{"id":756,"date":"2021-12-28T23:13:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T23:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3vpr.org\/\/wp\/holly_net\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:04:39","slug":"holly_net","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/w3vpr.org\/wp\/holly_net\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holly Net"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"rtecenter has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4b12a9b9a878487be9f64a66862adb63 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">W3VPR Holly Net<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d5e84d1698a012dfd49de4155f98902d wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The W3VPR Holly Net<\/strong> is now the official name of the Anne Arundel Radio Club&#8217;s former Morning Net, named in honor of Margaret &#8220;Holly&#8221; Bevan (N3MB), shown below our calendar at her 100th birthday party. &#8220;Holly&#8221; was our beloved control operator for over 30 years. The W3VPR Holly Net runs weekdays from 7am to 9am on the <strong>W3VPR 147.075+ repeater with a 107.2 PL tone.  All licensed hams are welcome to join the net.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b6ad8c6e09353a82028b192c98f6ae12 wp-block-paragraph\">This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/w3vpr.org\/\/wp\/net-types-aarc\/\">DIRECTED NET<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-99419419a3c2b1fbb87f09b2a055189d wp-block-paragraph\">The calendar below shows both the operational calendar and the Net Controllers assigned to make the Holly Net the best to-work companion in all of ham radio. At least we think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; width: 100%; height: 85%; overflow-y: scroll; overflow-x: scroll;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: solid 1px #777;\" src=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/embed?height=600&amp;wkst=1&amp;bgcolor=%23ffffff&amp;ctz=America%2FNew_York&amp;title=The%20Holly%20Net&amp;src=amJudmUzOGZqY2h2cTZwa3ZqbnV2cWlzZWdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&amp;src=ZmtuNDJ0Mm8zMHFiNmdvOGZrOW50czkwZm9AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&amp;src=ZW4udXNhI2hvbGlkYXlAZ3JvdXAudi5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t&amp;color=%23D50000&amp;color=%23F09300&amp;color=%23E4C441\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rtecenter has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a5b8a2edadfbe223816ce040ba16b246 wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9876378539d8209867e7d0a0167cdbd2 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The <i>Margaret &#8220;Holly&#8221; Bevan, N3MB Bio<\/i> follows here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/w3vpr.org\/\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/small-Holly-at-100.jpg\" alt=\"small Holly at 100.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-755\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bc8e2cecd204ad70799321b3a4cdaa8f wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In the military in WWII, there were five Margarets in Ms. Bevan&#8217;s office, so she received the nickname &#8220;Holly&#8221; based on her maiden name.\u00a0 By the end of the war &#8220;Holly&#8221; was the ranking female in her branch of service as a Chief Petty Officer.\u00a0 After the war she took up teaching, and eventually got into ham radio in the late 70&#8217;s by taking an AARC sponsored course her son signed her up for.\u00a0 In addition to her Masters Degree, &#8220;Holly&#8221; became an Amateur Extra and took the vanity call sign with her initials it it, N3MB..\u00a0 She paid the ham community back a thousand fold, first as the &#8220;Ham Arundel News&#8221; editor, and later as a Volunteer Examiner, a Field Day greeter, and as the lone network control operator of our Morning Net, year after year.\u00a0 She finally left us just short of age 102. There wasn&#8217;t a member in the club who was not inspired by N3MB.\u00a0 We still miss her.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6ab51337a26ef4e5c781f241a670cf13 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>While she was with us, &#8220;Holly&#8221; was about the only person in the club who didn&#8217;t call it The Holly Net.\u00a0 She knew well what we called it, but she was too modest to use that name herself.\u00a0 But we are not the slightest bit shy about singing her praises, and have now, finally, officially renamed this net in her honor as, <strong>The Holly Net<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W3VPR Holly Net The W3VPR Holly Net is now the official name of the Anne Arundel Radio Club&#8217;s former Morning Net, named in honor of Margaret &#8220;Holly&#8221; Bevan (N3MB), shown below our calendar at her 100th birthday party. &#8220;Holly&#8221; was our beloved control operator for over 30 years. 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