Please take a minute and click the following link. It will allow you to enter to win a 2023 Field Day Banner. You don’t need to buy anything and the club could use it to publicize this years Field Day.
Here is the link: http://www.arrl.org/arrl-field-day-banner-giveaway
Thanks, Good Luck, and let me know us know if you win.
Jim, AC8NT
PCARS 2023 Field Day Dinner will be served Saturday, June 24 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 May 31 so we can have enough food available for everyone.
To register online for FD Dinner click the following link:
https://forms.gle/5TRB136H18Yb2UET7
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
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
Come on down to the club site this evening at 7pm for an hour or so hands on session featuring the famous RF consultant KE8QEP Davide Waugh from Ravenna (Italy?) and his straight-man/sidekick Rick KD8WCK. The Abbott and Costello of PCARS. Our plan, if it deserves to be honored with that word, is to do a run-through setting up the nanoVNA and show a few simple tests you can do with your nanoVNA (bring yours or borrow one at the session). The nanoVNA is a cool device many of us own and many of us don’t use often enough to be comfortable with. Maybe we can improve that!
If you have a suspect piece of coax or a jumper, bring it to test. I’ll bring a dual-band j-pole (PCARS project build) that we can check for SWR.
As an extra bonus David will bring a tinySA also, and talk about its capabilities. Bring yours if you have one.
We look forward to seeing you at the club tonight!
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Before believing what you read or hear: Verify, verify,
verify. Verification often reveals ‘true’ information to be quite false.
Rick Tenan WA8TSI – SK
Here’s the June issue of The RADIOGRAM
Greetings PCARS Members, ARRL Officials, Amateur Radio Clubs and other interested people,
The June 2023 issue of The RADIOGRAM has been published and is ready for you to enjoy.
Here is the link: https://www.portcars.org/wp/
Hope you enjoy this issue – Photos from Hamvention – Bernadette Wagner, KE8LWO wins RCA Award – More info K8BF Field Day which is coming up THIS MONTH – Something for everyone!
Feel free to pass this newsletter on to anyone interested in ham radio or PCARS.
Take care & 73,
Tom “Parky”, KB8UUZ
PCARS Newsletter Editor
Any mistakes found in the newsletter are there on purpose so some of you can have fun finding them…. The Radiogram is the monthly newsletter of PCARS. Every month, we bring you news, events, DX listings, articles, and lots of fun. All of the issues, dating back to the very first, are on the club website (http:www.portcars.org) for you to download and read. Amateur Radio articles are welcome. Send your submission in .txt (text) format to the editor: newsletter@portcars.org
