Welcome to the home of the Burlington Amateur Radio Club, of Burlington, Vermont! We are an ARRL affiliated club Special Services club. We also support the American Red Cross of Northern VT. The Red Cross has for many years graciously allowed us to call their building home, in Burlington, as our Club meeting space. We are still working on a new Emergency Communications Center/W1KOO Club station which has been on hold.  Some of our club members are also Red Cross Volunteers.  More to come.

REPEATER PHOTOS BELOW -  Top row is Mt Mansfield W1KOO/VHF, W1IMD UHF, Bottom row is UVM Redstone Campus, Burlington  W1KOO VHF/UHF.  See "Repeaters" page.

Our OCTOBER BARC ANNUAL meeting is set for Friday, October 18, 19:00 hours at our regular meeting site, First Congregational Church, 39 Main Street, Essex Junction in the Marvin Lounge at the far end of the building from the parking lot.  We will be meeting both in person and on ZOOM.  (Zoom information will be sent to those on Distribution.  Please email W1OKH@W1KOO.org if you would like to be added and potentially wish to join BARC.  If you are in person, please arrive on time as we are locking the door within 15 minutes of our start time due to new building security protocols. 

In addition to the usual Annual Business meeting, Paul Alberghini, W1IMD has offered to do a presentation on the recent Mt Mansfield improvements.  We are now operating with multiple receivers with a voting system.  Hope we can get some decent turnout for this between in person and on ZOOM.  We are receiving MUCH BETTER including handheld radios. Give it a try!  We have migrated our Wednesday night 8 PM Roundtable to Mt Mansfield VHF (146.940, (-) duplex, 100 Hz PL) at this point with great results. 

Warren Severance, K1BKK recently passed away Sept 17th.  He has been the quarterback behind the NFMRA UHF Statewide network for many years among other things.  A Celebration of Life gathering is planned on Sunday, October 27 at 2:00 pm at the Old Lantern in Charlotte, VT.

Hope you can join us!

Ed Guild W1OKH/W1KOO

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The Redstone Water Tower has been both primed and painted!  A number of upgrades have been in the works on the water tower including construction of the catwalk and railing for antennas on top. We are holding for the commercial antennas to be located on top before we work on landing ours.

For awareness in addition to our Wednesday night roundtable, our New York friends run their weekly "Health and Welfare" net on Thursday nights now on Terry Mountain at 19:30 hours. (145.490, (-), PL 123 Hz.   Lyon Mountain (147.285, (+) duplex, PL 123 Hz) has been having antenna issues. They run a couple of rounds of comments and then try a digital message using FLDIGI afterward for whoever wants to participcate. (Modes are MT63-2000L or something else popular like THOR 22.  MT63 is being used for quarterly NY RACES Hospital Drills.) 

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In other news, 

• SEE our VE Sessions page for an update for the VE Exams at the Red Cross Blood Center in Burlington on the SECOND FRIDAY of the MONTH. (June 9)  

  • Clifford Lang, AB1WG, is the contact point person for registration and info.   Be sure to contact Cliff FIRST as opposed to just showing up.

• The "St Albans Amateur Radio Club (STARC) runs VE Sessions generally on the Third Saturday of the Month.  Here is a link to their webpage.  Be sure to check the schedule similar to the Red Cross VE Exams.

Don't forget the 8:00 PM Wednesday night net on W1KOO, 146.610, --600 KHz,  PL 100 Hz. TERRY MOUNTAIN WA2LRE 145.490 MHz, -600 KHz, PL 123 Hz until further notice.  We've had some good roundtables including new hams discovering activity on our repeater which generates new interest and participation.    Locally you can access NFMRA via the W1KOO UHF Repeater on 443.150, +5 Mhz, PL 110.9 Hz co-located with 146.610. W1IMD UHF Repeater, Mt Mansfield, 447.175 MHz, -5 MHz, PL 110.9 Hz or W1BKK UHF Repeater, Monkton, 444.650 MHz, + 5 MHz, PL 110.9 Hz.   See our NFMRA UHF FM Network Page for other repeater info. 

Check out the Vermont VEM RACES net update below.  

 Our mailing address for the club is.

Burlington Amateur Radio Club, Inc.

PO BOX 312

ESSEX JUNCTION, VT  05453

Let me know if you are not receiving email.   (Reply back to W1OKH@W1KOO.org)  Some services, such as AOL, do not seem to reliably receive "group" email.

We could use more fresh material here!  Send via email to W1OKH@w1koo.org.

Vermont VEM RACES Nets:  

UHF Linked system and VHF FM linked repeaters from Northwestern Vermont are accessed through 

• W1IMD UHF, Mt Mansfield as part of the Northeast FM Repeater Association Network. (447.175, -5 MHz offset, 110.9 Hz Linked , Local has been disabled.)  

Here is the latest update from Cathy/NQ1B.

Monday schedule:

    1400 - 1500 (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)        3815 kHz +/- QRM, followed by digital tests and drills on an 80 meter frequency TBD during the phone net

Tuesday schedule:

    1900 - 1930 (7:00 PM - 7:30 PM)        UHF linked system (Northeast FM Repeater Association )

     2000 - 2015 (8:00 PM - 8:30 PM)        DMR Statewide Vermont talk group

 NNYESN:  Northern New York Emergency Service Net runs every day at 0730 and 1900 hours on the Whiteface Repeater, VHF 145.110, PL of 100 Hz or UHF 447.775 MHz, PL of 100 Hz for Net Operation.)    Lyon Mountain, 147.285 MHz, PL 123 Hz is the primary backup with Terry Mountain, 145.490 MHz, PL 123 Hz is the secondary backup.  Purpose is training for Sky Warn and traffic handling. (NTS)   This net is monitored by the National Weather Service at the Burlington International Airport.  

    Protocol for WX reports are:

        Sky Conditions

        Precipitation

        Temperature in degrees F

        Wind speed and direction if known.

        Barometer if available

        Other comments such a wind damage or road conditions. 

The Whiteface VHF Repeater is strictly emergency and public service use only and is monitored 24 hours per day...No rag chewing.