PVRC Reunion 2024

Mon May 27 19:54:38 EDT 2024

All,

     The PVRC reunion is this weekend.  To help increase our participation
( which has dropped alarmingly over the past few years) we have changed the
rules this year).

     The reunion will take place the three hours a day on three separate
days (Friday, Sunday, and Monday) and at different times each day to give
us different propagation profiles.

      The reunion rules will be posted on the PVRC shortly.

     Your Reunion scores will immediately count for the PVRC Olympics and
5M program.  And to add some spice to life, our President, Doug AA3S, has
decided to double our scored to gain extra 5M credit.

     I hope to see each of you in the reunion.

     The following is an advance copy of the rules.

73...   Bill

Rules:

*PLEASE JOIN US on the air for the 2024 PVRC Reunion*

The PVRC 2023 Reunion will be held in three sessions of three hours each
with activity centered "on the 47's" to celebrate the founding of PVRC in
1947.

PVRC's motto of "Once a member, always a member" shines through and this is
an excellent opportunity to meet and greet on the air members you may not
know and others who are now living out of circle.

We are trying some new things this year to make the event more interesting
and to provide more ways to participate:

·         There will be three sessions on different days at different times
of day to allow for some propagation variety and to encourage “out of area”
PVRC members to participate. You can choose to participate in one, two or
all three sessions as fits your schedule and interest.

·         Each session will be three hours.

·         Within each session, there will be designated hours for different
modes – only QSOs on the designated mode may be made within those periods.
We will have designated periods for CW, SSB and RTTY

·         You may contact each station once on each of the designated modes
withing a session.

·         You may contact each station again, per mode, in each subsequent
session.

·         You can receive credit toward your PVRC Olympics Award by
participating in the PVRC Reunion

Following this year’s reunion, we encourage your feedback and ideas to make
the

PVRC Reunion an even better event.

*Dates, Times and Modes*

There will be three sessions of three hours each spread over three days.
Within each session there will be designated periods for different modes:

Friday, May 31: 2000Z – 2300Z (4 PM – 7 PM EDT)

·         First two hours – CW only

·         Third hour – SSB only

Sunday, June 2: 1700Z -2000Z (1 PM – 4 PM EDT)

·         First hour – CW only

·         Second hour – RTTY only

·         Third hour – SSB only

Monday, June 3: 2300Z – 0200Z (June 4 Z) (7 PM – 10 PM June 3 EDT

·         First 2 hours – CW only

·         Third hour – SSB only

*Modes and Center-of-Activity Frequencies*

Suggested CW frequencies: 1817, 3547, 7047, 14047, 21047 and 28047 kHz.

Suggested SSB frequencies: 1847, 3847, 7247, 14247, 21247, 28347

Suggest RTTY frequencies: 1827, 3577, 7077, 14077, 21077,28077

Moves between bands are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED.

*Scoring*

1 point for each QSO with PVRC members.  You may work each station once on
any band/mode combination in in each of the three sessions. Moves between
bands, especially at slow times, are highly suggested!

5 points for each QSO with special PVRC Club callsigns – W3GRF and W4KFC

*Spotting*

Spotting of PVRC members is highly encouraged. In fact, self-spotting in
this event is encouraged as well! It's amazing the level of non-member
activity you can stir up, especially on phone, with a few self-spots. The
on-the-air activity with nonmembers is an excellent opportunity to explain
a little about PVRC as a contesting club to non-members, and point them to
the PVRC website if they want more information about contesting or our club.

When spotting PVRC'ers for this reunion, please give a comment to the
effect of PVRC Reunion.

*Participation Eligibility*

Both PVRC Members and Non-Members are welcome to participate.

Non-members can work PVRC members for points and earn award certificates in
their own non-member category.

*CQ*

Call "CQ PVRC" on CW and RTTY, and "CQ PVRC Reunion" on SSB.

*Exchange*

The exchange remains unchanged from previous years.

A PVRC member's exchange is the year you joined PVRC, your name, your
state/country, and your callsign when you joined PVRC.

Example QSO between two PVRC members:

WX3B:    CQ PVRC DE WX3B WX3B K

K4ZW:    K4ZW

WX3B:    K4ZW 1998 JIM MD WA2GPQ

K4ZW:    WX3B   86 KEN VA KE9A

WX3B:    TU WX3B

 Note: A non-member only gives his name and state/country for the exchange

*Logger Support*

You can use any general-purpose logger for this contest. You will have to
count up member and non-member QSO's when filling out the score summary
form.

A UDC file is available to teach N1MM+ how to handle the PVRC Reunion. It
will handle scoring for you automatically. Please right-click and download
PVRC2024.UDC and save it in your Documents\N1MM Logger+\UserDefinedContests
directory. Then quit and restart N1MM+ and you will find PVRC2024 available
as a contest log type you can create.

A YouTube video is available to help you download, install, and use the
PVRC2024 UDC module.

Access it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccVPtuB57-8.

*Results Submission*

The preferred means of submitting your results is to submit your score for
each session to the 3830scores.com web site.

If you prefer, you can submit a Cabrillo log or a log summary in lieu of a
3830 entry as described below.  *The 3830 submission is preferred*.

Send your Cabrillo log, or a log summary (see below), by E-mail to N3QE:

tshoppa at gmail.com

If you choose to submit a log summary, it should contain the following
information:

For each session: member and non- member QSO count for each mode.

For each session: Special PVRC Club callsigns QSO for each mode

Also feel free to post your log summary and soapbox comments to the PVRC
mailing list!

*PVRC Olympics Credit*

For the current PVRC Contest Season, 2023-2024 ending June 30, the PVRC
Reunion counts as an extra contest towards meeting your PVRC Olympic medal
goals with the easier thresholds as described below.

So, if you are one contest short of qualifying for a PVRC Olympic medal
then you can get the one contest credit you need in the PVRC Reunion by:

·         One or more QSOs in any mode for Bronze medal qualification

·         Two QSOs or more with at least one QSO in each of two modes for
Silver medal qualification

·         Three QSOs or more with at least one QSO in each of the three
modes for Gold medal qualification