Local Beacon on 600 meters (482 kHz)

Have you heard a local beacon on 600 meters?   WG2XSB is on 482 kHz in grid FN42, I ran across this beacon last week when I finished a homebrew K9AY receive antenna array for the low bands.   Take a listen at 482 kHz in the evenings or to the mp3 audio file here.

    First Club Meeting of the year is January 12th

The first regular club meeting of 2017 will be held Thursday, January 12 at 7:30 PM at the usual location:
First Lt Charles W. Whitcomb School (formerly Intermediate/Middle School) 25 Union St. (or off Bolton Street enter by Agoristas Drive) Marlborough, MA 01752.  For new attendees:  please park in the rear of the school, enter via the rear portico doors, walk straight past the office and the first hallway on the left to the school library, doors also on the left.

Special Feature:  Chip Read N2IOF will present a Power Point evaluation of his new radio the Kenwood TH-D74A.  Sub-Title: "An overview of the radio & its modes".

    Annual AARC Flea Market Coming in February

Our next Flea Market will be held on Saturday, February 18, 2017 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.  Flea Market Flier is now available, click on the image to get full details about the event.

    Visit to ARRL HQ Newington, CT

Tuesday July 12th, 2016 3 AARC members , N4ADC,K1JIU and K1IX made a trip down to ARRL in Newington,CT to operate the league flagship station W1AW.  Band conditions were not very good but they did manage to make a few DX contacts operating on 20 and 17 meters.  Other operators using 40m did not have any better conditions. 

   

Photos from Field Day 2016

    2016 Museum Ship Event

On June 4th, 2016 The Destroyer Joseph P Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) was activated once again at Battleship Cove, in Fall River, MA.  The call sign used was NB1CR which is a derivation of the original call sign for the destroyer NBCR.

Operation began Saturday morning on three bands 40m, 20m and 17m.   There were verticals for 40m & 20m and a dipole for 17m.  Rigs used were the club's K3, K1DIN's TS-480 and K1IX's IC-706.   The propagation did not favor the museum ship event this weekend, as a result fewer contacts were made.  During the day 20m seemed to be the band to be on and that is wehere most of the contacts were handed out.  More photos possibly after the event.