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There will be a meeting this Friday November 10th. Following the meeting we will be doing a showing of the old movies on a projector that have now been converted to DVD! Coffee will be on hand and your welcome to bring your own coffee as well or other types of snack food. We hope it to be a good club event!

W1AQ will be taking part in the 60th annual JOTA on October 20-22 and will be on air and active on October 21. Boy scouts of troop 55 of Rumford will be participating at Camp Buxton in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.  Give us a listen for W1AQ.

The results of the annual meeting are presented below.

President: Bill LItchman (KB1PGP)

Vice President: Kevin Multer (W2AQY)

Treasurer: Doug Troughton (N2RDF)

Secretary: Tyler Turcotte (KB1VYI)

The next meeting will take place for October on October 13.

Our annual meeting will be taking place on September 8th, 2017.  The meeting will be at the normal meeting time.  All current members are encouraged to attend and any amateur radio operator or anyone interested in the hobby are welcomed to attend.  This meeting will include election of officers and committee members.

Field day is coming upon us quickly! We will be having field day at our normal site in Slaters Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island at the Marconi Gardens Site. Setup will start early at 10 and we invite everyone. Non-Hams, Ham’s, and those who are interested.  We hope to get many visitors and have many members who are willing to help those interested in the hobby and those who want to join in on a club.  For more information contact Tyler at [email protected].

Due to the generous donations of many of our members, we were able to have a new roof put on the club house.  Now we should be good for long term maintenance.   We will finish the siding and painting the minute the weather breaks!

We all had a beautiful day August 29th for our DXpedition to Spar Island in Mount Hope Bay.  We had around 250 contacts worked for the day in about 5 hours of operation.  Wind conditions really picked up during the afternoon hours making it really difficult to operate and listen in on the very weak incoming signals.  We got really good signal reports with our salt water amplifier and maybe we will even go out again for this next year.  Thank you for all that worked us.

73,

KB1VYI