[SMCARA] PVRC Meeting or Pig-Out with the Hams - PM Edition

[ken.mcneely at yahoo.com]

It's on the calendar. What about Porking with PVRC for a name?


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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Tom Shelton <gl1800winger at verizon.net> </div><div>Date:05/09/2014  09:26  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: "'SMCARA Reflector (E-mail)'" <smcara at mailman.qth.net> </div><div>Subject: [SMCARA] PVRC Meeting or Pig-Out with the Hams - PM Edition </div><div>
</div>This is an opportunity to visit with your fellow local hams, meet some
others, share a good meal, and find out about the Potomac Valley Radio Club.



Interested in Contesting? Want to learn how to optimize your station not
only for contesting, but to become the best operator you can be?



PVRC is a regional amateur radio club devoted to excellence in the
competitive aspects of ham radio, particularly contesting.  Currently, the
club has over 750 members, of whom over 500 live within the 175-mile radius
<http://pvrc.org/pvrc_circle/PVRC_Circle.htm>  that ARRL and CQ have decreed
for eligibility to participate in club competition in the 14 contests they
sponsor each year that have that category.  PVRC places high nationally in
all of these contests, and wins at least one or two nearly every year.



The next Southern Maryland PVRC Chapter meeting will be Wednesday, May 28th
at Nicolletti's Pizza located

at: 22741 Three Notch Road California, MD 20619 Phone: 301-863-2233.  Check
out their menu here:

http://www.nicollettis.com/Menu/Starters/

Meet and Eat 6:30 - 7:30, PVRC meeting afterwards.



Talk in on the N3NO Repeater 145.350 (-) PL 156.7



All are welcome - PVRC members, PVRC prospective members, PVRC Curious,
Guests, etc.

Please e-mail me off-line if you plan on attending as I need to get
Nicolletti's a head count.

The only requirement for membership is an amateur radio license (any class)
and an active interest in contesting.  It doesn't matter whether you have
your own station, or how elaborate it is.  It doesn't matter whether your
interest is HF, or VHF, or you don't even know yet. 
All members need to reside or operate inside the 175-mile circle to
contribute points to PVRC in the major club
competitions.  Your local chapter chairman can confirm that your QTH is
inside the radius.

Otherwise, the situation is pretty simple.  You need to attend two meetings
to become a member.  There are no dues for PVRC, except by voluntary
donation.  Instead, we think your "dues" should be the submission of scores
for the club in 2 (hopefully more) of the contests we enter as a club every
year.  If you can't operate from home, we'll be glad to help you line up an
opportunity to operate, either as part of a team at a multi-operator station
or as a "guest op" at a member's station.  PVRC members help each other with
antenna work, with technical issues, and with operating skill development.
Learn how to contest with PVRC, and you'll have the satisfaction of watching
your skills (and your scores) grow year by year.

Some people tend to think of PVRC as composed entirely of "big guns."
Nothing could be further from the truth.  In fact, the average PVRC member's
station probably consists of a transceiver, a tribander, and wires for 40
and 80 meters, on a city lot.  some of our members even operate in contests
with indoor antennas and QRP power.  

So c'mon, join the fun!

Tom Shelton, ND3N (ex-AB3IC)

Ham Radio, Motorcycling, and a Loving Wife who lets me play with both

What more could a man need



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