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Hamfests and Events

Feb. 7, 2009: Richmond Hamfest
Richmond Raceway Complex, 600 East Laburnum Ave.Richmond. 146.88/R 540-872-5949; casdeb@earthlink.net

Feb 22, 2009: Winterfest,
Northern VA Community College, 8333 Little River Tpke, Annandale, VA by Vienna Wireless Soceity, 703-534-2081 146.79/R; wa4qms@arrl.net

March 28-29, 2009 Timonium, MD,
Greater Baltimore Hamboree and Computerfest; 146.67/R; by BARC http://www.gbhc.org; w3ft67@yahoo.com; 443-590-1444

April 4 - Georgetown, Del.
Sussex ARC Hamfest - Sussex Tech. H.S. 17099 Route 9, Georgetown, De (147.075+) 302-629-4949

April 18 - York, PA.
York Spring Hamfest Brookside Park , 4054 Fox Run Rd. (147.33, PL 123.0) 717-292-3529

 

BRATS HAMFEST
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Howard County Fairgrounds

 

Next BRATS Meeting
Tuesday, February 17, 7:15 PM at the Pikesville Library, 1301 Reisterstown Road.

 

ARRL 500 kHz Experiment Shows Increased Activity
In the 500 kHz Experiment quarterly report for the period ending November 2008, Experiment Coordinator Fritz Raab, W1FR, reported that 21 participating stations are currently active since the experiment began in late 2006. The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology granted the WD2XSH experimental license to the ARRL in September of that year. The FCC has issued six experimental licenses for 500 kHz: WD2XSH, WE2XGR, WD2XFF, WE2XPQ, WE2XTT and WE2XVY.

 

VE EXAMS

BARC VE EXAMS for 2009
12360 Owings Mills Blvd. Owings Mills
Register: 1:30 PM, Exams begin 2 PM.
No one admitted after exams begin


Saturday, February 7, 2009
Saturday March 7, 2009
Sunday. April 5, 2008
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
n3wke@arrl.net (Thanks, N3YI)

 

2009 AERO VE EXAMS
Registration at 1 PM, Exams at 1:30.
Fee $14 ( ARRL VEC); All exams at White Marsh Library, 8133 Sandpiper Circle;

March 21, 2009
Pat Stone, AC3F, ac3f@juno.com, 410-687-7209

 

Other Club Exams
2nd Saturday, 1 PM, Davidsonville, by AARC. Register 12 noon. Bob, AA3RR, 410-437-8193
3rd Saturday, 9 AM, Laurel, by LARC, 384 Main St. John Creel, WB3GXW, 301-572-5124.
4th Tuesday, 6 PM, Linthicum. At Historical Electronics Museum. Harold, WB4OGP, 410-757-0493(h); 410-712-6829(w)

 

Satellite Shorts From All Over

  • SatMagazine, a free web based magazine is available on-line at: http://www.satmagazine.com/cgi-bin/display_edition.cgi This month's issue is dedicated to Cubesats. AMSAT and Amateur Radio are mentioned.
  • The first English issue of the free electronic Amateur Radio magazine Ham-Mag is now available and features an article on working satellites with your HT by K6LCS. The first issue can be downloaded from the magazine's website at http://www.ham-mag.com/ and if you subscribe (free) the magazine will be emailed to you each month.
  • Information about the Southeastern VHF Society Conference April 24-25 in Charlotte, NC can be found at: http://www.w4dex.com/svhfs_2009.htm

 

March Special Event
March 13-114: 22nd Annual Winter SWL Fest
The Inn at Towamencin in Kulpsville, PA, 30 minutes north of Philadelphia. http://www.swlfest.com

 

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