LAST UPDATED: 11-JAN-2020 – 0819 ET
PLEASE NOTE: Newsletter may be undergoing updates

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Announcements

WELCOME TO 2020
General Member Meeting PBC Boca Library 7pm 7-Jan-2020
2020 Winter Field Day 25+26 Jan 2020 – Made your station reservation yet?
PayPal available for 2020 dues, donation, and purchased items
2020 Membership Dues will be accepted 1-October 2019
2020 HamCation Carpool Plans, have you made your reservation?
BRARA Nets transition to TG-311037 on Sunday 5-Jan-2020

Contact: John.C N1QFH wirehead52@gmail.com

Calendar

This Month’s Speaker

Jan: John.C N1QFH on 2020 Winter Field Day
Feb: Jim.T N3JT on radio development and CW technology

Ham Shack News

Station-1 IC-7600 working normally
Station-2 In use, see Larry K4KGG for training
Station-3 IC-7600 working normally
Station-3 Yaesu Amp and tuner working normally
Station-4 FT-1000MP working normally
Station-5 TESTING STATION
Station-6 Various VHF/UHF radios are working normally with exception of IC-706

SHACK ITEMS WE NEED
We are in need to replacing the HF tuner for station-1. If a willing member is able to help finance or donate such an item, our club members and The Shack would be so very grateful and it would help protect our HF assets.

Please see Bruce KO4XL or Art WA8VSJ for details.

ITEMS FOR SALE

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Special Projects

The following are project and watch weekly emails for status

Satellite TOWER BASE installation
Satellite ANTENNA and radio installation
Install amplifier to the 2m analog repeater
Shack outside power replacement
Replace cabinets at repeater site
Relocate microwave dish at repeater site

Use PayPal for BRARA member dues

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2020 DUES accepted starting October 1 2019
First time members join for the remainder of 2019 and 2020
Dues amounts have not changed from last year.

PAYMENT CONFIRMATION

A recent change to our payment process is to notify you via email that your payment was processed. This could be for dues, a donation, HamCation CarPool, etc.

Below is a SAMPLE of an email to you.

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HOW DO YOU KNOW?

Currently 81 of 172 members or 47% have paid 2020 dues.

Every member will be shown 2020 dues status when logging onto our website.

For 2020 paid members, they will see the following:

The gentle dues reminder looks like the following:

Further details may help:

Report (by Ed N4II)

TBA

Ed N4II

Dx Operating News and Information
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The very latest information on DX Operating News, including DXPeditions, DXCC, and QSL information

Contests and Special Events
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Looking for upcoming contests and special events from around the world?

Hamcation

Save the date 8-February 2020

CLICK FOR CARPOOL PLANS

New Website Capability

Before the end of 2019, wanted to add one more enhancement. When you’re on any webpage and you experience LONG scrolling via the scroll bar, when you’re at the top or bottom or you just want to GO HOME, these little enhancements have been added to help:

There are three (3) new ways to navigate

BOTTOM
TOP
HOME

One the MENU BAR, hover on HOME and CLICK on BOTTOM to go to bottom of the current webpage. When you are looking at the FOOTER there are two (2) links. HOME takes you to the HOME page and TOP takes you to the top of the current page.

See the following to help explain.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Look and Feel Change

When you visit our website you’ll see some changes to the icons that support items like SUBSCRIBE, NEWSLETTER, and PAYPAL

Member Online Auction is LIVE

Please stay tuned for updates

Public Classified Section is LIVE

Please stay tuned for updates

Please note: items are Negotiable

Training Video

No new Training videos

Training Classes
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Free Laurel VEC Testing
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About Our Members

We honor and remembered our members who have passed

Keith McPhail K3SKM
Linda Lindeman N4JNL
Sidney Gogel W2FUR
Bob Dobski KB8WJF
Nob Fox W1VEI
Myron Goldstein WA2PWJ CLICK FOR OBIT
Hap Patterson WA4ZLJ CLICK FOR OBIT

Good and Welfare

If you know of an amateur or their family dealing with health issues or may have lost someone, please let us know. Robert.K K3SUH is our go to person to send a communication in the form of a card to the person or family.

CLICK HERE to email details.

New Membership Form
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We welcome the following new members:

N2QLQ Steven Meltz
KB1VGH Bennett Beres
KO4AQI Daniel Kreshak
KF4LZA Eric Rodriguez
AC2NI Benett Rosen

Statistics

7 Member renewals Jan
81 Paid members YTD
5 New members
4 Pending online applications
6 Silent keys
172 Regular members (2018 to 2020)
2 Associate members
13 Family members
1 Lifetime

Our Scheduled Nets

COORDINATED NETS BEING REFORMED
We have modified the Voice Com NCS Script:

Has been shortened
Changed theme to technical support, projets, and announcements

CLICK HERE FOR REVISED NCS SCRIPT

BRARA Machines
The BRARA repeaters are located at the Social Security building in Boca Raton FL USA

NET DETAILS FOLLOW

SUNDAY
8.00pm ET SEFL DMR Tech-Net – USE TG-311037

BRARA 442.875+ CC-1 TS-2
GCARA 443.350+ CC-11 TS-1
WARA 145.19(-) CC-2 TS-1 (new discovery)

MONDAY
7.00pm ET Voice Com Net
BRARA analog 145.29- PL110.9

7.30pm ET DMR BrainWaves Not-A-Net – USE TG-311037

BRARA 442.875+ CC-1 TS-2
GCARA 443.350+ CC-11 TS-1
WARA 145.19(-) CC-2 TS-1 (new discovery)

8.00pm ET SoCounty NBEMS Net
BRARA analog 145.29- PL110.9 (uses FLDigi and FLMsg)

Other Local Analog Repeater Nets

Daily 6.00 pm SEFL Traffic 146.61 MHz
Tue 7.30pm CERT Plan-B 145.29- PL110.9

Club Repeaters

144.390 APRS Repeater (NOW ACTIVE)
145.070 Packet Repeater (OFF LINE)
GPS Location: 26.39724 –80.09485

Please use 3102 on your pi-star or any replated hotspot.

Local DMR Repeaters
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Scheduled DMR Nets
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Sun 8.00 pm TG-3110037 SeFL DMR Tech Net
Mon 7.30 pm TG-311037 BrainWaves Net
Wed 9.00 pm TG-3 NA Tech Net
Thu 8.20pm TG-31777 NotQuiteRight Net
Sat 12.00 noon TG-1 WW
Sat 8.00 pm TG-310035 GCARC KnowItAll Net

BRARA Open House

We meet every Wednesday and Saturday morning between 10:00 and 13:00 ET for our Open House, and for any work that needs to be done at the Shack. Anyone interested in exploring Amateur Radio is encouraged to stop in for a visit.

Newsletter Guidelines

Thanks for all who submitted articles and I hope you continue to do so. We’re also looking for new writers as well. Here are some guidelines for article submissions.

Text should be in MS Word or equivalent, saved as a .DOC file
Write your best stuff, but don’t sweat the grammar. That’s why there’s an editor.
Please submit pictures/illustrations as separate files, don’t embed them in the text.
Be sure to submit clear, in-focus photos

Club Ham Shack

West Delray Regional Park
10875 West Atlantic Avenue
Delray Beach, FL 33446

Board of Directors Scheduled Meetings

We hold scheduled monthly Board meetings at 12:00 Noon at the Shack on the Sunday preceding the next General Meeting.

Donations and Contributions

Contributions to BRARA— a 501(c)(3) organization—are tax deductible as charitable donations. As you complete your membership renewal or begin your year-end tax planning, please consider making a donation to BRARA.

Please donate to BRARA via Amazon Smiles:
Search for: Boca Raton Amateur Radio Association

CLICK HERE TO SMILE AT BRARA

Planned Giving: Please also consider BRARA when updating or initiating planned giving (including charitable gift annuities, bequests and gifts or retirement plan assets) and other assets.

For More Information

Website: www.brara.org Twitter: BRARA@N4BRF Instagram: #BRARA_N4BRF

Facebook: CLICK VIEW FACEBOOK

Please be advised that the above are the official BRARA social media sites. No other social media sites are recognized by BRARA.

Newsletter Contributions

Got an idea for an article? Or constructive critique? Want to share club news and events? How about writing a short 30-minute project idea? Your submissions to the Radio Flyer are needed to help keep this one of the best club newsletters in South Florida.

Please send articles to BRARA@BRARA.org

Ham Shack Access Rules

To obtain a key to the BRARA Ham Shack you must be a member in good standing for a minimum of one continuous year, hold a valid FCC Amateur Radio License, and complete a short training session with one of the Club officers.

Address

the Radio Flyer
P.O. Box 480162
Delray Beach, FL 33448-0162

Copyright and Protection

Reproduction of material from any BRARA web page without written permission is prohibited.

Regards and 73 from The Shack
de N4BRF

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