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The club's mailing address is: The Norwood Amateur Radio Club PO Box 163 Norwood, Mass 02062-0163 Dues: For current members, annual dues are payable no later than the January general meeting. For new members, annual membership dues are payable on the date of the next general membership meeting. The current dues structure is $20.00 per year. Additional family members are $5.00 per year per additional family member. Annual dues may be paid at any of the general meetings, or by mail. Please make all checks payable to The Norwood Amateur Radio Club. If paying by mail, please mail your check to: The Norwood Amateur Radio Club PO Box 163 Norwood, Mass 02062-0163 E-Mail Reflectors: The club maintains several E-Mail reflectors hosted by googlegroups.com that are used to disseminate various types of information. Most of the reflectors are restricted to current members of the club, and a few are restricted to the various committees within the club. The following is a list of the current reflectors: K1JMRCHAT - This is an unmoderated reflector. As the name implies, it is a chat type of message base that can be used to post any type of message. All members with E-Mail addresses are automatically subscribed to this reflector. You can change your subscription options, and even unsubscribe from this reflector simply by accessing www.googlegroups.com and selecting the K1JMRCHAT reflector. K1JMR_NEWSCARRIER - This is a moderated reflector used by the E-Board to send electronic versions of the NewsCarrier to our members. There are some non-members that are subscribed to this group; For instance, some ARRL staff, and some former members that have moved out of the area. Any message sent to this reflector must be approved by an E-Board member before the message is sent out. All members with E-Mail addresses are automatically subscribed to this reflector. You can change your subscription options, and even unsubscribe from this reflector simply by accessing www.googlegroups.com and selecting the K1JMR_NEWSCARRIER reflector. NARCEBOARD - This is a restricted, unmoderated reflector that is used by members of the Executive Board to communicate ideas, and status of projects they are working on. All members of the Executive Board with E-Mail addresses are automatically subscribed to this reflector. You can change your subscription options, and even unsubscribe from this reflector simply by accessing www.googlegroups.com and selecting the NARCEBOARD reflector. World Wide Web: The club maintains a public web site at http://www.norwood-arc.org. All members are encouraged to provide information and feedback on the content of the site. We also have a private members web site that is accessed via a link from our public site. All members in good standing are provided access to the members only site. The club webmaster will provide you with an initial password that you may change at any time. Continued access to the members only site is controlled by our membership database. As long as your dues are current, you will be able to access the site. Club Net: The club conducts a weekly net on 2 meter FM every Tuesday starting at 8:00 P.M. The first round of the net is held on the club's W1JLI Memorial repeater 147.210 (+ offset). The second round may be held on any band, frequency and mode at the discresion of the Net Control Operator. Net Control for the NARC nets rotates among members of the club who have expressed an interest in serving as net control. If you are interested in trying your hand as a net control station, use the Net Control application located in the members section of the web site to sign up for any available dates. Club Repeater On October 21, 2000, the management of the W1JLI 147.210 repeater was transferred to the Norwood Amateur Radio Club. On September 19, 2006, the club was officially granted the W1JLI call sign by the FCC, and the W1JLI Memorial Repeater was officially launched. The club would like to thank Jeff Schall, KB1AFO for allowing us to memorialize his father, Lou Schall, by entrusting us with his fathers call sign. The repeater is currently operating at the Cell site located behind the Norwood High School. The repeater antenna, provided by the Norwood Emergency Management Agency, is mounted on one of the town water tanks also located behind the Norwood High School. The repeater's coordinated frequency of 147.210 MHz runs a plus offset (receives on 147.810 MHz). A PL tone of 100.0 is required to activate the repeater. The repeater is configured, and the antenna is directed to reduce interference with the Warren, Mass 147.210 repeater. Therefore, you may encounter difficulties "hitting" the repeater from Western Mass. Both IRLP and Echolink connectivity is available on the machine. The IRLP node number is 4393, and the EchoLink Node Name is W1JLI-R |