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CMARA welcomes all Amateur Radio hobbyists in the area. We have a great group of dedicated members who are very friendly and always ready to help a new ham get started. If you are interested in HAM radio, please Contact Us or visit our become a ham page for information about getting started. We meet ever the fourth Thursday of every month, except July and August. Every member gets our monthly Ham Chatter newsletter via email, mail, or can access it via this Web site.
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Skywarn Weather Spotter Training
Skywarn Weather Spotter Training will be held at the Worcester ECC. The class will be taught by WX1BOX Skywarn Coordinator Rob Macedo KD1CY as well as other individuals from the National Weather Service's Taunton office. The class is open to the general public but it is highly recommended for amateur radio operators, CMARA and WECT members. It is also recommended that those that have had this training 4+ years ago might consider retaking the training since techniques and reporting criteria change over time.
Event occurs on 05/21/2008 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
ATTENTION
- Dues for 2008 - $25.00
- Additional Family Members - $5.00
- Seniors over 65 $20.00
- Membership Mailing Address
The New England Amateur Radio Festival will be held once again this spring at the Deerfield Fairgrounds at 34 Stage Road, Deerfield, NH. The event is the successor to Hosstraders and was very successful this past fall. It's sure to be a large event again this spring. Proceeds are donated to programs in the New England and Southwest Canadian areas that have to do with youth amateur radio involvement. Hope to see you there!
CMARA Nets
- George's Old Timer's Net - Sunday - Tuesday, Thursday - Saturday 7:30PM. Have a question or comment on George's, the George's Net Controllers monitor the George's topic found in the CMARA forums.
Watch a sample from KB1LHE (Bill) - The Doctor is in. Ask all your technical questions of Greg WA1JXR - Wednesday's at 7:30PM. Can't wait until Wednesday, ask Greg your questions via the CMARA forums.
- Traffic Net - Every night at 9:00PM
- ARES/RACES - Sunday at 9:15PM
- RACES - 1st Monday of the month - 7:15PM
WCVB-TV Video - Happy Birthday Radio
The video of the WCVB-TV Channel 5 Boston Chronicle programme 'Happy
Birthday Radio' which was broadcast on 23rd February 2007 is now available
on the web at Happy Birthday Radio
FROM THE EDITOR
If there is news you want put in the Chatter please forward it to me. As the new editor, your comments/input will be greatly appreciated!
FROM THE BOARD
If you have comments or question that you want to ask the board, please post them in the CMARA forums section under "Ask the Board". Here we welcome all comments, questions and suggestion. Have a suggestion for a topic, post it here as well.
REPEATER ABCs 
- Always identify your station, avoid 'kuchunking'. If you need to test access, announce with your station callsign and state you are testing. To those listening: a test transmission is not an invitation for a QSO, respond only if there is a request for a report.
- Be courteous, avoid confrontations. Contact a trustee or a member of the board if you feel a response to bad behavior is needed.
- Contain your QSO time. Don't carry on endlessly - respect other's rights to have repeater access.
- If you can talk to each other on simplex please do so.
- Please count to three before you key up to help prevent doubling
From the CMARA Board of Directors and the Repeater Trustees. CMARA owns and maintains the 146.97 repeater in Paxton, MA.