Welcome to the Billerica Amateur Radio Society (BARS) community!
I am pleased to announce that our Guest Speaker for the June 4, 2025, club meeting will be …. Wait, it’s a mystery right now! So I guess it’s a “Mystery Guest”! Due to a scheduling conflict with our planned guest, who will come in July now, we are still …
June 4, 2025 BARS Meeting – Mystery Guest TBA Read More
I am pleased to announce that our Guest Speaker for the May 7, 2025, club meeting will be Andy Stewart, KB1OIQ. Andy (KB1OIQ) is an extra class licensee who has been in the hobby since 2007 and will present on the history of the “Andy’s Ham Radio Linux” software collection, …
May 7, 2025 BARS Meeting – Andy Stewart, KB1OIQ, “Andy’s Ham Radio Linux” Read More
I am pleased to announce that our Guest Speaker for the April 2, 2025 Club meeting will be Arnold Shatz, N6HC. Arnold has been a team member of fourteen major DXpeditions: K7C-Kure atoll (2005), 3B7C- St. Brandon Island (2007), TX5C- Clipperton Island (2008), K4M-Midway Island (2009), T31A- Kanton atoll, Central …
April 2, 2025 BARS Meeting – Arnold Shatz, N6HC, “The DXpedition Doctor” Read More
I am pleased to announce that our Guest Speaker for our March 5th hybrid Club Meeting will be Jay Taft, K1EHZ. Jay is the President of the Merrimack Valley Amateur Radio Association located in Auburn NH. He has been actively promoting the use of AREDN, the “Amateur Radio Emergency Data …
March 5, 2025 BARS Meeting – Jay Taft, K1EHZ, Presents an Overview of the Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN) Read More
We’ve got another great newsletter ready for your reading pleasure. Thanks, as always, to our newsletter editor, Marla, for putting this together every month. Also, thanks to those of you who contributed articles. Without articles, there is no newsletter. If you have something you’d like to submit for a future newsletter, be sure to send it to Marla at wa1gsf@comcast.net.
March 2025 Billerica Amateur Radio Society Newsletter Read More
I am pleased to announce that our Guest Speaker for our February 5 hybrid Club Meeting will be Bruce Pigott, KC1US, who is the Trustee for the North Reading Repeater on the frequency of 146.715. The presentation is a quick overview of the Minuteman Repeater Association repeaters and network. Will …
February 5, 2025 BARS Meeting – Bruce Pigott, KC1US, With an Overview of the Minuteman Repeater Association Read More
Just a reminder that we will be having our Annual Holiday Party on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at the Great Wall Restaurant in Bedford, MA. We will be having a buffet. I will check on the pricing and send out an email to members when I confirm that. We will …
January 15, 2025 BARS Meeting – BARS Holiday Party, 6:30 pm at the Great Wall in Bedford Read More