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ARRL New York City-Long Island Section (NLI)Section Manager
Michael Lisenco, N2YBB 1635 E 46th St Brooklyn, NY 11234-3604 718-258-7830 n2ybb@arrl.org |
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* From Mike Lisenco N2YBB, Section Manager It's hard to believe that summer is already over. Time is running out for those antenna projects (myself included.... I still have a couple to do). I'd like to wish all who celebrate a very happy holiday as both Rosh Hashanah and Eid ul-Fitr have just passed and Yom Kippur is coming up shortly. NLI HAS TWO HUDSON DIVISION AWARD WINNERS!!!! The Hudson Division has announced their annual awards winners. We are proud to announce that Diane Ortiz, K2DO has won the 2009 Grand Ole' Ham Award and Jim Mezey, W2KFV, has won the 2009 Amateur of the Year Award. Diane is the former Section Public Information Coordinator and a Past President of LIMARC. Jim is the current ARES Section Emergency Coordinator for NLI and the past District Emergency Coordinator for Nassau County. Congratulations to both! The annual event will take place this year on Sunday Afternoon, November 8, 2009 at Biagio's Restaurant, 299 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652 from 12:30pm -- 4:30pm. The dinner is always a great event with participation from all Sections within the Division. The cost of a ticket is $50 (clubs can buy a table of 10 at the reduced price of $450) with profits from the dinner and advertising sales in the Awards Dinner Journal going to our Division Scholarship Fund and also to the ARRL Spectrum Defense Fund to preserve and protect our hobby/service. For more information, please contact Joyce Birmingham, KA2ANF, ARRL Vice Director, Hudson Division at ka2anf@arrl.org. Congratulations to our Division Director, Frank Fallon, N2FF and our Vice-Director Joyce Birmingham, KA2ANF, on their re-election to another 3 year term in those positions. It was a tough and drawn out campaign, with a lot of mud-slinging and some awful negative press (they ran unopposed. :) I had the pleasure of attending a meeting called by Jim Mezey, W2KFV on August 30th at Suffolk Community College. The purpose of the meeting was to gather all the individuals in the Section who are responsible for running and maintaining the digital network in NLI. Discussions were held in which it was decided that the packet network needs some upgrading and redundancy so that it may continue to be a vital part of the emergency communications network (as well as for everyday use). The meeting was well attended and much was covered. More to follow as things move along. A reminder -- The New York State QSO Party is going to be held on October 17th starting at 1800 UTC. It will be a 12 hour all mode contest. For more nformation and the rules please go to: http://www.rdxa.com/NewsLetters/NYQP_-_Rules_040109.pdf Fall Hamfest season is almost upon us. There will be 2 hamfests in the Section in October. The Hall of Science ARC (HOSARC) will be holding their hamfest on October 11, 2009 at the Hall of Science in Queens from 0900 to 1400 local time. For more information contact Steve at wb2kdg@arrl.net. The Long Island Mobile ARC (LIMARC) will be holding their annual indoor hamfest on October 25, 2009 at Levittown Hall starting at 0900 local time. For more information contact Richie at hamfest@limarc.org. If you have a club event that you would like to publicize, please be sure to email me with all the particulars and I'll place it in the eNewsletter. If it is short term, I can easily send out an email to the Section. Contact me at n2ybb@arrl.org with the particulars. As of the moment, my dance card is relatively empty. If you would like me to attend an upcoming meeting of your club, please email me at n2ybb@arrl.org and I'll be more than happy to set it up. That's it for me this month. I hope all of you are enjoying the summer. Hpe CU on the bands and in the NYS QSO Party! 73, Mike N2YBB n2ybb@arrl.org ***** From Jim Mezey W2FKV, ARES Section Emergency Coordinator August 2009 Monthly Section Emergency Coordinator Report NLI Section Total Number of ARES members: 116 # of DEC's /EC's Reporting This Month: 3 # of ARES Nets Active: 3 # with NTS Liaison: 3 Calls of DEC's/EC's Reporting: WB2LUA, KB2SCS, K2RRM Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 19 Person Hours: 337 Number of Public Service Events this month: 0 Person Hours: 0 Number of Emergency Operations this month: 0 Person Hours: 0 Total number of ARES operations this month: 19 Total Person Hours: 1337 Comments: Reports from Nassau DEC, Suffolk Town of Huntington and Town of Islip EC's. No other reports from the other EC's or DEC. I will add that I had conducted a Section wide Digital meeting where by we are trying to reorganize our digital operations. 73...de...Jim, W2KFV, ARRL- ARES, Section Emergency Coordinator, New York City/Long Island ********************************************************************* From Jim Minor W2DSX, NTS Section Traffic Manager THE ARRL PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL Month of AUGUST 2009 New York City/Long Island Section Monthly qualifying total: 70 or more points K2BRG 138, W2KFV 119, K2TV 110, N2VGA 100, KB2KLH 100, W2DSX 100, W2LIE 96, K2RRM 86, N2RDB 85, NY3H 82, WB2WAK 72. STATION ACTIVITY REPORTS: The following stations have submitted activity reports for the Month of AUGUST 2009: W2DSX 69, K2TV 59, KB2KLH 38. Section Traffic Manager Monthly Report Section and Local Nets: Net Name Abbreviation Sessions QNI QTC/QSP Net Manager NY PUBLIC OPER. NYPON 31 264 133/139 WB3CUF NY PHONE NYP 10 64 35/35 AK2Z BIG APPLE VHF BAVHF 29 301 11/11 KB2KLH NASSAU CO VHF NCVHF 30 333 39/34 W2DSX SUFFOLK CO VHF SCVHF * ** EMPIRE SLOW SP. ESS 31 359 77/* WI2G * = report not received in time for posting. ** = position open, please contact w2dsx if interested in position