Activities

Date:  December 7, 2011
Time:  6:00 PM Banquet room is open, dinner is served at 6:30 PM and the program is after the dinner.
Place:  Copper Mill Restarant, Logan
Cost:  $21 per person.  Please prepay by November 30th.

Our annual Christmas dinner is a buffet with Prime Rib and Paprika Chicken. 

We will be giving away some really neat prizes this year: Dual Band Dual VFO Mobile Radio, Byonics Micro-Track RTG (Ready To Go) w/GPS Combo, $50 Credit to the Club Store, $50 ARRL gift certificate, and many other surprise gifts. 

You can pay by giving your payment to any BARC officer/board member; by mailing in your payment to BARC, PO Box 111, Providence UT  84332-0111; or pay on-line via PayPal below.  Please RSVP to Tammy, tmmstevens4(at)gmail.com, and prepay by November 30th so we can have a final count for the dinner setup.

Pay and Reserve your place online.

You can pay online using PayPal at the link below.

BARC will be participating in the Sweepstakes, operating from the club ham shack on the USU campus on Saturday November 19th from 2100 UTC until 0700 UTC (that's 2 PM to midnight MST).  The ham shack is located in the Engineering Lab Building room EL224.  If you would like to participate in the Sweeps, drop by and we will get you involved with whatever you would like to do, making contacts, logging contacts, or just watching what goes on.   

The ARRL 2011 Phone Sweepstakes runs from 2100 UTC on 19 November through 0259 UTC on 21 November.  The Sweepstakes is the oldest domestic contest and for the first time in years, the bands will have plenty to offer Technician license holders, too!  A portion of the 10 meter band is available to Technician license holders for CW and phone operation. As many of you have noticed working on HF or seen the announcements about 10 meters on the BARC email group, the 10 meter band is really picking up due to the solar cycle.

The Sweepstakes or “Sweeps” as it is usually called is a contest in which modest stations can do exceptionally well.  There’s no need for giant towers and antennas or legal-limit amplifiers, for simple antennas and a “barefoot” HF rig will do just fine.  Sweepstakes brings out many US and Canadian operators, and there will be a lot of stations to work on the bands.  More stations = more contacts = more fun!
 
So get on the air during the sweeps and make contacts throughout the US and Canada.  This is an excellent opportunity for you to get that Worked All States Award with lots of operators on the air and great band conditions.  If you’d like to know more about Sweepstakes, download the Sweepstakes Operating Guide – there are simple explanations of the rules and a list of resource articles and websites to help you get the most from your Sweepstakes weekend.

Jamboree On The Air

Date:  October 15, 2011
Time:  8 AM to 5 PM
Location:  Cache County Sheriff's Complex 3rd Floor Room 3, 1225 West 200 North, Logan UT

Bridgerland Amateur Radio Club is participating in the Jamboree On The Air (JOTA).  All scouts and their leaders are invited.

JOTA is an annual event in which Scouts from all over the world can speak to each other by means of amateur radio contacts.  The purpose is to meet each other, share their Scouting experiences, exchange ideas, learn from each other, and gain a mutual understanding, via the raido waves.

There will three radio stations set up.  A licensed amateur radio operator will be present at each of the radios to help with the radio operation.
 
• A HF station that covers the 160, 80, 40, 20 17, 15, 12, 10, and 6 meter bands that uses skywave propagation for long range station to station communication.
• A VHF/UHF station that covers the 2 meter and 70 centimeter bands using Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) that can link to amateur radio stations around the world by using Voice over IP (VoIP).
•A VHF/UHF station that covers the 2 meter and 70 centimeter band using Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio (D-STAR), which is digital voice, that can link to other amateur radio D-STAR stations around the world.
 
The Amateur Radio Service is one of the radio services internationally recognized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).  It benefits from a share of the precious spectrum, and from specific privileges, which make it the most flexible and versatile of all telecommunication services.  It has earned its status due to its roles in education, development, and research, but most of all due to its role as a public service.
 
Plan on attending JOTA to contact Scouts from around the world by amateur radio and to learn more about amateur radio.

The Bridgerland Amateur Radio Club (BARC) will be offering to the Scouts an entry level class for the Technician Class License.  The class will help you learn the material you need to know to get your very first Amateur Radio License.  Details on the location and times for the class will be available at the JOTA event.

SwaptoberFest 2011 Swap Meet

Date:  October 8, 2011
Time:  8:00 AM   (For those of you who have items to swap or sell, setup starts at 7:00 AM)
Location:  Cache County Fairgrounds Pavilion, 450 South 500 West, Logan UT (enter through gate across from aquatics center and the pavilion is to the south)

All are welcome.  Admission and swap tables are FREE!

We have a bunch of great prizes that will be raffled:  Handheld dual band radio, DV-Dongle, ARRL gift certificates, MFJ item.

There will be free catalogs and brochures available from HRO, MFJ, ARRL, ICOM, YAESU, AMSAT, West Mountain Radio, R & L Communications, Amateur Electronics Supply, and Power Works.

Refreshments will be available for purchase. 

An HF station will be setup with a control operator present so anyone, with or without a license, can get on the air.

Talk in repeater frequencies are:  Mt Logan 146.720 (-) T103.5,  Promontory 147.260 (-) T103.5, Logan 147.200 (+) T103.5, and IRLP 3381
                  D-STAR Repeaters: NU7TS-B 449.575, AC7O-B 447.975, and AC7O-C 145.150

Come have a great time and enjoy the company of fellow amateur radio operators, and find that bargain you’ve been searching for.

BARC Fall Pot Luck Social

Date:  September 8th
Time:  6:00 PM
Location:  360 East 450 North, Millville (Providence South Stake Center Pavilion)

Everyone is invited to this social.  You don’t have to be a member of BARC to attend this social.  This is a way to meet in person those voices you have talked to on the radio and have an eye-ball QSO.

Just bring a food item to share with the group.  The club will provide lemonade and home made Root Beer.

Please bring your own eating utensils, plate, and cup.

Hope to see you all there.

After the social at about 7 PM, there will be a short LOTOJA meeting for last minute updates and to hand out the LOTOJA packets to those who are supporting LOTOJA.

Cordell
KE7IK

Here are the category results of the 7th Call Area QSO Party that our club, W7IVM, participated in on May 7-8, 2011.  We took third place in the Multi-Single Low power (multiple operators, single radio, and <150 watts) category.

  7th Area Multi-Single Low
                                         CW   PH  DIG
  Call            Score   Mlt  QSO  QSO QSO  QTH         Operators,..

  WG7Y       16760   40  129       16      0   WYCAM  +N7QAX
  N7AM       11398   41      3       16    79   AZGHM   +AB1CH
  W7IVM     10530   30      6     132    23   UTCAC     AC7II, AE7EI, AE7HB, K7TWT, KE7IK, KF7ATL,
                                                                                    KF7LQS, N7UWX, KF7PEU, KE7TAS, KD7WRA
  K7MKL       9620   26    61      92      1   NVLYO     +W6NF
  K7LOP        5152   28      0      92      0   WATHU
  WI7J           1692   18       0      47      0   UTWSH    +K7VNH
 

We all had a great time.  Many thanks to those who help in the contest and those who stopped by.