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B.A.R.A. Oct. 1st – “Fox Hunt”

By Rolf KrogstadSeptember 26, 2024Club Meetings, Uncategorizedmeeting

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

September 3rd, 2024 – BARA meeting

By Rolf KrogstadSeptember 2, 2024Uncategorized

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 on Wires-X

By Rolf KrogstadMay 8, 2024Uncategorized

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.

May 7th meeting & Sunday night net

By Rolf KrogstadApril 10, 2024Uncategorized

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.

ALSO…
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.

April 2nd Meeting

By Rolf KrogstadApril 1, 2024Uncategorized

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 to April 2024 – Programs

By Rolf KrogstadJanuary 10, 2024Uncategorizedmeeting

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.

Recent Programs at BARA

By Rolf KrogstadJanuary 10, 2024Uncategorizedmeeting

Fall 2023 we had the following programs at our meetings:

Sept ’23 – NR0T built a 70cm/2M portable J-Pole from ladder line
Oct ’23 – AE0EE discussed Fox Hunting including an indoor hunt
Nov ’23 – K0AD did a presentation on CW Academy
Dec ’23 – Our annual pizza gathering at Davanni’s

No July/August 2023 Meetings

By Bill Mitchell (AEØEE)July 2, 2023Uncategorizedmeeting

We are returning to the pre-COVID tradition of not meeting in July and August, and particularly so because the first Tuesday is July 4th. Enjoy the holiday, and we’ll see you on September 5th or at a semi-spontaneous event before then (e.g. W1AW/0 MN week 2)!

January Meeting 1/3/2023: Zoom

By Bill Mitchell (AEØEE)January 2, 2023Uncategorizedmeeting

With forecast bad weather, the January meeting will be on Zoom only at 7:30 PM CST Tuesday 1/3/2023. Look for details on the email list, or contact Bill (AE0EE) via the info on the contact page.

Field Day: June 25, 2022

By Bill Mitchell (AEØEE)June 9, 2022Uncategorized

The Bloomington Amateur Radio Association and the Richfield Amateur Radio Club and will be hosting an
annual ARRL Field Day event on June 25th, 2022 at the Richfield Community Center, 7000 Nicollet
Avenue South, Richfield, MN 55423 on the lower level. Visits from the public are welcome from 1 p.m.
to sunset. Several radio stations will be in operation and you can take the opportunity to talk to people
around the world. For more information about amateur radio, please visit www.arrl.org ,
www.richfieldradio.com , and www.mnhamradio.com

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