June 13th, 2023 at 6:30 PM

Oakwood School Ham Station, Greenville, NC

“Field Day Prep”

Hosted by Beth KN4FZB

This meeting is in person but will NOT be streamed on Zoom. Looking forward to operating at FIELD DAY, June 24-25, 2023. Be there and lets have a great time! The meeting will not be at the library this time but at Oakwood where we will have Field Day.

Past videos are listed down the page or on the Vimeo web page.

Regular in person membership meetings: Are scheduled on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM. They will be both in person and on Zoom. We have a new location (courtesy of Scott) at the Sheppard Memorial Library at 530 Evans St, Greenville, NC 27858 starting January 10th, 2023 at 6:30PM. If you come late the doors are locked at 7:00 PM therefore call Scott K9SPJ on the 2M W4GDF repeater to be let in (if you are late).

The Years in Meetings:

Date	Status	Name	Title	Location
Jul 13, 2021	Past	(K1KK stepped in)	Antenna Math!	Oakwood
Aug 10, 2021	Past	David Sourdis	Antennas etc	Oakwood/Zoom
Sep 14, 2021	Past	Dave Wood House	PICNIC & Swapfest	Dave’s House
Oct 12, 2021	Past	Robert Young	Tar Heel Ant.	Oakwood
Nov 9, 2021	Past	Officer Elections & Macon Dail	VOA by Macon Dail	Oakwood/Zoom
Dec 14, 2021	Past	Christmas Party	Pot Luck	Immanuel Church
Jan 11, 2022	Past	Peter, N4PVH	VOA site C	Oakwood/Zoom
Feb 8, 2022	Past	MacCaulay, WU4B	Dx & Dx Clubs	Oakwood/Zoom
Mar 8, 2022	Past	Jeremy Lindsey, K2HJX	Ham Radio Public Service	Oakwood/Zoom
Apr 12, 2022	Past	Pat Harris	SOTA	Oakwood/Zoom
May 10, 2022	Past	Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA	Sun Spots and propagation	Oakwood/Zoom
Jun 14, 2022	Past	FD Chairperson Beth KN4FZB	FD Organization	Oakwood/Zoom
Jul 12, 2022	Past	Matt Heere N3NWV	POTA	Zoom only
Aug 9, 2022	Past	Joe Moell K0OV	Direction finding aka Fox Hunting	Zoom only
Sep 13, 2022	Past	BARC Picnic & Swapfest	Annual Picnic	Dave’s House
Oct 11, 2022	Past	Nate Moreschi N4YDU	World Radio Sport Team Championships.	Oakwood/Zoom
Nov 8, 2022	Past	Grant Willis VK5GR (also elections)	IOTA (Australia)	Oakwood/Zoom
Dec 12, 2022	Past	Christmas Party	Pot Luck	Immanuel Church
Jan 10, 2023	Past	Clint Bradford K6LCS	Working Amateur Radio Satellites with your HT	Library 6:30PM
Feb 14, 2023	Past	Oliver Dully K6OLI	Winlink Basics	Library 6:30PM
Mar 14, 2023	Past	Mike Walker VA3MW	Flex Radio	Library 6:30PM
Apr 11, 2023	Past	Beth KN4FZB	Show and Tell Your Stuff	Library 6:30PM
May 9, 2023	Past	John Leonardelli VE3IPS	Solar Powered Portable Operations	Library 6:30PM
Jun 13, 2023	Confirmed	Beth KN4FZB	Field Day Prep	Oakwood 6:30PM
Jul 11, 2023				Library 6:30PM
Aug 8, 2023				Library 6:30PM
Sep 12, 2023	Proposed	Dave Wood W4EJ	Annual Picnic	Dave’s House?
Oct 10, 2023	Confirmed	Dale Burmester KA9SWE	FT8 Digital mode	Library 6:30PM
Nov 14, 2023			Elections &	Library 6:30PM
Dec 12, 2023	Proposed	Christmas Party	Pot Luck	Immanuel Church?

BARC Meetings by dates

Be there or be square! Program chair for 2022-3 is Judy W3JUU, thank you for volunteering. If you have ideas for meeting presentation, please contact Judy.

BARC Breakfast meeting: 9:00am on the Saturday after the membership meeting at
“The Great Harvest Bread Co.” 2803 Evans St, Unit 100, Greenville, NC 27834. Come and have breakfast and enjoy talking to the members about all topics.

Great Harvest Bread Co

BARC board meeting: the last Tuesday of each month at 7:00PM on Zoom.

Due to Covid-19, most in person meetings were moved to Zoom virtual meeting with exceptions (see table above) in 2020 – 2022. This has had a positive effect as we are able to invite speakers that could otherwise not come to the meeting in person but can visit virtually. Now a combination of in person meetings (at the library) with zoom (to allow people in that cannot be in person) is now the normal method for having meetings. Invitations to the meetings will be emailed to all members the day before the meeting. Our Vice President is in charge of setting up the meeting.

Our thanks for the people that organized the meeting as Vice President:

The list includes Peter Van Houten in 2019, Lou Demko in 2020, Byron Highland in 2021, Judy Taber in 2022 & 2023.
Some of the past meetings were recorded and are on Vimeo here.

Past Meeting videos:

May 9th, 2023: Excellent talk on the use of Solar power and special batteries to run portable operations in the field. QRP experience also discussed by John:

March 14th, 2023: Mike Walker’s excellent presentation on Flex Radio technology presented to Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club on March 14th, 2023.

February 14th, 2023: A fabulous presentation on how Winlink is used and run as an introduction. Interesting to see how Los Angeles hams use Winlink to coordinate and pass messages in times of emergency. Worth while viewing it! Thank you Oliver!

November 11th, 2022: Grant Willis talking about his South Pacific IOTA experience calling in from “Down Under”!

August 9th, 2022, Joe Moell (K0OV) presented Fox Hunting for the Family!

July 12th, 2022, Mat Heere, Presentation on POTA

May 12th, 2022, Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA presented a very interesting talk on Sunspots cycle and HF propagations. He has given us an Ebook (out of print) on the subject for download:

nm7m_the_little_pistol_s_guide_to_hf_propagation Download

He also gave us his slide deck of his presentation here:

brightleaf-arc-cycle-25-sp-wx-antennas-fd-may-2022-k9la Download

August 10th, 2021, Live & Zoom. David Sourdis talked about the math related to antennas and feed lines. How to measure SWR of stubs and other connections. Rather good explanation from a RF Engineer! Demonstration on how to use a VNA to get the right length of coax.

May 11th, 2021, on Zoom. Gary Faust N4PIR presented his POTA (Parks On The Air) experience running QRP (Low power of 5 watts) going out to a park and activating the station. Where he is spotted brings “hunters” that look for activated parks on the air creating a “pileup” of radio amateurs calling trying to make a contact there. It is a challenge to set up a minimalist station and get it to work well on portable low power equipment and on battery power.

April 13th, 2021, 7:00pm on Zoom. Presentation by Elixander Valladares W7HU AKA Alex. He will be our April Guest. Alex will discuss growing up in Cuba and involving himself in the hobby from his teens. He decided that he wanted to explore the opportunities that were available in the USA, but for this, he had to sneak out of Cuba on a homemade raft. Eventually, on his second attempt he did make his way successfully to the US, although not without quite a few stops along the way. Being a member of the ham radio world provided a certain amount of protection on his journey and helped him to get settled in the US.

March 9th, 2021, Presentation by Will Jourdain AA4WJ of ICOM America on the new technology that is being developed at Icom on the new IC705. Great Q&A discussion for 45 minutes at the end of the presentation about the capabilities of the radio and D-Star etc. WARNING: you will want one of these radios after seeing this video!

February 12, 2021: Tom Brown (N4TAB) talked about “EmComm in NC”. Tom is very active for years in EmComm. He is currently NC RACES Officer, NC ARES SEC, NC AUXCOMM Coordinator, NC COML as his positions. Links for the FEMA National Incident Management System (NIMS): (Free ICS courses we need 100, 200, 700, 800 to qualify to work in any emergency.)