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See below for the latest blog posts and news about our activites and events. You can also follow the links above for more information about specific aspects of the club. If you’re brand-new at all this, here’s an introduction to what the Hampden County Radio Association is all about.
Latest Blog Posts
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W. Brookfield Technician Class a Great Success!
Today’s Technician class was what you would call an “unbridled success”. HCRA’s instructor group consisting of John/Kx1x, Nick/K1MAZ, Frandy/N1FJ, and myself along with VE help from Al/N1AW and Rich/N1KXR managed a 100% pass rate. At the end of the day seven new Technicians have joined our ranks. Adding to the success was Rob/N1NTE upgrading to…
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Technician Class this Saturday – April 27th
As previously reported John and I will be hosting a ‘One Day’ Technician Class this coming Saturday. More details about the class are here. Special thanks to all the folks that have volunteered to help with instruction – we’re really looking forward to your involvement. One thing missing was the time/location of the class as…
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Get ready for the New England QSO Party May 4th & 5th.
Tom/K1KI sent the message copied below. Please take a moment to read it and hopefully you will be QRV in NEQP this year. Don’t forget, HCRA sponsors a beautiful plaque for high score, single op, Hampden County. I’ll bet it would look nice on the wall in YOUR shack! Here’s Tom’s message: I hope everyone…
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Help needed for Technician Class on April 27th
Hey folks, John/Kx1x and I are looking for help with a one-day Technician class to be held on April 27th, 2013. This was a small class planned as a ‘one-day’ intense session for a handful of students, but it has morphed into a twelve student extravaganza! Yep, the class consists of a dozen ‘highly motivated’…
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WN1E brings home the HCRA Plaque for NEQP 2012!
Putting in a major effort last year Dave ‘brings home the gold‘ (or at least the plaque) for High Score, Single Operator in Hampden County. Battling it out with eleven other entries Dave’s 31,850 points almost doubled the next closest score of the W1NY club call operated by Ed/KB1NWH. Here’s Dave’s soapbox comment: WN1E –…
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Live Stream Of April 2013 meeting
Were trying out a new thing. We’re trying to broadcast out meetings live. Give it a shot, We should be live right now (4/5/2013 @ 7:00pm) Presenter this month is Doug Grant (K1DG) talking about WRTC 2014 Video streaming by Ustream Thanks!
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K1DG to speak tonight at HCRA meeting!
On hand, all the way from New Hampshire, is Doug Grant/K1DG. Besides being as close to ‘professional’ as an amateur radio operator can get Doug is also the president of WRTC2014. That’s the group that is responsible for bringing the “Olympics of Amateur Radio to New England in 2014. Doug will give us a brief…
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Zero Beat Archives Updated (1991-1998)
Thanks to the efforts of John Balboni (AC1T), we now have issues of Zero Beat from 1991 through 1998 and some of 1999 and 2001. You can take a stroll down memory lane or see what HCRA was doing during the 90’s. Please check out our Zero Beat Archives page to see all the action…
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Next meeting is this Friday, April 5th!
Only two days until the April HCRA meeting. It’s no April fool either. Our special guest speaker is Doug/K1DG. Doug is traveling all the way from NH to chat with us about the World Radiosport Team Championship coming to New England in 2014. There are a lot of moving parts to hosting an international competition…
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April 2013 Zero Beat now available
Here is the link to the April issue of Zero Beat. Lots of good stuff this month, enjoy it and see you at the meeting Friday night! Zero Beat Apr 2013