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Amateur Radio Club Emergency Communications Service

Since our inception in 1963 and constituted in 1964 within the Queens Chapter of the American Red Cross, ECS continues to play an active role with the American Red Cross in Greater New York (ARC GNY). ECS also supports the American Radio Relay League ARRL, in the NYC-Long Island Section (NLI) of the Hudson Division.

Additional Information:

ARCECS Holiday Party:   This will be held in January, most likely at Anthony’s in Bayside, but we will also entertain other suggestions from the membership (please let Larry know).  Also we agreed that a better seating arrangement will be done for the party.  We tentatively decided on Tuesday, January 10th, with an alternate date of January 17th. Further details to follow.

 

Monday Night Net Schedule

MONDAY NIGHT ARCECS NET

The ARCECS Net meets every Monday evening at 7:30PM on the WB2ZTH-R, repeater on 447.175 MHz (pl. 141.3) and is open to both ECS Members as well as non-members. It is a general, multi-purpose net that will handle message traffic, as well as general information, and bulletins.

ARC ECS - Net Control Schedule Roster 2010

Organization

Call Sign

First Name

State

ZIP Code

NCS Date

ARC ECS

N2MH

Mark

NJ

7052

5/4/10

ARC ECS

KB2NOW

Cesare

NY

11415

5/11/10

ARC ECS

WA2CNV

Larry

NY

11426

5/18/10

ARC ECS

AB2IF

Don

NY

11360

5/25/10

ARC ECS

N2MH

Mark

NJ

7052

6/1/10

ARC ECS

N2LDV

Lenny

NY

11365

6/8/10

ARC ECS

N2AUK

Stu

NY

11803

6/15/10

ARC ECS

KC2DHJ

John

NY

11377

6/22/10

ARC ECS

WB2KHO

Steve

NY

11365

6/29/10

ARC ECS

KC2SPZ

Mario

NY

11421

7/6/10

ARC ECS

AB2JG

Gail

NY

11367

7/13/10

ARC ECS

KB2KXC

Mark

NY

 

7/20/10

ARC ECS

WA2YYL

Dave

NY

11362

7/27/10

ARC ECS

K2WCA

Keith

NY

11412

8/3/10

 

Club Meetings

 

CLUB MEETINGS

First Tuesday of Every Month at 7:30 PM, Excluding Holidays or special events or schedule conflicts

December General Meeting

12/13/2011

The December club meeting has been re-scheduled to Tuesday, December 13, 2011, at the Queens chapter of the American Red Cross of Greater NY. This is an important meeting since we will hold our election on this night. 

The dates for the club meetings in 2011 are as follows:

  1. January 4th,
  2. February 1st,
  3. March 1st,
  4. April 5th,
  5. May 3rd,
  6. June 7th,
  7. July 5th,
  8. August 2nd,
  9. September 6th,
  10. October 4th,
  11. November 1st ,
  12. December 13th.

Directions
Queens Chapter of the American Red Cross
138-02 Queens Boulevard, First Floor
Briarwood, NY 11435

 

 

 

Club Directions

The chapter is located at 138-02 Queens Boulevard in Briarwood, just off the Van Wyck Expressway.

It is also accessible by the F Train to Van Wyck Blvd, or the Q20A/B and Q44 Buses.


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Club Officers and Administrators

     

ARCECS Club Events

Club Picnic

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Holiday Party Pages

  Holiday Party 2010 Holiday Party 2005 Holiday Party 2003 Holiday Party 1998

Upcoming Club Events

Upcoming Club Events ARC ECS Post Holday Party   You're invited to:   ARC ECS Post-Holiday Party By your host:   Larry Lutzak   Message:   Inclement Weather Reschedule date: Tuesday January 18th 2011.   Date:   Tuesday January 11, 2011 Time:   7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  (GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern) Location:   Famous Dave's Restaurant, Garden City, NY   Will you attend?   RSVP to this invitation  

New York Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival 2011

New York Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival 2011

ARCECS: New York Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival 2011

To All ARC ECS Members and Friends -
We have been invited once again to provide our annual communications support to this exciting racing event at the New York/Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing Meadow - Corona Park, Queens.

The websites:

http://www.hkdbf-ny.org/

and NYC Dept of Parks:

http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2010/08/07/hong-kong-dragon-boat-festival-in-new-york

We will provide "point-to-point" as well as "shadow" two-way radio communications support which will link the Boat House, Judging Area, Team Center and event Command Post.

We would also like to extend an invitation to any members of the Field Communications team to help with the event.

Once again, the event is scheduled for August 13th AND -14th, 2011, rain or shine. Anyone with an amateur radio license that would like to participate or have questions about this event should contact: george888@optonline.net , who is coordinating this event with the HKDB Festival Management team, and/or myself: wa2cnv@yahoo.com .

Thanks and we hope to see you there!

'73,

Larry Lutzak/WA2CNV

President - ARC ECS

Red Cross Events

Red Cross Volunteer Recognition    

ARCECS Membership Application

Kindly use this form to apply for membership to the ARCECS club. Your application will be processed and you will be contacted by our membership coordinator.

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In the Fight of His Life, Steve Mendelsohn W2ML

From: "n2tfc@optonline.net" <n2tfc@optonline.net>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:13 PM
Subject: FW: In the Fight of His Life, Steve Mendelsohn W2ML
 

Dear WECA Member:
 
Many of you have met Steve Mendelsohn / W2ML who has been our October Meeting guest speaker for the past ten plus years. His topics have included his tenure with the ARRL, Ham Radio in general and The NYC Marathon. Steve has quite a list of accomplishments in Ham Radio and life in general. He has held many ARRL offices over the years and is the liaison for Ham Radio operators who volunteer at the New York City Marathon since it began back in the seventies.
 
This blog was sent to me around 17:30 today and I would like to share it with our membership:
 
 
In the Fight of His Life, His Family by His Side
By Randy Lange
Posted on Wednesday September 7, 2011
Jets fans come in all shapes, sizes, ages and conditions.
Take Steve
Mendelsohn. He's 67 years old and back in his heyday he stood about 5'9" and 154 pounds. He follows sports and football and he's a longtime resident of the metropolitan area, but his hobby of ham radio brought him to the NFL and the Jets later in life. He's not a member of the team, but he's around the team — has been since he became the Jets' frequency coordinator in 1999 when the league decided it needed that kind of technician around all its teams every game.
He's a polished public speaker. He's rubbed elbows with more famous folks than you can shake a rolled-up People magazine at. He's won an
Emmy.
Despite all these lines on his résumé,
Mendelsohn was a little nervous when, at the end of the Aug. 17 practice at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center that he was attending, head coach Rex Ryan beckoned for him to come from the sideline into the middle of a forest of large green Sequoias — otherwise known as the Jets' breakdown huddle — and then said:
"Steve, I want you to tell the team who you are."
"I call it a fantasy moment,"
Mendelsohn reflected. "Every Jets fan would love to have an opportunity to talk to the entire team, to be given that incredible honor. This was the family, this was the core of the family concept. I honestly don't even know what I said. I cracked a joke. I spoke from the heart. I told them why I really enjoyed the privilege of being the game day coordinator for the Jets.
"I liken it to the President or the Pope. It was one of the most memorable moments of my life. ... I'm not an 'awesome, dude' person, but it was an awesome experience."
As Ryan and general manager Mike Tannenbaum knew and the players found out, it was also an experience with his extended family that he needed, that would help him down the road ahead. Because
Mendelsohn is dying of cancer.
Tackling "the Little Monster"
"The people at ABC, my primary employer, the Jets, most of the people in my life are aware I have pancreatic cancer,"
Mendelsohn said. "I found out in January when I was having what we thought were digestive problems. It turned out to be much more serious. I was at that point at Stage 4, the worst it can get, and that's altered pretty much my whole life." Mendelsohn began chemotherapy treatments at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, during which his weight dropped to 110. Then came radiation. Last week he began Round 2 of chemo.
"It's the size of a golf ball. We're trying to get it down to the size of a pea or a quarter," he said of his tumor. "We're trying to get the little monster under control."
Mendelsohn is taking on his cancer with openness and humor. Partly that's because, as he says, "You get to the point where the best thing you can do is laugh at it."
"I can't believe how positive he is," tight end Dustin Keller recalled about those post-practice remarks. "It makes you think. Everything I've been through is irrelevant. It makes me so much more grateful for my situation."
Mendelsohn's approach is also partly because he is a humorous, even sardonic, and erudite gentleman by nature.
He grew up "in a little town on Long Island that you've probably never heard of" — Amityville — during the period of its "horror." He spent 30 years in the Navy and the Naval Reserve (part of that time as a cryptologist, or as he sometimes calls it, a spy). And early on he became enraptured by ham radio. "That radio hobby has played into almost everything I've done," he said.
Mendelsohn began working at CBS News, where for a decade he was Walter Cronkite's engineer. From there it was a short hop to becoming the Eye Network's transmission engineer for many press pools in this country and abroad and for events involving Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Also while in the line of duty, he has been blessed by Pope John Paul during his Central America trip in 1983 and by Pope Benedict in his visit to New York in 2008.
Production Trucks, Football Sound and an Emmy
Then came Mendelsohn's ABC period. The network, well aware of his work on overseas remote broadcasts, threw him onto a team whose work would have worldwide implications — designing the network's new fleet of state-of-the-art Monday Night Football mobile production trucks.
Early in his tenure, he was in another working group summoned by ABC Sports legend Roone Arledge to discuss how to get those Monday night viewers more into the game. And so Mendelsohn became a champion of wireless microphones on the field and a key member of the team that developed those ubiquitous parabolic mikes on the sidelines.
One more stop in this illustrious career would be 2000 and "Millennium Around the World." You may recall hearing from someone in each of the globe's 24 time zones on ABC as the New Year dawned there. How in the world do you sort out all of the satellite, telephone and intercommunications issues for such a project? Mendelsohn composed one of the most complicated communications systems ever devised for television. That's what he won his Emmy for.
We could throw in his work as the communications director for a Super Bowl or two, for the New York City and Miami marathons and the NYC triathlon. But we won't.
All of it was prelude to his affiliation with the Jets.
"In the late '90s, the NFL went to radio belt packs," Mendelsohn explained of the method by which coaches communicated with the QB on the field and other coaches in the booth, "and they found there was interference from many different sources — everybody shares the same radio spectrum.
"It got to the point where there was interference from broadcasters to the belt packs and vice versa, because nobody knew the complexity of the 'universe,' if you will. So the NFL put together a group of technical assistants, the game day frequency coordinators. Our job is to make sure there is no interference between the coaches and the broadcasters."
And by broadcasters he means anyone who's broadcasting. TV and radio stations, radios used in the stadium by state police, local police, stadium security, ticket takers, the wireless used by writers in the press box. The primary mission is to protect the coaches' belt pack frequencies and if there is interference, to get that broadcaster to another frequency during the game.
"On a slow day we use about 110 frequencies," he explained. "On a Sunday night or Monday night game, we'll use as many as 230. My job is to park 230 cars in a parking lot built for about 100."
A Member of the Family Just Celebrating Life
Steve and his second wife, Heidi, handled those tasks with aplomb — up until his illness intervened as the Jets began last season's playoff push. Now he's got a much larger goal ahead. His prospects, he acknowledges, aren't good. Yet consider that another of his remarkable traits is a resilience that would do any Green & White player proud.
"I was told six years ago that I had lung sarcoid, that I had a year to live and I should get my affairs in order. In January I was told I had three to five months to live," he said with a knowing smile. "Now what my doctors tell me is 'You really don't listen well, do you?' "
"Steve just celebrates life," said defensive tackle Sione Pouha, whose father succumbed to pancreatic cancer a few years ago, "especially his opportunity to work with the Jets. You can tell he's very thankful."
Steve Mendelsohn plans to be here Sunday night to see the Jets kick off their 2011 season at MetLife Stadium against the Dallas Cowboys. And if his toughness and his heartfelt appreciation for his big green family have anything to say about it, he will be around in the New Year to see how they fare in the playoffs.
"The organization has very much taken me to heart and made me a part of their family by the way they've treated me," he said. "Two years ago, Woody Johnson said to me, 'We're not a business, we're a family.' Everybody on down the line has adopted that. To me it's an incredibly wonderful thing.
"When I'm asked if I'm a Jets fan, I say, 'No, I'm a fan of the Jets.' "
 
73,
 
Peter / N2TFC

 

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