PARS BREAKFAST MEETING THIS COMING SATURDAY
Our next meeting will be at 0900 Saturday, June 29th, in the back room
of Brantleys Village Restaurant on Broad Street in Oriental. Please park
along the side or out back. We hope to see you all there. Come early for
breakfast with your fellow hams. For more information contact Pamlico
Amateur Radio Society President Bruce Perkins, K4ONC, 252-626-2730 or
K4ONC@aol.com
Where’s the “Eastern Express” today? How’s DX? Comments from our Field
Day operators. Repeater update. Always lots to talk about plus a chance
for a Brantleys Gift Certificate.
WEDNESDAY PAMLICO COMMUNICATIONS NET (PCN)
As a reminder, a re-do of last week’s exercise is on Wednesday June
26th. Check-in will be as always, at 7:30 local on the Kershaw Oriental
N4ONC repeater, 147.210+ 88.5 Hz encode (ENC) tone. A second check-in
will follow on the Arapahoe (Arlington Place) NC4ES repeater, 147.285+
with a 88.5 Hz encode tone and a 100 Hz decode tone. This repeater is a
dual mode repeater offering local DMR as well as analog communications.
The decode tone is to prevent analog-only users from hearing the
buzz-saw from DMR transmissions. (Many radios do not provide for a
decode tone that differs from the encode tone so simply program only the
encode (ENC) 88.5 Hz tone. DMR users are few, conflicts minimal.) After
the Arapahoe check-in, the control operator will ask all participants to
change to the FM Simplex frequency of 146.55 MHz. He will then call the
members in order of check-in. Please make note of those stations that
you hear. Bill, KR4LO, will then call the members one more time from his
station. After his call, he will ask the participants to return to the
Oriental repeater for a wrap-up. Questions? Contact Bruce Perkins,
K4ONC, 252-626-2730 or K4ONC@aol.com or Bill Olah, KR4LO, at
w_olah@yahoo.com.
WHERE IS SHE NOW? EASTERN EXPRESS DAY 95 (or so)
She’s back! After nearly two weeks of silence, on Wednesday the 19th,
the little NC4ES balloon was heard by a station in Anchorage. She was
hundreds of miles north of Alaska over the Arctic Ocean in grid square
AR51 slowly floating southeast. We can only guess that she had made a
big loop over Siberia and the Arctic Ocean and then back down towards
Alaska. By Saturday evening she was nearing Prudhoe Bay. After veering
easterly, on Sunday afternoon she was nearing the Yukon coastline,
perhaps 75 miles northeast of the Alaska/Yukon border. Lap number 4 is
taking a long time!
SOLAR NUMBERS TODAY
NOAA reports that solar activity was high during the 24 hour period
ending yesterday at 5 p.m. local. The largest solar event of the period
was a M9 event observed at 23/1301Z. The Space Weather Prediction Center
expects solar activity to be moderate today through Wednesday with a
chance for M and X-class flares. Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level
are likely. There are 11 numbered sunspot regions on the Sun facing
Earth this morning. There were 7 last Monday, 10 the Monday before.
Sunday’s noon Solar Flux Index (SFI) observation at Penticton was 196,
last Sunday’s was 167. The index is predicted to measure 190 today, 190
Tuesday and 190 on Wednesday. The SFI 90 day trailing average was 176
yesterday. It was 176 last Sunday.
The geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled yesterday. The SWPC expects
the field to be quiet to unsettled today, quiet tomorrow and on
Wednesday. The planetary K-index at 8 a.m. this morning was 1.33
indicating quiet conditions.
For the next several days, propagation is expected to be poor to fair
during the day, good at night on 80 to 20; good on 17 and 15, and good
day, poor night on 12 and 10M. No big change from last Monday.
Did you know that your PARS website has current solar data? Paul, K4MMB,
put it up a while back without fanfare. Check it out by going to
https://www.n4prs.org/looking-up/ Cool stuff!
For an explanation of the numbers used in our PARSgram, see the
excellent article written by Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA at
http://arrl.org/the-sun-the-earth-the-ionosphere.
DX TO WATCH FOR THIS WEEK–
Extracted from DX-World.net:
— Lord Howe Island QRV through today Jun 24, VK9LA. Activity 160-10;
CW, SSB & FT8 planned. Number #63 most wanted.
— Maldives, 8Q7JF to June 29. One man operation, holiday-style.
— Wallis & Futuna, FW7JV to July 2nd. High tech remote operator
operation. Low band antenna testing.
— Minami Torishima, JG8NQJ/JD1. There for work, Take will be QRV for
approx 3 months. Mostly CW, some FT8.
HAM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE, TRADE, OR WANTED
Send me your amateur radio related items that are for sale, trade, or
wanted and your contact information. PLEASE let me know when you have
have sold your item or your listing is no longer needed. Listings will
EXPIRE AFTER 90 DAYS unless I hear otherwise. Thanks, Jim.
–No listings. All gone. Let me post one.
PARS CALENDAR:
* Jun 29, PARS MONTHLY MEETING, Saturday, 9am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. For more info, contact Bruce Perkins, K4ONC,
252-626-2730 or K4ONC@aol.com
* July 13, PAMLICO COMMUNICATIONS TEAM MEETING, Saturday, 9-10:30am,
Oriental VFD Station 19 on Straight Rd vic. NC-55. All are welcome. For
more info, contact Bruce Perkins, K4ONC, 252-626-2730 or K4ONC@aol.com
REPEATER/NODE STATUS
(See www.n4prs.org/frequencies/ for set-up)
N4ONC VHF FM Oriental — Operational
N4ONC (old KR4LO) UHF FM Oriental — Operational
NC4ES VHF FM/DMR Arapahoe — Operational. PL: ENC 88.5Hz/DEC 100Hz
NC4ES UHF DMR (NC4ES Network) Florence — Operational.
WM3X-ONC VHF C4FM/WIRES-X NODE Oriental (145.530 simplex)– Operational
LOCAL NETS OF INTEREST TO PARS MEMBERS:
* Mondays, “Pamlico 10 Meter Net, 7:30 pm local, on or near 28.464 MHz,
USB. A non-directed net for technicians and above. Radio
topics/questions/issues welcomed.
* Wednesdays,”Pamlico Communications Net”, 7:30 pm local, N4ONC
(Oriental) VHF Repeater, 147.210+ (CTSCC Tone Squelch 88.5). A directed
net open to all. Net activates on call during emergencies.
* Thursdays, “DownEast/Pamlico Six Meter Net”, 8 pm local, 50.200 MHz,
USB. A non-directed open net to promote operation on the ‘Magic Band’.
(For more nets see www.arrl.org/arrl-net-directory-search )
PARS WEB SITE: https://www.n4prs.org/
Our Web Master is Paul Jodoin, K4MMB, PARSwebman@gmail.com
73, Jim AI4WL Editor
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