K1USN Radio Club
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K1USN
Radio Club, a non-profit group of civilian, former and active
military radio hobbyists. We no longer meet at the Watson Library municipal
building in Braintree, MA. Unfortunately, the K1USN
Lending
Library is also temporarily closed. When a new club location exists, the details will be posted here. We continue to run VE exams monthly however. If you would like to attend a testing session in the future, click here for more details Club Photos Museum Ships Weekend Event (00:00z 07,June 2025 - 23:59z 08, June 2025) 8pm EDT Friday June 6th - 7:59pm EDT Sunday June 8th 2025 Sponsored by The Battleship New Jersey Amateur Radio Station see the NJ2BB website for more details about this event. 103 Museum Ships (as of 05 June 2025) will be participating. (Click here for a DXSummit station spotting link, filtered for the participating ships) K1USN will again be participating this year (CW, SSB and FT8). We're very pleased to announce we've been invited to operate from the Bare Cove Fire Museum in Hingham, Massachusetts. We thank the Fire Museum for their very generous hospitality. The Bare Cove Fire Museum is located on the historic site of the former Hingham Naval Ammunitions Depot. At its peak operation in 1945, the base was operated by 2,400 personnel and contained over 100 buildings, barracks, a PX, arms workshops and numerous storage facilities. Munitions arrived by ship and traveled by rail to a nearby Naval annex for distribution during the war effort.  For more info on this historic site, visit: Wiki:Hingham Naval Ammunitions Depot Youtube: Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot Annex In the event of a general communication outage, i.e.,cellphones, etc. it is important for Hams to have an established written backup plan. Such a plan, entitled ‘Local UHF/VHF/HF Backup Communication Protocol’  has been developed to allow us to remain in direct or indirect contact with each other.Please download a copy and keep it readily available. Also, please share with other Hams, to increase the local geographic footprint. We will attempt to keep our informal ragchew net running during this time of transition for the K1USN club. The net normally takes place @9AM Saturday mornings on the W1ATD Marshfield repeater (145.390MHz-67pl) We have a new supply of K1USN ballcaps
K1USN Zoom session info:
If interested in joining our next Zoom session, please email Pi K1RV at pi.k1rv@gmail.com If you wish to be on our invitation emailing list, please let Pi know. Past K1USN ZOOM sessions can be found on our ZOOM archive page We're looking for presentations for future ZOOM meetings. If interested, please let us know.
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The
Massachusetts "Hands Free"
legislation note:
As
most of you know, the Massachusetts "Hands Free" legislation went into
effect on Sunday Feb 23rd, 2020 and we can expect lots of enforcement
to be taking place. <click here> for a two page printable PDF document
which you might want to carry in your vehicle in case you get pulled
over while using your hand mic to operate mobile. Amateur Radio
operators have a special exclusion, but it may not be evident to all
officers from all local law enforcement agencies.It is suggested that you also have a current copy of your FCC license available. For these reason we decided to offer a free service to all Hams that want to drop by K1USN (*when re-open in the future) to pick up a laminated copy of this printout as well as to obtain a laminated copy of your current license. Since the FCC no longer mails copies of your licenses out, I suggest that you read the following instructions from the ARRL first to obtain a printable copy - http://www.arrl.org/obtain-license-copy If you do not have a printer available and want us to print one for you on card stock before laminating, it will be necessary for you to bring that FCC document on a thumb drive for us to access. Remember that when accessing the FCC website you will need your FRN as well as your login password. If you have never logged into the FCC website before then you will need several days for the FCC to answer your request for a new password before you can download that file. |
Join
us for Breakfast Do you like Amateur Radio discussions? How about meeting over a nice breakfast and hot coffee? If this sounds good, then join us Saturday mornings starting at 7AM at the Mad Hatter restaurant, 969 Washington St. in Weymouth. If 7AM is just too darn early! join us at the club later in the morning. We're usually there until 12 noon or so. |
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Enjoy a Contest with us !
 K1USN operates several contests during the year- including the Freeze Your Butt Off contest in February and the Museum Ships On The Air event in early June to name just a few. |
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