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Tag: raffle

  • HCRA is READY for Field Day – are YOU!

    About seven days from now HCRA will be blasting the airwaves with “CQ Field” day from School St. Park in nearby Agawam, MA. Our plans have solidified to a 5A operation, perhaps even 6A, the usual superb four towers with beams on 40, 20, 15 and 10 and dipoles for 80/75. a Saturday VE session, lots…

  • HCRA’s 250 Raffle – Win A Kenwood TS-590SG

    Win A Kenwood TS-590SG Tickets Just $10 EA   It’s that time for the Hampden County Radio Associations (HCRA) annual raffle. This year the board of directors wanted to raffle off a 100w base station transceiver. The Kenwood TS-590SG ($1700 Retail) was the perfect choice because it’s a very excellent radio packed with features that…

  • Tickets, Tickets & More TICKETS!!

    Good evening everyone, Just wanted to remind everyone about the raffle ticket for the membership prize, renew your HCRA membership before the end of the meeting this Friday. You can renew through PayPal, the link is on the HCRA.org webpage. Here is the link https://hcra.org/membership-payment/. If you use snail mail it needs to be at the…

  • Welcome to the 2014 – 2015 Year

    OK, here we go. It the first meeting of the year tomorrow night at the Holyoke Medical Center at 7:30. There will be the usual camaraderie, 3 that’s right 3 guest speakers. KK1W, W1MSW, and W1MOR. All have short presentations on these summers’ activities that the club participated in in one way or another, They…

  • Win an Elecraft KX3! – HCRA Raffle

    HCRA’s raffle this year is going to be for a Elecraft KX3! (Raffle for radio only! Antenna, angle adapter, microphone and keyer not included) For a mere $10 donation to the HCRA, you get a chance to win an assembled KX3 by Elecraft valued at around $1000. This is an very popular and excellent HF…

  • 2013 H.C.R.A./M.T.A.R.A Holiday Party

     Directions/Map to the Steaming Tender [google-map-v3 width=”600″ height=”350″ zoom=”12″ maptype=”roadmap” mapalign=”center” directionhint=”false” language=”default” poweredby=”false” maptypecontrol=”true” pancontrol=”true” zoomcontrol=”true” scalecontrol=”true” streetviewcontrol=”true” scrollwheelcontrol=”false” draggable=”true” tiltfourtyfive=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkerlist=”28 Depot Street Palmer, MA 01069{}barbecue.png{}Steaming Tender” bubbleautopan=”true” showbike=”false” showtraffic=”false” showpanoramio=”false”]      

  • Yaesu FT-857D for only $10?

    How would you like to add a Yaesu FT-857, all mode, 160 through 70cm rig to your mobile or home shack? It’s easy; you can either pick up the phone, call HRO and order one (and plunk down almost a kilobuck) OR — buy a $10 raffle ticket at the next HCRA meeting. We are…

  • And the winner is… ???

    It brings us great pleasure to announce the winner of the KX3 raffle today. The drawing was held a little after noon at the close of the MTARA Hamfest. Our winner is: Chris Snyder/KB1RMA Unfortunately Chris was not present to collect his prize. We will be shipping it out to him the first part of…

  • From the Shack – March 2013

    Next Meeting March 1st  – Our annual Show & Tell night! It is March Madness again at HCRA with our annual Show & Tell event. I’ve heard a lot of members are putting the finishing touches on their projects and expect we will see a grand assortment of ham radio, or not so ham radio, contraptions…