May 7th meeting & Sunday night net

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

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.

Field Day: June 25, 2022

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