PARS BREAKFAST MEETING THIS COMING SATURDAY
Our next meeting will be at 0900 this Saturday, Sep 27, 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. 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.
2014 DRAGONBOAT FESTIVAL SHIRTS
“I will have shirts for all the Dragonboat participants that helped out at
the Dragonboat Races and will bring them to the next PARS meeting for
distribution.”
–Tom, K8TF
GENERAL LICENSE COURSE
At the August PARS meeting, Bill Michne, WM3X, announced the dates for the
long anticipated Amateur General Class preparation course. They are Monday
Jan 5, 2015 through Mar 2, 2015. The 8 weekly 3 hour or less evening class
sessions will be followed by the FCC Exam on March 2nd. Class times to be
determined. The examination session will be open to all. Please pass the
word to all those you think might be interested.
SOLAR NUMBERS TODAY
NOAA reported that solar activity was low during the 24 hours ending
Sunday night at 5 pm local. The largest recent solar event of the period
was a B6 event observed at 22/0608Z. There are currently 5 numbered sunspot
regions on the disk. The sunspot count this morning is 72 down from the 90
reported here two weeks ago. The Solar Flux is 124 just above the 123 in
that same report. The Solar Flux Index is expected to creep up to 130 by
Wednesday. According to the Space Weather Prediction Center, solar activity
should be low with a chance (35 %) for an M-class flares and a slight chance
(10%) for an X-class flare through Wednesday.
The Earth’s geomagnetic field activity was quiet to unsettled during the
24 hour period ending yesterday afternoon. The geomagnetic field is expected
to be quiet today and quiet to unsettled on Tuesday and Wednesday. The
K-index was 2 at 0800 local this morning.
DX CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK
TIMOR-LESTE, 4W. Sei, JA7LU and Hiro, JA2VWG will be QRV as 4W6LU
and 4W6DD, respectively, from Dili, IOTA OC-148, from September 22
to 29. Activity will be on 40 to 6 meters using SSB and RTTY. QSL
direct to home calls.
Just so you know, from Wikipedia, East Timor or Timor-Leste, officially
the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Maritime Southeast
Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby
islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side
of the island, within Indonesian West Timor. The country’s size is about
5,400 sq mi
East Timor was colonised by Portugal in the 16th century, and was known
as Portuguese Timor until Portugal’s decolonisation of the country. In late
1975, East Timor declared its independence but later that year was invaded
and occupied by nearby Indonesia and was declared Indonesia’s 27th province
the following year. In 1999, following the United Nations-sponsored act of
self-determination, Indonesia relinquished control of the territory, and
East Timor became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century on May
20, 2002..
Although its offshore oil reserves are now being exploited, East Timor
still has a poor mostly agarian trading economy, Surprisingly, its
currency is the US Dollar.
QSO CORNER
This is the place to post contacts with DXpeditions, Special Event
Stations, or special QSO’s you would like to share.
Must have been quiet; no reports received this week.
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 :
* September 27 — Texas QSO Party
* September 27-28 — CQ WW RTTY Contest
* September 27-28 — Maine QSO Party
* September 28 — Peanut Power Sprint
* September 30 — 222 MHz Fall VHF Sprint
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/1 in
Connecticut and W1AW/4 in North Carolina are QRV until 2359z on
September 23. In addition, W1AW/5 in New Mexico and W1AW/7 in Idaho
will be QRV starting at 0000z on September 24. They will be active
until 2359z on September 30.
(Courtesy of the ARRL DX Bulletin)
The “Last Man Standing” Special Event is set for 1400Z-2200Z Sunday,
September 28. Special Event station K6H for the “Hollywood Hamnado” will be
hosted by the crew members of the ABC teleision series, “Last Man
Standing.” They are planning to run three SSB rigs operating on or around
28.420, 14.250, and 7.260 MHz.. On the show, actor Tim Allen plays Mike
Baxter, KA0XTT, an outdoors guy with conservative views who struggles to
keep his sanity with a working engineer wife and raising three very
different and trying daughters. The show’s producer is John Amodeo, NN6JA.
So far, 26 members of the “Last Man Standing” crew have been inspired by the
show’s Amateur Radio component to get licensed. For more, see the ARRL
Letter for September 18, 2014.
HAM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE, TRADE, OR WANTED
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* New For Sale – ICOM-756 PRO III by original owner, includes box and
manual. Fred writes, “This radio has lived a quiet life in an air condtioned
smoke free home since new, has never been in a contest and has never had a
repair.” Scratch and dent free, late S/N. Will demo if required. Currently
selling on QRZ for $1750-$1850 plus shipping. Will take $1600. Fred Elsner
W4FAE, 252-637-3742, or rjelsner@embarqmail.com. (20140901)
* Old Junk Wanted – Our Morse Code class will accept your old telegraph
keys, code practice units, keyers, paddles, bugs, small speakers, etc.,
basically anything that the students can use directly, or refurbish, or use
to build new units. So far, we have built one CPO/keyer, with another on
the way, along with a QRP transmitter. We have refurbed a MFJ keyer/paddle
combination, also. The stuff will be used only for educational purposes,
and will not be sold. Contact Bill Michne, WM3X, at 252-249-1175 or
billmichne@embarqmail.com. (20140602)
* For Sale — Recently purchased by a New Bern ham forced to
give up the hobby, a Radio Works Carolina Windom Antenna 160 model with
Dacron line (Heavy) and winches (2) to raise it high in the pines (See at
Radio Works,www.radioworks.com/). Make a reasonable offer for the whole
thing with coax and matching Balun, Ed Valentine W2YPM at 252 637-3161 or
w2ypm@earthlink.net is handling the sale. (20140602/20140804)
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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:
* Sep 27, PARS Monthly Meeting, Saturday, 9 am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. Bill Olah, KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com.
* Oct 25, PARS Monthly Meeting, Saturday, 9 am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. Bill Olah, KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.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