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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 Letter June 2018
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Greetings to club members, Friends of the KCRA, and all fellow HAMs!
The next week’s meeting on Tuesday June 19, 2018 will be canceled.
The next regular scheduled meeting will be on Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Field Day/bbq will be held at my house, 01:00 pm, June 23, until the bands close down around
01:00 am, Sunday morning. There will also be a small flea-market, ...I have several bins of
electronic parts, project boxes, connectors, and other related hobby things... My wife wants
me to get rid of the stuff I am not using... I will accept the best offer, ...1-2-10 dollars
or $25 take the whole bin. All proceeds will be going to the KCRA.
For Field-Day, I will be setting up an IC-910 with a special “egg-beater” antenna built for
working Satellites. There are several AMSAT CubeSats that are in orbit, that I will try to
make contact with. I will be running laptop with satellite production software to find them
and the International Space Station.
More information on Satellites can be found here: https://www.amsat.org/field-day/
I will also be running several HF antennas, a long wire (3) band traps for 20-40-80M, 20M
vertical or 20M loop.
I have room for one more radio setup, and several operators.
If you are interested in stopping by my QTH in Eltingville SI, or helping with BBQ, all are
welcome.
Please send me an eMail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We looking in to having a “Ask an Elmer” - informal summer session with ham radio mentors -
This is an evening for informal demonstration and conversation about amateur radio or PC
related. Bring your gear and your questions. Dates to be announced.
Some of the club events this year we are looking at doing:
Field Day
- June 23-24, 2018 – Will be doing it in my back yard.
National Night Out
- August 7 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend
- August
9/11 Memorial
– need good location
New York QSO party and JOTA - October
HAM Fest coming up, for anyone that is interested in getting together for a ride, Let me know.
Become Radioactive! Come to the KCRA meetings! Learn something participating in our Hands-On-
Labs! The Kings County Repeater Association needs your support at our monthly meetings! If
you have any ideas that pertain to amateur radio, we would like to hear from you.
I think most of us are members of the ARRL. If you are not, I would like you to consider
becoming a member of the ARRL. The ARRL has a lot to offer you in many ways, and they protect
the amateur radio bands from commercial use!
73’de 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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