PARS BREAKFAST MEETING THIS COMING SATURDAY
Our next meeting will be at 0900 Saturday, June 25th at Brantley’s
Village Restaurant on Broad Street in Oriental. Please park on the side
or out back. We hope to see you all there. For more information contact
Pamlico Amateur Radio Society President Mike Marsh, K4NLC, 252-636-1257
or mike@marshconsulting.com.
Dick, K4JJW, will be giving a short presentation about CW keys and
display a couple of his favorites.
This will be your last chance to get your ARRL Field Day contest
questions answered. Complete rules are at
http://www.arrl.org/field-day-rules. The action starts a 2 pm.
REMINDER–FIELD DAY OPEN STATION
From Bill, WM3X: This is an open invitation to all of our Technician
and General class licensees who have little or no experience operating
single sideband on HF. I will be operating my home station for Field
Day, June 25 and 26, using the club callsign N4PRS. You are invited to
spend an hour or two with me operating the station. You will learn how
to find and tune in stations to call, aim the yagi if needed, make the
contact, exchange the required information, and log the contact. The
purpose is to tweak your interest in getting your own HF station on the
air. The event runs from 2:00 PM Saturday, June 25 thru 5:00 PM Sunday,
June 26. Call (252-671-6703) or email (drmichne73@gmail.com) me to set
up a time for your visit.
[In addition to participating in the N4PRS activation at Bill’s, all our
members are encouraged to operate from their home stations using their
own call. Just like last year, aggregate club scores will be calculated
and published in the December QST. PARS Field Day participants should
list our club name with their reported results. Please list your club
affiliation as “Pamlico Amateur Radio Society, LTD” when you send in
your score. Be careful, the club in little Washington has a similar
name. –ed]
SOLAR NUMBERS TODAY
NOAA reported that solar activity was low during the 24 hour period
ending yesterday at 5 p.m. local. There are 7 numbered sunspot regions
on the Sun facing Earth this morning. There were 2 last Monday. The
Prediction Center expects solar activity to be low through Wednesday
with a chance for M-class flares. However, spaceweather.com reports this
morning that there is a fast growing sunspot region, AR3038, now
directly facing Earth that might give us a surprise.
At noon yesterday, the observed Solar Flux Index (SFI) at Penticton was
- Last Sunday it was 121. The index is predicted to measure 138 at
noon today, 134 Tuesday and 125 Wednesday. The SFI 90 day trailing
average is up 3 to 129. Bottom line, much better than last Monday.
The Earth’s geomagnetic field was quiet to active yesterday. NOAA
expects conditions be quiet to unsettled today and then quiet on Tuesday
and Wednesday. The estimated Kp-index of 3 reported at 5 a.m. local this
morning indicates current quiet geomagnetic conditions.
We can expect fair day and good nighttime operating conditions today on
80 to 40 meters, fair day and good night on 30 and 20, good on 15.
Conditions should be fair to poor on 12 and 10. Six meters has been open
every day, from here mostly into the southern mid-west.
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 CHALLENGE
Extracted from ARRL DX News ARLD024-
OGASAWARA, JD1. Harry, JG7PSJ will be QRV as JD1BMH from Chichijima
Island, IOTA AS-031, from June 18 to 26. Activity will be on 40 to
10 meters using CW, SSB, and RTTY. QSL direct to home call.
HAM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE, TRADE, OR WANTED
For listing in the PARSgram send me your amateur radio related items
that are for sale, trade, or wanted. 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.–Jim.
NEW – Wanted: With everyone moving up to DMR rigs would there be an
available mobile mount 2m single or dual band VHF hanging around your
bench now? Nothing too fancy or expensive necessary. Also if anyone
knows how to reprogram a Kenwood TK-7150 please shout out. All I need is
to tweak the new tones etc. on it for our Oriental repeater. Please
contact K4MMB at davitbay@gmail.com. (20220620)
For Sale:
* Icom IC7600 with 125 power supply and sp23 speaker. This speaker has
filters in it. With hand mic, $1000
* Tentec Jupiter green screen with ps963 power supply and Heil desk mic.
$500
* Second Tentec Jupiter with desk mic and 963 power supply, $500
* Heathkit solid state transceiver built by Yaesu. Heathkit SB-1400 same
as FT-747 but better looking. Has matching power supply, speaker combo,
clean $300
* MFJ 40 mtr QRP CW rig with matching tuner and battery pack. With
chargers and flat key, model num 9040 tuner is 971 power neat late
model. Look up MFJ prices abt 600 for all, my price is $100
* MFJ model 949c manual 300 watt tuner ..clean $75
* Alpha 76ca amp 160-10 meter Peter Dahl trans super clean, $1000
* Acom 1000 amp.. 160-6 meters at 1000 watts built in tuner 3 to 1, $1000
* TE Systems model 0552g ss amp mobile. Needs to be fed with 50 amp
power supply. 20 watts in, 350-400 out, $350
Have other equiptment for future listings. Thanks guys. All of this
equipment is clean and works perfect. Can demo here at home.
Contact Don Smith, KJ4RB at kj4rb@embarqmail.com or 252-568-4011 (If no
answer please leave message). (20220613)
For Sale: Hy-gain AV-18HT vertical antenna. Covers 80, 40, 20, 15, and
10 meters. See full specs at dxengineering.com. Antenna is
disassembled and can be delivered within 100 miles or so. $500 OBO. A
portion of the proceeds will go to PARS. Bill Michne, WM3X,
drmichne73@gmail.com, 252-249-1175 or 252-671-6703.(20220404)
PARS CALENDAR:
* Jun 25, PARS MONTHLY MEETING, Saturday, 9am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. For more info, contact Mike Marsh, K4NLC,
252-636-1257 or mike@MarshConsulting.org
* Jun 25-26, ARRL Field Day, home operation or at Bill’s shack using the
club call. To add your score to that of other PARS members for a
combined club score, list your club affiliation as “Pamlico Amateur
Radio Society, LTD”. For more info, contact Bill Michne, WM3X,
252-249-1175 or drmichne73@gmail.com.
* Jul 30, PARS MONTHLY MEETING, Saturday, 9am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. For more info, contact Mike Marsh, K4NLC,
252-636-1257 or mike@MarshConsulting.org
LOCAL NETS OF INTEREST TO PARS MEMBERS:
* Wednesdays,”Pamlico Communications Net”, 7:30 pm local, N4ONC
(Oriental) Repeater, 147.210 + (CTSCC Tone Squelch 88.5).
* 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, 561-308-3456, PARSwebman@gmail.com
73, Jim AI4WL
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