Billerica Amateur Radio Society
Welcome to the Billerica Amateur Radio Society (BARS) community!
I am pleased to announce that our Guest Speaker for the November 1, 2023, Club Meeting via Zoom will be none other than Rick Roderick, K5UR, the current President of the ARRL! Rick will give a talk on what’s new at the ARRL and will share valuable insights on our …
November 1, 2023 BARS Meeting – Rick Roderick, K5UR, on What’s New at the ARRL Read More
I am pleased to announce that our Guest Speaker for the October Club meeting on October 4, 2023, will be Sierra G Harrop, the Public Relations and Outreach Manager for the ARRL. “Needless to say, I love my job! I get to come to work each morning and work to …
October 4, 2023 BARS Meeting – Sierra G Harrop, W5DX, on ARRL Outreach Read More
I am excited to inform the Club that I have secured Rob Sherwood, of Sherwood Engineering to be our Guest Speaker for the August 2, 2023 Club Meeting via Zoom. Here is Bob’s bio, which is quite impressive. Bob is the Gold Standard with regard to review and testing of …
August 2, 2023 BARS Meeting – Rob Sherwood, NC0B, on Transceiver Testing Read More
Our Guest Speaker at our meeting on Wednesday, July 5, will be Ria Jairam, N2RJ. Ria is from Sussex, New Jersey and is well known and respected around the ham radio community. Among her many credentials are: Life member, ARRL Past Director, Hudson Division, ARRL (2019-2023) Member of : Amsat, …
July 5, 2023 BARS Meeting – Ria Jairam, N2RJ, on Software-Defined Ham Radio Read More
Donna Halper will be presenting about the role amateurs played in early commercial radio and sports broadcasting. Donna was born here in Massachusetts and began working in the broadcasting field in 1968 as a DJ and music director. In 1974, while at WMMS in Cleveland she “discovered” the progressive rock …
June 7, 2023 BARS Meeting – Donna Halper on Hams in Broadcasting Read More
Our Guest Speaker for the May 2023 Club Meeting will be Dennis Boye, AH2O from Syosset, NY. Dennis will be sharing a presentation on P.O.T.A. (Parks On The Air), which is fast becoming very popular, especially now that Spring has finally come after a long cold winter. Here is a …
May 3, 2023 BARS Meeting – Dennis Boye, AH2O, on Parks on the Air Read More
Our guest speaker for the Club Meeting on April 5, 2023 will be Gary Sutcliffe, W9XT, and he will give a presentation entitled “Antennas – The Third Dimension”. Gary was Licensed as WN9FRG in 1970. Other calls he has held: WB9FRG, WB9FRG/6W8, W0XT. He also has an FCC General Radiotelephone …
April 5, 2023 BARS Meeting – Gary Sutcliffe, W9XT, on Antennas – the Third Dimension Read More
I am pleased to announce that we will have Tom Carrubba, KA2D, who will give us a dual presentation on DX’ing on the H bands, as well as a tutorial on using logging programs. Tom was first licensed in 1978 as KA2DFO. He is an active DXer, DXCC CW, RTTY …
March 1, 2023 BARS Meeting – Tom Carrubba, KA2D, on HF DXing and Logging Read More
We will be having Bruce Blain, K1BG as our Guest Speaker for the February 1, 2023 Club Meeting. Bruce will give an informative talk about the basics of CW for us. Bruce was first introduced to amateur radio by his neighbor Jim Payne, W1GPN, when he was 4 years old. …
February 1, 2023 BARS Meeting: Bruce Blain, K1BG, on “CW Basics” Read More
Special thanks to Andy Stewart, KB1OIQ, for a great talk on Linux in Your Ham Shack at this month’s meeting. Andy has graciously shared his slides from the talk with us. You can find them here: Andy_Ham_Radio_Linux
Linux in Your Ham Shack Slides Read More