Welcome to the
nORTH SHORE RADIO CLUB
(NSRC) - Illinois
What’s Happening?
NEWS - Quick Bits
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NEWS - Quick Bits ~~~
We like to welcome Brian Nolen as our new program director. Brian has graciously agreed to volunteer for this position. His main task will be to organize speakers for our club meetings. If you want to help and have an interesting ham radio subject you want to talk about on one of our future club meetings , please contact Brian : programs@ns9rc.org
The next build club activity for registered participants will be on June 4th in the Collaboratory at the Northbrook Library. For details and more information go here ->
After Marty (WD9GYM) gave us an excellent presentation about the NSRC Flex Cadre, we have now a special page here on our website with links and information. Go check it out here ->
New Program offered for the Northbrook Library - BYOR (Bring your own radio). Read all about it here ->
Call to action for the TREK100 Public Service Event. See details here ->
On Saturday May 10th we had another successful Hams in the Park activity. Beautiful sunny weather and temperatures in the high 60s made it a pleasure to set up portable stations and experiment how far we could go. Conditions were not too good but the 5 stations on the air were able to make some nice contacts, and we had a lot of fun. For upcoming Hams in the Park activities go here —>
Check out a new section on our website providing information about DMR. It is still a work in progress, but we already have some content. There are some hotspots offered as kits which can be built for little money. Go check it out here ->
Record Turnout at our club breakfast on May 24th.
We had 24 hams show up at this week’s breakfast. We even had to extent our tables to have seating for everyone. A lot of new faces showed up and everyone had a great time with interesting discussions and good food.
Our group visiting the HAMVENTIOn are back. here are some pictures:
NSRC Presidents Blog
Membership
For membership information and how to join or renew your membership, go to our membership page.
Club Meetings
The next club meeting is on june 10th 2025. It is aN In-Person and Zoom meeting
For in person meetings at Heller Nature Center, doors open at 7:00pm, meetings start promptly at 7:30pm, meetings end close to 9:00pm.
The zoom session will be available starting at 7:00pm.
The Heller Nature Center is located at 2821 Ridge Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035.
For directions follow this link —>
Program:
Welcome Message from our President - Brian, AB9ZI
TBD (Check back for updates)
Find future Club Meetings on our calendar here ->
Or go to the club meeting page for more details here->
The information for the Zoom meeting is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5392163778?pwd=pNuDf3Z2K5iuMZbQZBdDcZ1KeIORxF.1&omn=85262844878
Meeting ID: 539 216 3778
Passcode: 9FzNuQ
Recording of the April 8th meeting
The recording can be accessed with this link and passcode:
Passcode: 7nN^1b+*
The slides for Michelle’s presentation can be accessed here —>
there was no zoom session for the May meeting
Field Day 2025 Dates and Times
June 27th - The Storage locker team meets at 10:30 am. All other volunteers meet at Clarkson Park at 11:30 for lunch followed by setup of antennas.
June 28th - Radio Setup starts at 7 am, Operating starts at 1pm, GOTO operates from 1pm to 6pm
June 29th - Operating stops at 1pm followed by tear down and clean up. GOTA station will operate from 9am to 1pm.
NS9RC NET
The NSRC net is every Thursday on our UHF repeater (442.725 +5 PL:114.8) @ 8pm. Stay on after the net for an informal roundtable. For more information go here ->
NS9RC eMitter
The May 2025 edition is available now.
If you did not receive the newsletter, in your e-mail please check in your JUNK/SPAM folder or contact communications@ns9rc.org.
Back issues can be found in the eMitter Archive.
Breakfast Club
8:00 am Saturdays
Join the conversations in the long running NSRC Saturday Breakfast Club while trying some of the great food at Max’s Deli, 191 Skokie Valley Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035.
For details and pictures go here ->
Hams in the park Saturday june 14th, 2025 - 2pm to 4pm
The next Hams in the Park activity is planned for June 14th. Should the weather be not favorable I will post it here if we have to postpone.
This is the day for experimenting with your potable setup and antennas.
Hope to see you on June 14th. For more information follow this link —>
Help Wanted
The North Shore Radio Club has a lot to offer to its members. There are a lot of activities throughout the year to engage and participate. However, these things don’t just happen. These activities require volunteers to take ownership or just to help. As more volunteers we have the workload for everyone will be less.
If you read this, you should give it a serious thought if you could spare a couple of hours during the year to help your club to stay active.
There are roles for everyone regardless of your skills or if you think “I am not good for that” or “I don’t like to deal with people”. Get out of your comfort zone and try something new.