Billerica Amateur Radio Society
Welcome to the Billerica Amateur Radio Society (BARS) community!
Hi, everyone. Over the past weekend, I programmed my 2M rig for local repeaters and I thought the Club would like hearing what luck I had. If you are a new Technician or someone who has not been active on 144 MHz lately, listen up! The basics: Repeaters allow communicating …
A 2M REPEATER PRIMER Read More
Important: please RSVP now to ka1gtt@arrl.net so I can get a headcount for the restaurant. Please join us for the 2019 holiday get together which will take the place of our normal meeting in January. (The Wednesday, Feb 6th meeting will be at the Chelmsford Bible Church.) The BARS …
Next Meeting: BARS Holiday Party, Great Wall Bedford, Wednesday, January 2, 2019, 7-9:30PM – RSVP Read More
I am very happy to announce that our next meeting will feature Part 2 of Chuck’s presentation on RFI! At the last meeting, Chuck demonstrated a simple loop antenna and SWL radio setup for “sniffing” RF Interference sources in a practical way. He also provided some great slides showing his …
Next BARS meeting: 7:00 PM Wednesday, December 5, 2018: PART 2 of “Chuck Counselman, W1HIS – Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)” Read MoreHey, BARS members give this a try for some real HF FUN! See the WA7BNM CALENDAR https://www.contestcalendar.com/weeklycont.php#8808 for simplified details You can find a full explanation here: http://www.arrl.org/sweepstakes. Or ask questions on the BARS reflector and club members will help you get started. At exactly 2100 UTC on Saturday November …
ARRL Sweepstakes this weekend (November 17) Read More
Members, the Board has been discussing how to grow the BARS club and get a feel for what our members want to do. I commend our Vice President, Kayla Creamer, W2IRY, for coming up with the idea of using Google Forms for a survey. I am very pleased with the …
BARS Member Survey – we’d like EVERYONE’S response! Read More Folks, our next meeting subject will prove to be very interesting, because it affects ALL of us. There is no question that in 2018 our radios, especially HF ones, pick up many more S-units of noise than when a lot of us were first licensed. Grow lights, street lamps, power …
Next BARS meeting: Wednesday, November 7: Chuck Counselman, W1HIS – Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Read More
Please join us on Wednesday, October 3, for an interesting talk by Larry Banks, W1DYJ. Tom Walsh, K1TW, recently saw and admired Larry’s presentation on antennas he has used at his two QTHs (Woburn MA and Harpswell ME) and we have enticed him to give this talk to BARS! While …
Next Meeting: Wed 10/3/18 at 7PM – Larry Banks, W1DYJ “One Ham’s Journey with Antennas” Read More
BARS POLICY ON NET OPERATION DURING LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS Approved by the BARS BOARD (20 August 2018) Amateur radio operators are frequently called upon to assist during emergency. It is important to understand that amateur radio operators are not first responders. The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) has extensive training …
BARS policy on Net operation during lightning and thunderstorms Read More Hi, everyone. We hold a weekly 2M net every Wednesday night at 8PM (except for the third Wednesday, which is the meeting night) on the W1DC Billerica repeater. Running the Net is simple and the script is below, somewhat trimmed down from previous versions. BARS would love for you to …
W1HH 2M Net Script – latest revision Read More
Hi, Everyone! Our next meeting will be Wednesday, September 5, 2018. This meeting will feature our yearly QSL Sort with Eric Williams, KV1J of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club/ARRL W1 Incoming QSL Bureau. BARS is glad to help Eric out by sorting incoming cards to speed the distribution process. As …
Next Meeting: Wednesday, 5 September 2018 Read More