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Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is anyone who has put up an End Fed antenna successfully that I can talk with to figure out what I am doing wrong. You can contact me at W1PUPteri@... or 407-963-6529

BVARC members have been invited to join the Providence Emergency Management Training starting on April 22nd! We will be holding classes on Mondays and Wednesdays at the PEMA HQ. If you have not taken CERT yet, we highly encourage you to register! There are 8 units that are taught by subject matter experts and a hands-on Rodeo on May 18 for graduation. Anyone is eligible to take CERT! Share the link below and use it to sign yourself up as well. Location: 591 Charles St, Providence, RI 02904 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/859705390967?aff=oddtdtcreator If you have any question about the content of the classes please feel free to email or call me (Teri) 73 Teri Diiorio W1PUP W1PUPteri@... 407-963-6529

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I finally found time to writeup my experience in replacing my TH7DXX with the C31xr that I obtained last November from Pete W1RM. Hope you enjoy it. https://k5zd.com/c31xr-installation-project-november-2023/ Randy K5ZD

I know it’s early but I’m sending out this sign-up sheet to get a feel for who can help out in the set-up and take down for the upcoming field day. Please be advised that in order to get premium operating times you will have to help out in one way or another. Just click on the link below to sign-up. Thanks and 73 Mark Hofstra – KW1X Field Day Committee Chairman Sent from Mail for Windows https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050B4DA4A92CA2F94-48729845-field

Just a quick FYI, 3/20/2024 the FCC announced that they granted the experimental license WW9XPI to SpaceX for supplimental communications. This won't affect the ham radio community, but it may change cellular and internet service here in the US down the road. DA 24-280 Released: March 20, 2024 OET ANNOUNCES PERMIT-BUT-DISCLOSE EX PARTE STATUS FOR EXPERIMENTAL LICENSE WW9XPI By the Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology: 1. The Office of Engineering and Technology has designated matters pertaining to Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (SpaceX) experimental Special Temporary Authority (STA) to operate on an experimental basis, Call Sign WW9XPI; file number 2479-EX-ST-2023 as "permit-but-disclose" for purposes of the Commission's rules governing ex parte communications, effective March 20, 2024. Pursuant to the authority granted under this STA, SpaceX has been testing its satellites’ capabilities to provide Supplemental Coverage from Space. We find that designating this proceeding as "permit-but- disclose" will serve the public interest by facilitating the resolution of broad policy issues associated with SpaceX’s operations.1

Hi everyone, With the flood of inexpensive Chinese radios coming into the US, I recently discovered the Retevis RT10 900 Mhz 1 Watt Handheld. Now 1 watt isn't the most power, but we as Amateurs have secondary operating privileges in the 902-928Mhz portiin of radio spectrum known as the 33cm band. As of now if you wanted to play on 900 Mhz, you needed to buy repurposed commercial gear, modify it, and biggest factor is the fact of spending a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars on the equipment to get on the band. Enter the RT10. Right now they're selling for $69.99 on Retevis website with free shipping. They program similar to most DMR type radios, you need to download the software from Retevis. Word of caution, the software will not work on Windows 11, so you'll need to track down a Windows 10 machine for the programming software. I was fortunate that my Lenovo laptop from 2016 is unable to be updated to Windows 11 due to hardware constraints. So that is my radio programming laptop now. Programming is easy, download the software, hook up the radio to the USB port using the 2 pin Baofeng or Kenwood style programming cable. Run the software, download the current code plug from the factory from the radio, save it for future reference, then program in your DMR ID number, and go to the Zones and start programming the repeater info, ie RX and TX frequency, Analog or Digital, CTCSS Decode and Encode, RF Power Low or High, Signal Bandwidth, etc. Then write it to the radio after using the Save As tab abd type in your callsign with the radio model, ex. NA1Q RT10 Codeplug. Then as I change it, I add the date behind the RT10 to show the latest revision of my codeplug incase I need to go back to an older version. Now there's no display, or keypad, bit it does have voice prompts to tell you what zone and channel you're on, but you'll need a cheat sheet to keep those channels in each zone memorized. I suggest using laminated recepie cards once you are happy with the channels in each zone. Plus side is this a 900 Mhz ISM radio approved for part 15, not for any other service. Plus side is part 97 allows us to experiment with equipment like this with our Amateur license, making it fully legal to use in the Amateur band. I look at it as for $70 to add an extra ham band to my station is cheap money, there are 900 Mhz repeaters around the area, the closest to us is Cumberland, Wrentham, Greenville, North Providence, and Scituate. Also they do what they call 900 Mhz Day on Thursdays to promote the use of the band and run a net on Thursday evenings on the NEAR900 reprater network also. 73 Matt NA1Q

The NA SSB Sprint Contest this Saturday from 8pm to midnight is looking for more stations from RI. https://ssbsprint.com/rules/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Robert Hayes <kw8n@...> Date: Mar 21, 2024 at 12:13:12 PM Subject: RI in the SSB Sprint To: psichel@... <psichel@...> Hello Peter, Thank you for planning to operate in the NA SSB Sprint Saturday evening. Besides the score itself, one of the objectives is to try to work all 50 states in the 4 hours. That feat has been done in the past, but it has been several years since that was accomplished. There is usually one or two states that are difficult due to low activity from that state. RI has recently been one of those states that has prevented this. We appreciate that you were on in April 2023. For this next event on March 23, we have all of the states lined up with adequate participation... except RI. You are the only RI station that has committed to being on and we appreciate that greatly. I know you commented, "Glad to represent RI for the first hour or two." Is there any chance of being on a little more? Or are there other folks that you know in RI that might be able to also participate RI for at least part of the time? We have been sending e-mails to a few folks that we know, but so far others are not available that evening. Please let us know what you think, as well as any other suggestions that you may have. And we are sincerely thankful for each of the contacts that you will be able to provide from RI. 73 Bob KW8N and NA SSB Sprint Contest Committee ————

Great podcast by W1DED on this past weekends contest featuring Randy, K5ZD. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxKyxDYPQMM Sent from Mail for Windows

Just a quick reminder that we will be having a field day committee meeting this Saturday at the church where we hold our monthly meetings. Please be there by 10:30. Everyone is welcome to come to the meeting. Sent from Mail for Windows

I just heard this on YouTube and a couple other sites. Bob Heil, founder of Heil Sound (the microphones used by hams and professionals) and former host of Ham Nation on Twit and YouTube, passed away on Wednesday 2/28/24 after battling cancer for the last year. QRZ.Com has it on the main page right now. I have met him once, a really great and humble guy at Boxborough years ago. He also designed some of the best microphones used in the hobby, I have a couple in my shack and they work far better than stock. He will be missed. 73 Matt NA1Q

Unfortunately I will have to postpone the FM Radio Receiver Kit Build for another meeting night (April/May). I had a really bad sinus infection over the last 10 days that manifested into pneumonia. I went to the Doctor's office and the chest x ray shows it in my right lung for now. So I will have to miss this month's meeting and the Consortium next month while I rest up and heal up. They have me on 2 inhalers and 3 different medications to hopefully clear the pneumonia up, but I have to rest to keep from getting worse. Thanks for understanding 73 Matt NA1Q

Check out W1DED's podcast with Randy, K5ZD, Dan, N6MJ and Chris, KL9A otherwise known as the "contest crew". Arguably three of the top contesters in the country if not the world! https://youtu.be/2v3Jv4HXIjI

This weekend is the ARRL DX CW contest. Conditions have been awesome lately. W1DED has put out another YouTube video with Randy, K5ZD, and three other world class contesters. I've attached the link. Some great tips and kind of cool putting faces to the calls. Hope to work everyone! https://youtu.be/Xqcq7fMv7OU

We will be meeting at the church at 12:00PM on Saturday to set up stations and antennas for winter field day. Bring your own food and drinks. The weather looks clear and somewhat mild so we will be operating outdoors. If you’d like to setup your own station feel free to do so. As of the zoom meeting we had last Saturday we will be operating 2O RI using the club call W1DDD. See you Saturday! Sent from Mail for Windows

https://youtu.be/ncA9MyxNT74?si=pyktU7jCUxIMTMtR Check out this new interview with Randy, K5ZD, with W1DED.

Hello everyone, HNY to all! We have WFD coming up on Saturday the 27th of this month! I’ve sent out a zoom invite to the field day committee for this Saturday at 11:00. If you didn’t get the invite and would like to be on the committee or just listen in let me know and I will send you one. See you Saturday! Mark – KW1X Sent from Mail for Windows