Port City Amateur Radio Club - Portsmouth NH

NH QSO Party in February

The Great Bay Radio Association is once again sponsoring the New Hampshire QSO Party on 0001Z February 9 [1901 EST Friday February 8th] and end at 0001Z February 10 [1901 EST Saturday February 9th].

We would like you to consider being a bonus station once again. (W1WQM)

Please note the new shorter operating hours. This will allow a more focused effort without taxing the operating teams.

The complete listing of Rules and summary sheet is here.

NH QSO Party - Operators needed

The New Hampshire QSO Party is 0001Z Feb 10 thru 001Z Feb 12, 2007. The PCARC Officers have accepted an invitation by the event sponsors (GBRA) to be on the air at the W1WQM station as a bonus station....

North American QSO Party Jan.20

Who is interested in operating the North American QSO Party,SSB on January 20, 2007??

AI2Q 2 Wire Beverage

The powerpoint presentation from Alex AI2Q's recent and popular talk on his 2-wire beverage antenna system has been posted.

Download AI2Q_2wire_BevAnt.ppt (5.76 MB)

DX'er Restraint Requested

The following is an open letter to the DX community from Bernie McClenny, W3UR. Bernie is a well known DX'er who has operated in numerous DXpeditions to "most wanted" entities with the likes of Maarti Lane OH2BH and others. If you dont recognize Bernie's name or call, do a "Google". Now, on with the letter:

An open letter to the DX community:

Looks like the first ARSI (Amateur Radio Society of India) VU7LD activity has begun at 1200 AM (1830Z today) December 1st local time on Kavaratti Island, Lakshadweep. This is the all Indian national team DXpedition. I'd like to bring the following info/request to the DX Community's attention. This group has been told they must sign VU7LD/VU#??? while operating from the number 2 most wanted DXCC Entity. The stroke (/) VU#??? represents the call of the actual operator. . .

Field Day Signups NOW ONLINE

SPECIAL NOTICE! ALL MEMBERS OF THE PCARC ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN FIELD DAY 2006. No matter what your skill level, this is the premier event of our club season, and EVERYONE is welcome and urged to attend. You may operate, log, help setup or takedown, cook, ragchew with friends, whatever. There are no penalties to be handed out if we don't "win". While we do have the goal of taking the top in Class 5A once again, it is important to remember that Field Day is for having FUN first. If you are not sure about operating, ASK SOMEONE TO HELP YOU! Folks, it is great fun to make contacts all over the North America and the world, but you won't experience it if we can't get you to sit down in front of a radio. ONCE AGAIN, you need not be an experienced DX'er or contester to participate. Also, we will have plenty of control ops available, so Technicians are able and welcome to get on HF and make some contacts, GOTA station and all others included.

To signup use the link right-hand column, or go to: W1WQM Field Day Signups

HF Propagation Talk Posted

At the April 5 meeting we had an exellent talk on HF propagation from Mark K1RX. As requested, the file has been posted here as a Acrobat PDF (1262.8K) file for your downloading pleasure. Unfortunately, the included audio files do NOT work. Enjoy!