Billerica Amateur Radio Society
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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 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
Please join us for our next BARS meeting, Wednesday, August 1st. We have no speaker planned, so this will be an informal session. I will present club news, a brief report on my impressions of K1KI’s town hall meeting, and other ham news. For the bulk of the meeting it …
Next BARS meeting: Wednesday 8/1/18 Read More
Ham radio is a wonderful hobby. It is all about communication. We are connected as human beings and the connections we make outlast our physical bodies. Nothing cements relationships like regularly chatting on the air or socializing at our BARS meetings or our Saturday breakfast. Recently, the world lost Hector …
Jesse Creamer, W1DEA – a great loss to us Read More
Hello everyone! Our next meeting will be Wednesday, June 6th, 7PM at the Chelmsford Bible Church, 128 Gorham St, Chelmsford, MA 01824. I am pleased to announce our speaker will be Harry Chase, WA1VVH. Harry will be speaking about his technical work with HCJB, a shortwave broadcaster from Ecuador. Harry …
Next meeting: Wednesday, June 6th Read More
Please join us for our next meeting: Wednesday, 5/2/2018 at 7:00 PM at the Chelmsford Bible Church. Our speaker will be Kevin Fallon, KB1KTR, of the Billerica Emergency Management Administration. Kevin will speak about EMA activities as they relate to amateur radio, and communications facilities based at the Billerica location. Andy …
Next meeting Wednesday, May 2, 2018 Read MoreFolks, if you care about the future of our hobby and the longevity of BARS itself, I urge you to watch this interview with Bruce Blain, K1BG, along with Riley Hollingsworth, formerly of the FCC. Our Board Member, Henry Christle, WA1VAB, has taken on examining the crisis of youth participation …
Bruce Blain K1BG on Amateur Radio Roundtable 03/27/18 Read More