| Wayne AK8U | Ravenna, Ohio |
| Mike KC8LJO | Novelty, Ohio |
| James KD8MOF | Akron, Ohio |
| Teresa KE8LJQ | Niles, Ohio |
| Mark KE8LWL | Ravenna, Ohio |
| Holly KE8LWM | Ravenna, Ohio |
| Bernadette KE8LWO | Stow, Ohio |
| Agnes KE8LWP | Stow, Ohio |
| James N2KWW | Tallmadge, Ohio |
| Richard WB3HUS | Niles, Ohio |
| Josh K8YLK | Akron, Ohio |
| Wayne KC8QPC | Akron, Ohio |
| William WD8KGH | Stow, Ohio |
New PCARS Members
Dec 4
Welcome to the latest members of PCARS!
If you meet these people on the street, in a meeting, or on the air, be sure to say Hi and introduce yourself. Let's make our new members feel welcome!
Birthdays this Month
Dec 1
| Chuck K8BBE | Joe K8HTB | Melanie K8KSU |
| Wes K8NYM | Mike KC8LJO | Norm KE8HQK |
| Frank W8EZT | Rick WA8TSI | John WA8US |
| Douglas WA8UWV | Lloyd WA8YFL | William WD8KGH |
Field Day Food Reminder
May 25
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Some important Field Day news!
- The Field Day Team has reschedule Antenna Day for June 1.
- Field Day Dinner (the Saturday night of Field Day) is free for all paid up members. If you bring a guest, the cost is $5. It will be catered and we must have a solid count of those who plan to attend. If you are planning to eat, you need to contact Paul Hyland at phyland@neo.rr.com and let him know how many will be there including guests. You must let him know how many in your party will be at supper by no later than June 1st.
- Breakfast Sunday will also be catered and will cost everyone that eats $2. Again you need to let Paul know how many will be eating breakfast by June 1st.
- Make arrangements with Paul about payment for meals.
- There is a donation button on our website that allows you to donate to the Field Day Fund. Please consider a donation, no matter the size. If everyone in the club donated just a little it would cover our expenses for this great event.
The RSGB’s Propagation Studies Committee (PSC) has released a new propagation tool for amateurs, based on the ITU’s ITURHFPROP program. The tool is the work of programmer and PSC member James Watson, HZ1JW.
The new tool gives you hour-by-hour monthly median propagation predictions from a location you specify to one of 28 locations around the world. Predictions are performed between the user’s position, expressed as a Maidenhead Locator (or the default value of IO92 if not specified). In some cases, performance for both long and short paths is evaluated.
The results are presented in tables, with colours used to represent the Basic Circuit Reliability (BCR), and numeric values to indicate the predicted median receive power (expressed in S Levels). As well as specifying your mode (SSB, CW, FT8 and others), you can also choose from a wide range of antenna types at both ends of the path. A tool to select your noise level is also included.
The tool also loads the results two at a time so that you don’t get an awkward 20+ second delay while the computations are completed. The details you input are cached, so that you should not need to change them the next time you use the program. Users also have the ability to print out the month’s predictions as a PDF file.
The tool can be found here.
Here’s a great read from the Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/morse-code-celebrates-175-years-and-counting-180972248/
The May Field Day Planning meeting will be held on Tuesday 5/21/19 at 6:30 to 7:30 pm in the radio room at the PCARS Club site. All FD Station Captains and FD Staff should attend, especially since this may be our LAST meeting before FD. Our monthly meetings are also open to all PCARS members who wish to participate.
The main topics of discussion for this Tuesday evening will be to finalize planning for field Day. Antenna Day is now set for Saturday June 1st.
Tony WA8AR, Field Day Chairman
Please!
Any photographs you may have taken at hamvention, please email a copy to either (or both) Parky or Tom.
KB8UUZ@gmail.com and / or tomsly29@gmail.com
Also, be sure to put this Thursday evening on your calendar as “Net Night AT the Clubsite” I hope to see everyone there – doors open from 6:30 to 10:00PM. Come on out, check into the PCARS Net and share your experience / purchases from Hamvention with the rest of us. (Kinda sounds like an adult show and tell, doesn’t it!)
Finally, get those articles ready for the newsletter!
73,
Tom WB8LCD and Parky KB8UUZ
Services For KB8TUY’s Wife
May 18
Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice, but services for KB8TUY s wife will be on May 19th. Here’s the link. https://www.record-courier.com/obituaries/20190509/mary-jo-ryan
Over the last couple of weeks we have had a couple of security issues. Today when I visited the club the lab was unlocked and the door to Unified Services (the door to the restrooms) was not pulled close. Also I received a call earlier this week from Unified Services indicating the door between their area and ours was open with the deadbolt extended. They secured the door and I thanked them for paying attention.
Please remember to make sure all the doors from the club site to the outside or other areas of the building are closed and locked before you leave (Lab, door to restrooms, outside door, and garage doors). I would hate to see some of our gear go missing.
Thanks and 73,
Jim, AC8NT
Rick K8CAV received the OK from the Freedom trustees for Antenna Day Saturday June 1st.
Tony still needs some additional volunteers. So if you haven’t already volunteered and would like to do so, let Tony know at tromito99@gmail.com.
The event will start at 9 AM and run till about 3 PM. This is our chance to test our stations and prepare for a great Field Day.
Jim, AC8NT
Two important pieces of Field Day news!
- The Field Day Team is trying to reschedule Antenna Day for June 1. This is a tentative date. Contact is being made with Freedom Township officials to get approval for this date. Watch the portcars.org website and our QST emails for more information on Antenna Day.
- Field Day Dinner (the Saturday night of Field Day) is free for all members. If you bring a guest, the cost is $5. It will be catered and we must have a solid count of those who plan to attend. If you are planning to eat, you need to contact Paul Hyland at phyland@neo.rr.com and let him know how many will be there including guests. You must let him know by no later than June 1st.
- Breakfast Sunday will also be catered and will cost everyone that eats $2. Again you need to let Paul know how many will be eating by June 1st.
- There is a donation button on our website that allows you to donate to the Field Day Fund. Please consider a donation, no matter the size. If everyone in the club donated just a little it would cover our expenses for this great event.
