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Have
You Earned an Operating Award, Recently?
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that PARC is a general-interest club and not just a 2-meter repeater
group, there are diverse interests among the members. For
those of us whose operation is on HF, some of us have been pursuing
various operating awards from ARRL and other organizations.
Known achievements in the past year or 2 include Bruce McCain,
N7XB, with Worked All States, PSK-31. I have also been
active on several modes, and have picked up the Worked All Continents
award, endorsed for PSK-31. In the latter case, I applied
for the mixed-mode version, since there was no PSK endorsement
available. Because all 6 cards submitted were PSK, they
went ahead and endorsed it accordingly.
As for my WAS, I still need a card from Georgia on PSK-31 to
get the award endorsed for that mode, and I would have the mixed-mode
version by now, except that the one card I got from Massachusetts
was corrected by the sender, and would be disqualified as a result.
Now that I have cards again, I can pursue the Bay State again
and submit all the cards.
Anyone, like Jim Cassidy, KI7Y, who is also a member of the Willamette
Valley DX Club, also holds the DX Century Club certificate, for
having confirmed contacts with at least 100 countries.
If you have recently earned an operating award, we'd like to publicize the fact here in the sPARC gap. For that
matter, since we're a Special Service Club, might someone care
to step forward and get accredited to check cards for awards?
Please advise.
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Frequency NVIS Antenna Systems, a lecture by Bert Young-love,
WA7AXO, will be the program at the May general meeting. Bert
will cover the theory, implementation and use of Near Vertical
Incidence Skywave antennas using a slide presentation.
Useful for local and regional communications, NVIS antennas are
increasingly being used by amateurs. They are particularly well
suited for fixed and portable emergency communications demands.
The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 16, in the auditorium
on the lower level of One Liberty Center, 650 N.E. Holladay
Street, Portland, Oregon. Please enter at the south side
of the building. Refreshments will be served.