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Radio Amateurs Of Greater SyracusE

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ACTIVITIES

there are many varied opportunities to use your license and get involved

build / repair radio equipment and antennas

email via radio frequency (winlink)

weather balloons

microwave

mesh networks

sattelite contacts

  • communicate with the iss
  • use repeaters on the iss and sattelites
  • handheld or fixed systems

voice contacts

cw contacts

digital contacts

most – museum of science and technology

  • volunteer to operate the top notch radio station at the most and explain ham radio to museum visitors

repeaters

  • 145.170 no pl – oneida
  • 146.67 pl 103.5 – syracuse
  • 147.00 pl 71.9 – auburn
  • 147.21 pl 103.5 – syracuse
  • 147.240 pl 71.9 – kirkwood
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traffic nets – send, receives, distributes messages around the country

  • octen – oneida county traffic & emergency net (local level net serving central new york area)
    • meets nightly at 8:00 pm
      • tues thru sun – 145.170 no pl
      • mon – 147.240 pl 71.9
  • NYPON – ny public operations net (2nd level net serving new york state)
    • meets nightly at 5:00 pm – 3925 mhz
  • 2rn – region 2 traffic net (3rd level net)
    • meets nightly at 6:30 pm – 3925 mhz

various topic nets (facilitated with netlogger)

  • rags hf net – 3922mhz – sundays 7:00 pm
  • cny fireside chat net – 146.67 pl 103.5 – mondays 7:00 pm
  • qcwa 6 meter net – 53.05 (auburn) & 53.67 (syracuse) repeaters – tuesdays 7:00 pm
  • cny swap & information net – 147.00 pl 71.9 – wednesdays 7:00 pm
  • nts races hf ssb net – 3935 mhz lsb – saturdays 9:00 am

monitor only – fire / ems dispatch:

  • onondaga county fire – 453.850
  • onondaga county ems – 460.025
  • syracuse fire – 153.950
  • madison county fire alerting – 460.0625
  • madison county fire dispatch – 453.1625
  • oswego county fire – 460.1125
  • cayuga county fire – 453.4125
  • cortland county fire – 453.7375
  • oneida county fire – 154.370
  • herkimer county fire – 154.205

remote operations:

  • echolink
  • allstarlink
  • ham over ip

POTA – parks on the air

annual arrl field day – june

annual winter field day – january

annual set – october

public service

races / ares / emcomm

logging options

  • paper log
  • qrz
  • hamrs
  • lotw – arrl logbook of the world

additional online resources