Join us for the upcoming meeting of the Bloomington Amateur Radio Association. We will meet at 7pm on March 3rd.
The program will be a look at the upcoming DXpedition to Sable Island as well as a look at past exhibitions to this sandbar island, including photos of the wild horses and seals which call the island home.
The meeting will be in the Haeg Conference Room at Bloomington Civic Plaza. The room is located on the 2nd floor at the south end of the building.
The January 2026 meeting of BARA will be at 7pm on Tuesday, January 6th.
The meeting will be in the Haeg Conference Room at the south end of the second floor of the Bloomington Civic Plaza.
The program will be a discussion of operating while using a kite to support an antenna.
For the meetings in 2025-26 there will be a door prize at each of the meetings.
We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings.
The January 2026 meeting of BARA will be at 7pm on Tuesday, January 6th.
The meeting will be in the Haeg Conference Room at the south end of the second floor of the Bloomington Civic Plaza.
The program will be a discussion of operating while using a kite to support an antenna.
For the meetings in 2025-26 there will be a door prize at each of the meetings.
We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings.
Rolf NR0T
The September 2025 meeting of BARA will be at 7pm on Tuesday, September 2nd.
The meeting will be in the Haeg Conference Room of the Bloomington Civic Plaza.
The program will be a discussion of dB and dBm.
For the meetings in 2025-26 there will be a door prize at each of the meetings.
We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings.
The October meeting of B.A.R.A is Tuesday, October 1st. We will start the meeting with a hidden transmitter hunt, aka a Fox Hunt. Bring a 2 meter FM radio. While a small directional antenna is preferred, a rubber duck antenna can also be used.
Meetings are normally the first Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Haeg Conference Room on the 2nd floor of Bloomington Civic Plaza (south end).
The November meeting will be on Tuesday, November 12th.
Note: The November meeting is always on the 2nd Tuesday of the month because election staff takes over the conference room on the first Tuesday.
See you at the meeting!
73, Rolf NR0T
Join us on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024 at 7pm at the Haeg Conference Room (south end of Civic Plaza). We will catch up on summer activities and have a presentation on four of the available programs which can be used to operate FT8/FT4 and other digital modes.
We hope to see you there!
73 Rolf NR0T
Slides from the May 7th meeting have been posted. Click on “Membership” > “Monthly Club Meeetings” and then under the section header “Past Meeting Archives” click the link for past meeting archives.
The presentation was by Mike White N9UXC and explored the capabilities of our 443.175 Yaesu repeater and Wires-X.
The May meeting of B.A.R.A. will be held on May 7th at 7pm in the Haeg Conference Room at the south end of the upper level of the Bloomington Civic Plaza, 1800 West Old Shakopee Road.
Mike White N9UXC will give a presentation on the analog and digital communication capabilities that come with Yaesu repeaters, such as the one that BARA has on 443.175 MHz. Key words for this technology which you may have heard include Wires-X, System Fusion, C4FM.
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B.A.R.A. hosts a net every Sunday night at 9pm local time on the club’s 70cm Yaesu repeater. FM mode is used for the net. The frequency of the repeater is 443.175 Mhz and requires a +5 MHz transmit offset and a DCS tone of 165.
BARA meets on Tuesday April 2nd at 7pm. The meeting is on the upper floor of the Bloomington Civic Plaza in the Haeg Conference Room. This month’s presentation will feature Bill Mitchell, AE0EE (Minnesota Section Manager for the ARRL). He will give a presentation on his 2016 trip to HEARD ISLAND as part of of the VK0EK DXpedition.
January 2 – Bouvet, the most remote island on earth (NR0T)
February 6 – VHF Roving 101 (W0ZQ)
March 5 – Antenna Modeling, is it worth it? (K0MPH)
April 2 – My experiences on the Heard Island 2016 DXpedition (AE0EE)
Meetings are at 7pm in the Haeg Conference Room at Bloomington Civic Plaza, 1800 West Old Shakopee Road in Bloomington or on Zoom.