If you missed February’s meeting here is a link to the presentation that was shown:
-KF5YAA
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/2152014-presentation-space-station-crew-uses-ham-radio-to-call-earth/
Jan 01
2014 Officers
Our Elected Officers for 2014 are:
President: Gerald Golub – W5VUI
Vice-President: Jeremy Carter – KF5YAA
Secretary: Dennis Brunson – KF5RHE
Treasurer: Bill Fisher – W5WMF
We hope to see all of you at our Lunch meeting this month. For more information click here.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/2014-officers/
Jun 25
Field Day
Field day was a great success. Thanks to everyone who was able to participate this year.
If you didn’t get to, start making plans for next year.
de K5ZY
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/field-day/
Jun 13
Field Day is just around the corner.
Hello Folks,
I hope everyone is gearing up for this years field day event.
W5BCS will be operating from Veteran’s Park in College Station.
The contest part of field day goes from 1pm local Sat. until 1pm local Sun.
Several things are planned during the day.
Set up and operation of the stations.
VE session.
Dinner.
Silent Auction.
Trade table.
Boy Scout activities.
So come out and join the fun.
de K5ZY
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/field-day-is-just-around-the-corner/
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
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/upcoming-christmas-parade/
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/
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/press_release_jota/
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
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/w5bcs-particapting-in-boy-scout-jamboree-on-the-air/
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/
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/hsmm-mesh-presentation/
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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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/august-meeting-location/
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.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/meeting-and-testing-session-location-has-changed/
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