PCARS (K8BF)

PCARS 2024 Field Day Dinner will be served Saturday, June 22 starting between 5:45 and 6:00 pm. Dinner will be delivered to on-duty station operators/loggers first. Dinner for PCARS members and guests will start immediately after.

Dinner is free to all pre-registered PCARS Members. Guests will be charged $5.00 each. I am requesting that everyone who wants to share FD Dinner with us please register by June 8 so we can have enough food available for everyone.

To register online for FD Dinner click the following link:

2024 PCARS Field Day Dinner Reservation Form

As of May 26th, the reservation form had already been completed by the following members:

KP4VZ WP4PLR AC8NT W8PT W8NET(+1) KE8MXR
KB8UUZ KD8WCK KE8KBJ N8KBX K8IV W8AHC
AC8QG(+4) KE8LWO AD8FQ AD8IR KA8TOA N8GIE
KD8WZS(+1) WD8DAU K8KSU N8QE KD8WCK KE8KBJ
WA8AR KE8KCJ KD8DFL KE8BFA KD8OBA W8KFW
W8AHC K8CAV W8HFZ KB8TUY W8KNO KD8EPF K3GP
WA8UWV KD8ERY

Dinner Menu: Rigatoni; Fried Chicken; Parsley Potatoes; Green Beans; Rolls & Butter. Bottled water will be available (no charge); soft drinks may be available (no extra charge).

Please note that to have dinner with us you must be on the dinner registration list. Those on this list will be served first. PCARS members (and paid guests) not registered for dinner may be served after registered members have eaten (if extra food is still available).

Tony WA8AR, Field Day Chairman

PR POTA

Mega POTA Puerto Rico 2024 takes place Sunday May 26th.

What is Mega Pota?
23 clubs will activate 23 national parks in Puerto Rico. Mega Pota (Parks on the Air) is an event that celebrates amateur radio in natural environments, promoting operation from national parks and other protected areas.

Fun for all the POTA people !!

Details can

be found at: https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/mega-pota-puerto-rico-2024.915183/

Tempest Fugit! (Time Flies)

Tomorrow night (Thursday 5/23) is Net Night at the Clubsite again already. You seem to like pizza, so we can get some pizza. We can check into the PCARS Net. As your ARRL Ohio Section Manager, I want to ask you all some questions about Amateur Radio, the ARRL, the future of our hobby and what we need to do to help it survive. I hope we can have an interesting conversation.

We’re going to skip net night next month as it occurs just 2 days before Field Day. In July, our net night will be another PCARS mini-hamfest! More info to follow….. hope to see you tomorrow.

73,
Tom wb8lcd

Are you in the market for an antenna that can increase the range of your handheld and fit in your pocket or go bag? If so, then I have just the thing for you. Over the last year I’ve built maybe half a dozen Roll-up J-Pole antennas. It’s not my design. It was originally in the September, 1994 issue of QST, then reprinted 12 years later in the newsletter of an Amateur Radio Club in Utah.

On June 8th, I’ll be leading a group build of these antennas. This will take place at the club site that day from 9 AM – Noon.

The cost of the antenna kit, including adapters is $15 cash or $16.05 via PayPal. I prefer paid in advance via PayPal so I can make sure to bring enough kits. But, if you want to give me cash at a club meeting, that’s fine as well.

The J-Pole comes with all the adapters that you’ll need to attach to anything from a SMA (Male or Female, or a BNC. That should be what the Dr ordered for most modern HTs.

For more details, please visit our website at portcars.org. To reserve your spot and order as many kits as you need, just click on the image provided below.

Feel free to reach out with any questions. My E-mail is wg8x.radio@gmail.com.

73 DE WG8X

Our next Portable Operations SIG will be on Tuesday, May 14th at 7 PM. We have the usual things on the dance card this month. I’m going to be asking some questions about something on my wish list.

The Hamvention forum schedule has a few sessions that might be of interest to the portable operator. A couple of them are specifically geared to POTA and activations. You can read the forum schedule at https://hamvention.org/event-details/forums/

We’ll talk about the April ParkPedition at Punderson State Park, and how it snowed that day.

We never did get to talk about the N3FJP improvement last month. I’ve also seen various logging programs popping up. I can’t believe that they are not driven by the popularity of POTA.

Lastly, what were your thoughts on the EM storms over the weekend? Nothing like turning on the radio to find nothing but dead air.

See you on Tuesday!

As usual, we’re meeting at PCARS World Headquarters (705 Oakwood St, Ravenna). If you’d prefer, feel free to join us on Zoom. Here’s the info:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/92154491950?pwd=cmZNSlFhZVRmcVg3L3pnazdrK1ZuUT09
Meeting ID: 921 5449 1950

Passcode: 878917

One tap mobile
+13092053325,,92154491950#,,,,878917# US +13126266799,,92154491950#,,,,878917# US (Chicago)
Hop you can make it!

73, DE WG8X