Welcome to the Billerica Amateur Radio Society (BARS) community!
Everyone, I am excited to bring back Bruce Blain, K1BG to speak at BARS! You may remember his talk with us about The Entry Level License: What’s Worked and What Hasn’t. Bruce has an eye for spotting opportunities about influencing the young folks and getting their interest piqued for amateur …
Next BARS meeting: Wednesday, 3 April 2019 – Bruce Blain K1BG on Amateur Radio and Youth/Schools Read More
Please join us for the March BARS meeting as we have two home-grown speakers planned. Note: this is the same agenda from the cancelled February meeting. Mike and Tom have kindly agreed to speak this month! Mike, K1TWF, ARRL New England Division Vice Director: Mike is just back from the first …
NEXT BARS MEETING: Wednesday, March 6, at 7:00 PM Read More
Hi, everyone. Over the past weekend, I programmed my 2M rig for local repeaters and I thought the Club would like hearing what luck I had. If you are a new Technician or someone who has not been active on 144 MHz lately, listen up! The basics: Repeaters allow communicating …
A 2M REPEATER PRIMER Read More
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
Members, the Board has been discussing how to grow the BARS club and get a feel for what our members want to do. I commend our Vice President, Kayla Creamer, W2IRY, for coming up with the idea of using Google Forms for a survey. I am very pleased with the …
BARS Member Survey – we’d like EVERYONE’S response! 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
BARS POLICY ON NET OPERATION DURING LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS Approved by the BARS BOARD (20 August 2018) Amateur radio operators are frequently called upon to assist during emergency. It is important to understand that amateur radio operators are not first responders. The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) has extensive training …
BARS policy on Net operation during lightning and thunderstorms Read More