PARS BREAKFAST MEETING THIS COMING SATURDAY
Our next meeting will be at 0900 this Saturday, Feb 22nd, at Brantley’s
Village Restaurant on Broad Street in Oriental. Please park on the side or
out back. Our meetings are held the last Saturday of each month except June
when the club participates in the annual ARRL Field Day or when in conflict
with a major holiday. After a short business meeting, Bill will lead an open
discussion on “DXing, Logging and QSLing”. Here’s a good chance to talk
about your favorite logging program. We hope to see you all there. For more
information contact Pamlico Amateur Radio Society President Bill Olah,
KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com.
NORTH CAROLINA QSO PARTY THIS SUNDAY
Our North Carolina state QSO Party will be this coming Sunday, February
23rd, from 10 AM to 8 PM local time. The object is for NC stations to work
as many NC counties, States, Canadian provinces and DXCC countries as
possible. We exchange our call sign and county (PAM or PAMlico) for the call
sign and NC county or State or Country of the other station. Signal report
is optional. Digital has been added to phone and CW modes and there are new
categories for portables and rovers. For more info go to:
http://www.ncqsoparty.org. The QSO Party comes the day after our February
PARS meeting. Be prepared, Pamlico County contacts are in demand!
SOLAR NUMBERS TODAY
NOAA reported that solar activity was at moderate levels during the 24
hours ending Sunday night at 5 pm local. The largest solar event of the
period was a M1 event observed at 16/0926Z from Region 1977. There are
currently 5 numbered sunspot regions on the disk. The Sunspot count this
morning is 137 well down from the 180 we saw last Monday morning. The Solar
Flux, slow to follow, is at 154, not that much down from the 167 NOAA
reported last Monday and near our 90 day trailing average. Over the weekend
and after days of nonstop activity, big sunspot AR1974 is quieting reducing
the chance for strong X-class solar flares. Solar activity is expected to
be moderate today and then low with chance for M-class flares through
Wednesday. The Solar Flux is expected to fall to around 135 by then.
The Earth’s geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to minor storm
levels over the weekend. The estimated planetary K-index at 7 am local today
was 1. The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels
today and quiet on Tuesday and Wednesday.
DX CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK
KUWAIT, 9K. Special event station 9K53NLD is QRV until February 28
in celebration of the 53rd Kuwait National and Liberation Day. QSL
via 9K2RX.
QSO CORNER
This is the place to post contacts with DXpeditions, Special Event
Stations, or special QSO’s you would like to share.
Jamie King KJ4JK, our Winter escapee to the warm climes of Florida, runs the
RV-Service Net on Tuesday mornings from 0700-0800. He wants all to know
that this net, the RV Service Net, is an open net (anyone is welcome) that
meets daily between 0700 and 0900 Eastern time on 7.191 MHz.. Just put in
your call sign when you have the opportunity. Last week he had 43 check-in
during his hour as net controller. If nothing else, you get real world
weather reports from all over the country and often from Canadian Hams.
Those reports make you appreciate how benign our weather really is!
OTHER ACTIVITY ON THE RADIO:
This info is extracted from the ARRL Letter, from the WA7BNM Contest
Calendar or the ARRL Contest Corral. You can receive the Letter weekly via
email as a member of ARRL :
* Feb 21-23 — CQ World Wide 160 Meter Contest, SSB
* Feb 22-23 — REF Contest
* Feb 22 — SARL Youth Day Sprint
* Feb 22-23 — UBA Contest, CW
* Feb 22-23 — North American QSO Party, RTTY
* Feb 23 — North Carolina QSO Party
All dates & times, unless otherwise stated, are UTC.
See the ARRL Contest Branch page <http://www.arrl.org/contests/>, the ARRL
Contest Update http://www.arrl.org/The-ARRL-Contest-Update/ and the WA7BNM
Contest Calendar <http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/index.html> for more
info. Looking for a Special Event station? Be sure to check out the ARRL
Special Event Station Web page<http://www.arrl.org/special-events>. For a
LIST OF STATE QSO PARTIES, see
http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/stateparties.html. (State QSO parties
are a great way to get those last states on your Worked All States (WAS)
Award list.)
SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS. W1AW Centennial Stations W1AW/6 in
California and W1AW/9 in Wisconsin are QRV until 2359z on 18
February. In addition, W1AW Centennial Stations W1AW/8 in Michigan
and W1AW/4 in Florida will be QRV starting at 0000z on February 19.
They will be active until 2359z on 25 February.
(Courtesy of the ARRL DX Bulletin)
HAM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE, TRADE, OR WANTED
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* NEW FOR SALE “I have an FT-857 separation kit, with all cables and
instructions, brand new in the box. I don’t need this, mostly because I
don’t have an 857. Any offers by email would be considered…” Jamie
kj4jk@arrl.net (20140210)
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* FOR SALE Cushcraft R 7 antenna, $125 Please
contact Charlie Overcash, WA4GSI, at 249-1257 or
charlie@dockline.net. (20131230)
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(Send me your amateur radio related items for sale, trade, or wanted for
listing in the PARSgram. PLEASE let me know if your listing is no longer
needed. ITEMS listed will EXPIRE AFTER 90 DAYS unless I hear
otherwise.–Jim).
PARS CALENDAR:
* Feb 22, PARS Monthly Meeting, Saturday, 9 am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. Bill Olah, KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com
* Mar 22, PARS Monthly Meeting, Saturday, 9 am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. Bill Olah, KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com
* Apr 4,5,6, 2014 Cycle NC Coastal Ride, Oriental and Pamlico County (PARS
Community Service)
* May 3, DownEast Hamfest, Saturday, 8 am-3 pm, Lenoir Community College,
Kinston, NC. Gene Rybolt 252-523-0988, Janice Hopkins, KJ4JPE
hopkinszoo1@msn.com.
PARS NETS:
* Mondays, Pete’s “Swamp Talk” roundtable, around 8:15 pm local, 28.463
MHz plus or minus, USB. An informal forum originally established to assist
our new Hams, this freq. is in the 10M voice segment open to technician
licensees and above. Radio topics/questions/issues welcomed.
* Wednesdays, Pamlico Emergency Net Practice and Rag Chew, 7:30 pm,
Oriental Repeater, 147.210 + (PL151.4).
PARS WEB SITE:
https://www.n4prs.org/
Web Master is Larry Wall, KK4SEO, wallmailbox@yahoo.com.
PARSgram ITEMS
We are always looking for items of interest to PARS members to put in the
PARSgram. If you run across a timely item or think of something you think
would interest our folks, please send it to me. Thanks
73, Jim AI4WL