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Hudson Valley Net (HVN)146.97 mhz MBARC Repeater each evening, 19:30 Eastern (Local) Time Serving the Mid-Hudson River Valley
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Why traffic handling? In 1914, the founder of the ARRL, Hiram Percy Maxim, needed to find a station one-half way in between his in Hartford, CT and another station he wished to speak to in Springfield, MA because he could not do it with the equipment he had at the time. Thus, the original purpose of the ARRL (think about what the letters mean - the American Radio Relay League!) was to 'pass traffic' between two amateur radio stations! Thus, traffic handlers find themselves in the proud position of continuing the fine tradition of message passing (QTC) that the ARRL was originally founded upon many years ago! |
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Latest
News - 19 February 2012Ed, N2JBA, Hudson Valley Net Manager
Dateline: Amenia, NY
It was a clear, cool Saturday morning when 19 members, wives and friends of the
Hudson Valley Net gathered at Pete's Famous Restaurant in the quaint little town
of Hyde Park, NY, the hometown of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The
breakfast / business meeting is a tradition that began in 2005. It is a
wonderful opportunity for members to meet, sometimes for the first time in
person. The second goal is to have a short business meeting to discuss the
various aspects of net operation and practice.
The business portion of the event included various agenda topics, to include HVN
organization, the changing role of HVN and the National Traffic System, a call
for more volunteers to assume the role of net control and alternate net control
duties, a discussion of the NTS traffic handling training sessions and how we
might better implement these sessions; some really excellent ideas were
suggested, and will be discussed in a future newsletter next month.
Among
the various members in attendance were Pete Cecere, N2YJZ, Section Manager
of the ARRL Eastern New York Section and Tom Cody, Section Traffic Manager
also for the Eastern New York Section, who discussed a survey that was conducted
by the ARRL Emergency Communications Advisory Committee in an attempt to
integrate NTS nets with ARES / RACES using common protocols and procedures.
Pete, N2YJZ announced that at the Section level, he had recently appointed,
David Galletly, KM2O to the Section Emergency Coordinator position. David is in
the process of revamping the section emergency services. Tom, WE2G and others
will be working with David on the coordination. Further information on this
subject will be presented as available.
Ed, N2JBA, will present to Joe Cooper, K2AVV, a certificate which "recognizes him for excellence for his many years of participation and dedication to this net in the finest tradition of the amateur radio public service and the National Traffic System of the American Radio Relay League". It was signed by Ed N2JBA and Tom WE2G and dated February 18, 2012.

Congratulations to Joe for his service!
Ed, N2JBA also recognized Andrew Schmidt, W2BOS, owner of the web page, for maintaining and updating the HVN web page, sometimes on a daily basis. The web page contains an enormous amount of information with many hyperlinks. Thanks, Andrew for your dedication to the net!
All net members were awarded Local Net Certificates as recognition for
participation in the Hudson Valley Net by Ed N2JBA and Tom WE2G. Congratulations
to all for achieving this certificate !
Attendees at this event were:
Thanks
to all who participated!
73 / 88, Ed, N2JBA
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Welcome
to the
This
manual, (Appendix B) will contain the protocols and procedures which
we
use in handling traffic messages. Please refer to the URL link
below:
The
plan for the future is to present to the net members,
organized training sessions using a Traffic Handler's Guide written
by a ham who has had many years of experience in amateur radio
education; Mark Rapport, W2EAG, a former HVN Net Mgr.
The
URLs for this guide and other pdf files are found
below:
These
sessions will begin soon, directly after HVN at 7:30 PM.
Please join us on the Net when possible, come to the Breakfast, frequent our fine website and become part of an interesting and important service. Further info on scheduling will be announced.
The
Pete
Cecere, N2YJZ, Section Manager, ARRL
Tom
Cody, WE2G , Section Traffic Manager,
Ed
Rubin, N2JBA, Net Manager,
73, Ed N2JBA
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| Day | Name | Callsign |
| MONDAY | Pete | N2YJZ |
| TUESDAY | Andrew | W2BOS |
| WEDNESDAY | (open) | (open) |
| THURSDAY | Stu | WA2BSS |
| FRIDAY | Ed | N2JBA |
| SATURDAY | Tom | WE2G |
| SUNDAY | Eric | KC2ZIU |
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Alternates |
The
ENY/HVN Team:
Monthly Net StatisticsActivity Statistics of HVN as reported to NTS officials.
We have the current and last year's data for your viewing
pleasure.
Previous years (2007-2010) data are also kept on
the site as well.
| Month | QNI (Checkins) | QTC (Listed) | QSP (Passed) | QND (Minutes) |
Sessions
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| January |
368 |
59 |
51 |
511 |
31 |
| February | 323 | 60 | 56 | 479 | 29 |
| March | 345 | 55 | 54 | 559 | 31 |
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| December |
| Month | QNI (Checkins) | QTC (Listed) | QSP (Passed) | QND (Minutes) |
Sessions
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 351 | 93 | 79 | 702 | 31 |
| February | 352 | 70 | 65 | 597 | 28 |
| March | 350 | 94 | 82 | 631 | 31 |
| April | 355 | 87 | 71 | 607 | 30 |
| May | 337 | 70 | 70 | 528 | 31 |
| June | 340 | 95 | 80 | 507 | 30 |
| July | 380 | 64 | 52 | 526 | 31 |
| August | 319 | 79 | 68 | 607 | 30 |
| September | 307 | 74 | 68 | 543 | 30 |
| October | 287 | 104 | 64 | 503 | 31 |
| November | 317 | 89 | 82 | 609 | 30 |
| December | 352 | 107 | 97 | 593 | 31 |
The following are stations that are officially designated 'liaisons' between HVN and the listed NET or geographic areas or ARES/RACES nets or groups, as appropriate.
The Eastern NY NTS website contains a list of all the Eastern NY NTS nets including times, frequencies, net managers, website links and so on.
| Net Name | Liaison and Callsign |
| Amateur Radio Telegraph Society (ARTS) | (open) |
| Big Apple | (open) |
| Capitol District Traffic Net (CDTN) | Tom WE2G |
| CHN |
(open) |
| Dutchess County ARES / Dutchess County RACES | Adam KC2DAA |
| Empire State Slow Speed (ESS) | Scott W2NTV |
| National Traffic System Digital (NTS-D) | (open) |
| NY PHONE | Tom WE2G, Scott W2NTV |
| NY Public Operations Net (NYPON) | Pete N2YJZ; Ed N2JBA; Tom WE2G; Mark WM2C, Scott W2NTV |
| NY State (NYS) | Tom WE2G, Scott W2NTV |
| NY State Phone, Traffic, and Emergency Net (NYSPTEN) | Stu WA2BSS, Scott W2NTV |
| Orange Country ARES/RACES (OCAR) | Mark WM2C |
| Orange/Rockland | (open) |
| Putnam County ARES/RACES | (open) |
| Rockland County | (open) |
| Southern Catskill Amateur Radio Society (SCARS) | Vince N2VC |
| Southern District Net (SDN) | Mark WM2C; Scott W2NTV |
| Ulster County | Bill KB2RGA |
| Westchester County ORS | (open) |
Our former ENY Section Traffic Manager Nick N2QZ has created a local NTS reflector - anyone wishing to subscribe can simply do so by pointing your browser to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NTS-ENY/ then click on the "Join This Group!" button and follow the instructions!
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The third callup is a general callup for all stations with or without traffic or any other business for the net. (Repeat call-ups as needed).
(revised 5/23/2011)
This has been a regular session of the Hudson Valley Net which meets every evening at 19:30 hours on the KC2DAA, 146.970 Repeater.
I would like to thank (ANCS callsign) for acting as alternate net control.
I would also like to thank those stations who handled traffic, those who checked in and those who stood by while the net was in session.
I would especially like to thank the Mt. Beacon Amateur Radio Club for the use of all their repeaters.
Please stand by for the timer change (reset the repeater timer).
This is (your callsign) closing the Hudson Valley Net at (local time) and returning the repeater to regular amateur use. (your call) out.
If you have any questions (or constructive comments or suggestions!) please contact our Net Manager Ed on the air or at N2JBA@arrl.net or the Web Page owner Andrew W2BOS@arrl.net.
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Use on other NTS or Amateur Radio webpages is allowable provided appropriate (including our URL, www.hvnet.org) is given. Likewise, we thank those whose materials we've incorporated on our page with their permission as well.
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