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.
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
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)!
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.
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
The 147.090 MHz repeater is down due to planned maintenance, and will likely be down for several months. The Sunday night net will meet at 9:00 PM local time on the 443.175 MHz repeater (+5 MHz, DCS code 165).
Due to the election on November 2nd (more info at the Secretary of State’s page), the Bloomington Amateur Radio Association monthly meeting is postponed to Tuesday November 9th at 7:30 PM. This meeting will be virtual and a link will follow on the email list. If you are not on the list and would like an invitation, please contact Bill by email (ae0ee#arrl.net).