Baltimore Radio Amateur Television Society

The September meeting of the BRATS will be at 7 pm on Monday, 9/26 at the National Electronics Museum.

1745 W Nursery Rd, Linthicum Heights, MD 21090

While the BRATS continue our search for a permanent home, we will hold our August meeting on Monday, 8/22 at 7 pm at the Greene Turtle in Owings Mills, MD. Come discuss out upcoming balloon launch and JOTA activities!

73,
Kevin KB3PLX

The BRATS will be supporting the Susan G Komen foundation for its inaugural Promise Ride, a Metric Century (66 mi) "woods and water" ride through Anne Arundel county, MD, on Saturday, June 25.

For more details, please contact brats@bratsatv.org.

73,
KB3PLX

The May meeting of the BRATS will be held 5/16 at 7 pm at the Owings Mills Greene Turtle. Hope to see you there!

The 2016 Baltimore Amateur Radio Club hamfest will be held Sunday, June 19, at the Arcadia Volunteer Fire Company from 8 am until 2 pm.

For more information, please visit the BARC Hamfest page.

The BRATS activated Ft. McHenry for National Parks on the air, setting up two stations and making contacts throughout the continent.

Thanks to WA3AER, K0RYX, K9FXY, and KB3SKN for their attendance and equipment to help us bring this station on the air, and a very special thanks to Mark W3MSR for all his efforts securing permission to operate and making this event happen!

Please join us for the April meeting of the BRATS at Liberty Road Volunteer Fire Company as we welcome Stephen Hamilton KJ5HY. The meeting begins at 7 pm.

In 2011, the United States Military Academy began a Balloon Satellite program where cadets would build a payload and attach it to a weather balloon and send it to heights exceeding 100,000 feet. The payload always includes an APRS tracker with the West Point Amateur Radio club callsign W2KGY. Stephen Hamilton (KJ5HY) has advised the cadets and helped with all 6 launches, to include the last one on 17 April, 2016. Stephen will discuss various issues with balloon satellite building,
launching, and recovery.

The BRATS will be setting up a station at Ft. McHenry on Saturday, April 30, for National Parks on the Air. Please email us brats@bratsatv.org for more info. Hope to see you there!

The BRATS are working hard to maintain and improve the WB3DZO linked repeater system. As a part of this process, we've installed new radios and filters at several of our sites.

One of the features we're looking into is whether a PL tone will help cut down on activations. For now, we've only enabled it on one of our receive sites, so no PL is necessary to reach the repeater from most of Baltimore, but we encourage you to set PL 156.7 to ensure you can hit every receive site.

Although we hope the summer storm season is quiet, we're working hard to make sure our gear is ready!

The April meeting of the BRATS will be Monday, April 25, at 7 pm at the Liberty Road Volunteer Fire Company. We hope to see you there!