Jun 5, 2016 | Contesting
Just a reminder that the June Contest is coming up next weekend on the 11th
– 13th. Times are from 2 pm Saturday until 11 pm Sunday night. Details on the
Arrl website http://www.arrl.org/.
Updated: If you want your contest score to be added to the club’s contest score, be sure to enter the club’s name as: Pottstown Area ARC
Rumor has it that Ed/K3BVQ might be on 50.400 at times to see if he can grab
a few contacts just for fun. I’ll be there Ed! Willie/WF3M can usually be
found cranking out some CW in around 50.090 – 50.099. The only exchange you
need is Call & Grid Square. For me it’s fn-20. I give my call & grid, and
he/she gives theirs. That it! It’s that simple.
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May 7, 2016 | Club Meeting, Events
Our June meeting will be on Friday, June 3rd at 7:00 pm at St. James Lutheran Church, Kugler Rd. and Swamp Pike in Limerick.
Members, friends, and prospective hams are invited to join us.
There will be a presentation on SKYWARN by Lou / WX3I
Future meetings:
– July 1st: Hotdogs & Hams at 6:00 pm
– Aug. 5th: Pedestrian Mobile with Ed / W3WSJ
May 13, 2016 | Events
The Philadelphia Digital Radio Association (K3PDR) proudly presents: Icom Amateur Radio in the Delaware Valley.
When: June 6, 2016 –– 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Where: College Hall Room: 144/148 Montgomery County Community College, 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, Pa. 19422
Icom Special Guests: Hiro Nakaoka, JK3UZC (Icom America President) Nick Pennance, N1CKP (Icom America Vice President) Naomichi Sawada, NC5W (Icom Senior Engineer)
Prizes from Icom and COMMPATHS LLC • Light refreshments will be provided • Please ask our Icom guests questions about their products and future plans, as well as to say hello. A great evening for Amateur Radio, come out and show your support! Check for updates, www.k3pdr.org
*Montgomery County Community College is not affiliated with this event and the college should not be contacted regarding the program
May 5, 2016 | Fox Hunt
Our next PAARC fox hunt will be on May 14th at 10:00 am.
The Fox
We’ll start at the Pottsgrove Middle School on 1351 N. Hanover St., Pottstown 19464 N 40 deg., 16.27 min, W 75 deg. 38.15 min.
If anyone needs to borrow equipment contact Jim, k3chj@arrl.net. I have a log periodic antenna, passive & active attenuators, a boat anchor 2m radio with an analog s meter plus a PennDOT map. Bob, K3DBD will be the fox. Visit the Fox Hunting page for additional information. – Jim, K3CHJ Huntmaster
May 9, 2016 | Events
W3W : Continental District Aviation Camporee Radio Merit Badge Day
Starting Friday, 5/13, at 4:00 pm through Sunday, 5/15, at 12:00 pm, look for calls W3W and K3ZMC. W3W is the primary station. W3W is being used for all Scouts to earn a radio merit badge at our local Limerick Twp. Heritage Field Airport. It is a three day event. W3W is the most important station to spot for contacts. Please be available to help these scouts earn their radio merit badge.
BSA Radio Merit Badge
K3ZMC will be a demo station for people to operate at this event. It is very helpful if our members spot us on the DX cluster.
I’ll be using WWW.DXWATCH.COM; you must sign in to spot us. It’s free to use and I use it exclusively – it’s a wonderful service. If you have logging programs many of them will add a spot if you enable them to do so. Either way it goes out to the same places. We have found that this works really well for our public demo of Amateur Radio Operations to keep non-local contacts going.
If you can, monitor the repeater 147.210 on Saturday. If we need to make a local contact, hopefully we can coordinate with you wherever we might be HF,VHF or UHF.
Walt – KB3SBC and Bill – KA3RMM will have a set of questions that the kids need to ask for every contact – please be patient with the kids. It often takes some coaching to get them through the contacts. Click here to download the script they’ll use.
Thanks for your support. – Ed – N3WXW
