[PVRCNC] Special PVRCNC-East Meeting Wednesday, 9:30, 28.450 Mhz.

[Jim Jordan K4QPL]

Pursuant to Local Rule 2(B)(1)(4)(A)(L)(L), I am calling a Special Meeting
of PVRCNC-East on Wednesday, November 16 at 9:30 p.m.  And pursuant to
subsection R(f) a special meeting may be conducted by any reasonable means
of communication provided that such meeting does not replace a regular
monthly meeting.  Therefore the meeting will be by means of roll call on (or
near) 28.450 Mhz. Your secretary, Jeff, NX9T, concurs that such a meeting is
appropriate.

The purpose of the special meeting will be to vote on the membership
application of Chris Young, KC4HDI, to enable her to participate as a PVRC
member in the 2005 Phone SS. Her participation is also needed to bring the
W4MY multi-single effort into compliance with ARRL rules requiring at least
50% of the participants in a multi to be club members.

Many of you will have met Chris as she has attended the requisite two
regular club meetings in August and September of this year. Relevant
sections of the minutes follow:

Excerpt  August 4, 2005 Meeting at Manchester's:

"KC4HDI: Chris (XYL of W4MY) shared with us her
experience as a radio technician who has worked at TV
stations and other repair facilities. She has a 1rst
Class Radiotelephone license as well as a ham ticket.
While not currently very active in ham radio, her
license plate announcing her call sign is doing a
great job publicizing the hobby!"

September 1, 2005 at Manchester's:

"KC4HDI: Chris reported that she operated her first
contest ever (NAQP). She had a great time."

Voice vote will be taken on the air. If there are any objections, which I
doubt, you may "air" them or send an email proxy to me.

After the formal business has been taken care of, we will have an "audio
tuneup" session to give everyone the opportunity to tweak their bandwidth,
compression and gain for maximum contest effectiveness while receiving
honest reports from other members.

This is an extremely important precontest exercise, particularly for low
power stations. Something like 85% of the average voice is contained in
frequencies which carry no intelligibility value.  100 watts could be
effectively reduced to 15 if your contesting microphone and audio set up is
the hi-fi "Great audio" response curve. On the other side, excessive
compression or clipping can cause splatter and distortion. Just below that
point is where you want to be. You may sound high pitched or "tinny", but
that makes effective copy which is what you need. Ever wonder why YL's break
pileups easily? (Well that may be only one reason!)

We would welcome experienced phone contesters to help critique the settings
for the newer folks and for those more familiar with continuous wave.

See  you at the special MOTA Wednesday to welcome Chris into the club. I can
see Marty's station availability diminishing somewhat!

73,

Jim, K4QPL