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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 April BARC Meeting is this Friday, April 18, 19:00 hours (7:00 PM) at our regular meeting site, First Congregational Church, 39 Main Street, Essex Junction in the Marvin Lounge. (Far end of the building from the parking lot. Turn right, then left, the right at the end.)
(BARC Distribution gets the ZOOM info, if you would like to join us, send an email to W1OKH@W1KOO.org.
We are holding off on John's presentation regarding our quarterly Vermont Hospital Drill nets....Looking at May here.
For a primer topic to get conversation going, I will do a brief show and tell of a new Software Defined Radio Software download known as "SDR Console." It is written in the UK and accommodates a multitude of SDR dongles and boxes including RTL and SDRPlay. I have successfully downloaded and currently am undergoing an accelerated learning process with it interfaced to my SDRPlay DUO. (Normally running "SDR-UNO" or the new "SDR-Connect" from SDRPlay.) It has some really neat features and is preferred by some (YouTube Feedback from VK land.) as their best option.
We've also had some very good DX on HF recently including the CQ-WPX SSB DX contest a couple of weeks ago.
Hope you can join us!
Ed / W1OKH
Hope you can join us!
Ed / W1OKH
Our current mailing address for the club is.
BURLINGTON AMATEUR RADIO CLUB, INC.
PO BOX 30
SOUTH HERO, VT 05486
Join us for the Wednesday night 8 PM Roundtable on Mt Mansfield VHF. (146.940, (-) duplex, 100 Hz PL) This is an excuse to get on the air and generate some good activity. W1KOO Burlington, 146.610 is still on the air with a temporary antenna at about 35 feet. We are still in process on how the commercial services are going to land on the new platform relative to where we locate our antennas.
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, 146.940, --600 KHz, PL 100 Hz. 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 new mailing address for the club is.
Burlington Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
PO BOX 30
SOUTH HERO, VT 05486 We are saving well over $100 per year getting out of the city with our Mailing address. (Currently $84 per year versus $200 for 2025.)
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 media@w1koo.org.
Vermont VEM RACES Nets:
See the NFMRA UHF FM Network Page for a full repeater listing.
Tuesday Evenings:
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.) Terry Mountain, 145.490 MHz, PL 123 Hz is the primary backup with Lyon Mountain down for some time now. 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.