The January meeting date has changed to 01/26/2013.
Please the event page for more info: W5BCS Monthly Meeting
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Nov 29
Upcoming Christmas Parade
The BCS Christmas Parade is coming up this Sunday, December 2nd and the area hams for many years have been volunteering to help with the logistics of the parade.
Please view the event page here: BCS Christmas Parade
We may be short on help so if you know of any non-hams to recruit please do so.
Should you have any questions please call or email.
Thanks in advance
Ron Hambric
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Oct 18
Press Release: Jamboree on the Air
On October 19th-21st, two local amateur radio clubs will help out the Boy Scouts of America with their annual Jamboree On The Air. Both the Bryan Amateur Radio Club and Texas A&M Amateur Radio Club will converge on the Bovay Scout Ranch, on the south edge of Navasota, just off of Highway-6. On Saturday, the ‘hams’ will spend 8 hours, getting Cub Scouts on the air.
This 55th annual national Jamboree, which is closed to the public, will allow cub scouts to talk to each other across the local area, state, nation, and even overseas, using ham radio. The federally licensed hams will serve as control operators for the stations, and as ‘Elmers’, or mentors, for the Cubs. This exercise will introduce the scouts to the ways in which ham radio is useful in emergencies, such as hurricanes, using portable equipment in remote locations.
Last year, the Jamboree involved 750,000 participants and over 6.000 ham radio stations at Jamboree sites. Roughly 400 Cubs will be involved in Saturday’s Navasota event.
Over the 55 years of the event’s history, technology used in the Jamboree has progressed from Morse Code with wire antennas, to voice, to Amateur TV, to digital data. This year, there will be ten sites in the state of Texas. The Navasota event will operate four radio stations, from high frequencies through VHF and UHF frequencies. One station will employ amateur TV. Also, a station with overseas capability, will employ a high-gain beam-type high-frequency antenna on a 50-foot trailer-mounted tower. This particular antenna is also used locally in regional response, such as weather emergencies.
One hands-on activity at Navasota will be a ‘fox hunt’, where the ‘fox’ is someone with a hand-held radio who is lost. Each Cub involved will carry a light-weight directionfinding antenna with his hand-held radio. They will track down the ‘fox’, to learn how a radio search operates. This is one of the most-fun events.
The Bryan Amateur Radio Club, will be using its call-sign, W5BCS. The Texas A&M Club has one of the oldest university call-signs in the U.S., being W5AC.
WEBSITE URLs:
Jamboree On The Air: http://www.scouting.org/jota.aspx
Bovay Scout Ranch: http://www.samhoustonbsa.org/bovay.php
Bryan Amateur Radio Club: https://www.bryanarc.org/
Texas A&M Amateur Radio Club: http://w5ac.tamu.edu/
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Oct 11
W5BCS Particapting in Boy Scout Jamboree on the Air
The Bryan Amateur Radio Club (W5BCS), along with the Texas A&M Amateur Radio Club (W5AC) will be participating in the Boy Scout’s annual Jamboree on the Air during their Fun and Son event.
A Link to Our Calendar (Location Information Here): Boy Scout Jamboree on the Air
The scouts are providing 4 canopies, tables and chairs for our use.
And did I mention they will also provide our meals.
They are looking at having 400 Cub Scouts and at least one family member with each.
The first group of 200 scouts will starting arriving Friday afternoon and have their activities
on Saturday morning 8am to 12 noon and a second group of around 200 scouts will arrive
around noon Saturday. Their activities will start at 2pm and end at 6 pm . These Cub Scouts
will mostly be in the first through the third grade but we could have older ones and this
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Aug 18
HSMM-MESH Presentation
Bill (KF5AZU) and Paul (KF5JIM) from the Texas A&M Club (W5AC) gave a very informative presentation about HSMM-MESH Network.
For a copy of their presentation, click here: HSMM-MESH Presentation.
For more information, visit: http://www.hsmm-mesh.org/
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Aug 15
August Meeting Location
This month’s meeting and testing session will be at the same location as July’s.
Links to Events on Web Site (Maps to Location in each):
Someone will be on Location monitoring the 680 repeater (W5BCS) to guide anyone that may get lost.
Information on the USDA:
2881 F and B Road
College Station
The conference room is located in the main building just as you pull into the USDA Lot. Park up front and then enter the building. The conference room is right up the stairs as you enter the building.
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Jul 16
Meeting and Testing Session Location has Changed
The VE Testing Session and locations have been changed.
Due to the closure of the College Station Conference Center (more info), W5BCS has had to change where it will conduct it’s Monthly Meeting as well as its VE Testing Session for this Saturday, July 21st.
Gerald (W5VUI) has secured the conference room at his work (The USDA) for Saturday morning for both the Testing Session and the Meeting.
Information on the USDA:
2881 F and B Road
College Station
The conference room is located in the main building just as you pull into the USDA Lot. Park up front and then enter the building. The conference room is right up the stairs as you enter the building.
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Links to Events on Web Site (Maps to Location in each):
Someone will be on Location monitoring the 680 repeater (W5BCS) to guide anyone that may get lost.
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Jun 25
W5BCS Successfully Completes 2012 Field Day
Here are a few photos from the event.
2012 ARRL Field Day Entry Form
| Call Used: W5BCS | GOTA Station Call: (none) | ARRL/RAC Section: STX | Class: 2A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Participants: 57 | Club/Group Name: Bryan Amateur Radio Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Source(s): Generator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Multiplier: 2X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bonus Points | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Score Summary:
| CW | Digital | Phone | Total | ||
| Total QSOs | 4 | 0 | 236 | ||
| Total Points | 8 | 0 | 326 | 334 | Claimed Score = 668 |
Submitted by:
Sly Kapchinski, N5GQB
Bryan Amateur Radio Club
PO Box 4442
Bryan, TX 77805
Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:
| CW | Digital | Phone | ||||
| QSOs | Pwr(W) | QSOs | Pwr(W) | QSOs | Pwr(W) | |
| 160m | ||||||
| 80m | 36 | 100 | ||||
| 40m | 96 | 100 | ||||
| 20m | 4 | 100 | 90 | 100 | ||
| 15m | 79 | 100 | ||||
| 10m | ||||||
| 6m | 9 | 100 | ||||
| 2m | 15 | 150 | ||||
| 1.25m | ||||||
| Other | 2 | 100 | ||||
| Satellite | ||||||
| GOTA | ||||||
| Total | 4 | 0 | 326 | |||
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Jun 20
Radio Amateurs in the Field
Local radio amateurs will be part of the annual U.S. Amateur Radio Field Day, this Saturday, June 23rd. The amateurs, called ‘hams’, will demonstrate how they can provide emergency radio communications during disasters, such as hurricanes. Hams routinely work with the National Weather Service to provide regional emergency communications in such disasters.
This emergency demonstration will be hosted by the Bryan Amateur Radio Club at the Veterans Park pavilion. The public is invited to view these 24-hour emergency radio operations from noon, Saturday until noon, Sunday. During these hours the hams will be communicating with similar portable installations across the nation. To make things more interesting, the Field Day demonstration is styled as a contest, with points awarded for radio contacts. Bryan-College Station always scores well.
The emergency radio installation at Veterans Park will only use power provided by the hams’ gasoline-powered emergency electrical generators. Trailer-mounted antenna towers will be used, with directional, beam-type antennas, raised well above the Park pavilion’s metal roof. These antennas are capable of communicating across the entire U.S. at various times of day and night. Regional communications with Texas cities and nearby states is also provided.
The hams will have a fun time, Saturday, even providing radio merit badge training for local Boy Scouts.
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Jun 15
2012 ARRL Field Day Upcoming
The American Radio Relay League will be conducting its annual Field Day Exercises across the United States on Saturday June 23rd beginning at noon. The event information is as follows:
23 Jun 2012 – 12:00
Veteran’s Park
3101 Harvey Rd
College Station
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