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2019 Events
WARC Field Day 2019 Pictures
WinterFest January 19th, 2019
The FirstBest HamFest of the year!
at the K/C Hall, Rt.18 Whitman MA Event Flyer
Whitman club members attending WinterFest 2019:
(club members attending the event but not listed above, please email us so we can add you to the roster: WA1NPO@gmail.com) |
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2018 Events
Holiday Dinner Party December 14th, 2018
at Jamie's Restaurant, Whitman MA
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 | N1CFB Chris Billy K1UFO Jim W1JT and KB1IKH Elayne John WD1L and XYL Donna Jeff N1SOM John KB1SVY and XYL Michelle Heather W1AZU and OM Dave Joe KC1FZI and XYL Cheryl john N1BSO and XYL Pam Paul W1GTX and XYL Sara Matt W1AEM and XYL Kelley Kurt KC1EUJ and XYL Diane |  |
 | Tom KC1KIT Robert KC1KIS Jack N1QE and XYL Cathy Larry W1VP Dave KB1QMX  |  |
 |  Joe K1JMA addressed the dinner guests, wishing all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! |  |
Plimoth Plantation November 23rd-25th, 2018
<click here for the special event page>
NEARFEST Oct 12th, 13th 2018
-coming soon-
ARRL Field Day June 23rd, 24th 2018
-coming soon-
NEARFEST May 4th, 5th 2018
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WinterFest 2018
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2017 Events
ARRL Field Day 2017
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From the March 11th and 12th: South Shore Model Railway Club & Museum event (http://www.ssmrc.org/)
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March 5th: New England Antique Radio Club show (RADIO XLVIII) 8AM-1PM in Nashua NH
http://www.nearc.net/ for details
(L-R) Ross W1EKG, John WI1G, Matt W1AEM, Mike WA1MAD
Mark KC1ACF gave a very interesting presentation on the origins of radio including a live Spark-Gap demonstration at the recent February 21st MARA (Massasoit Amateur Radio Association) club meeting AND at our March 1st Whitman club meeting.
The slides Mark presented are available on the Tech-Talk web page in Adobe PDF format <click here>
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WinterFest 2017
HamFest 2017 was a great success!
Many more pictures in the January 2017 Spectrum Newsletter
WinterFest 2017 flyer
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2016 Events
2016 Plimoth Plantation Special Event
Thanksgiving weekend
QSL to The Whitman Clubs PO Box: PO Box 48 Whitman MA USA 02382
For a printed certificate, please include SASE.
Station and Antenna setup took place on Friday Nov 25th
Thanks to all the volunteers who helped load equipment at the Quonset hut and
install antennas and stations at the Plantation!
HF: 3.860Mhz, 7.260Mhz, 14.260Mhz, 18.160Mhz
The operator schedule for the stations including the setup and take down crews :<click here>
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Mass, Maine, Indiana, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsilvania, North Carolina,
Ottawa Ontario, Toronto
37 QSO's on 20 Meters
Mass, Wisconsin*, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolin, Illinois, Tennesee, Minnisota, Michigan, Indiana,
Belfast Northern Ireland, Stuttgart Germany, Milan Italy, Swaziland South Africa
*including for the 35th year, annual contact with Jim WB9IXS from Wales Wisconsin.
51 Check-In's on the Whitman 2M repeater
Mass, California, Colorado, Milaysia and Plymouth England
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At the October 5th Whitman Club meeting, John KC1FWV gave a presentation and demo of SDR (software defined radio) using the popular and low cost RTLSDR USB receiver dongle and RF upconverter. John has made his slide presentation availble in PDF fomat: SDR_Presentation
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The Marshfield Fair
Fri Aug 19th- Sun 28th 2016
QSL to The Whitman Clubs PO Box: PO Box 48 Whitman MA USA 02382 |
View the 2016 Kids PassPort flyer from Bill N1FRE <
Adobe PDF>Booth Schedule/Roster <click here>
The 2016 Setup Crew:
(L-R) Mark KC1ACF, Jim WG1L, John KB1ODS, Mike KC1FMT, Ross W1EKG, Fred K1FAB, Paul KB1MTW, Loren N1IQI, John WD1L, Richard AG1B
The completed 2016 booth:
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W1NAS & K1USN Special Event Saturday August 20th, 2016
at the Shea Naval Air Museum and Shea Grove Memorial in S. Weymouth. Details <
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WARC ARRL Field Day event Saturday June 25th and Sunday June 26th 2016
Results from our Field Day Operations:
| Band | Mode | QSO's | Points |
| 3.5 | LSB | 20 | 20 |
| 7 | CW | 145 | 289 |
| 7 | LSB | 86 | 86 |
| 14 | CW | 112 | 222 |
| 14 | USB | 39 | 39 |
| 28 | USB | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Both | 403 | 657 |
Thanks to Jeff N1ZZN, Garry AB1CQ and Jeff N1SOM respectively for the electronic logging this year, providing the total Q's, Points and Score at this months club meeting and submitting these results to the ARRL on behalf of the Whitman Club.
Comments from your Field Day coordinator
Hello to All,
I just wanted to share with you some comments on our 2016 field day operation. My question for the day is: How many people does it take to set up and run a Field Day weekend? I write this to offer thanks from an organizers point of view to all the people who make this happen. As I started collecting names, call signs and duties performed for this letter, I began to realize just how many folks contributed to such a great weekend. Here is the report of all the contributors of our fun weekend. If you are not listed, please contact Mark, KC1ACF for inclusion in this list.
Larry, K1LJK, You captured ALL of our happenings in what has to be our biggest newsletter ever! The field day coverage was amazing in that we had four photographers roaming about taking pictures throughout the weekend. I understand the time it takes to put all of those great pictures on one document. Great work, Larry, as always! Oh, and one more thing: Congratulations to you on getting your extra ticket!
Our antenna crew list is missing some people but I have Loren, N1IQI, Barry, N1EZH, Jeff, WK1D, (excellent job on the launcher, Jeff), Joe, K1JMA, Paul, KB1MTW, Mike, WA1MAD, Jim, NM1F, and Bruce, W1CVE.
The food may be arguably the most important component of the weekend. Our thanks to Karen, N1VI, Steve, W1OD and Bob, K1NOK for doing a great job keeping us all well fed!
Paul, KB1MTW was seen transporting equipment throughout the weekend and solving problems for everybody.
Jeff, N1ZZN, took on the task of getting us all on laptops. He was successful in collecting all contacts without paper for the first time ever at Field Day! There was one old guy that held off recording his contacts on a laptop. By Sunday afternoon I finally stepped up to the plate and switched over to electronic logging!
As Bruce, NI1X-SK used to say: If you do not have a picture, it did not happen. What great pictures of the entire event! The 2016 Field Day was captured by the able work of Jeff, N1SOM, Jeff, WK1D, Bob, K1NOK, (great captions, Bob) Barry, N1EZH, and Richard, AG1B. Bruce, NI1X-SK, would be proud of you!
Those folks who ran the VE sessions are to be congratulated as well. The VE Team was ably led by Steve, W1OD and helped by Karen, N1VI, Bob, K1NOK, Jeff, WK1D, Jim, WG1L and Ryan, KG1ZX. Nice work getting some more hams on the air!
I was very impressed with the large signs we had out in front of the YMCA this year. Thank you Karen, N1VI for your nice banner and thanks to All who helped with this important task.
My safety guy in charge was John, KC1DWY. He did a great job watching out for foot and car traffic near guy wires and cables. He also helped guide cars and campers to their parking area. Thanks John!
Gary, AB1CQ, managed to collect all of our data for the weekend. I believe he indicated we made around 400 contacts! Thanks Gary!
So, my final point for all of this is: How many hams does it take to set up and run a Field Day operation like ours? Well, we had twenty-five plus people set up and run various parts of our Field Day. There were thirty-eight jobs completed by these folks altogether, (some working on the same project, food, antennas, photos Etc.). What a great team we are for getting our Field Day prepared, set up and operating! It was a substantial effort from a lot of people to complete our very successful 2016 Field Day operation!
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2015 Events
