PVRC 2024 Reunion

[Bill Axelrod]

I made a few errors on my recent email to you all.

Frist, the 2024 reunion *will* count for this season's Olympics.  It *will
not* count for the 5M award.

73...   Bill
Here's the latest notice:

PLEASE JOIN US on the air for the 60th Anniversary 2024 PVRC Reunion!
   Announcing the PVRC Reunion On The Air 60 the Anniversary over three
days from May 31 – June
3, 2024 and some other changes from previous years to how it works now!
    The first PVRC Reunion On The Air was held in 1964 with 71
participants! See the scoring results
at https://www.pvrc.org/reunion/FIRSTreunion1964.JPG
That was a one-day event. Changes have been made over the years to
encourage increased
participation, such as having the Reunion span various hours in several
successive days.
    Without any change to the existing Reunion rules there is a conflict
between it and a PVRC 5M
contest, so with some prompting and encouragement from past president Tom
K3AJ, your PVRC
Officers have now resolved that conflict and modified the details of the
scoring rules to (we hope) get
more participation and enjoyment in our PVRC Reunion On The Air.
    The changes are described in detail below, but in summary the new
Reunion:
-- spans 3 days, 3 hours each day (no conflict with 5M contests or
scheduled PVRC Chapter
meetings)
-- those 9 hours include early afternoon, evening and night hours (East
Coast) to accommodate
personal schedules and propagation coverage changes
-- for each of the 3 days there will be designated hours for CW, SSB and
RTTY modes – only QSOs
on the designated mode may be made within the hour designated for it.
-- adds a contest; to the PVRC Olympics
-- increases scores for those who have valid Reunion QSOs with the special
PVRC Club callsign
stations, W4KFC or W3GRF (see the various PVRC History links on our
website, e.g.
https://www.pvrc.org/pvrc1958.htm)

Dates, Times and Modes
There will be three sessions (days) of three hours each spread over three
days. Within each session
(day) there will be designated periods for different modes:
Friday, May 31: 2000Z – 2300Z (4 PM – 7 PM EDT)
 First hour – CW only
 Second hour – SSB only
 Third hour – CW 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 hour – CW only
 Second hour – SSB only
 Third hour – CW only

Modes, Bands and Center-of-Activity Frequencies

Activity is only on the bands below; it is suggested to operate "on the
47s" to celebrate the founding
of PVRC in 1947.
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
Any participant: 1 point for each QSO with PVRC members.
PVRC members: 1 point for each QSO with PVRC members and 1 point per QSO
with non-members
if as a result of the member’s “CQ PVRC”. This way PVRC members are
encouraged to work non-
members who call the PVRC member. You may work each station once on any
band/mode
combination in each of the three sessions. Moves between bands, especially
at slow times, are highly
suggested! So, for example you may work the same station 42 times for QSO
points during the
Reunion: twelve times (6 bands x 2 modes) on each of the first and last
days and eighteen times on
the middle day (since it allows all 3 modes).
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 (pvrc.org) to get
more information about contesting or our club.
When spotting PVRC'ers for this reunion, please give a comment
including “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
is an aid to help you
track scoring for you automatically in real time. 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. Thanks to Tim
N3QE for creating this UDC!
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

Lastly, For this upcoming PVRC Reunion only, as a PVRC member your point
score in our Reunion will be doubled if you use the online scoreboard in
real-time during the Reunion.

 Reunion scores will be posted in our Newsletter and on our Reflector.
Have fun!
--
73, Doug --- AA3S
PVRC President
Final scores will be determined by the PVRC Officers and posted to the PVRC
Reflector.
Please do post your soapbox comments to the PVRC Reflector mailing list;
posting after each
session is encouraged! Also feel free to post your log summary.
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
You do not need to participate in the PVRC Reunion to qualify for an
Olympic medal under the current
rules from our website and named “PVRC Olympics 2022 Rules (This Year!)”
https://www.pvrc.org/PVRC%20Olympics%20Rules%202021-2022(1).pdf.
Finally…
"Once a member, always a member of PVRC" so this 60th Anniversary PVRC
Reunion On The Air this
is an excellent opportunity to meet and greet on the air those members you
may not know and others
who are now living out of circle.
And if you are out of circle, this Reunion is a great opportunity for you
to connect with those of us
who may not have heard from you in a while!
Following this year’s reunion, we encourage your feedback and ideas to make
the
PVRC Reunion an even better event.
Have Fun!
Doug Hart, AA3S
PVRC President