PCARS (K8BF)

Net night at club site canceled on Thursday night March 26 Please post and pass this on to our fellow members.

Greg

Vice President’s report to the Club Tom WB8LCD

Rather than take up a lot of time at the meeting tonight, I wanted to get this information out to you so that you would have it in writing!

PCARS WEBSITE Have you taken a look at the PCARS website lately? It’s a treasure trove of valuable information regarding all things PCARS! I wan to point out the PCARS Calendar – this IS our primary tool for planning, and scheduling for all PCARS events and activities. If you’re going to plan an event or activity, please make sure you won’t conflict with any other activities. If you are planning, or cancelling and event or activity – PLEASE get it posted by sending an email to John wg8x.radio@gmail.com and/or myself at vicepresident@portcars.org . Please make sure to give us enough information to make the posting complete. Before planning any MAJOR events or activities please notify Greg at president@pcars.org so it can be discussed and approved by the PCARS board.
Also, please note that in the PAYMENTS AND DONATIONS tab on the home page, a button has been added for the RCA Youth Forum at Hamvention and soon another button will be added for the David Kalter Youth DX Association’s 2026 youth DXpedition. PCARS has pledged $500 donations to each of these organizations. We ask for your individual donations through the club to come through these buttons. PCARS will add from club funds to make sure that both donations meet or exceed the $500 pledge. Please donate GENEROUSLY!

If you are a SIG Leader, or the point person on any other activity, it is your responsibility to send out QST’s to the membership announcing the activity and also reminding the membership of the upcoming activity / net / event so that PCARS is always “top of mind” for our members!
World Amateur Radio Day is April 18, 2026 Let me know if you would like to do an operating event / open house for the community and we can get something going for that.
Tonight’s speaker is Mike Martin – K3RFI. You can check out his website at https://rfiservices.com/ This will be a “down to earth” presentation on things you can do to lower the noise level at your location. You can’t work em if you can’t hear em! I hope to see you there in person.
Still working on presenters for April / May / June – I’ll let you know the details as soon as possible.

Here is a friendly reminder that the DX/Contesting Special Interest Group meeting will take place Tuesday evening, March 24th at 7PM at PCARS World Famous headquarters.

We will have a discussion on our recent efforts in the Idaho and Wisconsin QSO Parties. We are thinking of dropping one of these for next year and you might be surprised as to which one.

We will be also discussing the up-coming FLorida QSO Party in April as well as some of the other contests this coming month.

As always, the meeting will be available on ZOOM. So I hope to see a lot of members either in person or on ZOOM. If you have not come out for this Special Interest Group meeting, why not join us. You may find that not only will you enjoy it, but you may have some very good insights that will help the rest of us.

Event: DX/Contesting Special Interest Group meeting
Topic: Various topics as listed above
Time: Mar. 24, 2026 at 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
PCARS K8BF is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/96686108444?pwd=hN5hDgTGWwdLBLXkLSeAfVOfSa4nGq.1
Meeting ID: 966 8610 8444
Passcode: 915088

73 – Chuck W8PT

Greetings PCARS,
As of 3/18/26, Constant Contact has drastically changed the management interface. A couple of QST’s were in error. Please bear with me until I know all of the changes.
73 de W8NET, Gene