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Hi EVERYONE
Please join us for some good conversation on the world famous PCARS Thursday Night Net. It is held at 8:00 PM local time on the 146.895 repeater with a negative offset and a PL tone of 118.8. Contact is also available via the K8BF-L EchoLink node. We always have interesting club and other amateur radio news.
Remember you can get a good looking certificate if you attend 10 consecutive Thursday Night Nets.
I am always looking for net control operators. It is not as hard as you think and we have a very forgiving crowd of hams that visit our nets. If interested, let me know.
For now 73’s and hope to hear you on the net.
Greg KA8TOA NCC
grgory999@roadrunner.com
As I mentioned, here is more info on this DXpedition supplied by Daily DX (Bernie McClenny W3UR)
VK9L – Lord Howe Island
W7YAQ, Bob, and K7AR, Al, have announced their next DXpedition will be
to Lord Howe Island. They have booked the Beachcomber Lodge for
September 20 to October 4 and have requested the callsign VK9LAA,
which has not yet been approved. They plan to operate in the CQ World
Wide DX RTTY Contest as a multi-single effort. Equipment will include
two Elecraft K Line stations, capable of running up to 500 watts. For
antennas they will have “a DX Commander vertical, Butternut HF9V
vertical, 160M inverted L, and pennant loop antenna for 160 receive”.
Listen for them on 1.8 through 50 MHz, including 5 MHz and the WARC-79
bands. They will be emphasizing working stations in Western Europe,
North and South America east Coasts. QSOs will be uploaded daily to
Club Log. QSL via OQRS, LoTW and W7YAQ.
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73 – Chuck W8PT
The next Digital Special Interest Group meeting will be on Tuesday August 1st at 7:00 PM at the club site in Ravenna. We will have a presentation and demonstration on direct coupling two Signalinks together with a CAT5 cable to simulate a radio link. This is useful when trying to learn or troubleshoot new digital programs without having to make on-the-air transmissions and lets you focus on the program without radio link issues clouding the issue. If you want to bring your laptop to the meeting you can use it with his setup with fldigi, FT8/FT4, or other programs.
This will also be an open forum meeting where we can talk about any digital communications issues you would like. As always we will have time to help with any questions or problems you may be having. The meeting will also be held via Zoom at the link below. I hope to see you there.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88355094567?pwd=ZzRvd1hmQWNaYlZEcGFOdVhuNlNiQT09
Meeting ID: 883 5509 4567
Passcode: PCARS2022
73, Rick K8CAV
PCARS DXers:
Here is one more for you to mark on your calendars. Again, it’s one I need also.
Lord Howe Island, Australia
W7YAQ, Bob, and K7AR, Al will be active from the Beachcomber Lodge on Lord Howe Island, Australia from September 20 to October 4. They have requested the call VK9LAA although it has not been issued yet. More information will follow.
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73 – Chuck W8PT
