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Bergen Amateur Radio Association

BARA Bulletin July 2015

Volume 52 Number 7 www.BARA.ORG

NEXT MEETING

Meeting Programs

Are there any topics of interest to the

club that you would like to see a presen-

tation or demonstration? Is there a sub-

ject you could lead a discussion on?

Please contact Steve Holly, WI2W

WI2W ‘at’ ARRL.NET

July 5, 2015

7:30 PM

Municipal Building Senior Center

350 Hudson Avenue.

Township of Washington, NJ

07676

BARA Family Picnic 1

VHF Lite 1

July Meeting Program 1

Upcoming Events 2

New Members 2

VE Exam Schedule 3

Public Service Information 3

Link of the Month 3

June BARA Meeting Minutes 4

Hamfests 4

For Sale 4

Bergen County RACES 5

From the Division Director 5

Member Contest Scores 6

DX Insights 6

BARA Member Awards 6

VHF Contest Photos 7

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Our 52nd Year

2015 BARA DUES

BARA Dues for 2015 are $25 for an

individual member and $35 for a

family membership.

Please pay at a business meeting, kit

night, or mail to the Treasurer.

July Meeting Program

“Summits on the Air”

Presented by:

Guy Hamblen (N7UN).

Summits on the Air (SOTA) is an

award scheme for radio amateurs

and shortwave listeners that encour-

ages portable operation in moun-

tainous areas. SOTA has been care-

fully designed to make participation

possible for everyone – this is not

just for mountaineers! There are

awards for activators (those who

ascend to the summits) and chasers

(who either operate from home, a

local hilltop or are even Activators

on other summits).

VHF Lite

The weather forecast dictated that we

cancel our usual 2-day high power

ARRL VHF June contest from Nike

Overlook Park in Orangeburg, NY.

As one of our BARA EC members

remarked: "I don't care how

"scattered" the storms are, sitting on

the highest point in the area waving

aluminum in the air sounds like a

really bad way to spend a weekend."

I couldn't agree more, safety first!

As luck would have it the weather

cleared for the weekend and so the

plan to operate a scaled down contest

effort was born. A group of BARA

VHF contesters gathered at the gar-

age on Sunday morning at 8:00am to

load up some gear and head up to the

mountain. A couple of pop-up tents

were setup along with a single mast

and rotator to hold the four antennas

and K2BAR was on the air at

11:30am.

Eleven BARA VHF contesters rotat-

ed through the four operating posi-

tions throughout the afternoon giving

everyone an opportunity to make

some contacts. The operators were:

Jun Soo KD2EXV, David K2DSL,

Bennett KO2OK, Jim K2ZO, Rachel

AJ4WD, Noel N2OEL, Ted

KC2YKA, Bill KB2OCJ, Chris

KD2IMV, Bruce WA2QBC, and

Steve WI2W.

Walter KC2WDJ helped with setup

and took some photos. (Continued on page 7)

Save the Date

BARA FAMILY PICNIC

Sunday, August 9th

Wood Dale County Park

Woodcliff Lake

10 am - 3 pm


BARA BULLETIN

BARA RESOURCES

The BARA Bulletin is published monthly by the Bergen Amateur

Radio Association. Subscriptions are included in the annual member-ship dues. Membership is open to anyone interested in radio communi-cation.

QSL Bureau:

Warren Hager, K2UFM

Public Service:

Club Contesting:

Phil Barber, WA2LXE

VE Exams:

Don Younger, W2JEK

Donnan917’at’aol.com

Hamfests:

Jim Joyce, K2ZO

Webmasters:

wm’at’bara.org

Tony Izzo, K2AMI

David Levine, K2DSL

MEMBERSHIP

APPLICATION

Interested in learning more about amateur radio and meeting new

people? Then join the Bergen

Amateur Radio Association (BARA). Dues are $25 per year. Send your application request to:

David Levine, K2DSL

11 Mackay Ave.

Waldwick, NJ 07463

e-mail to k2dsl’at’arrl.net.

Please include your name, address, town, zip, call sign, license class, and phone number.

Upcoming Events

July 5 - BARA Business Meeting

July 7 - Kit Night

July 14 - Kit Night

July 18, 19 - North American QSO Party - RTTY

July 21 - Kit Night

July 28 - Kit Night

August 1,2 - ARRL UHF Contest

August 1,2 - North American QSO Party - CW

August 2 - BARA Business Meeting

August 4 - Kit Night

August 9 - BARA Family Picnic

Welcome New Members:

Qinjian Li, KD2IYJ - Wayne

Yan Goldovskiy, KD2IVD - Fair Lawn

Philip Cheski, KD2ENP - Elmwood Park

BARA KIT NIGHT 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Washing Twp. Senior Center

350 Hudson Ave., Township of Washington, 07676

Build a kit related to Amateur Radio (partial BARA funding available)

Diagnose/repair a defective piece of equipment

Discuss radio and computer problems

Technical assistance available

Seek/give technical opinions


PUBLIC SERVICE

BC RACES NET 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month.

7:45 PM on the W2AKR Repeater

146.790 Mhz; PL 141.3 Hz.

Net control is NJ2BC

Directed training net for all authorized

Bergen County RACES stations and

authorized liaison stations.

K2BAR NETS

VE EXAM SCHEDULE

The June VE test session

is scheduled for:

September

7 PM

at

Westwood Regional H.S.

Room 123

Enter school grounds from

drive at right side of school.

Cross in front of school and

turn right into parking lot. En-

ter side door with Gymnasium

sign over door.

The FCC has imposed a

Testing fee of $15.00 per

exam/retest.

Required documents:

Two forms of ID required

for all transactions.

Social Security Number

if unlicensed or FRN

Number if licensed.

Original CSCE if prior

test credit is claimed.

If license upgrade, a

signed copy of current

FCC license

Questions may be directed to:

Don Younger, W2JEK

201-265-6583

Question Pool Revision:

The General exam question pool

wasrevised on July 1, 2015.

Current Question Pool:

Technician, Element 2-July 1, 2014

General, Element 3 - July 1, 2015

Extra, Element 4 - July 1, 2012

Sample tests available at QRZ.COM

http://www.qrz.com/p/testing.pl

Daily FCC report of new and re-

newed callsigns available at:

http://www.qrz.com/new_hams.html

Link of the Month

Introduction to HF Radio

Propagation

http://www.ips.gov.au/Category/Educational/Other%20Topics/Radio%20Communication/Intro%20to%20HF%20Radio.pdf

- - Tnx to WI2W

BC RACES

Communications Unit Any licensed ham operator in Bergen

County, if not already a member, is

asked to join the BCRACES team by

sending an e-mail to:

[email protected]

with your name, callsign, e-mail, and

municipality.

SSB Net:

Mondays 9:00 pm

10 Meters – 28.375 MHz

Net Control: Jim, K2ZO

FM Nets:

Mondays 8:00 pm

YL Net

2 Meters: 146.79 MHz.

PL 141.3

Net Control: Joanne, KC2QGH

Wednesdays 9:00 pm


PL 141.3

Net Control: Hector, W2NPR

Thursdays 8:30 pm

70 cm: 444.100

PL 141.3

Net Control: Marco, K2ZMA

Thursdays 9:00 pm

Technical Net


PL 141.3

EchoLink via K2FJ-L

Net Control: Gordon, W2TTT

New HF Digital Net

Focused on EMCOMM

The New Jersey Narrow Band

Emergency Messaging System (NJ

-NBEMS) Net meets every Sunday

Morning at 9:30 AM on 7.073

MHz using OLIVIA-8-500. This

net is NOT affiliated with RACES

or ARES, so any Radio Amateur

with appropriate operating privileg-

es may participate.

FLDIGI is the preferred sound card

software because FLAMP and

FLMSG are used for message han-

dling. This is a training net for

new users, so operator error is ex-

pected and well tolerated.

For additional information contact

Bill, KC2VUT at arrl.net, Rick,

N2PHI at comcast.net or Karl,

W2KBF at arrl.net.


Hamfests

Sussex County ARC

Sunday, July 12

Sussex County Fairgrounds

Augusta, NJ

http://www.scarcnj.org

BARA Meeting Minutes

June 7, 2015

7:30pm - Meeting called to order

by President Weiss

7:32pm - President Weiss lead the

Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and

a minute of silence for all those who

have passed.

7:34pm - There were no Health &

Welfare reports to be given.

The president then welcomed guests

Roger, NJ2R; Wendy, KC2YLF;

Woody, AK2F; Jonathan, KD2HTM

and Peter, KC2ASA.

There were no new members pre-

sented or any upgrades mentioned.

7:36pm - There was an introduc-

tion of officers and EC Staff:

Chuck KC2SST

Jim K2ZO

Bennett KO2OK

Harry W2FT

Tony K2AMI

David K2DSL

Steve WI2W

7:37pm - The President reminded

members that Sign-Up Sheets are

being circulated for VHF Contest

and Field Day.

7:38pm - The President turned

the meeting over to Woody for to-

night’s program “Modern 2 Meter

EME & Weak Signal Operation”

which went until the 8:55pm Break.

Break 8:55pm – 9:18pm

9:18pm - VP Steve called up

the following operators:

Larry WA2ALY

Ben KF2ID (SK)

Roy KD2CMS

Denver K2DEN

Ted KC2YKA

Charlie N3CRT

Steve W2STV

Bennett KO2OK

Paul W2APP

Steve WI2W

They were presented with a certifi-

cate for operating at the VHF contest

of June 2014 in which BARA won

first place in Limited Multi Ops in

the Eastern New York Section.

9:19pm - Reports were given for

the BARA Nets:

Monday YL Net, President Weiss

noted this net is need of more YL’s

and a new control operator due to

vacations, relocations and other op-

erator interruptions. The president

stated that she hoped these interrup-

tions would be just for the summer.

Monday 10 meter Net- Jim, K2ZO

noted many check-in’s including

some DX!

Wednesday VHF Net- Hector,

W2NPR noted he has had 10 to 12

Checks –ins per week.

Thursday UHF Net- Marco, KC2Z-

MA noted he has approximately 6

FOR SALE

Moving - Beam Antenna and Tower Sections for sale

Mosley TA-33M triband beam with 12m and17m. Only 2 years old.

3 - 8ft sections of tower.

$500.00

W2IUC - George Dansen, Rochelle Park

201-845-7782

check-ins and last week he operated

form his car.

Thursday Tech Net- Noel ,NO2EL

stood in for Gordon, W2TTT who

was away. Normally this net runs for

1hr and has about 20 Check-ins

9:22pm - Call for any Old Busi-

ness, none was brought up.

9:23pm - The President brought up

that we will need a new banner. Jim

noted the present one he bought in

1968. The president noted Fairlawn

just got a new banner from Vista

Prints. A motion was made from the

floor to authorize a new banner by

Rich, K2ZB and seconded by Roy,

KD2CMS. The motion was carried.

9:25pm - An announcement was

made by President Weiss that a Me-

morial Service for (SK) Jim Jackson,

NS2K, will be held at St. John’s

Church basement in Bergenfield at

2pm on June 19, 2015. All are invit-

ed to attend.

9:27pm - 3 BARA boxes were do-

nated by Bill, KB2OCJ: ½ Flex line,

¼ flex line and a length of RG142.

These items were auctioned off by

President Weiss.

9:33pm - The meeting was

adjourned

Respectfully submitted

Recording Secretary,

Bill Montague, KB2OCJ


Bergen County RACES - Important Infomation

Thanks to all personnel who attended the May 20, 2015 BC-RACES presentation in Fair Lawn Community Center. In

the presentation I emphasized why, legally and insurance-wise, a CURRENT member profile is required and im-

portant to be a BC-RACES member.

I posted three files on BC-RACES Yahoo Group as attachments to an e-mail sent to the Yahoo Group members. They

may also be found in the Files Section of this Yahoo Group if you are a member. The same e-mail with attachments

was sent to the 75 BC-RACES members who do not subscribe to the Yahoo Group.

The first file, “Member Profile Not Current 052215”, lists those operators who do not have a CURRENT membership

profile submitted. The column at the far right shows either “NO” or OLD”.

NOTE: These operators MUST submit a CURRENT profile, also attached as file “RACES Data Form Fill-

In032115”, NLT July 15, 2015, in order to be included as a qualified BC-RACES member. If not submitted by

that date, the operator will NOT be permitted to participate in drills, exercises, bi-weekly nets, or other BC-

RACES activities, and if a member of the BC-RACES Yahoo Group, access will be removed from the Group.

The second file, “Members by Profile YES--NEW 052215”, lists all operators who HAVE submitted a CURRENT

membership profile and are considered qualified BC-RACES members.

NOTE: Those on this list who are not a member of the BC-RACES Yahoo Group and receiving e-mail through the

Group, need to join using their own e-mail account by clicking on the ur l [email protected] at

the bottom of the Group homepage, to receive e-mails. Also, if you do not have a YAHOO account profile, then you

will only receive e-mails and not have full access to the files, etc.

FYI, there are over 30 operators without e-mail addresses in the BC-RACES master db who are scheduled to

be deleted on 07/15/15 if they do not send me an e-mail address. An e-mail address is REQUIRED on the User Profile

form in order to be a member since that is the only way we can communicate with the BC-RACES members between

nets and for activations, drills, calendar events, etc.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

73, Stanley A. Kober, (KC2ZXB), CERT/RACES Deputy Liaison

Wind Towers

Have you ever wondered how they put up wind towers?

Interesting video.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/84BeVq2Jm88?feature=player_detailpage

Tnx to K2RRV

From the Hudson Division Director…

I am happy to tell you that as of late last week, S. 1685

was introduced in the Senate by Senator Wicker (R-MS)

and co-sponsored by Senator Blumenthal; (D-CT). This

bill is a companion bill to HR-1301, and is identical in

language and intent. Both Senators are on the subcommit-

tee which will hear the bill, and, in fact, Senator Wicker is

the Chairman of the subcommittee.

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU WRITE YOUR SENA-

TORS ASKING FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF THE

BILL!!!!

http://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-parity-act contains the complete text of both bills as well as instruc-

tions on how to send letters.

House Bill 1301 now has 84 cosponsors.

The following Congressmen/women have not yet signed

on to the Bill.

Scott Garrett (NJ-5)

Albio Sires (NJ-8)

Bill Pascrell (NJ-9)

Donald Payne (NJ-10)

Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12)

From Mike, N2YBB

mailto:[email protected]


MEMBER REPORTED CONTEST SCORES SUBMITTED

FOR AGGREGATE CLUB SCORE

CQ WPX Contest - CW

Power QSOs Points WPX Score

K2ZC Low 279 789 224 176,736

DRCG RTTY Contest

Power QSOs Points Mults Score

K2DSL Low 26 472 18 8,496

ARRL VHF Contest

Power QSOs Points Grids Score

K2BAR Low 271 320 61 19,520

K2AMI High 105 122 44 5,368

K2ZC* Low 42 42 20 840

* Single band - 50 MHz.

Field Day

Power Class QSOs Points Bonus Score

W2JEK QRP (X5) 1E 72 360 200 920

K2ZC Low (X2) 1D 142 430 860

K2DSL Low (X2) 1D 57 56 112

Members are encouraged to show “Bergen ARA” as the club when

submitting contest logs and send a copy of the summary sheet to

WA2LXE for inclusion in the Bulletin. A minimum of three individual

submissions are usually required for the “Club” category.

Willis Island DXpedition

An international team of amateur radio operators

will activate DXpedition station VK9WA from

Willis Island, November 12-21st, 2015.

Willis is currently #34 on the ClubLog's most

wanted list and has not been activated since 2008.

The team will depart Cairns, Australia, on the

"MV Phoenix" vessel for the 30 hour trip to

Middle Cay Island in the Willis Islets. The island

is only 4 acres in size and uninhabited.

They will operate high power CW, SSB, and

RTTY on 10 through 80 meters (possibly 160 me-

ters) for 10 days (subject to weather, etc.). The

primary focus will be providing all time new con-

tacts with this highly demanded, rarely activated

entity.

Additional details are available at:

http://VK9WA.com

Rob, N7QT

(From WA2PNI)

DX Insights

WI2W Earns First Place in CQ WW VHF

Contest in the QRP Hilltopper Category.

Congratulations Steve.

ITU 150th Anniversary Award

To commemorate 150th anniversary of the

ITU, 11 special call stations were active in

May 2015 on all bands.

K2FJ earned the Platinum Award by working

at least six different stations, each in at least

three bands. Jim was ranked #50 in the USA

for contacts with all eleven stations in 71

band slots. Congratulations Jim.

AA2WP Receives Award

AA2WP, Bill Peters, received the 2015 Tom Brennan

Lifetime Achievement Award, given by Fire Engi-

neering Magazine at its annual Fire Department In-

structors Conference International, held in Indianapo-

lis, IN, this year.

Appointed to the Jersey City Fire Department in 1975,

Peters quickly rose through the ranks from firefighter

to lieutenant, captain, and battalion chief, earning sev-

eral departmental commendations for heroism includ-

ing the rescue of civilians and saving the life of a fel-

low firefighter. From WB2GAI, Tnx


Guests included Glen N2CJ, and visitors Karen

and her son Nehru.

We operated low power for a total of five hours

making a total of 271 QSO's resulting in a score of

19,520 points. Bravo! There were a couple of brief

6M openings into the Southeastern USA and the

Caribbean adding some excitement to the day.

It was great to see some new faces making contacts

and everyone present agreed it was a lot of fun.

Plans are underway for the ARRL September VHF

contest. Hope to see you there!

73,

Steve WI2W

(Continued from page 1)

VHF Photos courtesy of

Walter, KC2WDJ.



169 Woodland Ave.

Westwood, NJ 07675

President

Rachel Weiss, AJ4WD

RACHEL.A.WEISS ‘at’

GMAIL.COM

Vice-President

Steve Holly, WI2W

9 Passaic Ave.

North Haledon, NJ 07508

WI2W’at’ARRL.NET

Secretary

Bill Montague, KB2OCJ

KB2OCJ’at’AOL.COM

Treasurer

David Levine, K2DSL

11 Mackay Ave.

Waldwick, NJ 07463

K2DSL ‘at’ARRL.NET

Trustees

Bennett Norell, KO2OK

KO2OK’at’ARRL.NET

Harry Johnson, W2FT

W2FT’at’AOL.COM

Chuck Lemken, KC2SST

CLEMKEN’at’HOTMAIL.COM

BARA Bulletin

Phil Barber, WA2LXE, Editor

WA2LXE’at’ARRL.NET

Next Business Meeting

Sunday, July 5th at the

Twp. Of Washington

Senior Center

Presidents Emeritus

Bill James, WA2QHL - SK

Dominick Interdonato, NB2F - SK

Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML - SK

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