In this action packed issue: Club Officer updates – 3905 Century Club Eyeball Trip – A Wattmeter For Your Microwave – 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
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Please join us 7:00 p.m. at the club site 705 Oakwood St. in Ravenna tonight Tuesday Sep 30 for the Could Be Anything SIG.
We will meet to learn more about working a POTA activator in CW. Please join us regardless of your level of proficiency in Morse Code. Last time we had people with zero code experience all the way through club members who actively contest at the club station. We learned a lot and had a good time.
POTA stations generally want your contact so they will often slow down to your speed in order to complete the contact.
Working a contest is said to be a good way to improve your CW skills, since if you’re working search-and-pounce you can get the other station’s information before you respond with your own.
If you have a Windows laptop, bring it and we’ll install Morserunner on it. Morserunner is a free program that lets you practice CW contesting off-the-air.
Thanks and 73 de Rick KD8WCK
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The Youngstown Peace Race is coming up on Sunday October 12th and we are looking for operators.
As much as I would like to join you all on your Nets to ask for assistance, that is just not possible at this time.
If you would be so kind as to make an announcement for me, it would be greatly appreciated.
“Western Reserve Amateur Radio Club is looking for operators for the Youngstown Peace Race. The race is being held on Sunday October 12th. If you are interested in helping out, please contact Jeff, KE8VOB by calling or texting 440-787-7429. He can also be reached at w8wrarc@gmail.com”
Thanks and 73
Jeff-KE8VOB President Western Reserve Amateur Radio Club w8wrc.club
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As you may know, I launched a new program 6 months ago called Scouts on the Air. Tomorrow (Tues 9/30), local amateur radio volunteers in IL (details below) are helping me introduce ham radio to a Scout troop (age 11-17) and their leaders & parents. We will host multiple stations (shown below) and we will be on-the-air for approximately 45 minutes. Would you please share this information with others and perhaps set an alarm to listen and try to give these Scouts a QSO? Together, we can make some great memories for everyone and perhaps spark some interest in our hobby!
“Scouts on the Air”
DATE: Tuesday 9/30
TIME: 7pm to 7:45pm CDT (8-8:45pm EDT / 5-5:45pm PDT)
LOCATION: Wheaton Illinois, 24mi/39km West of Chicago (EN51wu, CQ4, ITU-8)
CALLSIGNS & TARGET FREQUENCIES:
40 meters as K9MSG on 7.227 (else 7.235)*
DMR as NE9JJ on BrandMeister 3100 USA Nationwide Bridge Talk Group
On the local UHF K9XD repeater as W9LBR
*NOTE: I will update our frequencies at the top of my QRZ.com page where you can presently see details about this event similar upcoming events with other troops.
If you’re able to help, thank you! If you are not available or can’t hear us, we certainly understand and we hope you will try again at future events (listed here).
As always, we won’t have much time to train the kids, leaders & parents so this will be rather informal. Feel free to ask a question (age, favorite scout memory, favorite badge, other hobbies, etc.) and share something about you (location, age when you became licensed, favorite amateur radio activity, where you grew up, other hobbies etc.). That said, please keep QSOs brief so they might each talk with several operators.
Each Scout will also receive an 8-page packet about our hobby that discusses how radio waves work, radio lingo, sample log, RST tables, safety, emergency calls, how to pursue the Radio Merit Badge, and more. While this experience certainly won’t qualify them for a Radio Merit Badge, our group will help any interested Scouts in that pursuit.
Once we’re off-the-air, we will run a mock ham radio quiz game where they break into teams and ‘buzz-in’ to answer questions and show what they’ve learned – wish them luck. We hope to post some photos after the event on my QRZ.com page and/or Scouts on the Air.
73
Kirk (K 9 M S G)
www.AmateurRadioEvents.com/ScoutsOnTheAir
https://www.qrz.com/db/k9msg
DuPage County, IL, USA
UTC 05:00 | EN51xv | CQ4 | ITU-8
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This coming weekend (Oct. 4-5) we will be participating in the California QSO Party. We will be trying to repeat last year’s performance in which K8BF took first place in the United States, in our category. We have done this a few years in a row now and I want to see if we can keep this string going.
We are looking for operators to put our 4 operating positions on the air. We will be in the Multi-Multi category once again. And if we can get some ops who are handy with CW, that would be absolutely awesome.
We will start to gather at 10AM on Saturday with the contest starting at Noon (1600 UTC Saturday) and ending at 6PM (2200 UTC) on Sunday.
Hope to see many members come out to help us.
73 – Chuck W8PT
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