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Hi All: I am volunteering to copy the Field Day Message from the ARRL and produce a hard copy of such. Worth 100 points which is equal to 100 contacts. 73 Bob WB1P

Hi everyone, Attached is the link for the pot luck dinner sign-up for Saturday night June 22nd. Thanks Mark - KW1X https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050B4DA4A92CA2F94-48731175-field

Just in case you didn't know this, as part of your club dues the club provides outgoing QSL service to the ARRL outgoing QSL Bureau for ARRL members. So how do you do this? 1) Check to see if the station worked does accept cards via Bureau. If yes, then fill out your outgoing QSL cards for DX starions. They do not accept domestic QSL cards, so here in the US just mail it to the othef US station. 2) Make sure that it clearly states the callsign of the receiving station. 3) Sometimes a station uses a QSL manager, so write on the card somewhere the QSL Manager's Callsign for the folks at the bureau. They don't have time to track down a EA#/DL#XXX station and might send the card to EA bureau instead of the DL Burea which is where the QSL Manager is. 4) include on a piece of paper write your callsign and ARRL membership number and expiration and include it with your cards. 5) at the next club meeting or consortium, bting the cards and hand them to Bob W1YRC. You can drop them off to him at his house, but contact him ahead of time to see if he us home first and to expect them. He collects as many as he can and mails or delivers them to the league when he has a bunch to go. The bureau charges by the pound for QSL card handling, not individual or card count. So sending 10 QSL cards or 100 qsl cards (about 1 lb) costs the same. So it's better to send in batches of cards as a group rather than a few at a time. And finally, wait for the W1 QSL bureau to receive cards from the DX stations for you. Important note, the bureaus can take several months to a couple years for the cards to get tothe DX station and their cards to come back. The more you know. And big thank you to Bob W1YRC for collecting batches of cards yo send to the league. 73 Matt NA1Q

Well I'm getting ready to do some POTA activations this month, I am not a CW guy due to hearing issues, but I do enjoy doing digital contacts via FT8 / FT4. Now I have done a few POTA activations with various radios, thr Icom IC-7300 and Yaesu FT-891, and my Elecraft KX2. And just about everyone is using WSJT-X, the standard program used by everyone. But I wanted to ditch the tablet or laptop, so I found this software program FT8CN by BG7YOZ. It works on Android phones, and using my Digirig I can hook my cellphone to the radio through the USB-C charging port of the phone, control the Elecraft KX2 and send / receive the audio through the soundcard of the Digirig. Only issue I found so far is downloading the logs. You need to go to a separate laptop or computer and connect to the IP address the phone is using for the app to download the log for uploading to Logbook of the World, QRZ, and eQSL. Only other complaint is it is the help is written in Chinese, so it's sort of guessing game on how to do things at first. It took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to start sending CQ, and another 15 to figure out how to download the logs. But once you get it, it is a worthwhile tool to add to the hamshack arsenal. Website for FT8CN is: https://github.com/N0BOY/FT8CN Website for the Digirig: https://digirig.net/product/digirig-mobile/ 73 Matt NA1Q

I have 10 of the FM Broadcast Receiver kits available for purchase. I will have them at the Consortium tonight and at the May Club Meeting $10 per kit with instructions, 63/37 solder, and 2 AA batteries. If anyone is interested see me at the Consortium or the Club Meeting. 73 Matt NA1Q

The New England QSO Party is happening this weekend. The world will be looking for stations in the 6 New England states. Full rules: https://neqp.org/rules/ Even if you don’t want to make a contest entry, get on the HF bands and hand out some contacts. The exchange is signal report, state, and county. Good practice for Field Day. Starts Saturday at 4pm EDST and runs until 1am Sunday EDST. Then it starts again at 9am EDT Sunday until 8pm EDT Sunday. CW, SSB on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10m. Please join the fun. Randy K5ZD

This past Saturday we had our first committee meeting for the upcoming June 22nd-23rd Field Day. Some of the more important things discussed: We will be operating 2A RI using W1DDD. Discussed possibly going 3A depending on participation. WE NEED OPERATORS! We will be having a sign-up sheet for operating times. If you want premium operating time you will have to help out in some way or another with set-up on Friday afternoon/Saturday morning or take-down on Sunday afternoon. There will be a sign-up sheet for this as well. We will have a GOTA station using NA1Q. We will have a 6 meter “free” station for all three modes. We will be erecting a 30 foot tower for the clubs beam and using a doublet, fan dipole and possibly an EFHW antenna. We decided that you should bring your own food if you want it. Saturday evening will be pot luck again with a sign-up sheet coming out shortly. Water and Gatorade will be provided. We went through all the bonus points and have a pretty good handle on that. I will be reaching out to people to finalize some of the categories. WE NEED OPERATORS as well as people for set-up and take-down. Please help out any way you can, it’s truly appreciated. Not only will it help but there is a lot of comraderie and a great feeling of accomplishment when everything is up and working. We also discussed possibly having some kind of prizes or a raffle for participation. More to follow on that! The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for April 27th on Zoom. I will be sending out a reminder when the time comes. We could use more people on the committee as well. Feel free to join in on the upcoming Zoom call if you’d like to know what’s going on or would like to be on the committee, I think there’s still a couple of spots open! Thanks and 73, Mark Hofstra – KW1X Field Day Committee Chairman Sent from Mail for Windows

Just a quick reminder that we will be having a Field Day Committee meeting tonight on Zoom at 7:00. If you are not on the committee and would like the link to the meeting let me know and I will send it to you. Thanks Mark - KW1X

We will be having a Field Day Committee meeting this coming Saturday, April 27th at 7:00PM on Zoom. The reason for the evening meeting is because several of the committee members will be busy Saturday morning performing a radio communications test for the upcoming Gaspee Days Parade and Road Race. Please try and attend the Zoom meeting if possible. I will be sending out the invite to the committee members later in the week. In case anybody would still like to join the committee, there are still a couple of slots open! Thanks and 73!

I met with some of the event organizers a couple of weeks ago and got a more complete description of their event and communication needs. We have asked them to provide BVARC with a more detailed and prioritized list of locations / people they would like to have supported. While some radio locations will be fixed, in other cases radio support will have to keep up with event organizers as they walk along the course dealing with issues. We will carry out an initial assessment of radio coverage before the next club meeting and plan to share more details with club members then. 73 Martin AA1ON

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