I mean fellow hams. It’s also a great place to buy that one compo-nent that you just can’t find anywhere else, except maybe on Ebay for one tenth the price.

I have been planning on going to NEARfest since

missing it this past spring. My good friend Les, KB1TKN, also wanted to go and actually scheduled the 16th of Octo-ber off from work specifically so that nothing could keep him from attending this time, finally! This would be his first time going, and he had no idea what to expect. I tried to warn him...

We had decided to meet at my house at 10 AM and

head down to NEARfest from there. Les wasn’t feeling all that well that morning, so rather than share airspace for the duration of the car rides there and back, we decided to go in two vehicles. This also gave him the opportunity to leave early if he ended up feeling worse. We picked a simplex frequency of 147.570, set our radios to 5 watts, hopped in our Subaru Foresters (through completely different circum-stances we both somehow ended up with nearly identical cars. Weird.), and headed south.

About an hour later, we arrived at the Deerfield Fair-

grounds in Deerfield, NH (obviously), where many hun-dreds, possibly even thousands, of hams were milling around looking to buy or sell treasures of all kinds. After paying the $5 entrance fee and generously being allowed to park inside the gates for free (I’m handicapped, for those who haven’t witnessed me waddling around with my cane), I parked and exited the car, and then started preparing to get

my mobility scooter out of the car and set up for the event. Les, who had parked outside the gate, joined me and helped me with the scooter.

Here I am sitting on my recently acquired Rascal scooter, wearing a Gorilla Glue hat with my name tag at-tached to it. Please also note the presence of a 2 meter mo-bile rig mounted on the front of the scooter, and a flag on the antenna with my call sign, and underneath it the words, “Number One Radical Kamikaze Warrior”. No wonder I’ve got that stupid grin on my face. I told people that I would be hard to miss, and I wasn’t kidding.

I had promised my wife that I would take lots of pic-

tures so that she could finally put faces to the voices she’s been hearing from my radio, so after taking the above photo I put the camera around my neck and promptly forgot all about it. Oops.


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Les and I started off on the lower field, he and I look-

ing a bit like Laurel and Hardy without bowler hats. I quick-ly located a guy selling electronic parts in bags for a dollar each. I purchased two bags of capacitors and a bag of blade fuses, which are normally much more expensive than that. Along the same row there were the usual characters selling the usual selection of old radios, military surplus, and con-sumer electronics, a blend that would prove to be common throughout the fairgrounds. I had a small shopping list that included none of those things, so I wasn’t immediately hopeful that I would be able to find what I was looking for. Les was only looking for a small HT, but I suspect that he was mostly just interested in experiencing the event as he passed up several good ones that we came across.

As we progressed from the lower field to the main area

of NEARfest, I got a chance to test the hill climbing ability of my little scooter. It grunted and groaned a bit, but it car-ried me and my thick layer of blubber up the steep hill with-out much trouble. The scooter is new to me, but definitely not new. I suspect that it is about 10 years old, but the bat-teries are much newer than that, which cost me some bar-gaining power with the previous owner. I’m happy to an-nounce that the scooter and its batteries held up perfectly the whole time I was at NEARfest, much to my relief.

Once up in the main area, we started running into fa-

miliar faces. Over the course of the day, we came across Aleda KC1CCU, Bob K2HZN, Bob NY1H, Rick K1RJZ, Dick N1LT, Clayton N1VAU, Don KC1DND, Dan W1UR, Greg KB1IFN, John NT1I, Frank W1WU, Bill KC1BMM, Jim W1PID, and several other people who would have been mentioned here if only my memory were better.

About this time my stomach started to make enough

noise to drown out the crowd, so we ventured on over to the food cabin operated by a church group (again, I don’t re-member the details, sorry), where I picked up a delicious hot dog and Les ate nothing as he was still feeling ill enough to ruin his appetite, but fortunately not ill enough to ruin the good time he was having. After lunch we continued on, try-ing to plan out our route in such a way that we would see all that was for sale without doing too much back-tracking. We were mostly successful, and by 3 PM we had seen most of the place and I had found most of the specific items I had been looking for.

I purchased a rack-mount chassis to use as a power

supply/battery charger/12v power station, a stack of VERY large and potentially dangerous capacitors along with a number of smaller ones that are just as dangerous despite their smaller size, the previously mentioned bagged compo-nents, a couple of lengths of 450Ω ladder line (free!), a

Heathkit phone patch (to be re-purposed into something else), and the best find of the day: A Fluke 8050A bench multimeter in perfect working order for only $5!!!

Les needed to head home then, so he headed off to the

parking lot and I headed off to hang out with some of my other friends. The folks at the CNHARC tent were busy, so I headed over to the LRRA (Lakes Region Repeater Asso-ciation) area and spent some time with them.

After shooting the breeze for a while, I decided to take

one more quick stroll/roll through the event, which is when I stumbled across something that I thought I already had taken care of. The rack mount chassis I mentioned previ-ously was intended to be used to mount my five amp Variac and a few other electrical bits and bobs. A Variac is a varia-ble auto-transformer used to vary the voltage going to any-thing plugged into it from 0v to 140v, give or take. It is a very useful thing to have if you are working on old radios and don’t want to blow them up the second you plug them in. I had stopped to look at an Icom IC-28A that was for


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sale, but it was too expensive and I already have one. How-ever, on the same table was a ten amp Variac complete with rack-mount panel, meter, and outlets. This was just what I needed, and with twice the current capacity! I quickly talked the guy down from $40 to $15, and strolled/rolled away happily with my new purchase.

It was about this time that I figured that my wallet had

been punished enough, and I headed back to the LRRA group for a final gab session. I said goodbye to the group and then headed back to the car with my treasures. Clayton N1VAU was kind enough to help me load my scooter back into the Subaru, and then I was off for home at about 4 PM. All told, I spent about 5 hours at NEARfest, and I had a great time.

The next day I sorted through my new goodies. The

ladder line went into my ham radio storage bin for tempo-rary storage, the capacitors were cleaned and tested (only one with slight leakage, score!), the Fluke meter was cleaned, tested, and found to be accurate (score again!), the rack-mount chassis went up on a shelf in the back room after a bit of cleaning, the phone patch went on a shelf above my bench so I can work on it soon, and the bagged components were put away in the appropriate drawers. Last but not least, the new-to-me Variac was cleaned off, re-paired, tested, and mounted in my 19” rack for later use.

NEARfest is a Mecca for hams in this region. In the

parking lot you can find license plates from all over New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and a number of other states. It’s more than just a flea market, it’s a Ham-Fest. It’s a large social gathering that most of us wouldn’t miss for anything, and once you go there you can understand why. If you haven’t yet attended NEARfest, I encourage you to do so come spring. You won’t be disappointed.

When I’m not eating, sleeping, or talking about fish

with my good friend Les, I can be found on the CNHARC 146.985 repeater. Please feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions, comments, compliments, arguments, or diet orange soda.

The Head of the Charles Regatta

Story and photos by Tim, W3ATB The Head of the Charles Regatta is a world-class pub-

lic service event for any amateur radio operator. It all started in 1965 and it’s held in Boston, MA every October.

Here’s how the organizers of the event describe it at their website:

“Since its origin in 1965, the Head Of The Charles®

Regatta has welcomed the world’s best crew teams to the banks of the Charles River for the ultimate two-day rowing competition.”

I’ve worked quite a few public service events, includ-

ing the Boston Marathon and if you’re an amateur operator that wants to challenge your skills, the Head of the Charles is one you don’t want to miss.

Yesterday, October 16, 2015, I worked the regatta for

the first time. I was out on the wind-swept water of the Charles River in an odd open fiberglass pontoon boat as part of a three-man team. My tactical call sign was Safety Launch 3.

Amateur radio operators provide critical communica-

tions during the event in case crew members tumble into the cold waters of the Charles River and need to be rescued.

I’ll share my story of the day’s events and then I’ll

provide you with invaluable tips that I wish I had known about prior to arriving in Boston.


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You can see a few of the odd open pontoon boats docked here at the MIT boathouse. A crew is pulling into

the dock from an early practice on the water.

Departure Time – 5:30 AM While the competition is a two-day event, the hundreds

of teams from around the USA and the world practice on the Friday before the event turning it into a three-day event for the hundreds of volunteers like me.

I decided to only work the practice day to get my feet

wet. I’m glad I did because all volunteers need to be present for 6:00 AM meetings at the various boathouses dotting the shoreline of the infamous Charles River on the two competi-tion days.

On the Friday practice day, that arrival time is pushed

back to 8:30 AM. I decided that I’d leave my central New Hampshire home at 5:30 AM so I’d arrive in Boston just after 7:30 AM. It’s only a one hour and fifty-minute drive so I thought I’d pad in some time for rush hour.

Since I rarely drive into Boston on a work day morn-

ing, I discovered that the commuters must leave their homes at 4:00 AM to try to avoid the snarled roadways that feed into the metropolis.

Stressed out after three, not two, hours of fighting stop-

and-go traffic I pulled into an empty parking spot at the MIT boathouse in the famous Basin of the Charles River.

MIT Boathouse It’s just upriver from the Route 2A

bridge that spans the waterway soon to be clogged with hun-dreds and hundreds of the sleek sculls. I discovered I had to move my truck to a parking lot about a half mile away, but that had to wait until after the brief

organizational meeting down next to the dock in the boathouse.

The boathouse was clogged with volunteers of all sorts getting other volunteers checked in. Safety launch boats and other launches were being readied for the day.

Volunteers on the Dock at MIT Many of the launches were manned by women and

men who’s job it was to try to keep the sculls from crashing into one another along the three-mile section of the Charles River where the regatta takes place.

As the day progressed I discovered these other launch-

es would be anchored near bridges and tight turns in the river. Using megaphones the workers would alert the crews and coxswain about impending danger.

Visibility at the arched bridges that span the Charles

can be limited as late in the day an eight-person scull nearly crashed into the launch I was in as we both entered, from different directions, a bridge archway.

WX – The Ham Acronym for Weather

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Here's what the weather looked like after lunch. It was a great day on the water.

course to patrol. There were only five safety launches

out on practice day, but on Saturday and Sunday there are usually no less than ten of the funny open pontoon boats scattered on the Charles River.

Our captain, Kevin, was an experienced pilot and this

was his third year working the event. We kept to the Cam-bridge side of the river and hugged the shore because some lane buoys were often just 100 feet, or less, from the shore-line.

Here’s Kevin checking out the launch controls

before we left the dock. We spent the day motoring at no-wake speed going up

and down the river always scanning the rowers looking for someone who was in trouble. Fortunately no one ended up

The weather forecast for Boston yesterday was spot on. It was cloudy and windy in the morning. The air temperature was in the mid 50’s F, but there was a stiff 15 mph wind whipping across the water from the west. It felt much much colder than it was. A passing light rain shower happened just before 9 am and I was fretting being out in the rain all day.

Here are the flags that flew from a pole attached to the seat of my launch. You can see how cloudy it was and

the pennants are unfurled flapping in the stiff wind.

As the morning passed, the sun made a welcome ap-pearance and it was quite sunny until sunset. The wind did-n’t let up all day although it was much stronger in the morn-ing than the afternoon.

The weather almanac shows it reached 61 F in the af-

ternoon, but I was wearing long underwear and four layers of clothes on my body core and was just barely warm enough. You can’t bring too many clothes to this event.

Puttering Along

Each safety launch is assigned a section of the regatta


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in the water all day. That’s what we, as volunteers, want. No medical emergencies were reported all day. That’s also a good thing.

Radio Traffic

The radio operators in charge of the event set up three

different frequencies to handle the radio traffic. Two of them utilized local repeaters and the third frequency was a local simplex radio-to-radio frequency.

Signal propagation can change from day to day and

hour to hour. We discovered that the Bravo – or secondary repeater – produced a much better clarity so all of us switched to it by Noon.

Here I am with wind-swept hair. The Weeks Bridge is in the background. It's just down river from the historic Harvard Boathouse. Photo credit: Patrick

the BC student First Aid crew member I was equipped with two Yaesu VX-7R hand-held

radios. Both had the three frequencies pre-programmed into the memory. That makes it easier to switch from one of the three frequencies we were using.

What it’s Like on the Water

It’s hard to describe what it’s like being on the water

and watching the sculls go faster than the launch. That’s why I taped a video. Watch it here:

https://youtu.be/aAYe4B6gURY

End of Day The crews vacate the river after the sun sets. Each

safety launch is released from duty once their section of the river is clear of the sculls.

We pulled into the dock at the MIT boathouse as twi-

light was deepening. I turned in my life preserver and Kev-in and I walked the half mile back the parking lot where we could saddle up and head home. He had a two-hour drive back to CT and I was headed north up I-93 to central New Hampshire.

I thoroughly enjoyed my day at the event and will be

back next year. If you’re an amateur radio operator, I en-courage you to volunteer. You’ll be a better person in many respects if you do, and you’ll get a handsome jacket and hat for your efforts.

To read Tim’s Amateur Radio Operator’s Beginner’s

Guide to the Head of the Charles Regatta, follow the link below:

http://w3atb.com/head-of-the-charles-regatta-ham-

radio-beginners-guide/

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W1JY Central NH Amateur Radio Club W1CNH

Secretary’s Report

Rich, WF1V

by

CNHARC STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING - Mon-day, 9/14/2015 CLUB OFFICERS W3ATB Tim Carter President KC1AAI Glen Aldrich Vice President - Excused K1LQN Tom Persson Treasurer WF1V Rich Kumpf Secretary OTHER MEETING ATTENDEES N1VAU Clayton Ferry SC Member 2017 - As-signed to Dave Megin's term N1LT Dick Christopher SC Member 2017 N1RCQ Cliff Dickinson SC Member 2018 KA1OEO James White Member KA1DPZ Curtis Appleyard Member N1CRZ Jim Robinton Member NG1T Frank Martin Member Frequent Attendees, not in attendance KB1FBQ Jim Brown SC Member 2018 N1RKW Adam Foley SC Member 2016 N1DOU David Weiss SC Member 2017 KA1VJU Dave Megin SC Member 2017 - Re-signed on 8/10/2015 N1HD Chris Read Member KB1GQV Peggy Brown Member W1DDI Mark Persson Member VENUE - The meeting was held at the Gilford Community Church. PRESIDENT'S REPORT - W3ATB, Tim Carter Tim called the September 2015 meeting of the Central NH Amateur Radio Club to order at 7:00 PM Tim reported on the pre-meeting planning meeting. There are 5 members. Each member will take 1 month and plan the meeting agen-da. WF1V, Rich will take the October Program Agenda Plan-ning. Programming the Baofeng UV-82 - WF1V, Rich K

Audio & Video Podcasts & Streaming - N1CRZ, Jim R SOTA Overview - N1RCQ, Cliff D QST Articles - Overview - WF1V, Rich K W3ATB, Tim will take the November Program Agenda Planning N1VAU, Clayton will participate in coordinating the De-cember Christmas Party (Possibly Dave M) Jim & Cliff will provide refreshments for the meetings VICE PRESIDENT REPORT - KC1AAI, Glen Aldrich - No report this month. Not Present TREASURER'S REPORT - K1LQN, Tom Persson Club Membership: 119 current members Repeater Support: 39 members to date (compared to 18 last year), Contributions: 13 totaling: $135.50 50/50 Raffle at August Meeting: $56.00 The 2015 Financial Profit/Loss Report Summary Year-to-Date: Total Income: $ 3,732.61 Total Expenses: $ 3,153.90 Net Income/(Loss): $ 578.71 The 2015 Financial Balance Sheet Summary on September 14, 2015: ASSETS Repeater Fund $1,562.53 General Operating Fund 1,510.53 PayPal CNHARC Account 39.37 PayPal Internet Account 25.00 Petty Cash 27.00 Checking/Savings TOTAL $3,164.43 TOTAL Current Assets $3,164.43 LIABILITIES Opening Balance Equity $2,072.66 Retained Earnings 513.06 Net Income 578.71 TOTAL Liabilities & Equity $3,164.43 Other: Church was paid for the next 4 months. Discussed Christmas Party with church - December 11th (Friday night) New interface with Google Docs which automatically up-dates with new repeater support membership. SECRETARY'S REPORT - WF1V, Rich Kumpf Meeting notes were approved by motion, second, and unan-imous AYE vote. MEETING PROGRAM COORDINATOR REPORT - N1RCQ, Cliff Dickinson - RESIGNED as COORDINA-TOR Monthly Program Leadership Process will begin in October Cliff will participate in presentations in future sessions.


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Central NH ARES Frequencies

Primary: 146.985 MHz, - offset. PL123.0 Backup: 147.300 MHz, - offset, PL 88.5 Sec. backup: 147.390 MHz, - offset, PL 123.0 Simplex: 147.540 MHz NH Statewide ARES HF: 3.943 MHz

A Alfa N November

B Bravo O Oscar

C Charlie P Papa

D Delta Q Quebec

E Echo R Romeo

F Foxtrot S Sierra

G Golf T Tango

H Hotel U Uniform

I India V Victor

J Juliet W Whiskey

K Kilo X X-ray

L Lima Y Yankee

M Mike Z Zulu

The Phonetic Alphabet

ARES Net Wednesdays at 8:00 PM on 146.985 MHz

September Program Results: TECHNICAL: W1JFK, Barry Green - Radio Tower Project - How-To, Dos and Don'ts OPERATING: W1LJJ, Andy Bourassa - The history of Shipboard Commercial Radio at Sea 1914-1999 October Program: To Be Organized by WF1V, Rich - See President's Report, above November Program: To Be Organized by W3ATB, Tim - To Be Announced December Program: Christmas Party: Games & Prizes & Swaps! COMMUNICATOR - KB1GNI, Lee Hillsgrove - No Re-port FIELD COORDINATOR - KB1FBQ, Jim Brown - Re-signed - Need New Field Coordinator Tim mentioned that we need 4 volunteers for the K2BSA report. REPEATERS REPORT - W1DDI, Mark Persson - Mark was not present to report updates. OTHER DISCUSSION ITEMS INCLUDING EVENT PLANS & NET OPERATIONS Boy Scouts Jamboree, K2BSA, event at NH Speedway (October 10-11, 9:30-4:30 - Columbus Day Weekend): Volunteers (to date): Dick-N1LT, none others so far! Tim asked if PSK31 on HF can be shown on a computer AND on a smart phone VHF FM Repeater would be helpful It was reported that other radio clubs may not be attending since they have not responded to the program coordinator Club Weekly Net Control Operations: Adam, N1RKW, was not available for comment. PUBLICITY & WEBSITE- W3ATB, Tim Carter - No up-dates this month. Mark has been helping on the website OPEN DISCUSSIONS - All Members Field Trips for Special Events Idea: Tim would like to share a trip to Newington CT, W1AW, to work the 'center of ham radio' MEETING CLOSE - Tim Carter, President 7:46PM - A motion to close the meeting was made and se-conded. Vote was unanimous, AYE, to get ice-cream!

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603-279-7763 603-581-2411

[email protected]

President Tim Carter, W3ATB

603-722-0908 603-581-2411

[email protected]

Secretary Rich Kumpf, WF1V

603-581-2411 [email protected]

Club Historian Dick Christopher, N1LT

603-524-6567 603-581-2411

[email protected]

Publicity / Public Relations Officer

Tim Carter, W3ATB 603-722-0908 603-581-2411

[email protected]

Field Coordinator Training Officer

Dick Christopher, N1LT 603-524-6567 603-581-2411

[email protected]

Technical Coordinator Open

The Communicator

is published monthly by the Central New Hampshire Amateur Radio Club, a non-profit corporation and charitable trust, affiliated with the American Radio Relay League.

Membership in the Central New Hampshire Amateur Radio Club is open to all who are interested in amateur radio. Payment of annual Club dues as an individual ($15), family ($20) or as a student ($10), entitles the registrant to belong to the club and to receive The Communicator, monthly or when published for the remainder of the year. The Club year starts June 1. Subscription and Membership: CNHARC, Box 1112, Laconia, NH 03247-1112. Email: [email protected]

Editors Lee Hillsgrove, Sr. KB1GNI, Adam Foley N1RKW

The deadline for all copy and classified ads for the Communicator is 16th of every month. Send to: Lee Hillsgrove, Sr. KB1GNI, 203 Waukeena Lake Road, Danbury, NH 03230 or email to [email protected]

Change of Address For a change of address, notify CNHARC at PO Box 1112, Laconia, NH 03247-1112. Phone: 603-581-2411. Email: [email protected]

Steering Committee Meeting

The next steering committee meeting will be held on Monday, November 9th at the Gilford Community Church, at 7:00 PM.

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