Upcoming Meetings:
The PART monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month at the Cameron Senior Center, 20 Pleasant Street in Westford, starting at 7:30PM.
Upcoming meeting topics:
November 20, 2018:
Larry Banks, W1DYJ, will present "One Ham’s Journey with antennas”, describing which antennas he has installed and why over the years.
Past meeting topics:
October 16, 2018:
Tom Kinahan, N1CPE gave an excellent presentation about the Military Auxiliary Radio System, also known as MARS, through which
Amateurs provide support to the US Department of Defense. You can view and download both the presentation (PDF) as well as the short video shown at the meeting. During his presentation, he handed out a 14 page publication about MARS and a book about MARS for those in attendance. If you are interested in learning more about MARS, the publication is available as a free download and the book can be found at Amazon:
This is ARMY MARS - a free publication available to download
Army MARS at 90 - Available at Amazon
September 18, 2018:
John, WB2OSZ, did a presentation on Dire Wolf, which is a software sound card AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, APRS gateway, or Internet Gateway. We will also had the election of the PART officers for 2019 and the silly slide show presented by Rick, W1RAG.
August 21, 2018:
- Bruce Blain, K1BG, gave a presentation on "Entry Level Licensing - What's Worked and What Hasn’t” All of us entered the amateur radio hobby in a number of different ways, whether it was the Class B license of the 30s and 40s, the Novice license of the 50s through the 90s, or the current Technician class license, Bruce looks at the history of entry level license requirements and conditions, what's worked and what hasn't, and what it means for attracting youth to the hobby.
July 17, 2018:
- George, K1IG, wrapped up and summarized the achievements from Field Day 2018.
- Terry, KA8SCP, gave a presentation about the New England Spectrum Management Council (NESMC) Band Plan.
- Bob, W1IS, presented his design for an improved J-pole antenna.
Watch club President Andy Stewart, KB1OIQ, present Rakesh, KC1HTB, with a Buddipole system made available by a very generous, but anonymous, Westford PART club member. (From the April 17, 2018 club meeting)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12JYGVAEeFk&feature=youtu.be
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D-Star registration and information can be found by visiting the WB1GOF repeater page by clicking here!
Click here for the slides to the presentation by George, K1IG on how to calibrate your rig as shown at the April 2015 PART meeting. For the Frequency Measurement Test guide, click here, and for the FLdigi guide on rig calibration and frequency measurement, click here.
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To download the “Linux in Your Hamshack” software or to read more about it,
go to this link and click "KB1OIQ - Andy's Ham Radio Linux DVD":
https://sourceforge.net/directory/?q=kb1oiq
PART of Westford is an ARRL Special Service Club located in Westford, Massachusetts. The club provides radio amateurs with a number of services and benefits including access to its two repeaters (2m and 440), monthly meetings, and access to club events and activities such as Field Day. Club members hold a wide variety of interests including VHF and weak signal work, amateur radio satellites, antenna design, portable operation, QRP, DXing and DXpeditioning, emergency communications, public event communication, digital modes, homebrewing, and much, much more.
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PART of Westford is an ARRL Special Service Club located in Westford, Massachusetts. The club provides radio amateurs with a number of services and benefits including access to its two repeaters (2m and 440), monthly meetings, and access to club events and activities such as Field Day. Club members hold a wide variety of interests including VHF and weak signal work, amateur radio satellites, antenna design, portable operation, QRP, DXing and DXpeditioning, emergency communications, public event communication, digital modes, homebrewing, and much, much more.