HEADS UP, THE FIRST PARS SILENT AUCTION ON AUGUST THIRD
According to the planners, the long anticipated auction of donated
amateur radio equipment is on track for Saturday, August 3rd, at the
Oriental Volunteer Fire Department, Station 19. This will be a silent
auction. All proceeds will go to the Pamlico Amateur Radio Society
(PARS) or to the Oriental Repeater Group (ORG). Doors will open at 9am
for inspection of and bidding on the many items available. Bidding will
close at 11am, winners announced soon after. The list of major equipment
continues to grow–just a sample of items that will be up for bid:
— Ameritron AL-811 Amplifier with 3 spare tubes
— SDRPlay digital receiver
— ICOM IC-756PRO with power supply
For more information, contact Bruce Perkins, K4ONC, 252-626-2730 or
K4ONC@aol.com.
WHERE IS SHE NOW? EASTERN EXPRESS DAY 116 (or so)
Where is she? Not a clue. As I write this on Sunday afternoon, her last
report was more than a week ago, on Friday July 5th. She was over
Germany nearing Berlin. Last Sunday, lu7aa.org estimated she would have
passed over the Ural’s and be well into Siberia. If you believe those
folks, by now she should be half way across Canada still truck’n along
eastward. Anyway, no word on where she might be. We hope to get reports
of her weak signal again. If not, stand by, another balloon is in the
works. This one will likely have the call sign N4PRS.
SOLAR NUMBERS TODAY
NOAA reports that solar activity was high during the 24 hour period
ending yesterday at 5 p.m. local. An X1 flare occurred at 10:34pm
Saturday. The Space Weather Prediction Center expects solar activity to
be moderate today through Wednesday with a slight chance for X-class
flares. There are 12 numbered sunspot regions on the Sun facing Earth
this morning. There were 9 last Monday, 15 the Monday before.
Sunday’s noon Solar Flux Index (SFI) observation at Penticton was 234,
last Sunday’s was 171. The index is predicted to measure 230 today, 230
Tuesday and 230 on Wednesday. The SFI 90 day trailing average was 187
yesterday. It was 172 last Sunday.
The geomagnetic field was quiet yesterday. The SWPC expects the field to
be quiet through Wednesday. The planetary K-index at 5 a.m. this morning
was 1.67 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. Go to https://www.n4prs.org/looking-up/
for the latest observations.
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 THIS WEEK–
Extracted from DX-World.net:
— American Samoa, K8R, until July 25. Activity is on all HF bands using
CW, SSB, and FT8.
— Reunion Island, TO7PX, until July 18 on 40-6m SSB & FT8, holiday style.
— Wake Island, NL7RR/KH9, until July 18 time permitting, mostly 20M SSB.
— BANGLADESH, S2. S21AF has been active on 17 meters using FT8 around
1930z.
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. Send me one.
PARS CALENDAR:
* July 27, PARS MONTHLY MEETING, Saturday, 9am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. For more info, contact Bruce Perkins, K4ONC,
252-626-2730 or K4ONC@aol.com
* Aug 3, PARS SILENT AUCTION, Saturday, 9-11am, 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
* Aug 31, PARS MONTHLY MEETING, Saturday, 9am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. For more info, contact Bruce Perkins, K4ONC,
252-626-2730 or K4ONC@aol.com
* Sep 7, 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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