NEWSLETTERS
"Direct Currents" is the official newsletter of the Housatonic ARC. It chronicles our club activities including contesting, awards, pictures and stories.
Direct Currents is published monthly. Issues are here in PDF format.
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Photos
In the Summer of 2017, HARC members (as part of a team) went to Paducah, KY under a NASA grant to launch high altitude research
balloons during the solar eclipse. In addition to HARC members, the team consisted of Professors from the Univ of Bridgeport & Univ of Hartford,
Graduate Engineering students, members of Bridgeport's Discovery Museum
and the Connecticut Space Consortium.
May 6, 2018: Two students, Hritish Bhargava and Sam Zhang KC1HOD, won the Birkmaier Award for Promising young students in Science. Hritish was on
the Eclipse Wx Balloon Team mentored by our club Trustee Gary WE1M and Sam was on the Eclipse Photography Balloon Team mentored by our club President Larry AB1JC during their 2017 trip to
Paducah, KY. Award presentation took place at the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport CT.
There was also a book signing by Dr. D. Grinspoon Planetary
Biologist and Dr A. Stern, Principal Investigator for the New Horizons spacecraft which went to the planet Pluto in 2015 and Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69 in January 2019.
Yes, Pluto is a planet!
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June, 2018: HARC members, as part of the Univ of Bridgeport & Discovery Museum team, visited Vermont Technical College's CubeSat Laboratory.
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Additionally here is a photo library of HARC members contesting and other HARC events.
These photo docs are in PDF format.
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N1H Nathan Hale Sp. Event Station 2018
Winter Field Day 2017
Xenia Hamvention 2017
Summer Field Day 2017
Winter Field Day 2018
Summer Field Day 2018
Boxboro Hamfest 2018
Winter Field Day 2019
CQ WW WPX SSB Contest 2019
Xenia Hamvention 2019
Summer Field Day 2019
Sussex NJ Hamfest 2019
Newtown Hamfest 2019
Boxboro Hamfest 2019
K1B PT Barnum Sp. Event Station 2019
Connecticut Nutfest 2019
K1WAS Sweepstakes 2019
Club Xmas Buffet 2019
UB Tech Class 2019
Winter Field Day 2020
Summer Field Day 2020
CONTACT
Housatonic Amateur Radio Club
Stratford, Connecticut USA
QSL Info
Grid FN-31, CQ Zone 5, ITU Zone 8, Fairfield County, 10-X 67120, SKCC# 3980
REVISED QSL POLICY: Due to a few reasons, QSLing digitally, whether by eQSL or LoTW has become a real pain. Remembering what my Nuclear Engineering Professor said long ago, "Simplifying assumptions simplify",
I have decided to follow his sagely advice and made the decision to simplify QSLing.
EFFECTIVE JAN 1, 2019, electronic QSLs of any type will no longer be answered nor confirmed. I will clear out all eQSL cards by Dec 31, 2018. If you wish to QSL in 2019 or beyond, please send a QSL card to WE1M or
NE1CU via US Mail. We will also honor the bureau for DX. An SASE is preferred but is not necessary. Our QSL card will quickly be sent back to you by US mail (or bureau). This may sound draconian to some, but as QSL manager, I just got tired of some members
using computer logs, others sheets of paper, still others scraps of paper and still others piles of tiny scraps of paper for their log book of club contacts.
This is especially painful when I must sort and manually enter all this discordant information into our computers post-contest. No matter how many times I voiced them, my concerns never seemed to be absorbed nor reach home. So there you have it!
We now only respond to analog QSLs via snail mail or bureau!
QSL N1KT via WE1M, NE1CU or Bureau & we will gladly send our QSL card in return.
Our previous call sign was KB1BRB. We will gladly QSL KB1BRB contacts.
Nathan Hale Sp Event QSL Info
This event is over. No further QSLing will occur.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------PT Barnum Sp Event QSL Info
This event is over. No further QSLing will occur.
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