POTOMAC VALLEY RADIO CLUB NEWSLETTER - MARCH 1999
PVRC CALENDAR
Weekl Wed BWI Regional weekly breakfast. Wednesdays
7:30 am, Basil's Deli,
Elkridge Landing Rd near BWI.
Mar 1 Mon South MD at Wayne Rogers, N1WR, Lusby, MD, 7:30 pm
Mar 4 Thu PVRC/NC, Ryan's Family Steakhouse at
Crossroads, Cary at 6pm
Mar 6/7 ARRL SSB DX Contest. 5 Mil award.
Mar 8 Mon Central meeting, Church of the nativity,
Rte 5, Temple Hills, MD
Mar 16 Tue Northwest meeting, Tully's Grill, 1080 W. Patrick
St, Frederick, MD at 7:30 pm
Mar 16 Tue Normal Tidewater Colony meeting with VA-DXCC. See
reference page.
Mar 26 Fri SWVA Chapter Meeting, Steak & Ale Restr, Rt419,
Roanoke. Dinner 6:00pm
Mar 27/28 CQ SSB WPX Contest. 5 Mil award
Apr 1 Thu Normal PVRC/NC night at Ryan's Steakhouse
at Crossroads, Cary at 6pm
Apr 12 Mon Central meeting in Virginia
EDITORIAL: We plan to continue to enjoy the economics of bulk mail though
we may suffer from slow delivery. The economics is important and
especially so in May when the jumbo issue would cost 55 cents each by
first class mail instead of 18.3 cents. I believe we can compensate
somewhat for the slow delivery by expanding the above calendar to give
meeting and activity dates for both the current and following month.
Therefore, regional chair persons are requested to include the date, time,
and place of thier next TWO monthly meetings in their minutes. Or, at
least, email your meeting schedules to me so that they may be put in the
calendar. The Newsletter is always availabe at www.pvrc.org and may be
received by direct email by sending a request via email to the editor,
K3DI.
DONATIONS REPORT by Dave Baugher, WR3L, Treas
The club would like to thank W4CE, K4BAM, KK4WQ, W3DAD, W4ZYT, N3OC,
N3RC,N4RV, KM4YY, WR3Z and W3XY for the donation to PVRC in February.
CENTRAL GENERAL MEETING MINUTES, 2/8/99, by Rich Boyd, KE3Q, Secretary.
The regular central/general meeting of PVRC was held at the Patrick Henry
Library, route 123, Vienna, Virginia Monday, Feb. 8, 1999 from 7:30-9:00
PM. Present, in order of sign-in: K3MM, N3RC, WR3L, N3OC, W4XP, KA3QPG,
W3GNQ, WI2T, K3OSX, N4ZH, K3ZO, W3ZZ, N3NT, N4RV, W4RW, AA4KD, W3DQ, and
KE3Q. Beforehand, about half of those were also at the nearby Outback
Steakhouse for dinner.
With K3MM presiding, we went around giving name and callsign. Then we
went around again to give each person a chance to talk about recent
operating, etc. By about 8:30 we began showing a presentation from last
year's Dayton Contest Forum on videotape...on the 6Y4A station (which used
the callsign 6Y2A in last fall's CQWW), an extremely competitive
multi-multi contest operation that used almost entirely short verticals at
a beach location. The meeting adjourned promptly at 9 PM.
SOUTHERN MD REGIONAL MEETING MINUTES (Feb 1, 1999) by Barry Shapiro, WR3Z
Meeting was held at the home of Wayne Rogers, N1WR. Attendees were:
Barry, WR3Z; Wayne, N1WR; Mark, KD4D; and Chuck, N3WZR.
After a short picture show by N1WR of Hurricane Hugo damage from KP2, we
discussed recent and upcoming contest activity.
N1WR reported activity in the CQWW 160M CW contest, with 218 Q's for 19K
points. Wayne will be operating both ARRL DX contests, single op in the
CW contest, and multi-single for SSB (with N3WZR and N3AFT).
KD4D reported no recent activity, but will be operating at W3LPL's for
both ARRL contests.
WR3Z operated part-time with N3OC in the CQWW 160M CW contest from Ocean
City. Totals there were 675 Q's for 178K points. Conditions appeared to
be better during the first half of the contest, which made for slow
pickings the latter half. Barry plans to operate ARRL CW from WR3L's and
ARRL SSB from W3GNQ's in M2 activity.
After viewing the VP8SSI Dxpedition videotape, the group had an extensive
discussion on ways to generate more contesting interest in our region.
Several hams in the area that have done contests in the past will be
initially targeted. In addition, we will be looking into the possibility
of running a small effort (2A) in this year's Field Day, with the goal of
introducing to hams beforehand various contesting operating techniques and
contesting resources (such as CT). Hams from the local clubs (Calvert and
St. Mary's) will be approached over the next 2 months. We are also
considering additional meeting scenarios, such as Saturday breakfast
meetings.
The next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday March 1st at N1WR's home.
PVRC/NC FEBRUARY MINUTES by Jim Price, N3QYE, with note taking help from
N4CW.
The meeting was held at Ryans Family Steakhouse, Cary Crossroads, Cary, NC
from 6-7:30pm on February 4th.
Attendees. Jim K4MA (chairman), Alan K4PB, Jim K4QPL, Tom N4TL, Will
AA4NC, Jim N3QYE, Bert N4CW, Jeff NX9T, George WX4DX, Bob K4HA, Will WJ9B,
Joe NA3T (guest), Frank KE4GY, Shinomiya JR3RUE (guest)
Membership. This was the 2nd meeting for Will WJ9B and Frank KE4GY, and
both were voted members by unanimous acclamation. Welcome Will and Frank!
Chapter membership is now 30.
Club business and announcements. K4MA exhorted the members to participate
in the upcoming contests. There was a question of whether the WPX/RTTY
test is part of the PVRC 5 million award program. It is not.
Upcoming Contests.
NCJ Sprint CW 2/13
CQ WW WPX RTTY 2/13
PACC (Dutch) Contest 2/13
ARRL DX CW 2/20
CQ WW 160 SSB 2/26
REF (French) SSB 2/27
North Carolina QSO Party 2/27
(not a contest, but hey, they need support)
ARRL DX SSB 3/6
Member notes. K4HA hosted W2XL for the 160m CW contest. WX4DX plans to
improve his 160m antennas. N3QYE participated in the January VHF Sweeps
and NAQP from W4ATC.
AA4NC and K4MA used NAQP as practice for their multi-2 operation in ARRL
DX CW at 8P9Z. For the moment they plan to use the call 8P9JA on 7-8
bands. Will pointed out there was a good article in CQ Contest that
described the 8P9Z station.
KE4GY says taking his children to hockey and basketball practices keeps
him busy. He has a wooded 1-acre lot in north Durham, with an A3 in a box
in the garage. Several members offered to help him put wires up in his
trees.
JR3RUE is visiting the US for 3 months and is operating HF mobile while
here. He described his privileges at home and per his reciprocal
operating permit. Most of the US stations he works from home are W6/W7.
He passed out plans for the Hentenna (Japanese for 'Strange Antenna').
NA3T likes weak signal VHF and operated the January Sweeps from W4ATC
with N3QYE and N3NPQ. Joe is also a software designer and has authored
the site which generates azimuthal maps for hams at
http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml.
K4QPL suffered a lightning strike two weeks ago, affecting the
rig/computer interface for the recent 160m contest. Jim had fun working
as part of a team in the NAQP CW contest.
WJ9B has operated in the November Sweeps for years, but this was the first
time in years he branched out for NAQP (CW); he fed his tower for
operations on 160m. Will is a homebrewer and one of the test builders for
the K2 kit (160m-10m). Will worked 160m and got some good multipliers,
with 313 Qs in 10 hours. He has high hopes for ARRL DX CW.
Next Meeting. The next meeting will be 6pm Thursday, March 4th at Ryans.
NW REGIONAL MEETING MINUTES - February 16, 1999
By Greg Altig, N5OKR ([email protected])
In attendance were members N5OKR, N3KTV, K3MQH, WI2T, W3ZZ, K3ZO, N4ZR,
W3UJ, W3EKT, W3LPL, K4IQ, N4MM, K3SX, K3SW, N3HBX, K3DNE, W3YOZ, K3FT,
AA3SC, and WX3B, and guests N3YDT, N3LDI, K8NY, K4ZDH, N3WJA, and K3RFI.
Business. N3WJA, Ed, was attending his second meeting and was voted in
unanimously. Welcome aboard, Ed!
From the Introductions. In lieu of our usual roundtable introductions, we
turned the floor over to our special guest, Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH,
legal advisor for amateur enforcement within the FCC's Compliance and
Information Bureau.
Riley, based out of the Gettysburg office, has seen a rapid rise in his
popularity since jumping into the middle of a "pig farmer" fracas on 75
meters last month; a sure sign that there is life returning to the FCC's
amateur enforcement activities.
During his talk, Riley recounted some great anecdotes of recent
enforcement activities and provided updates of ongoing cases against such
famous (or infamous) personalities as Schoenbaum, Baxter, and Richard
Burton.
Other highlights from his talk include:
- Details of the Laurel monitoring office's renewed enthusiasm at getting
back into amateur radio activities. All 14 of the FCC's monitoring
stations are automated and controlled out of Laurel. Of note, that office
is now available for organized tours.
- The quantum leap in monitoring capability that the Pentium processor has
brought. Pre-Pentium line-of-bearing (LOB) speed was one per second. Since
the Pentium was introduced to their equipment, their capability is now
1024 LOBs per second.
- The ineffectiveness of "spanking the dog 3 weeks after he's soiled the
carpet". In light of this, he has found a provision in the enforcement
rules that allow for an immediate reduction in privileges for operating
violations. He told us of a case in which that morning (Tuesday), an
amateur's license was
temporarily reduced to remove his HF privileges. The amateur had been
monitored conducting malicious interference just this past weekend.
- Over 50% of the complaints reviewed when he took this position related
to malicious interference on the HF bands, and the vast majority of those
dealt with a "core" of about 10 people, licensed and unlicensed. Of the
remaining complaints, the next largest percentage involved VHF and
repeater problems.
- Given the above percentage, combined with the international reach of the
HF bands, he has chosen to focus initially on the HF problems. He reminded
us that third-world countries with a less than favorable view of the
United States have the same one vote in band allocation matters as we do.
Many of those same countries would love to have private commercial access
to some of our bands.
A general question and answer period followed Riley's talk. He will be
speaking at two forums in Dayton this year, one on Friday and one on
Sunday. Times and locations will be published. In the meantime, you are
welcome to contact him directly via email at [email protected]. Meeting
adjourned.
OVER-THE-HILL LUNCH MINUTES
by Ben Shaver, AA4XU
February 17, 1999. PVRC members met for the monthly Over-The-Hill Lunch at
Tom Westons Restaurant in Annandale, VA. The group welcomed back long-time
PVRC member Admiral Scott Red K0DQ, now retired from the Navy and living
in the area. Scott is well known for his big contest scores when operating
Lenny Chertok's W3GRF station in Temple Hills, MD. Scott will be guest
operating the ARRL CW contest this weekend at Jim Ahlgren's W4RX on the
mountain near Frederick, MD. The following were present: W6AXX Howard
Leake, K6ETM George Sinclair, K3ZO Fred Laun, W3UJ Henry Herman, W3CP Jim
Headrick, K0DQ Scott Redd, K7CMZ Mel Woods, AA4XU Ben Shaver.
PVRC/NE MEETING 2/20 by Dave Baugher, WR3L
The meeting held at home of WR3L on February 20, 1999. In attendance was
WR3Z, AA3SC, WX3B, W6HZW, WR3L and newcomer N3SB. Meeting was held to
discuss the DX contest strategies and give N3SB his first meeting.
NOTES by the editor
In a letter to the Newsletter from Tom Davis, KR4ZY/VU3TOM, of New Delhi
he wrote, "Happiness is having an Indian Amateur Radio License." Tom
attached a copy of his AMATEUR WIRELESS TELEGRAPH STATION LICENSE dated 5
February 1999. He will be restricted to 50 Watts DC input and an antenna
that extends above the roof by no more than 10 feet. He has multiband (7,
14, 21, & 28 MHz) and G5RV antennas and a FT-990. "The goal is to use a
PK-232-MBX for RTTY2.5 and SSB operations."
Eric, W3DQ, got an email from PVRCer Bob Blumberg, TZ6DX in Bamako, Mali
which said "Hope to play in ARRL DX CW contest this weekend and get
another dose that will last a while!" He didn't say anything about the
phone weekend. He's about to take a whirlwind (work) trip through 5N, 3X,
6W, TU, and 9G, so Eric suspects Bob won't be active during the phone
weekend.
Pete Smith, N4ZR, would like to make his station available to guest ops
for contests that he does not operate which essentially means his station
is availabe for 'phone contests. Also, he would like to operate with one
guest as a multi-single and generate a lot of points for PVRC.
[email protected]
At 0000 UTC 1st February 1999 500kHz ceased to be part of the
international maritime distress and safety network and many stations
closed down then. Some station will continue operating. For example,
Spanish stations are said to close at the end of February with Swedish
staations to remain on until 2001. Faeroe Is, Finaland, Norway, and Italy
are remaining on indefinately. Reference:
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/rdixon/crs.htm
The following are know DXpeditions from this area. Please let the editor
know any additions or changes.
ARRL 'phone:
HK0/W4DC(?) by Woodbridge Wireless includes K5OF & AA3KX
VP2V M2 by W4NF, W4RM, W4CE, & W4DAV
8P9Z M/S by K3KG (share of score)
TI7/N4MO by N4MO
CQ WPX 'Phone
TI7/N4MO by N4MO
NCDXF/IARU BEACON NETWORK, edited by Dick Wilder, K3DI. Part 2 of 2.
Last month, we introduced the concept of using the subject propagation
beacons on 14.10, 18.11, 21.15, 24.93, and 28.20 MHz as a means to watch
for band openings. Of course, it is difficult for a operator, who already
has a nice rate, to scan other bands in hope of finding a better opening.
But, perhaps a spare receiver, computer, and software can do the band
scanning for you. This month we will considerer some of the software that
is available to function as your second operatior even though you're in a
single operator category. The following text is from
http://www.ncdxf.org/beacon.
Articles about the beacons have appeared in QST within the past few years
and these articles are now available online at the IARU web site at
http://www.iaru.org/articles/. These articles have a lot of interesting
details about the beacon.
Helmut Zurneck, DL4FBI, has written an article that appears on pages 46-47
of the October 1997 issue of QST describing a QBASIC PC program which
communicates with a TS-870 via a serial link. The program uses the serial
link to set the receive frequency and to interrogate the S-meter. Both
source code and executable software may be downloaded from
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/
hamradio/arrl/qst-binaries/dl4fbi.zip. Helmut's e-mail address is
[email protected].
Jamie Pye, ZL2NN, has developed a similar system under Windows that is
described at http://www.nzart.org.nz/nzart/ar_ww/iaru/bcomlog.html. He
hopes to automatically transfer his reception data to the internet soon.
Jamie's software is not yet available for general use. Jamie's e-mail
address is [email protected].
There are a number programs available for free over the internet that will
help beacon listeners figure out which beacon is transmitting on which
frequency at any given time. The programs listed below have all been
reviewed by N6EK and found to be solid useful programs that work as
advertised. Not only are they are great for people who can't easily copy
morse code at twenty-two words per minute, but they help you figure out
the callsign of very weak beacons that you hear and they mean that you no
longer have to try to simultaneously look at both your clock and your
printed beacon schedule.
BEACONCLOCK BY KW7KW. BeaconClock, written by Stan Huntting, KW7KW, can
be found at http://www.sni.net/kawin/. This is a 32-bit program which runs
only under Windows 95. I downloaded and tested version 2.01 which Stan
says corrects bugs in the earlier versions and supports regional system
differences. You can contact Stan at [email protected].
[Screen display shown here in paper edition]
One picks one of the five bands to monitor using radio buttons and
BeaconClock shows the beacon that transmitted previously on that band, the
beacon currently transmitting on that band and the next three beacons
which will transmit on that band. For each beacon it shows the short-path
and long-path beam headings from your QTH and the short-path distance in
kilometers.
The callsigns of W6WX and KH6WO are grayed out on the WARC bands because
these beacons are not transmitting on the WARC bands at this time. The
information about which beacons should be grayed out is built into
BeaconClock. Stan asks users to alert him about changes so he can update
his program.
Clicking the "Clock" button brings up a separate window for setting the
clock on your computer which is nicely designed for people who adjust
their clocks by a small amount using a signal that occurs once a minute
like the one from WWV. BeaconClock displays UTC in its window, even if
your computer clock keeps local time.
Clicking the "QTH" button allows you to enter your own latitude and
Longitude and specify the offset of your clock from UTC. It also allows
you to check a box which keeps the BeaconClock window on top of all the
other windows which can help to keep it from getting lost.
Clicking the "List" button produces a window with a list of all the
beacons, their short and long path beam headings and their distance from
you in kilometers. A button in this window allows you to print the list,
however when I tried it, BeaconClock crashed. Stan assures me it doesn't
crash on most people's systems. BeaconClock uses an ellipsoidal earth
model and double-precision math to calculate great circle paths between
station and beacon. The distance from station to beacon is rounded to the
appropriate precision for each beacon based on the precision of the
location data available for that beacon.
BEACON WIZARD BY KU5S. Beacon Wizard, written by Jim Tabor, KU5S, can be
found at http://www.wtrt.net/~ku5s/Comments.htm. It is a 16-bit program
which runs under both Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. The reviewer tried it
under Windows 95. One picks one of the five bands to have displayed using
radio buttons. The window shows the currently transmitting beacon on that
band and the previous and next beacons for that band. For each beacon it
shows the short-path and long-path beam headings from your QTH and the
short-path distance in kilometers, and the sunrise and sunset times at the
beacon. Beacon Wizard also shows your own sunrise and sunset times, your
local time, UTC time and the current beacon's slot number and local time.
Beacon Wizard makes excellent use of the "hints" that can be displayed
when you allow the cursor to linger over an area of its window. Beacons
which are not on the air yet are grayed out. The user can easily update
the beacon database using a built-in editor.
BEACON by W2NN. Art Glazar, W2NN, has written what is considered to be
the most full-featured of the DOS programs. His program, BEACON, allows
you to set your own latitude and longitude and then tells you the
short-path distance and the short- and long-path beam headings to each
beacon. His program has one feature which may make some Windows users
prefer to use it instead of the Windows-specific programs: The information
for all eighteen beacons is on the screen at all times and the currently
transmitting beacon is highlighted. This would be important, for example,
if you needed the beam heading of a particular beacon well before that
beacon was to transmit so you could rotate your antenna to point at it.
Also, Art has tested the program running from a floppy disk. This program
does not explicitly keep track of which beacons are not in operation on
which bands, but suggests the convention of placing a question mark after
the call of a beacon that is not on the air at all and an exclamation mark
after the call of a beacon that is transmitting on some but not all bands.
You can request a copy of the program from Art by e-mail at
[email protected].
BJBEACONS BY DC7BJ. Rainer Steinfuehr, DC7BJ, has written a DOS program
called BJBEACON which shows which beacons are transmitting on each band.
If you don't have a way of automatically keeping your clock accurate you
will also appreciate BJBEACON's mechanism for making slight adjustments to
the clock by typing "+" to increase the clock by one second and "-" to
decrease it by one second. BJBEACON can be found at
http://www.snafu.de/~wumpus/index.html. To obtain the program, click on
"ham radio" and then on "public domain software" and then on "BJBEACON".
Rainer's e-mail address is [email protected].
BW BY KQ6RH. Ray Jurgens, KQ6RH, has written the simplest DOS program of
the bunch, called BW. You pick one of the bands when you start the program
and it shows you a single line with the time and the callsign and country
of the current beacon. The simplicity of the displayed information may be
an advantage in certain situations. BW can be downloaded at
http://autoinfo.smartlink.net/kq6rh. Ray's e-mail is
[email protected].
S C O R E S by Bob Dannnals, W2GG
* * Changes/additions/deletions to W2GG via email or packet * *
* NEW EMAIL: [email protected] *
### = missing information
ARRL VHF SS RESULTS (#7 2/11/99)
CALL BND QSO MULTS TOTAL
SINGLE OPERATOR
K1RZ 7 735 200 230,112
K3DNE 6 601 169 153,283
K2UOP A 366 118 68,912
K3ZO 2 482 104 50,128
W3EKT 2 320 65 20,800
N4MM 3 250 62 17,360
K3IXD 4 190 36 8,244
N3II 2 187 31 5,797
NE3H 2 125 32 4,736
K4SO 1 102 21 2,142
K3OSX 2 70 20 1,400
K4HA 1 51 20 1,020
N3AM 1 68 14 952
N8II 1 59 14 826
W3JRY 2 42 12 540
W2GG 2 29 12 384
N4TL 1 9 5 45
W3FG # # # 45
ROVER
N3IQ A 1600 240 1,300,000
Ops: ND3F and WD8ISK
MULTI-OP
K3SX 4 364 101 44,541
W4ATC 2 51 20 1,020
21 LOGS TOTAL 1,912,287
RUMOR ROVER
K6LEW A ### ### 600,000
Last Year Entries Total
* UNLIMITED CATEGORY *
Mt Airy VHF R C 56 2,810,913
* MEDIUM CATEGORY *
Potomac Valley RC 21 1,784,971
Northeast Weak SG 49 1,588,997
Rochester VHF Grp 36 1,560,235
K3SX W4XP K3SX
W4ATC N3NPQ N3QYE NA3T KE4QIU
KF4RDN
CQ 160M CW RESULTS (#5 2/11/99)
CALL QSO ST DX SCORE
SINGLE OP HIGH POWER
W3AO 925 57 52 344,331
W4MYA 967 56 37 260,121
K8OQL 743 56 31 186,702
K3SV 682 52 31 151,641
K4IQ 636 (85) 147,560
K4MA 643 50 22 115,704
K2UOP 558 52 23 104,025
N4RV 317 53 35 97,856
K3OSX 425 55 17 75,960
N4AF 408 49 19 72,896
K4PB 313 53 26 66,913
K4SO 310 41 19 51,000
N3AM 435 49 3 50,076
N4MM 221 50 12 37,324
W3GN 224 44 12 31,920
W4HJ 214 46 1 23,782
K2AV 128 35 13 17,712
N3RC 100 40 10 13,850
K4BAM 162 39 6 17,055
N4CW 130 32 1 9,075
K4VV 60 28 0 3,864
SINGLE OP LOW POWER
N8II 591 53 20 109,354
W3CP 215 (48) 24,864
N1WR 218 36 4 19,000
W3MR 151 36 11 18,236
N3GPU 159 (34) 12,636
NX9T 111 32 2 8,058
K4QPL 77 27 1 4,648
SINGLE OP QRP
WK3I 530 (70) 87,360
MULTI OPERATOR
NJ4F 882 55 40 237,690
N3OC 676 55 36 178,724
K3MM 308 46 31 78,078
W3HVQ 326 46 24 69,300
K4HA 552 56 28 60,018
N3NT 375 46 22 67,048
W2GG 336 52 19 61,557
WA4QDM 202 37 1 16,948
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
37 LOGS CW TOTAL 2,932,886
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
OUT OF TOWN OPERATIONS
W5KL 250 (54) 31,374
Op W4YE
W1BB 1308 59 59 550,000
Ops PVRC: W4ZV K1HTV, YCCC: K1ZM
K2EK, FRC: K2WI WW2Y
LAST YEAR (combined SSB & CW)
Frankford R C 6,366,228
Slovenia Contest C 5,138,233
Contest C Finland 4,294,949
Potomac Valley R C 3,373,098
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Guest Operators:
W3AO KE3Q AT W3LPL
K8OQL from W9LT QTH
Multiop operators:
Single op plus packet unless indicated below.
K4HA K4HA W2XL (non-PVRC)
N3OC N3OC WR3Z
NJ4F NJ4F K7SV K4ZW K1SE WA4JUK Daisy
ARRL DX CW (#5 3/1/99)
CALL BND QSO CTY TOTAL
SINGLE OP HIGH POWER
K3ZO 3326 399 3,981,222
K0DQ 3345 396 3,972,672
N4AF 3106 377 3,466,515
W4MR* 1717 302 1,555,602
W9LT 1647 310 1,525,200
N3AM 922 311 858,360
W3GN 923 281 778,089
K2UOP 1082 234 759,569
N8II 15 1771 106 563,178
W4YE 709 256 544,512
N4MM 524 238 374,136
W3EKT 550 213 348,000
K3SV 401 147 176,400
W4VC 271 124 100,812
W4HJ 230 129 89,010
K3SX 155 ### 46,000
SINGLE OP LOW POWER
W3DAD 771 249 575,937
K4BAM 717 247 530,556
K7CMZ 662 234 461,214
K1EFI 625 235 459,660
WJ9B 617 223 412,773
NX9T 352 182 192,192
K4HA 353 168 177,912
K4QPL 280 145 121,800
KS4XG 266 150 119,700
W3FG 226 143 96,954
W3CP 15 281 63 53,109
K3HH 169 50 25,350
SINGLE OP QRP
SINGLE OP ASSISTED
K3SA 1294 330 1,271,160
W3HVQ 1143 320 1,096,320
W3UJ 943 305 861,930
N4ZR 807 248 597,432
K4PB 659 280 553,560
K3KO 500 204 306,000
NY3M 393 229 269,991
K4VV 310 172 159,960
N3GPU 114 71 24,282
MULTI SINGLE
N4RV 2628 392 3,089,352
W4PRO 805 327 789,705
MULTI TWO
NJ4F 3879 456 5,306,472
WR3L 3081 423 3,907,251
MULTI - MULTI
W3LPL 7146 602 12,900,000
W4MYA 4916 496 6,800,800
DXPEDITIONS
8P9JA 5267 342 5,403,942
(multi single)
KG4DZ 4276 304 3,899,712
(multi single)
N4MO/TI7 1337 58 232,638
(SOLP, 15 m only)
NP2S* 2211 208 1,379,664
(SOLP)
V26O* 7667 345 7,935,345
(multi two)
WP3R* 4852 332 4,832,592
(SOHP)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
49 LOGS CW TOTAL 83,984,542
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
LAST YEAR'S RESULTS (SSB & CW)
Club Logs Score
FRC 173 243,591,930
YCCC 176 221,027,178
PVRC 121 97,101,300
OPERATORS:
8P9JA K4MA AA4NC
KG4DZ W4ZYT W4SD
N4RV K3OSX N4RA N4RV KT4W
NJ4F NJ4F K4EU K4EC WA4JUK K4GMH
K7SV K1SE Daisy
NP2S K3DI
V26O K3MM K3RA N5NJ
W3LPL K1HTV AI3M ND3F N3OC W2GG K4ZW WB2FFY
K3NA KD4D K1RA K3RV W3LPL K9PG
W4MR N4CW
W4MYA K4GAU K4GE W4DAA W4DR W4HZ
WA4QDM WK4Y WU4G W4MYA
W4PRO W4HIR WB4DNL AF4CD W4PRO
WP3R KE3Q
WR3L AA3SC N3NT WR3L WR3Z WX3B W6HZW
CQ 160M SSB (#1 3/1/99)
CALL QSO ST DX SCORE
SINGLE OP HIGH POWER
K8OQL 643 53 14 100,098
K4IQ 503 56 13 81,489
NX9T 461 51 8 60,180
K4MA 336 42 7 36,456
K4HA 198 41 5 20,378
K4VV 77 27 2 4,814
SINGLE OP LOW POWER
W3EKT 194 36 4 17,400
N3GPU 643 33 1 11,424
NV3V 123 30 1 8,184
W3MR 125 27 2 8,120
W4YE 120 (36) 9,288
W3CP 81 (28) 5,040
SINGLE OP QRP
W3GCG 484 35 7 22,264
MULTI OPERATOR
K3IXD 445 51 14 70,005
W2GG 307 47 10 40,185
KB3AUG 298 46 5 34,883
K3KO 97 32 2 7,208
W3HVQ 77 32 3 6,825
Stats in April issue. -editorPVRC REFERENCE PAGE. Please send corrections
to the editor. 2/20/99 changes are underscored.
PVRC Officers
President K3MM Tyler Stewart
301-414-5444 [email protected]
Vice President N3OC Brian McGinness 301-652-6768
[email protected]
Secretary KE3Q Rich Boyd
301-464-8014 [email protected]
Treasurer WR3L Dave Baugher
410-DX1-WR3L [email protected]
Historian K3SA Steve Affens
301-774-0558 [email protected]
Membership Sec W2GG Bob Dannals
410-472-2004 [email protected]
PVRC Charter Members:
W3GRF (SK), W4AAV (SK), W4KFC (SK), N0FFZ (SK), W4LUE, W7YS, VP2VI (W0DX),
W3IKN, W4KFT.
PacketCluster Contest/DX System (MHz):
W3LPL Glenwood MD 145.590 441.250
KE3Q Bowie MD 145.570 445.375
N3RR Rockville MD 145.510 441.325
N4OHE Mt.Weather VA 145.710 440.925
K3MQH S Mountain PA 145.630
WR3L Baltimore MD 145.610 440.950
N4SR Woodbridge VA 145.630 *
K4FJ Mt. Vernon VA 145.770 *
KE3QZ Hollywood MD 145.690 *
K3SKE Frederick MD 144.930
This system is sponsored by the Potomac
Valley DX Spotting Network except "*" are
independently funded by each SYSOP.
PVRC on Internet.
PVRC web site by K3SA:
http://www.pvrc.org
PVRC/NC web site by KS4XG
http://www.pagesz.net/~pvrcnc
PVRC reflector: (editor KS4XG)
Get latest scores & activities info here
To post: [email protected]
To join* send email to:
[email protected]
Text: SUBSCRIBE PVRC
*Members only. If your call is not within your URL, then send msg to
[email protected].
PVRC dues and ARRL renewals: The annual dues are by donation - hopefully
at least $10. Club gets a cut from ARRL renewals sent via PVRC. Both
dues and renewal checks should be made to PVRC and sent to Dave Baugher,
WR3L, 615 Rockway Beach Av, Baltimore, MD 21221. Thank you.
Newsletter & Autocall column Editor: Dick Wilder, K3DI, 913 Shore Acres
Rd, Arnold, MD 21012-1724. Voice 410-757-6706, FAX/modem 410-757-6720,
Dxcluster packet, and [email protected]. Deadlines are the 25th unless
prior arrangements are made.
CENTRAL: The Central Meeting is always the second Monday (except June,
July, and August) at 7:30 pm. The central meeting generally alternates
between MD and VA locations. A pre-meeting dinner is usually held between
5:00 and 6:30 pm. Check via 147- repeater.
VA LOCATION: The Patrick Henry (Public) Library, Route 123, Vienna,
VA. Pre-meeting dinner at Outback, Old Branch Ave.
MD LOCATION: Church of the Nativity (Episcopal), Route 5, Temple Hills,
MD. Pre-meeting dinner at Topolino's.
NORTHWEST: Greg Altig 410-775-7313 [email protected]. Meets at 7:30 pm on
the third Tuesday every month at Tully's Grill, 1080 W. Patrick St,
Frederick, MD. Same center as Shoppers Food Warehouse. Essentially
includes WEST VIRGINIA area.
NORTH CAROLINA: Chair: Jim Stevens, K4MA, [email protected]; Sec: Pete
Soper, KS4XG, [email protected], reflector editor, hm: 919-362-4635, wk:
919-481-6874. Activites: Jim Stevens, K4MA?. POC is K4MA and KS4XG.
Howie Hoyt, N4AF, [email protected] is PVRC reflector editor. PVRC/NC meets at
6:00 pm the first Thursday of every month at Ryan's Family Steakhouse at
Crossroads in Cary. There is a table set and waiting for you.
TIDEWATER (VA) COLONY OF PVRC:
Don Lynch W4ZYT 757-486-0728 [email protected]. Meetings are the 3rd
or 4th Tuesday of every month in conjunction with the VA DXCC at C&M
Cafeteria, Independence Blvd at the Giant Shpping Center. Take I-64 to
44/I-264 inter-change, go east on 44. Take Independence about 1.5 miles.
C&M is on the left. Dinner at 1900 and meeting at 2000.
SOUTHWEST VA CHAPTER: Coordinator: John Mitchell, K4IQ, Catawba, VA
540-384-7377, [email protected]. Monthly meetings alternate between Roanoke
area locations
THE BWI REGIONAL/PVRC: Weekly breakfast Wed at 7:30 AM at Basil's Deli
Port on Elkrdige Landing Rd 1/4 mile South of Winterson Road 410-850-4333.
Director: Ike Lawton, W2EOS, 410-263-2830. Secretary: Howard Leake,
W6AXX, 410-465-7008, [email protected]
OVER-THE-HILL BUNCH (Luncheon):
Rotating hosts announces meeting info. Ben Shaver, AA4XU, 703-534-4740;
Andy Anderson, W3XE, 301-384-7771, [email protected], Holiday Inn, College
Park MD; and Bill Leavitt, W3AZ, 301-292-5797, Ramada Inn, Oxon Hill
PENNSYLVANIA:
Steve Cutshall, K3TZV, [email protected], 717-763-0462.
RAPPAHANNOCK
Steve Bookout, NJ4F steve @ 1bigred.com
WOODBRIDGE: Jack O'Mara W4NF, [email protected] 703-680-4106 and Cliff
Deel W4CE, [email protected] 703-491-0841
CENTRAL VA: Bob Morris, W4MYA 804-457-9011 [email protected]
SOUTHERN MD: Chair: Barry Shapiro, WR3Z. (H) 301-862-2466 Usually meets
at N1WR's. [email protected]
EASTERN-SHORE (DEL-MAR-VA):
Dallas Carter, W3PP 302-875-0550 [email protected]
WEST (Shenandoah, etc): Chair vacant
NORTHEAST: WR3L, see info above
EAST (Annapolis): KE3Q, see info above
OTHER MEETINGS based on prior year(s):
Jun. W3LPL open house Sat before Field
Day with joint FRC/PVRC meeting on
alternate years. (1999, 2001, ...)
summer. When joint FRC/PVRC is at FRC, they announce the date.
Jul. PVRC/NC cook out
Jul. Open house, W4MYA, Goochland,
Aug. NCDXA/PVRC Fowlfest at W3YOZ
Aug. VHF++ meeting/workshop at ND3F
Sep. PVRC meeting at the FARfest Bowie
Sep. Open house, WR3L, Baltimore
Dec. Christmas dinner, DC area.
5 MILLION (CLUB COMPETITION) AWARD
Month and number of the full week end.
Jan 3 ARRL VHF Sweepstakes
Jan Last CQWW 160m CW
Feb 3 ARRL DX CW
Feb Last CQWW 160m SSB
Mar 1 ARRL DX SSB
Mar Last CQWW WPX SSB
May Last CQWW WPX CW
Oct Last CQWW DX SSB
Nov 1 ARRL Sweepstakes CW
Nov 3 ARRL Sweepstakes SSB
Nov Last CQWW DX CW
Dec 1 ARRL 160m Mixed
Dec 2 ARRL 10m Mixed
"Under no circumstances will anyone receive Award Points for more than one
operation during a particular contest. If more than one Award Points
score is generated to a single member, they will receive the single
highest score of the group only."
Standings at http://jctc.org/pvrc5m.htm
Roster updates at:
http://www.pvrc.org/pvrcmm98.htm
A SHAREWARE COPY OF CT 6.26 with updated CTY and SEC files is available
FREE from K3DI. Ideal legal training program to give to prospective
contester.