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The Kings County Repeater Association meetings are held at The Guild for Exceptional Children located at 260 68th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month.
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Presidents Newsletter August 2017
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Greetings to club members, friends of the KCRA, and all fellow HAM’s!
Please take note: the August meeting has been canceled.
Please take note: the September meeting has been moved to L&B Spumoni Gardens!!
For the Sicilian square pizza & ice cream from an old-school Italian counter!
Address: 2725 86th St, Brooklyn, NY 11223
http://www.spumonigardens.com/
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*** In September, the Guild needs to use our room for a meeting.
*** We will hold it at L&B’s outside, if the weather is bad, we will be inside.
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It’s Summer, time to get out of the house and join your fellow HAMs, get on the air, meet up with some old friends and make new ones!
List of the Summer events club members are participating in:
- National Night Out, Tuesday of August 1, on the Staten Island beach was a blast! We set up a
table full of HAM flyers, and portable backpack radio gear to demonstrate. I didn’t get a
chance to ‘play’ radio, was too busy meeting old friends, and making new contacts. There were
several people that approached me with an interest in taking the HAM Technician class with us
later this year.
- International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend (Always held on the third full weekend of August)
Saturday – Sunday, August 19-20, 2017. There are over 10 lighthouses within reach in the five
boroughs. Find one close to you and set up portable operation!! You can also try looking
for them on spotting networks.
- Total Solar Eclipse will take place on Monday, August 21, 2017 about 02:00 pm EDT.
I will be part of the “Eclipse-Mob” a crowd sourcing effort to conduct a low-frequency radio
wave propagation experiment. I have built a special receiver to take RF samples and live
stream the data to George Mason University and the University of Massachusetts.
If the weather permits, I will be setting up my HF radios at the Princes Bay Lighthouse on SI.
It is open from 06:00 am to 08:00 pm.
Here is a very interesting link about the Eclipse event/s that are happening on Aug 21st.:
http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/ - How to be a Two-Minute Scientist on Eclipse Day
News Updates:
We are looking in to doing a free HAM Technician (2) day weekend class and test. We have always gotten a great response from the participants of the hands-on class, and will be doing this class again this winter. The class will be open to ALL, and is free, including the testing!!
The IRLP & D-Star server needs to be re-located to get internet service needed for their operation.
The KC2RA 2M club repeater has been up and running very well for the past several months with out any issues. I am looking for some help getting the “Club”-net back on the air. A good time for me to run the net is after 09:00 PM. Topic’s will be HAM and PC related... tips-tricks-antennas, some crazy distance doing QRP... maybe some Morse code...
Become Radioactive! Come to the KCRA meetings! Learn something, participating in our Hands-On-Labs! The CLUB needs your support at our monthly meetings! If you have any ideas that pertain to amateur radio, we would like to hear from you.
Protect the Amateur Radio bands from commercial use! Join the ARRL!!
Have a Great Summer!! Hope to see YOU in the Fall...
73’ until September
KB2PSI, Vinny
Website Development
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The KCRA Website will be going through a series of updates that should make browsing the site easier for members. We will try to complete these updates as quickly as possible. Please pardon our appearance while this maintenance is completed. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Club Website Heartbleed Free
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I am pleased to report that our club website is not suspect to the vulnerability known as the Heartbleed Bug. Then again you probably never knew our site was sucurely accessible via SSL (for the NSA parinoid out there), give it a try: https://www.kc2ra.org
Your Membership Dues at Work
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You may wonder what the club does with your $35 annual membership dues and other funds we raise. If you haven’t renewed or joined yet, perhaps this will give you some incentive to do so.
As a non-profit corporation, the KCRA uses its funds in various ways, both for the benefit of its members, and for furthering the radio art. By the time 2013 is over the club should have:
Sponsored several FREE licensing classes, helping to bring about 100 new people into the hobby. One class has completed, another is underway with yet a third in the planning stages.
Sponsored two EC-001 Emergency Communications classes, one exclusively for NY Guard soldiers. These classes are free, with a $15.00 test fee for the ARRL certificate.
Sponsored six totally FREE licensing exam sessions, held at the Guild for Exceptional Children every other month. That’s right, with our LARC team, you can upgrade or take the technician exam without any fee whatsoever.
Repeater improvements galore! This extensive, multi-year refurbishment plan to both our 2m analog and 70cm D-Star systems are nearing completion. Once complete, both repeaters will consist of completely new (NOT used) flexible and modern equipment that should last many, many years, at a cost of many thousands of dollars, and much hard work.
Let’s not forget the cost of insuring this equipment, our liability insurance, activates such as Field Day, Light House Weekend, Elmer 101, Hands on Labs, our regular meeting activities, and the donations we make to retain our meeting facility.
Of course this is not a complete list of what the club does, but as you can see, we stretch every dollar as far as possible.
If you’re not already a member, or have not renewed, please consider doing so today!
Big Apple Traffic Net
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The Big Apple Traffic Net can once again be heard on the KC2RA repeater system!
The net is held each Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 8:00 PM. The repeater will automatically join the appropriate IRLP reflector at 7:45PM, and will automatically disconnect at 8:45 PM, the net may also be heard on the following repeaters: KC2LEB (440.550, +5, PL 141.3). KC2GOW (445.125, -5, PL 141.3), K2CJP (145.410, -.6, PL 114.8), and of course KC2RA (146.430, +1, PL 136.5). Echolink access to the net is via node 132967 (KC2LEB/R).
If you would like to participate as a net control operator, or for more information on the Big Apple Traffic Net, please visit WWW.BIGAPPLETRAFFICNET.ORG.
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