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February Birthdays
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WARNING: PHISHING EMAILS TARGETING CLUB MEMBERS
Hello,
We have seen several phishing emails circulating this week that appear to impersonate officers from various amateur radio clubs. Most of these messages have a subject line such as “Are You Available?”
If a recipient responds, the sender will typically ask them to purchase gift cards with a promise that they will be reimbursed later. This is a common scam.
Please do NOT respond to these emails. They are phishing attempts.
The most recent message we saw originated from an email address in Canada that was spoofed to look like it came from a club officer. If you receive one of these emails, the best course of action is to report it to your email provider as a phishing attempt and then delete it.
Please stay alert and verify any unusual requests before responding.
73,
John Myers, WG8X Webmaster, portcars.org
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FLEXNET WEDNESDAY 3/11/26 @8:00PM
FLEXNET THIS WEDNESDAY AT 8:00PM
This month’s Flexnet will be Wednesday the 11th @ 8:00PM on 28.314 USB +/- any QRM. There will be three rounds. Round 1 will be for check ins. In round 2 stations will report their setup including rig and antenna. Round 3 will be final comments.
Looking forward to hearing your station on the net.
73 Mike – N8WCP
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POTA SIG Tuesday, March 10, @ 7pm
Hi everyone, Gene asked me to lead this months SIG so he can rest up for his trip to KL7-land.
We’ll be talking about plans for the Spring Support Your Parks weekend coming up next month.
As always, we are open to any POTA discussion.
We’ll be in person, and on Zoom. Here’s the link
https://zoom.us/j/96686108444?pwd=hN5hDgTGWwdLBLXkLSeAfVOfSa4nGq.1
Meeting ID: 966 8610 8444
Passcode: 915088
73!
73 de WG8X
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PCARS VP Report – March 2026
March 2026
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.
PCARS Monthly Meeting Monday 3/8/26 @7:00pm
Please accept my invitation to attend the PCARS March Meeting! I hope you will come out and spend the evening with us – it’s always better live and in person! The meeting starts at 7:00PM SHARP – (so get there early) at the Kent American Legion Post 496 located at 1945 Mogadore Rd. Kent, OH 44240.. Better yet, get there early so you can purchase your 50/50 tickets and rag-chew with the other PCARS members before the meeting!
Our Featured Speaker will be Mike Martin – K3RFI who specializes in finding and mitigating RFI. You can’t work them if you can’t hear them! Everyone will learn something they can use to make their station more efficient.
If you are unable to join us in person, PCARS K8BF, is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: PCARS Monthly Meeting
Time: Mar 9, 2026 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/92374189603?pwd=q3UnrZHSMqpP4HuZm0FasTWM5D2cBS.1
Meeting ID: 923 7418 9603
Passcode: JWv68C
We hope to see you there!
73,
Tom WB8LCD – PCARS VP
