[PVRCNC] PVRCNC-East Chapter - July Meeting Notes

[Keith Zeringue]

PVRCNC-East Chapter - July Meeting Notes
July 5th, 2007, Manchester's, Raleigh, NC, USA.

There were with fourteen members in attendance and two guests, one of 
whom was attending his second meeting. Jim, K4QPL welcomed Jose, EA5DFV, 
who joined us for dinner. Jose was in the area visiting family, and had 
taken the time to get in contact with some of the people in his log. 
K4QPL turned it over directly to member reports.

Around the Table

NT4D, Jay :  Jay reported on his trip to West Virginia for a Field Day 
outing with a group of old friends - with "no 'Skeeters"

EA5DFV, Jose :  Jose opened by joking that his only English was "five 
nine, one four". He is an avid SSB contester from his QTH in southern 
Spain, and both hosts and participates in many multi-op contests. Jose 
thanked us for inviting him to our meeting, and also joked that as host 
of Spain's 20 meter IARU SSB station(AM5HQ), he had a good opportunity 
to "spy" on W1AW/4 during a visit to AA4NC's station. He reported that 
he also has developed an interest in operating some of the US state QSO 
parties.

NX9T, Jeff, :  Jeff reported going out to Ron's, N4XD, for Field Day. 
He's been traveling a lot lately, so he's had little time to spare for 
operating, but expected to operate IARU from his home "intermittently" 
as time allowed.

Bill, K4CIA:  Bill worked only 1 QSO in Field Day, with N4Q. Bill was 
bemoaning the recent poor conditions on six meters, although he was able 
to work a KH6 on six meters.

WA4WGA, Ray, :  Ray was attending his second meeting, and was 
nominated,seconded, and inducted as a member of PVRC/NC Chapter. He 
reported operating Field Day in Ohio, where the club he visited was 
using a Gap Titan. He is soon to move to Ohio, but appreciated being 
made a member of the PVRC/NC group.

W4MY, Marty:  Operated Field Day with the Tar River club, using a new 
location for their operation. He thinks he's located a new 
contester(KI4QXS) and hopes to be bringing him along to future meetings 
when possible. Marty also was interviewed by WZAX-FM on the Friday 
before Field day(ed. note: You can download an MP3 of the interview at: 
http://www.zaxradio.com/audio/young-joyner.mp3 )

W4KAZ, Keith:  Kaz reported on the Field Day operation using the special 
event call sign N4Q. He presented K4CIA with his N4Q QSL card, 
recognizing that Bill was the only local member to log the once in a 
life-time(so far) event. The operation was conducted by N4YDU, N4PY, 
K4CZ, K9EZ, and W4KAZ, racking up a modest 2093 mostly CW QSO's for 
about 7800 points. Kaz noted he "didn't use his MyCrowFone" for any of 
his FD Q's.

NT4Q, Jerry:  Jerry , claiming to be the "Original 4Q", reported that 
his HF yagi was completed, and after many setbacks the tower was DONE. 
He'll be in Florida and will miss IARU

KA1ARB, Rob:  Rob reported that he expected to begin breaking ground to 
dig a BIG hole for the base for his self supporting tower.

W0UCE, Jack:  Jack reported that his 1st place award for the xy?z?a SSB 
contest had not arrived, and he was dissappointed.

N1LN, Bruce :  Bruce was happy to report that he and XYL Laurie had two 
of their three planned towers built, with one stack of rohn 45 left 
outstanding. He also still has plenty of work left after that mounting 
all of the antennas, but he's been chipping away at the project as his 
time allows. He's expecting a piece of heavy equipment to arrive soon 
that will make trenching for cabling a much easier task in the hard NC 
clay soil. He operated Field Day with the Orange county group, where 
they do a QRP battery operation as W4EZ.

N1YXU, Laurie :   Laurie has been operating as ground crew for all of 
the tower construction with Bruce. She has become comfortable with the 
work as her experience level increases.

K4WES, Wes:  Operated Field day as a 3A operation with WW4M, Jim. 
Expecting to operate during IARU.

AA4NC, Will :   Will made 20 Field Day QSOs, and is hosting the 20 and 
40 meter SSB stations for IARU. He has himself, NT4D, KA1ARB, and K4MA 
down as operators, and invited anyone interested to drop by the house to 
operate.

K4QPL, Jim:   Jim operated Field Day with the CARS group again, where 
they logged about 1800 QSO's, and he thinks he may have found a K5 there 
who liked the idea of contesting. He's got a conflict with his plan to 
operate at N4AF for IARU with a family event, and the family event will 
probably win out.

K2AV, Guy:   Operated 1E for a bit during Field Day for fun, was looking 
towards the IARU operation at N4AF.

There was also a discussion of IARU. The stations will be registered by 
Howie with the ARRL, as the W1AW callsign is given with the permission 
of ARRL, via its trustee K1ZZ, David Sumner, and N4AF, Howie is 
responsible for the station assignments.
The current expectations for assignments are as follows, as of 06/07/07:

     * CW 160 --N4AF
     * CW 80 --N4AF
     * CW 40 --N4AF
     * CW 20 --N4AF
     * CW 15 --N4AF
     * CW 10 --AA4NC

     * SSB 160 -- unassigned
     * SSB 80 --WB4MSG
     * SSB 40 --AA4NC
     * SSB 20 --AA4NC
     * SSB 15 --KG4NEP
     * SSB 10 --KG4NEP

The meeting soon fell into anarchy at this point--propagation failed and 
the bands were soon dead.

Text of the July paper contest below--Consult W0UCE for the answer key.

73, Keith W4KAZ

Scribe's DISCLAIMER!  The accuracy of these notations is suspect, and 
creative license has been applied where the scribe's memory is 
fragmented or when reality was just less interesting. Perception IS 
Reality. Corrections to the permanent record will be made upon request.

Paper Contest July 2007--"Back Then"

    1. Your Callsign???
    2. J??'s can usuall be bought at hamfests for between $ and $
    3. At first, K's were where and W's were where?
    4. In 1952 KN4NCU held what license & what was his maximum allowed 
power?
    5. Now in some homes--back then rich guys had them in their shacks?
    6. This radio can be duplicated using a chunk found in a field?
    7. Up and out? What is the official name?
    8. Leo Myerson sold a series of transmitters that all had the same 
first name?
    9. Bill "whats his name?" was a former RX and TX maker.
   10. Kids have them now but back them they came from Benton Harbor?
   11. Mult Question: This band has two first names, what are they?