Phil Temples, K9HI, presented to members of the PART of Westford (MA) radio club on April 16, 2024 about the 2024 Northeast HamXposition. The talk included the showing of the Convention’s new promotional video produced by Eric Pfeifer, N1JUR. The PART meeting was well attended.
Several PART club members are actively involved with the Convention, both presenting talks and volunteering their time.
The Nashua Area Radio Society (NARS) leadership saw that there may be a lot of latent interest in Parks On The Air (POTA) and portable HF radio operation but club POTA events were not very well attended. Some members had noted that they would like to get involved with POTA but didn’t know how to start. Not knowing about portable operation and not necessarily having the right equipment, folks were reluctant to attend a POTA event. The leadership decided to kick off a “Tiger Team” of interested members in the summer of 2023 to concentrate knowledge in this type of radio operations and share it with all interested members. [Full story]
The Meriden Amateur Radio Club (MARC), an ARRL Special Service club in Wallingford, Connecticut, has created an innovative program known as MARCONI, “Motivating Amateur Radio Clubs to Open New Initiatives.” The brainchild of MARC President Dr. Ed Snyder, W1YSM, MARCONI seeks to empower radio clubs to mentor other clubs who may be “less robust” or active.
Funded by an ARRL Foundation club grant through ARDC, MARCONI focuses on seven different areas or “activity programs:”
1. POTA
2. Fox Hunting
3. CW Training
4. Satellite Communications
5. VE Sessions
6. Served Agencies
7. NCS Training and Traffic Passing
According to W1YSM, MARC has made good progress in all of the programs. “Since the six-month [progress report] we have added an eighth program to MARCONI: Radio Amateur Balloon Science.”
Dr. Snyder presented on the MARCONI project at the 2023 Northeast HamXposition; the talk was well-received.
Kudos to the Meriden Amateur Radio Club for implementing this innovative program to benefit other radio clubs!