President’s Message

Saturday June 28, and Sunday June 29 is Field day weekend, Saturday morning at 9am we will meet at the fire hall for set up with on air events giong live at 2pm.

Field Day location: 7113 Nash Road, North Tonawanda NY.

Help will be needed that morning, Coffee and donuts will be Provided.

Please try to come down on that morning to help set up or come to our field day and get on a radio, as of now we are hopeing to be operating 4 or 5 stations,

Even if you can ouly give us 2 or 3 hours of help come down sign in have something to eat and get on the air, Join the fun.

Field Day weekend is a 24 hour event from 2pm Saturday afternoon throught 2pm Sunday afternoon.

This is our bigest event of the year, please come down and support your club.

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After years of planning and negotiations with Kaleida Health to move the club repeater to DeGraff Medical Park located at 445 Tremont Street, North Tonawanda, NY. I am pleased to pass along to our members that this project is finally becoming a reality.

Thanks to Joe, N2ZDU for his continued efforts to secure this new repeater site and securing the new repeater and antenna.

On Thursday January 30, 2025, Bob, K2LED, Bob K2MNC, Phil, KD2QCT and Myself met with Will from Kaleida to finalize the details and sign the lease contract.

After meeting with Will for over an hour and discussing the details of moving forward, I signed the contract to proceed with the installation.

Will is going to notify Kaleida Health officials that both parties entered into this agreement.

The next step, Will is going to secure a communications company to begin the task of installing our antenna on the roof of the hospital.

Having the repeater at the DeGraff site will increase our repeater footprint and help our club in becoming even stronger in an emergency capacity for the North Tonawanda area.

This is a big step moving forward into the future.

I would like to thank Joe, N2ZDU, Bob, K2LED, Bob, K2MNC and Phil, KD2QCT, for helping this project become a reality.

I would also like to thank all ARATS members for their continued patience.

Once our antenna is installed and our repeater is up and running, I will have Bob, KC2MNC put out an email notifying all our membership that we are going live at our new facility.

Please make plans to attend our next general membership meeting on March 19, at Tonawanda City Hall. 200 Niagara St. as this will be a chance for all the membership to ask any questions about the move.

Bob KC2SZQ, Arats President
Joe N2ZDU, Arats Board Member

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