From aa4fu73 at gmail.com  Sat Feb  1 02:11:37 2014
From: aa4fu73 at gmail.com (Alan Knight)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 02:11:37 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] First 3830 Data Pull
Message-ID: <CACYvu2R5_YK+w0HqY6s3AnJVUhbYydS6H+V9bdoMrvib=Y8Z=A@mail.gmail.com>

FYI, I pulled the PVRC score data from 3830, but didn't realize until after
I had uploaded the scores to our database, that the downloadable version of
3830 isn't quite up to date.  So, there are a few scores that were posted
to 3830 after 7AM Friday that aren't in the database yet.  I'll do another
pull of the data later this morning to capture the last few.

73,
Alan - AA4FU

From aa4fu73 at gmail.com  Sun Feb  2 23:17:09 2014
From: aa4fu73 at gmail.com (Alan Knight)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 23:17:09 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] WC6DX on 160m
Message-ID: <CACYvu2Sg3muYuZ7++Z-_J4xJ0DEH1C4PRXrWDY=ohii2z5bZvA@mail.gmail.com>

Has anybody worked WC6DX on 160m?  I got a card from him, but he wasn't in
my log.  He's trying for WAS on 160 and needs North Carolina.  I have his
SASE, so if anyone has worked him let me know and I'll bring the SASE to
the next meeting.


73,
Alan

From aa4fu73 at gmail.com  Tue Feb  4 19:55:51 2014
From: aa4fu73 at gmail.com (Alan Knight)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:55:51 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] 5M Scores Update
Message-ID: <CACYvu2SYCLEf=B2DqQEiW=BGQxW1cYbwMBE-Otvv4hnrgSDG4A@mail.gmail.com>

The scores for the two January NA QSO Parties (CW & SSB) as well as the CQ
160 CW Contest have been posted to the 5M database.  As always, let me know
if you see an error.

The PVRC Chapter Challenge totals for NAQP CW are here:
http://www.pvrc.org/5M/contestregiontotal.php?year=2014&contest=NQPJCW

and the SSB numbers are here:
http://www.pvrc.org/5M/contestregiontotal.php?year=2014&contest=NQPJSB

There is a difference in these numbers and the preliminary numbers in the
February newsletter.  I haven't spent much time investigating it, but I
suspect it is probably due to a few late score submissions and also by how
M/2 scores were handled.  In the preliminary scores the host's chapter got
full credit for a M/2 score.  However, the final scores are split according
to the operator's chapter.  So, for example, if a 4 person team had 3
operators from NC East and 1 from NC West, NC East would get 75% of the
score and NC West would get 25%.

73,
Alan - AA4FU

From n4ydu at yahoo.com  Wed Feb  5 19:30:06 2014
From: n4ydu at yahoo.com (Nathan Moreschi)
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 19:30:06 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] Meeting Change Reminder
Message-ID: <298741EFEC634C8B9E01C5C59A9BD958@n4yduPC>

Club,

A friendly reminder that the PVRCNC meeting has been moved to February 13th (same time and place).

More details can be found at the link below.

http://pvrcnc.org/


73,

Nate/N4YDU

From mike at bentwire.net  Sun Feb  9 19:18:54 2014
From: mike at bentwire.net (mike at bentwire.net)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:18:54 +0000
Subject: [PVRCNC] N4GU WPX RTTY
In-Reply-To: <mailman.8022.1391986549.6850.pvrc@mailman.qth.net>
References: <mailman.8022.1391986549.6850.pvrc@mailman.qth.net>
Message-ID: <dc5ae9f076ea7b799f2f61d53bad0c41@10.12.2.250>

                    CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: N4GU
Operator(s): N4GU
Station: N4GU

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 9

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
   80:    0
   40:   52
   20:  139
   15:  177
   10:    2
------------
Total:  370  Prefixes = 252  Total Score = 208,908

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Someone else commented that RTTY can be additive. I'll second that. Had
fun just messing around a little here and there between family obligations
and other household chores. N1MM says 9 hrs but that's a generous estimate.
Activity was good. Discovered the C3 VSWR on 10m is bad enough the KPA500
wants to fault, hence the low 10m number. All of this is really just to
make sure I'm ready for NAQP RTTY.



From Will.Roberts at duke-energy.com  Mon Feb 10 08:21:45 2014
From: Will.Roberts at duke-energy.com (Roberts, Will)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:21:45 +0000
Subject: [PVRCNC] Urgent - Need laptop with serial port or USB-serial
 adapter that actually works
Message-ID: <376E029D60458F4E824C3229E9CB9B9B47AF1FE8@IMCLTEXCP60.nam.ent.duke-energy.com>

Getting ready to head to YN2 land for ARRL CW. Found my trusty old Sony logging laptop has crashed. It had a real serial and parallel port which was perfect for N1MM Logger, CW and rig control.

My backup was to use USB-serial adapters with my other laptops (Windows XP and Windows 7/64 bit). After spending a frustrating day, I could not get either adapter to work with either laptop. Even the $50 "real deal" Elecraft adapter wouldn't work.

I'm now starting to get to panic mode as I'm leaving Tuesday (weather permitting). I need to buy/borrow a laptop that has a t least one DB9 type serial port (a parallel port would be lovely as well but I can make do with a serial) OR a USB adapter that will work with Win7/64.

Would appreciate any help/suggestions.

73,

Will AA4NC
919-819-5111


From Will.Roberts at duke-energy.com  Mon Feb 10 16:16:30 2014
From: Will.Roberts at duke-energy.com (Roberts, Will)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:16:30 +0000
Subject: [PVRCNC] Thanks guys!!
Message-ID: <376E029D60458F4E824C3229E9CB9B9B47AF23A6@IMCLTEXCP60.nam.ent.duke-energy.com>

As usual, this group came to my rescue and has offered computers and assistance in a flash! Much appreciated...

Now if I can get Mother Nature to cooperate and not cancel my flights, I'll see you soon on the air as YN2NC.

Kudos to N4CW, K4HA, K4XD, K4QPL, K3KO

73,

Will AA4NC


From n4ydu at yahoo.com  Wed Feb 12 14:40:30 2014
From: n4ydu at yahoo.com (Nathan Moreschi)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:40:30 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] Meeting Cancelled
Message-ID: <D8E90F5C65C0411EA0BC00CCEADC5AA8@n4yduPC>

Club,

Due to the weather, the PVRCNC meeting scheduled for February 13th has been cancelled. John?s (K4BAI) flight up was cancelled as well.

73,

Nate/N4YDU

From alsopb at nc.rr.com  Thu Feb 13 12:54:04 2014
From: alsopb at nc.rr.com (Brian Alsop)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:54:04 +0000
Subject: [PVRCNC] PC parts wanted
Message-ID: <52FD06BC.2070302@nc.rr.com>

Guys,

I'm trying to put together a clone of my main station computer.
I have obtained an identical mother board.  Have 60 days warranty so I 
want to put a bare bones implementation before warranty runs out.

The following parts are needed:
1) SATA HD >60 Gb
2) 1 or 2 GB RAM stick desktop -DDR2-800 CL6 SDRAM unbuffered (PC2 6400)
3) Heatsink/fan for 2.7 GHz dual core pentium E5400
4) Intel E5400 CPU.

Shop local first...

73 de Brian/K3KO


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From mike at bentwire.net  Thu Feb 13 19:19:01 2014
From: mike at bentwire.net (Mike Barts)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:19:01 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] NAQP RTTY
Message-ID: <mailman.128.1392337158.6847.pvrcnc@mailman.qth.net>

Hope everybody has survived the snow and ice and staying warm and dry 
in front of the radio today.

Next weekend (Feb 22/23)  I know lots of PVRCNC members will be 
working the NC QSO Party on Sunday. Hope to see you there. But 
Saturday is the 3rd of the winter NAQP contests. You know, the RTTY 
one that everybody forgets about. Yeah, I usually do too. But this 
year we got some *incentive* to figure out how to make our carriers 
diddle. PVRC is competing against NCCC and SMC for the club challenge 
thingie and RTTY NAQP is part of that. We also have the inter-chapter 
competition within PVRC. PVRCNC-East is leading after the phone and 
cw contests. We need a good showing in the RTTY portion to maintain our lead.

So who's up to be on the PVRCNC-East NAQP RTTY team? My hand is up. 
It won't interfere with your NCQP plans.

73, Mike N4GU



From n4ydu at yahoo.com  Mon Feb 17 09:01:39 2014
From: n4ydu at yahoo.com (Nathan Moreschi)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:01:39 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] ARRL DX CW N4YDU SOABHP
Message-ID: <E61E5C603B4E44C8A6C85C2AFAD0896E@n4yduPC>

ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: N4YDU
Operator(s): N4YDU
Station: N4YDU

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 38.5
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   21    18
   80:  159    51
   40:  525    74
   20:  819    85
   15:  808    87
   10:  574    82
-------------------
Total: 2906   397  Total Score = 3,462,237

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

After many years of doing this with 100 watts, I ventured into the high power
category this time around. It made for a very enjoyable event. 

Conditions were fantastic with the only low point coming for a few hours
shortly after the halfway point when the low bands were a wreck. The nighttime
high-band conditions provided plenty of excitement. It was a pleasant surprise
to get such great conditions to Asia. 10 meters was fantastic to Asia shortly
after sunset. 

I was just about to go to bed the second night and decided to take a spin
through 20 meters. That was about 2 in the morning local time. The JA run that
transpired was one like I had never experienced. It felt like a high band
European run. I finally went to bed at 4 in the morning and did not return
until an hour after sunrise. I tried to get up, but as I stood up I realized I
was just too darn tired. 

10,15 and 20 were super while 40 was OK. 80 was fine the first night but a bust
the second night. 160 was poor.

What an exciting event. I think I'll stick to high power in the future
as well.

73,

Nate/N4YDU

Station:
Radio A: Kenwood 850, SB200
Radio B: Kenwood 850, Ameritron AL 811

Antennas:
10 meters: 2 element wire delta loop at 50 feet fixed NE

15 meters: 4 element Cushcraft yagi at 30 feet fixed NE, 2 element delta loop
fixed NW

20 meters: 3 element Hygain yagi at 30 feet fixed NE, Comtek 4 square,
rectangular loop at 65 feet

Three band dipole for 10/15/20 at 55 feet NW/SE

Hygain TH2 fixed SW at 25 feet

40 meters: Comtek 4 Square

80 meters: 1/4 wave vertical

160M: Inverted L

K9AY RX antenna with Hilltop Phasing Box

Wintest Software

From ea5dfv at gmail.com  Mon Feb 17 12:32:57 2014
From: ea5dfv at gmail.com (Jose Miguel Femenia-Herrero)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:32:57 +0100
Subject: [PVRCNC] ARRLDX CW EA5DFV SO Unlimited HP
Message-ID: <CABAJ45PgdebcVf0rbPGSRg9FXjbV7LxwaEfM5t-6HLXsWdLPjg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello!

Hope everybody was OK after the snow, ice and hard winter weather.

I have a good time on the bands in this past ARRL DX CW. Mostly S&P
and spotting, with very good conditions and great signals, especialy
from PVRC calls.

I was very happy to meet Nate N4YDU on 3 bands and  Bert and Jim  at
N4CW on two. But it seem a great PVRC activity: 99 QSO with 49
distinct PVRC calls.

73 de Jose.

                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: EA5DFV
Operator(s): EA5DFV
Station: EA5DFV

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: JM08as
Operating Time (hrs): 16

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:    0     0
   80:   37    20
   40:  116    33
   20:  205    50
   15:  170    48
   10:  175    51
-------------------
Total:  703   202  Total Score = 426,018

Club: Torrent Contest Club

Comments:

-- 
Jose Miguel Femenia Herrero EA5DFV
Pda. Cometes, 3/2
03750 PEDREGUER (Alicante)  Espa?a.

From bemeier at bellsouth.net  Mon Feb 17 22:23:06 2014
From: bemeier at bellsouth.net (Bruce Meier)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:23:06 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] ARRLDX CW N1LN SOSB/15 HP
Message-ID: <001301cf2c58$bedb21d0$3c916570$@net>

                   ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: N1LN
Operator(s): N1LN
Station: N1LN

Class: SOSB/15 HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:           
   80:           
   40:           
   20:           
   15: 1446   114
   10:           
-------------------
Total: 1446   114  Total Score = 494,532

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

A M2 team was not able to be put together so thought I would try a single
band
15 meter entry. That turned out to be a good choice. Initially, my goal was
to
make a major effort but a few things got in the way on both Saturday and
Sunday. For example, the USA vs Russia hockey game, the Duke vs Maryland
basketball game, the State vs Syracuse basketball game and then on Sunday
the
snow finally melted enough for me to continue working on my 80 meter phased
verticals so outside I went. Finally, Saturday evening I shut down about
0000
UTC and probably missed some Asia mults, for sure some Qs. As you can see,
the
full time effort was not there. N1MM reported 19 hours and I am surprised
that
I got that much time in.   

The part time effort was easier and more fun as the band was always open
when I
got back in the chair. Friday night I was only on for about 1 hour to see if
the
band was going to be open into Asia. One word, YES. When I got back on at
about
1200 UTC Saturday morning it sounded like all of Europe was waiting for me
to
show up.  The first CQ yielded zero responses. The second CQ resulted in one
of
the largest pileups that I have experienced. Skimmer was working in Europe.
My
rate did not reflect the quantity of callers nor how long the pileup lasted
because many were on my calling frequency. I finally tightened the K3 down
to
200hz and moved my RX frequency by about 40 hz which really helped. Sunday
morning started earlier, around 1100 UTC, but that was too early from this
QTH.
The band opened around 1145.  Both Saturday and Sunday afternoon around 2100
UTC
I turned the stack fom EU to JA. The excellent conditions brought in some
nice
Asia mults to add to the total. The multipliers kept coming right up to the
end
with the last two being BU2AV and 9M6XRO. When the clock hit 2359 UTC on
Sunday
I had almost as many JA Qs as DL, with the respective totals 142 and 176.
Not
quite like the JA QSO counts when I lived in Texas, but the best so far from
NC.  

This was definitely a IF ONLY or WHAT IF weekend.  What kind of totals would
I
have if I operated for the entire time the band was open? Guess that will
wait
for next time.

Thanks for all the Qs. Thanks to the many QRP stations that hung in there
until
I got all the info correct. Sorry to the callers that I could just not pull
out.
Thanks to the outstanding conditions, there were not many.

Station:
K3 
Acom 2000A
5 x 5 x 5
N1MM

73,
Bruce N1LN


From n4af at n4af.net  Tue Feb 18 09:00:42 2014
From: n4af at n4af.net (Howard Hoyt)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:00:42 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] ARRLDX CW NY4A
Message-ID: <CACgw-M9dz5r3ENnu=PdfGe=ZTzVw-H9AuhME8=r07EMdv+Q6TA@mail.gmail.com>

A nice balance of operators for the M/2 effort as K2SX and K4BAI
traveled up from SC/GA to assist AA4FU, K4QPL, and I.

Special thanks to K4QPL for helping nightowl AA4FU keep the radios
humming thru the night.

Band QSOs Mults
160: 39 35
80: 510 77
40: 1267 103
20: 1894 115
15: 1591 118
10: 1285 110
Total: 6586qso's   558mults Total Score 10,958,004

73, Howie

http://n4af.net

From n4ydu at yahoo.com  Sun Feb 23 20:27:08 2014
From: n4ydu at yahoo.com (Nathan Moreschi)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:27:08 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] NCQP N4YDU
Message-ID: <4532751369264579B80C51B20C578606@n4yduPC>

Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Mul
   3.5  LSB     60     120    8
     7  LSB    184     368   58
    14  USB    315     630   27
    21  USB     52     104   13
    28  USB     11      22    2
Total  Both   622    1244  108
Score: 134,652

SSB only about 9 hours in the chair. Fun event ? great work by the organizers again.

73,

Nate/N4YDU

From aa4fu73 at gmail.com  Sun Feb 23 20:37:56 2014
From: aa4fu73 at gmail.com (Alan Knight)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:37:56 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] NCQP AA4FU
Message-ID: <CACYvu2SS2rSGP56i-vSEHnLFL=QDu2MrPMAcMk-1nXG2SDQ8Sg@mail.gmail.com>

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Mul
         3.5      62     186    2
           7     188     564   75
          14     114     342   26
          21      21      63    3
          28       4      12    1
       Total     389    1167  107


            Score : 125,169

All CW.  Score a little better than last year.  I think that's primarily
due to Bert activating so many counties.  I lost count of how many times we
worked :-)

73,
Alan - AA4FU

From w0uce at nc.rr.com  Sun Feb 23 21:37:16 2014
From: w0uce at nc.rr.com (W0UCE)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:37:16 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] NCQP N4C (W0UCE) SO CW HP
Message-ID: <025d01cf3109$554cffd0$ffe6ff70$@nc.rr.com>

North Carolina QSO Party
Call: N4C
Operator(s): W0UCE
Station: W0UCE

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: NC / FRA
Operating Time (hrs): 9:30

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
----------------------------
   80:   63              
   40:  182              
   20:  161              
   15:   36              
   10:    3              
    6:                   
    2:                   
----------------------------
Total:  445     0       0  Mults = 0  Total Score = 139,040

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:
As my two Miniature Schnauzers, Freddie and Eddie and their (UCE provided
vanity calls K-9FRE and K-9EDD) will gladly confirm, conditions today were
Ruff, Ruff, Ruff.
Despite conditions, this was another fine NCQP and I thank everyone for the
Qs everyone provided. This "Old Man" is getting too old to hang in there for
this much BIC time...
My hat is off to the N4E Crew who provided N4C with 24 Qs, whoever you are,
you were on a roll and what a great job county hopping job you accomplished.

73,
Jack N4C / W0UCE





From Will.Roberts at duke-energy.com  Mon Feb 24 10:44:51 2014
From: Will.Roberts at duke-energy.com (Roberts, Will)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:44:51 +0000
Subject: [PVRCNC] YN2NC (AA4NC) ARRL DX CW
Message-ID: <376E029D60458F4E824C3229E9CB9B9B47AF626B@IMCLTEXCP60.nam.ent.duke-energy.com>

Call: YN2NC
Operator(s): AA4NC
Station: YN2N

Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: Nicaragua
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Location: Other North America
Summary:

Band

QSOs

Mults

160:

80:

40:

20:

15:

10:

Total:

4540

331

Total Score

4,508,220



Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club



Nice to get away from the snow and ice back home to enjoy some warm weather and
play radio in Central America. Except for customs problems that shouldn't have
been in Managua, the trip was excellent. Enjoyed the hospitality of
Octavio, YN2N and his wife, Martha. She tried to fatten me up with her
great cooking.

Conditions were almost too good for the contest. When the bands are this good,
Central America and and the Caribbean are not the greatest location because
everyone in the states is beaming Europe well into the hours of darkness. It
was hard as a low power op to find a run frequency on 10 and 15m, with a wall
of signals over 100 Khz wide on each band. Nevertheless, it was a lot of fun
and I didn't kill myself from lack of sleep. Got over 4 hours each night, so it
was a semi-serious effort I guess. The station played well except for 160 where
the low horizontal dipole ran out of horsepower and I missed some easy mults
because I wasn't heard well in the midwest and west.

Enjoyed operating CW, RTTY and a little SSB outside the contest. It's always fun to wake up early and catch the openings from Central America to Asia on the low bands, then the sundown openings on 10/12/15m.  There's a lot of stuff going on that we don't hear in NC!

73 and thanks for the Qs,

Will YN2NC/AA4NC




From mike at bentwire.net  Mon Feb 24 19:25:10 2014
From: mike at bentwire.net (mike at bentwire.net)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:25:10 +0000
Subject: [PVRCNC] N1MM question
Message-ID: <c07a1163f0607ef21ac38a2f2c9f822d@10.12.2.250>

Ok, so here's what happened. I started the NCQP yesterday without the rig
and computer talking to one another. So I had to log the band changes
manually. Naturally, I changed bands once and made 3-4 Qs before I realized
I was logging on the wrong band. No problem, I edited those Qs and added a
note to each to change the band to the right one. (In the heat of battle I
didn't see the option to edit the frequency then and there)

Jump 24 hrs later, back home and taking care of the 'paperwork'. I can't
find those notes anywhere in N1MM! If I go to View Notes there is nothing
there. Anyone know where to go to find the notes I so carefully added to
the log. Otherwise, there's 3 Qs that will get dinged.

Mucho gracias in advanced.

73, Mike N4GU



From mike at bentwire.net  Mon Feb 24 19:49:35 2014
From: mike at bentwire.net (mike at bentwire.net)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:49:35 +0000
Subject: [PVRCNC] N4GU NxQP
Message-ID: <101c6173d78225646215ca6ac091bed2@10.12.2.250>

A twofer of QP's this weekend!

QP#1
                    North American QSO Party, RTTY - February

Call: K4FQU
Operator(s): N4GU
Station: K4FQU

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 8.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:  141    36
   40:  115    31
   20:  101    34
   15:   59    26
   10:   24    16
-------------------
Total:  440   143  Total Score = 62,920

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Team: PVRC Well-Rounded

Comments: Slow start on 10 and 15 but once the lower bands got going it
got pretty good. If the score holds up in log checking it should be a new
NC record for this contest ..... barring some better ops in-state.


QP#2

                    North Carolina QSO Party

Call: N4GU
Operator(s): N4GU
Station: N4GU

Class: Cnty Exped LP
QTH: WILSON
Operating Time (hrs): 8

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
----------------------------
   80:    0      4      0
   40:   91     43      0
   20:   79     88      0
   15:   23      0      0
   10:    0      0      0
    6:    0      0      0
    2:    0      0      0
----------------------------
Total:  193    135      0  Mults = 90  Total Score = 76,710

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments: My first time in the NCQP despite living here for about 6 years.
Went out to the MIL's farm in Wilson country since a) no one was announced
to activate it, and b) had not operated from out there before (possible
remote/2nd station location). After a fairly late finish in NAQP RTTY, I
got up early Sunday and headed to the farm. Erected an OCFD in a tree by
the house and was feeling pretty good about things. That's when it started
going downhill. First I realized that I had left my headset at home, so no
phone operation and was stuck listening to the back-firing speaker in the
TS-480. Then the laptop didn't recognize the USB-to-serial adapter despite
having just loaded the drivers the day before to confirm everything was
working. Of course, the driver disk was at home sitting by my headset.

Began the contest working cw Qs as best as I could. I know some of my dear
friends must have thought I had lost my mind those first couple of Qs. Lid
would be a generous description. Oh, and the paddle I brought with me
decided to make contact on the dah side just every once in a while, so no
hand sending either. Bumbled my way along for a couple of hours until the
XYL arrived with the long lost headset and driver disk. From that point on,
everything was fine except for the lull in activity mid-late afternoon. Or
maybe that was just me. I ended up working two other Wilson stations on
phone but do believe I was the only one on cw. Tnx for the Qs and see you
next year!

73, Mike N4GU


From K4QPL2 at nc.rr.com  Wed Feb 26 11:47:38 2014
From: K4QPL2 at nc.rr.com (Jim Jordan, K4QPL)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:47:38 -0500
Subject: [PVRCNC] Surplus antennas
Message-ID: <9215B45BB42B47B1B62A62C4F30B603E@JORDANLAW.local>

I've got too many unused antennas laying around. Anyone want a Hustler 
5-BTV? It's the 40-10 vertical but with the added 80M top load resonator and 
whip (which frankly is pretty useless and hard to tune. Your mileage may 
vary).

I bought it for the beach and it works fairly well 40-10 but unless I put 
out radials it's also difficult to get good SWR on all bands. Just too much 
work for weekend use.  No corrosion, has the optional coax SO-239 connector, 
in factory box.  $75 obo delivered to next club meeting.

Also old G5RV. Some splices in the copper wire but has the balun, ladder 
line and some coax. $20 obo.

73,

Jim 



From Will.Roberts at duke-energy.com  Thu Feb 27 10:01:06 2014
From: Will.Roberts at duke-energy.com (Roberts, Will)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:01:06 +0000
Subject: [PVRCNC] NCQP AA4NC Mixed
Message-ID: <376E029D60458F4E824C3229E9CB9B9B47B08196@IMCLTEXCP60.nam.ent.duke-energy.com>

     North Carolina QSO Party

Call: AA4NC
Operator(s): AA4NC
Station: AA4NC

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: Wake County
Operating Time (hrs): 3

Summary:
Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
----------------------------
   80:
   40:
   20:
   15:
   10:
    6:
    2:
----------------------------
Total:  103     92      0  Mults = 64  Total Score = 31,852

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Unfortunately didn't have a lot of time to operate this year. Seemed like
participation was lower at least at the time I was on.




