Hudson Valley Net (HVN) 

146.97 mhz MBARC Repeater each evening, 19:30 Eastern (Local) Time

Serving the Mid-Hudson River Valley

Welcome all those interested in the wonderful world of 'traffic handling'!

Thanks to the Mt. Beacon ARC for hosting our web page!

Latest News!  

  • April News updated with March 2012 stats

 

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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HVN Specific Items: NTS General Interest Items:
Add the Hudson Valley Net to your Facebook page ARL and HX Reference Information
Common Radiograms for HVN Traffic Handlers Eastern NY NTS Traffic Nets
February 2008 Breakfast Pictures History of the NTS
March 2010 Breakfast Pictures Join the Eastern NY NTS traffic handlers e-mail reflector
May 2011 Breakfast Pictures! NTS on the ARRL main website (added 2/25/2011)
Feb 2012 Breakfast Pictures! NTS  Eastern NY Section Information Page
HVN History NTS Handout Provided at the November 2007 MBARC club meeting 
ENY/HVN Team NTS Public Service Communications Manual ("PSCM")
HVN Questions and Answers
Historical Data of the Hudson Valley Net View the ARRL's National Traffic System information pages  
Join the Hudson Valley Net e-mail reflector W2CS's Introduction to NTS Nets
Latest HVN News    "What is a Radiogram?" - A primer on the QSY Society website
Liaisons of HVN 
Monthly HVN Net Statistics  
Net Control Station Reference Information of HVN  
Net Control Stations of HVN

Latest News - 19 February 2012

HVN Members Meet for Annual Breakfast / Business Meeting

See the pix!

Ed, 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

Announcing the "Traffic Handler's Training Course"

Starting Soon!

Welcome to the Hudson Valley Net, a local net of the ARRL National Traffic System. Our mission is to handle formal written traffic, (using a specific format), as laid out in the Methods and Practices Guidelines which is part of the PSCM, ARRL Public Service Communications Manual.

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 Eastern New York Team:

  • Pete Cecere, N2YJZ, Section Manager, ARRL Eastern New York Section

  • Tom Cody, WE2G , Section Traffic Manager, Eastern New York Section

  • Ed Rubin, N2JBA, Net Manager, Hudson Valley Net

73, Ed N2JBA

Net Control Stations (NCS):

Day Name Callsign
MONDAY Pete       N2YJZ
TUESDAY     Andrew W2BOS
WEDNESDAY   (open) (open)
THURSDAY   Stu WA2BSS
FRIDAY Ed  N2JBA
SATURDAY     Tom WE2G
SUNDAY    Eric KC2ZIU

Alternates 

The ENY/HVN Team:

  • Pete, N2YJZ, 
    ARRL Section Manager, Eastern New York (SM/ENY)

  • Tom, WE2G, 
    Section Traffic Manager, Eastern New York (STM/ENY)

  • Ed, N2JBA, 
    Net Manager, Hudson Valley Net (NM/HVN)

Monthly Net Statistics

Activity 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.

2012

Month QNI (Checkins) QTC (Listed) QSP (Passed) QND
(Minutes)

Sessions

 
January

368

59

51

511

31
February 323 60 56 479 29
March 345 55 54 559 31
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

 

2011

Month QNI (Checkins) QTC (Listed) QSP (Passed) QND
(Minutes)

Sessions

 
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

 

Liaisons (most recent updates in RED)

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)

Join the Eastern NY NTS Traffic Handlers Web Reflector!

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! 

Net Control Station Reference Information

Preamble:

Calling the Hudson Valley Net, calling the Hudson Valley Net, This is (station call) calling this session of the Hudson Valley Net.

The Hudson Valley Net is a local net of the ARRL National Traffic System and meets each evening at 19:30 hours local time to pass formal written traffic into, out of and throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley area. 
This is a directed net and all communication will be directed through Net Control for the duration of the net. 
 
All stations are invited to participate; when checking into the net, call this station (your call), drop your carrier to check for doubling, then after the courtesy tone , please indicate your call sign and your call sign only; give specific information when instructed.                
******************************************************************************************************************************************************
Is there a station wishing to act as Alternate Net Control, this evening?; If so please call (your call).
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The first callup is for stations with formal written traffic. Traffic only; traffic stations for the Hudson Valley Net , Please call (your call).
The next call-up is for liaison stations and stations with net announcements.
 
(Please note that announcements will be made directly after the net has been secured) 

Also please keep in mind that on Monday evenings the Mount Beacon ARC meeting on the air begins at 8 PM, and that on Fridays, Finn WB2UWU presents AR Newsline directly after the Net has been secured. On alternate Thursdays the Satcom net begins at 8 PM directly after HVN has ended.

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)

Post amble:

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.

Contact Us!

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.

All original material on this page is copyrighted  ©2006-2012 by Hudson Valley Net.

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.

(BT)