[TAC] TAC meeting and PA qso party

[Tim Eklin]

Hey Eino:

Thanks for moving the meeting to Wednesday's. However, I'll be in New
Hampshire on the 15th for school. I wish I could attend - I'll try and
catch the next one.

jj

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Ian Hill <ihk8mm at charter.net> wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> Let's have a meeting Wednesday the 15th of October. We are going to try E.G.
> Nick's in Lapeer to get away from the Karaoke and cigarette smoke. We
> decided to move the meeting nights to Wednesday evenings so W8JJ can attend.
> He's teaching a class on Tuesday evening.
>
> The PA qso party is this weekend. This one is a fun one to operate from MI.
> All you really need are low dipoles on 40, 80, and 160 and you will put a
> good signal into PA. Operating Periods – 1600Z October 11 to 0500Z October
> 12, and 1300Z October 12 to
> 2200Z October 12.
>
> Bands for the QSO Party:
> 160 meters
> 80 meters
> 75 meters
> 40 meters
> 20 meters
> 15 meters
> 10 meters
> 6 meters
> 2 meters
> Above 2 meters, QSOs are permitted, but those frequencies are not much in
> use for the
> party at this time. Interested Operators are encouraged to set up skeds if
> desired.
> Suggested Frequencies:
> SSB: 1.850, 3.825, 7.200, 14.280, 21.380, 28.480, 50.125, 146.55. Note that
> 12, 17, 30,
> 60 meter and repeater QSOs are not permitted.
> CW: 40 KHz up from the bottom and 1810KHz
> PSK: 3.580, 7.080, 14.07015, 21.080, 50.250
> RTTY: 3.580, 7.080, 14.080, 21.080, 28.080
>
> Here are a couple windows based logging programs that will handle the PA qso
> party.
>
> Writelog - http://www.writelog.com/
> N1MM - (I use N1MM...it's free and better than writelog.) www.n1mm.com
>
> I'm not sure if CT for windows handles PaQP or not, but it is freeware too.
>
> For those that would rather hand log, They also have a downloadable PaQP
> package on their website. The entire package includes the Summary, non-form
> Summary, Party Rules, Party Records, log sheet, and Dupe sheet.
> http://www.nittany-arc.net/entryforms.htm
>
>
> Ian - K8MM
> TAC PFL
>
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