The Oswego County Pathfinder Net will be changing to the 147.390 repeater, +0.600 offset, and PL tone 103.5. The Pathfinder Net will still operate Monday thru Friday at 9:00pm.
Thanks,
Michael….KD2DVC
Net manager
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The Oswego County Pathfinder Net will be changing to the 147.390 repeater, +0.600 offset, and PL tone 103.5. The Pathfinder Net will still operate Monday thru Friday at 9:00pm.
Thanks,
Michael….KD2DVC
Net manager
The FCC is expected to take action at its November meeting on a Report and Order that would eliminate the baud rate limitation and establish a bandwidth limitation in the amateur radio bands below 29.7 MHz.
The order being circulated for tentative consideration by the commission would remove the baud rate limitation — the rate at which the carrier waveform amplitude, frequency and/or phase is varied to transmit information — for data emissions in the amateur radio bands, the FCC says. The current baud rate limits were adopted in 1980.
The order would implement a 2.8 kilohertz bandwidth limitation in place of the baud rate in amateur radio bands. The 2.8 kHz limitation is consistent with the commission’s treatment of other wireless radio services, the FCC says.
Read more here: https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/fcc-wants-to-bolster-amateur-radio
FCC fact sheet: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397992A1.pdf
Fall/Winter Spotter Training 2023-24
more info: https://www.weather.gov/bgm/outreachSKYWARNtraining
Updated on 10/30/23 to reflect the extended dates for the comment period.
Comments are now due November 28, 2023 and replies December 28, 2023.
from the ARRL:
ARRL; The National Association for Amateur Radio® is asking that all radio amateurs urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to continue the existing use of the 60-meter band. The ARRL is encouraging expressions of support to the FCC for the current 100 watt ERP power limit (instead of reducing the power limit to 15 watts EIRP) and continuing secondary access to the current channels. An opportunity to reply to comments ends on October 30,2023. Comments should be submitted in FCC Docket No. WT 23-120.
ARRL has assembled a web page with instructions on how to submit your comments, as well as background information on the issue: www.arrl.org/60-meter-band
Its really pretty simple to comment on the FCC site. Just follow the ARRL instructions and link above that will take you directly to comment section form on the FCC web page.
And better yet, when you are done writing a comment consider checking in on the 60 Meter "Short & Sweet" net each day at 5:30pm EST on 5346.5 khz.
10/18/23 update: Operators still needed! Can You help?
Please contact John Edwards, K2JSE at Larcppoc@gmail.com or by phone at 315-453-7264
Bear Bait Radio Club - upcoming Amateur Radio Technician licensing class and testing
(from The Bear Bait Radio Club web site:https://bearbaitradioclub.com/ )
Sign-up info email: WA2DTN1@gmail.com
ARRL is proud to partner with HamSCI to help promote participation in the Solar Eclipse QSO Party (SEQP). SEQPs are a series of global experiments -- and you can be a part of them. Solar eclipses will pass across the continental United States on October 14, 2023, and April 8, 2024.
During these celestial events, you can join thousands of fellow amateurs as part of the largest crowd-sourced event for ham radio scientific exploration. The SEQP is part of the Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science and is for learning more about how the ionosphere works.
All radio amateurs need to do is operate using any mode and any band for all or part of the day, then upload their logs. Participation can be from anywhere; you don't need to be near the path of the eclipse to contribute valuable data. You don't even have to be a licensed ham to participate in the experiment (only to transmit).
More information at: http://www.arrl.org/news/solar-eclipse-qso-party-seeks-amateurs-and-radio-enthusiasts-for-global-experiment
One of the last hamfests of the year! Always a good one!
from the LARC "Longwire" September 2023 issue
What frequencies? When?
FREQ MHz START GMT UNTIL GMT
18.1575 17:30 18:30
21.3830 18:30 19:15
24.9700 19:15 19:45
28.5700 19:45 20:15
The HF Radio Activity Group started over 10+ years ago with a small group of radio operators, W3FF, W8YCM and more. This group of radio operators would meet every day on a specific set of frequencies across multiple HF bands.
The purpose is twofold, first to determine what the propagation is in real time for that day, for no other reason than curiosity about radio. The second reason is to have fun using amateur radio.