Binghamton Amateur Radio Assoc

The Hamfest Committee is looking for volunteers, please contact Ford Drake, AB2HS if you would like to help out.   arast.info/arast_website/hamfest.php

This is a test. This is only a test. But it's going to be one very big test.

On Wednesday, October 4 at 2:20 p.m. ET, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an emergency alert, accompanied by a notice along these lines:

“This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the United States from 14:20 to 14:50 hours ET. This is only a test. No action is required by the public."

Join with thousands of your fellow amateurs as part of the largest crowd-sourced contest for ham radio scientific exploration ever. The annular solar eclipse will begin in Oregon at 12:13 p.m. EDT and end in Texas at 3:03 p.m. EDT. The SEQP is for learning more about how the ionosphere works. Use any mode, any band for all or part of each day. Participation can be from everywhere, you do not need to be near the path of either eclipse to contribute valuable data by participating. For details on the SEQP, contest, and rules go to www.hamsci.org/contest-info.

The New York State QSO Party is getting quite a face lift for 2022. A number of changes have been made, all of which are designed to contribute to making NYQP more fun, encouraging more ops to get on the air and to make the contest more fun for every entrant.