PARS BREAKFAST MEETING THIS COMING SATURDAY
Our next meeting will be at 0900 this Saturday, Jan 25th, at Brantley’s
Village Restaurant on Broad Street in Oriental. Please park on the side or
out back. Our meetings are held the last Saturday of each month except June
when the club participates in the annual ARRL Field Day or when in conflict
with a major holiday. After a short business meeting Bill will lead a
seminar on “Grounding”. We hope to see you all there. For more
information contact Pamlico Amateur Radio Society President Bill Olah,
KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com.
Meeting planners are looking for suggestions for presentations at our club
meetings. What do you want to talk about, discuss, learn, or even build?
Let Bill or Randy know, put a comment on our N4PRS Web Site, or reply to
this PARSgram. Thanks.
EQUIPMENT TO BE SOLD AT THE JANUARY MEETING
As many of you know, Ross Knowles KG4AWF passed away last August. His
daughter on behalf of the Estate has donated his equipment to benefit PARS.
These items will be first offered at auction at the meeting on Saturday:
* ICOM IC-208H Dual Band Mobile FM Transceiver (orig retail $329.95). Very
clean. Lightly used if at all. Expect bid minimum of $150.00.
* ICOM IC-W32A HT Dual Band Transceiver w/charger (orig MSRP $260). Note,
the IC-W32 has been a workhorse for satellite communications due to its
portable crossband capability.
* ALINCO X10 Handheld Communication Receiver w/charger
* STANDARD HX-255S Handheld Marine Band VHF Transceiver w/charger
* Radio Shack “Racing” headphones with volume control (2 sets)
* KOSS TD60 Stereo headphones
ICOM USA HEADQUARTERS AND SERVICE CENTER RELOCATED
After 30 years at the Bellevue, WA, location, ICOM has moved to larger
quarters. The relocation included not only the administrative offices but
also the sales and service departments. ICOM advises that returns and
warranty repairs are to be sent to the new address at
12421 Willows Road NE
Kirkland, WA 98034
Rather than send your repairs across the country, there is a ICOM Service
Center closer to Pamlico County that provides excellent service. ICOM
Service Center Michigan may be contacted at (269)-429-2334. The address is:
ICOM Service Center Michigan
1792 Nash Dr.
St. Joseph, MI 49085
UPGRADE
Just in… Jack Russell KK4UTK, member of the PARS Fall 2013 Technician
Class, took and passed the FCC examination for a General Class license grant
on Saturday in Morehead City. Listen for KK4UTK/AG on the HF bands
soon. Congratulations Jack!
SOLAR NUMBERS TODAY
NOAA reported that solar activity was low during the 24 hours ending Sunday
night at 5 pm local. The largest solar event of the period was a C2 event
observed at 19/0658Z from Region 1959 . There are currently 9 numbered
sunspot regions on the disk, several of them just recently rotating into
view. Even with the new regions, the Sunspot count this morning is 91, down
from the 118 we saw last Monday morning. The Solar Flux is 128, also a drop
from 155 last Monday. The Solar Flux is expected to remain about the same
through Wednesday. NOAA predicts Solar activity is likely to be low with a
slight chance for M-class flares through Wednesday.
The Earth’s geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled over the weekend. The
estimated planetary K-index at 10 am local today was 1. Geomagnetic
conditions are expected to be quiet today, quiet to unsettled on Tuesday
and back to quiet on Wednesday. There is a solar wind flowing from a new
coronal hole that should reach Earth tomorrow or Wednesday.
DX CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK
ECUADOR, HC. Rick, NE8Z will be active as HC1MD and HC1MD/HC2
between January 19 and February 10, 2014. Activity will be on 40 to
10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL both HC1MD and HC1MD/HC2 via
K8LJG direct or LOTW.
QSO CORNER
This is the place to post contacts with DXpeditions, Special Event
Stations, or special QSO’s you would like to share.
Nada…
OTHER ACTIVITY ON THE RADIO:
This info is extracted from the ARRL Letter, from the WA7BNM Contest
Calendar or the ARRL Contest Corral. You can receive the Letter weekly via
email as a member of ARRL :
* Jan 24-26 — CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
* Jan 25 — WAB 1.8 MHz Phone
* Jan 25-26 — REF Contest, CW
* Jan 25-26 — BARTG RTTY Sprint
* Jan 25-26 — UBA DX Contest, SSB
* Jan 25-26 — SPAR Winter Field Day
* Jan 26 — QRP ARCI Fireside SSB Sprint
* Jan 26-27 — Classic Exchange, CW
All dates & times, unless otherwise stated, are UTC.
See the ARRL Contest Branch page <http://www.arrl.org/contests/>, the ARRL
Contest Update http://www.arrl.org/The-ARRL-Contest-Update/ and the WA7BNM
Contest Calendar <http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/index.html> for more
info. Looking for a Special Event station? Be sure to check out the ARRL
Special Event Station Web page<http://www.arrl.org/special-events>. For a
LIST OF STATE QSO PARTIES, see
http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/stateparties.html. (State QSO parties
are a great way to get those last states on your Worked All States (WAS)
Award list.)
SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS. W1AW Centennial Stations W1AW/0 in Nebraska
and W1AW/3 in Delaware are QRV until 2359Z on 21 January. In
addiiton, W1AW Centennial Stations W1AW/2 in New York and W1AW/5 in
Oklahoma wil be QRV starting at 0000z on 22 January. They wil be
active until 2359Z on 28 Janaury.
(Courtesy of the ARRL DX Bulletin)
HAM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE, TRADE, OR WANTED
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* FOR SALE: Equipment from estate of W4EHF–
IC-725 HF All Band transceiver orig box manual 295.00
IC-756 Pro HF/50MHz All band Transceiver orig box manual 1100.00
IC-756 Pro II HF/50MHz All Mode Transceiver no box manual 1300.00
FT-270 R/E VHF FM Transceiver box manual 95.00
MFJ-949E Deluxe versa Turner box manual 100.00
Contact Bill Finch, AI4TN, 252-341-3189, finchwc@gmail.com (20131223)
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* FOR SALE Cushcraft R 7 antenna, $125 Please
contact Charlie Overcash, WA4GSI, at 249-1257 or
charlie@dockline.net. (20131230)
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(Send me your amateur radio related items for sale, trade, or wanted for
listing in the PARSgram. PLEASE let me know if your listing is no longer
needed. ITEMS listed will EXPIRE AFTER 90 DAYS unless I hear
otherwise.–Jim).
PARS CALENDAR:
* Jan 25, PARS Monthly Meeting, Saturday, 9 am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. Bill Olah, KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com
* Feb 22, PARS Monthly Meeting, Saturday, 9 am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. Bill Olah, KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com
* Mar 15, Lucky Charms Walk/Run, Oriental, (PARS Community Service)
* Mar 22, PARS Monthly Meeting, Saturday, 9 am, Brantley’s Village
Restaurant, Oriental. Bill Olah, KR4LO, 249-0287 or w_olah@yahoo.com
* Apr 4,5,6, 2014 Cycle NC Spring Ride, Pamlico County (PARS Community
Service)
PARS NETS:
* Mondays, Pete’s “Swamp Talk” roundtable, around 8:15 pm local, 28.463
MHz plus or minus, USB. An informal forum originally established to assist
our new Hams, this freq. is in the 10M voice segment open to technician
licensees and above. Radio topics/questions/issues welcomed.
* Wednesdays, Pamlico Emergency Net Practice and Rag Chew, 7:30 pm,
Oriental Repeater, 147.210 + (PL151.4).
PARS WEB SITE:
https://www.n4prs.org/
Web Master is Larry Wall, KK4SEO, wallmailbox@yahoo.com.
PARSgram ITEMS
We are always looking for items of interest to PARS members to put in the
PARSgram. If you run across a timely item or think of something you think
would interest our folks, please send it to me. Thanks
73, Jim AI4WL