PCARS (K8BF)

If you are interested in Skywarn training, please see the notice below. I recommend all ham radio operators attend one of these session.

The Portage County EMA will be hosting a Skywarn Spotter Training course on

                      Wednesday, March 5th, 2025.

            Training is free and will be held from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

                   At the Portage County EMA/EOC

                 2978 SR 59 in Ravenna Ohio 44266

               Registration is required and can be found at

     https://weather.gov/cle/SKYWARN and follow the Skywarn Schedule link.

Thanks go out to Gregg Gary WB8YYS for providing this information.

Jim, AC8NT

Please join us for the PCARS Monthly Meeting Monday February 10th at the American Legion post 496 located at 1945 Mogadore Rd. Kent, OH 44240. The meeting starts at 7:00PM sharp!

Our speaker, who will be at our meeting this month, is Bret Stemen KD8SCL. He will be discussing plans for restarting ARES in Portage County. It is something we have talked about for a long time and I am sure he has a plan for the restart.

You can review the January meeting minutes using the following link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12xQ73_d570b9__35v3IOCe5uvZQ0uEdG/view?usp=sharing

As usual we will enjoy great conversations while meeting with our fellow club members.

If you can’t attend in person, please attend using Zoom. Information for the meeting is below.

Looking forward to seeing you,

Jim, AC8NT

PCARS K8BF is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Time: Feb 10, 2025 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/92758301031?pwd=GbNi000k5IOWPT1cZ3Jba6OSEkh9vd.1

Meeting ID: 927 5830 1031

Passcode: 156900

Because of my lingering bad cold, I am canceling the HF WAS & DX SIG meeting this evening. I don’t want to be a “Typhoid Mary” for the club!

Sorry for the late notice.

73 de W8NET Miles “Gene” Marsh

Greetings PCARS Members, ARRL Officials, Amateur Radio Clubs and all interested people.

The latest issue of THE RADIOGRAM is on the web and ready for you to enjoy. Check out all of the latest happenings with PCARS!

https://www.portcars.org/wp/go/february-2025-radiogram

In this action packed issue: Club Officers share their updates – The Winter POTA Event in Review – A New Ham’s Modular Station – A Look at the sBITX and zBITX – Links from Around The World – Upcoming Events – And much, much more!

Please feel free to share this newsletter with anyone who has an interest in ham radio or the Portage County Amateur Radio Service in Ohio (PCARS).

Thanks & 73!

J.C. – KC8JC

PCARS Newsletter Editor

Hello PCARS DXers & Contesters:

Here’s a friendly reminder that our first meeting of 2025 will take place on Tuesday, January 28 at 7PM at our World Famous headquarters – the PCARS Clubsite. If we have bad WX, we can always meet on ZOOM.

Among our topics of discussion will be the Minnesota QSO Party that takes place Feb. 1. We will be going over the Rules and how we will be operating for this contest.

We will also be discussing our upcoming QRP event, Freeze Your Acorns Off which takes place this year on Feb. 15. Also, we want to see if there is any interest in having members work from their own QTHs during the South Carolina and North Carolina QSO Parties that take place at the end of February.

As always, the meeting will be available on ZOOM. So I hope to see a lot of members either in person or on ZOOM.

Event: DX/Contesting Special Interest Group meeting

Topic: Various topics as listed above

Time: Feb. 1, 2025 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

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73 – Chuck W8PT