PCARS (K8BF)

PCARS Contesters and Friends of PCARS:

A friendly reminder: Our Black Squirrel Contest Group will be putting K8BF on the air this weekend Sept. 20-21 (that’s tomorrow)participating in the Washington State Salmon Run. That’s their state QSO Party.

The event runs from 1600UTC on Saturday to 0700UTC (Noon until 3AM) on Sunday and then there is a break. The contest then continues from 1600UTC on Sunday until it finishes at 2400UTC (Noon until 8PM) Sunday evening. So this is a 23 hr contest. It is a CW/Pho only contest. Sorry, no FT8 or any digital at all.

We will be entering in the “Unlimited” category. It’s the one that allows Multi op/Multi transmitter entries. I would like to see a couple of CW ops, in addition to our regular pho ops, join us so that we can make a very good showing in this contest.

We will be gathering, starting around 10am on Saturday to review the rules. Hope to see a lot of you at the club site for this event.

73 – Chuck W8PT

Greetings everyone,

Tomorrow we will be having our Antenna SIG starting at 7 PM at PCARS World HQ. We will not be doing this by Zoom this month. We will be outside running some experiments, so Zoom is useless. Please try to come out for this meeting.

Jim, AC8NT

Greetings everyone,

Mark your calendar! We will have another Linux & Raspberry Pi Workshop on Wednesday 9/17/2025 7:00pm at PCARS World Headquarters in Ravenna. Get your questions answered, talk about your projects, etc. I will bring some snacks (Italian sliders!).

73 de W8NET Gene

PCARS Contesters and Friends of PCARS:

Here’s a heads up: Our Black Squirrel Contest Group will be putting K8BF on the air the weekend Sept. 20-21 (that’s next weekend) participating in the Washington State Salmon Run. That’s their state QSO Party.

The event runs from 1600UTC on Saturday to 0700UTC (Noon until 3AM) on Sunday and then there is a break. The contest then continues from 1600UTC on Sunday until it finishes at 2400UTC (Noon until 8PM) Sunday evening. So this is a 23 hr contest. It is a CW/Pho only contest. Sorry, no FT8 or any digital at all.

We will be entering in the “Unlimited” category. It’s the one that allows Multi op/Multi transmitter entries. I would like to see a couple of CW ops, in addition to our regular pho ops, join us so that we can make a very good showing in this contest.

We will be gathering, starting around 10am on Saturday to review the rules. Hope to see a lot of you at the club site for this event.

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73 – Chuck W8PT

PCARS DXers:

Just wanted to drop a note reminding you that an 11 member team of experienced DXpedition ops will be leaving for their 20-day operation to Burundi. I know that this is a little ways off yet, but it’s never too early to put it on your calendar. The team will arrive in Burundi on October 30th and tentative plans call for stations being QRV on October 31 until November 20.

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73 – Chuck W8PT