Weekly Open House - Every Tuesday
Weekly Open House - Every Tuesday
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The Peconic Amateur Radio Club’s Station, W2AMC, will be open Tuesdays from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. We’re at the Custer Institute and Observatory, 1115 Bayview Ave., Southold, NY 11971.
The station is nearly ready to go QRV on bands 160 M through 70 cm with several antennas of multiple configurations. The Yaesu FT100D operational for SSB using the tower's beams. Several other transceivers will be available to operate CW, SSB, FM, JT65, FSK, and FT8 modes. We are using the W2AMC repeater on 440.050, which has an offset of +5 MHz and a tone of 107.2 Hz, for general casual conversations and talk-ins if needed.
We'll run another "check-in net" using the 440.050 repeater (in Greenport) for thirty minutes beginning at 11 AM this Tuesday, March 4.
Band conditions this weekend turned the Club's attempt to work two state QSO parties into a pizza gathering on Sunday. Everyone had a fine time tweaking their skills at setting up their station with minimal equipment and finding out what their fellow club members were prepared to use for emergency communications.
73 de Dick N2YIB n2yib@outlook.com
ARRL Field Day - June 28th and 29th
ARRL Field Day - June 28th and 29th
Peconic Amateur Radio Club
Makes Plans for
Field Day 2025
Members of the Peconic Amateur Radio Club have begun planning for ARRL’s Field Day – Radio Connects FD25. The event tests the amateur radio hobbyist’s ability to set up an emergency radio station away from his home and communicate with other stations without having access to commercial power. It takes place every year on the last weekend in June.
That’ll be June 28 and 29 this year.
So, you’ll see fellows from the Peconic Amateur Radio Club out an about Southold on that weekend. The club’s events will be exhibited at two locations this year. Several members will be working at the Custer Institute and Observatory using a big beam antenna atop a 25-foot high tower and a very long wire strung from the top of the tower to a 20-foot high pole 100 feet away.
After connecting their radio equipment to these antennas, and using only battery power, they’ll attempt to contact radio stations across north America and quite likely across the “pond,” a word used by amateur radio operators for the Atlantic Ocean.
Another group of members will be working out of the Peconic Community Center. They’ll be using more sophisticated and more portable home-made experimental antennas to communicate with stations within the north and south American continents. Yet it is quite likely, these experimental antennas will result in more contacts around the globe than the two antennas at Custer.
Plans have been made to have the members working at both locations come together early on Saturday evening to share a simple evening meal with their fellow club members and the staff at the Custer Institute and
Observatory.
Annual Club Meeting
Annual Club Meeting
The Club's Annual Meeting will be on Sunday, April 6 at 2 PM in the Custer Institute and Observatory on 1115 Main Bayview Rd., Southold, NY.
Two very important items are on this meeting's agenda.
You will be asked to either accept or reject the attached revised Constitution and Regulations.
You will elect four of the five Club's Officers. The following four people have volunteered to be a club's officer.
Dick Trowbridge, N2YIB - President.
Keith Radich (KD2KAR) - Vice President.
Andy Joinnides (KD2VSJ) - Treasurer.
Phil Gallanti (KE2ECC) - Member at Large.
I unequivocally endorse each of the nominees. They have shown their interest in the Club by attending nearly every meeting and by participating in the Club's activities. Each one has made significant contributions at the Club's meetings.
Yet the Club needs a Secretary! Gary Utz (KE2YK) has been a very significant and welcomed contributor as both the Club's Vice President and its Secretary. He was a superb VP! He backed me when I was caught off guard. And his ingenious ideas have added to the Club's vitality. And, as the Club's Secretary, he accurately took the minutes of the Club's meetings and has made sure the Club's ad was submitted to the Suffolk Times in time for it to be published every week. Gary has been my right-hand and confidant too. I will miss his contributions as the Club's VP and Secretary. I refuse to lose him. So, Gary has agreed to remain active in the Club and be responsible for doing those Special Projects that'll hopefully make the Club more interesting to the Club's members. I'll give him the title of "Dreamer." And he'll remain as my right hand and confidant too.
A win-win for both the Club and for me too. And maybe Gary will consider it to be a win for him too.
But the Club still needs a secretary! The Secretary's duties stated in the revised Constitution and Regulations accurately describe most of what must be done by the Secretary to keep the Club viable and legally responsible. In the absence of having someone in the Club willing to take on these duties, I have been doing them. And if I can do them, most anyone can do them. Do you have someone in mind who would be willing to be the Club's Secretary? Maybe you'd like to give a try? Please let me know. I need help! And your help will be appreciated!
Please look over the attached Constitution and Regulations and attend the Club's meeting on Sunday, April 6 at 2 PM to vote to either accept or reject the revised Peconic Amateur Radio Club's Constitution and Regulations.
And, please attend to give your support to the members who volunteered to be PARC's officers.
73 de Dick N2YIB President n2yib@outlook.com
Slate of Officers 2025-2026
Slate of Officers 2025-2026
Dick Trowbridge (N2YIB) President
Keith Radich (N2KAR) Vice President
Andy Joinnides (KD2VSJ) Treasurer
Open Position Secretary
Phillip Gallanti (KE2ECC) Member At Large
Spring Fling Luncheon - April 11th
Spring Fling Luncheon - April 11th
The Club's first Spring Fling will be held at On The Docks, 177 Meeting House Creek Rd, Aquebogue, NY on April 11th at 1 PM
73 de Dick N2YIB n2yib@outlook.com
Word Amateur Radio Day - April 18th
Word Amateur Radio Day - April 18th
IARU is very pleased to announce the theme of: “Entering the Next Century of Amateur Radio Communications & Innovation”.
IARU is celebrating its centenary in 2025. Since its founding in Paris, France, IARU has worked tirelessly to promote innovation in amateur radio and to encourage the growth of the service in communities throughout the world.
IARU has represented the Amateur Services at international and regional regulatory bodies by relying on our volunteers who come from many countries and communities. IARU has been a sector member of the ITU since 1932 and the work of our volunteers has continued since that date with unmatched success, as was highlighted with the accomplishments at WRC-23.
April Club Breakfast - April 19th
April Club Breakfast - April 19th
Come to the I Hop in Riverhead for another good time and MORE Good FOOD! And great company, too.
The Club’s monthly breakfast meeting will be at 8 AM on Saturday, April , 10th at the I Hop Breakfast Restaurant at 1490 Old Country Rd. (SC58), Riverhead near the Home Depot.
Arrive in time to begin ordering at 8 AM, and we will clear the area for the regular customers around 9:30.
This is an opportunity to share operating hints and kinks, make eyeball QSOs with those you've heard on the air, solve the problems of ham radio or the world, and enjoy being out. Oh – and you’ll get to eat some good food too.
I look forward to seeing you at breakfast this Saturday at 8 AM.
73 Dick N2YIB
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