Issued June 2020 Issue No. 120

Club Website: http://www.qsl.net/k7jar/Home.html

S-Meter e-mail: parcnews@hotmail.com

Club Repeater: Output 146.62 MHz; Input 146.02 MHz, No Tone

Next Meeting Friday July17th 2020

Meeting QTH is: Corner of Walnut & Hawthorne Street

CLUB NET: Sunday Evenings 8:00p.m. Local Like Us on Facebook: Panoramaland Amateur Radio Club

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Highlights from our June meeting…….

Attendees: 16

Meeting was called to order by President Baron KI7FDU, in the Colville City Park

Pavilion. Introductions were made and the minutes of the May meeting were read and

accepted.

Treasurer's Report – Randy N7CKJ $5,058.78

Board Report: Bruce KC7H – Nothing new to report

PARC Net – Michael KF7SYS - Not in attendance

ARES Report – Baron KI7FDU updated the club with ARES, they had a simplex test – seemed good communication was available. Spring Field Training was cancelled.

Announcements: Randy N7CKJ has the new car decals with the club logo on them for sale $3.00 ea. HRO raffle tickets still available – along with club patches.

Old Business: Field day is next weekend – need to vote on a budget for food – motion to have $200.00 available passed. Reminder it’s at Jim’s W7JWT black lake cabin. 11:00am on Saturday until 11:00 am on Sunday. Potluck lunch on Saturday at 2:00pm. Club T-Shirts were brought up again, small discussion followed.

New Business: Betty KJ7CHV is stepping down from being secretary – Baron KI7FDU asked for someone to step in until a new one can be elected in November.

Meeting was closed at 8:14pm

Submitted by: Betty KJ7CHV

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From The President

Hello Everybody!

Another field day in the books and I think we did pretty good this year.

We had a total of 17 people come out, including members & guests. The club

should have a nice point total between the contacts made on the radios and the

bonus points for using emergency power, receiving field day message, sending

a radiogram, having children on the air, an agency representative guest, etc.

We also had members making contacts from home that will count in part towards

the club’s total points. It looked to me as if everyone had a good time and there

was plenty to eat and drink too.

As usual I enjoyed the event and having the time to talk to other hams outside the

meetings is an important part for me. Every field day I learn a few things. This year I learned that the signal is much

louder on 75 meter phone if you remove the 20 meter band pass filter you were using earlier for 20 meter phone

contacts. DUH!

Besides that, I learned some more interesting stuff about ham radio and became a little more proficient at making

contacts.

So here's to another field day, and I'll start counting the days until our next one. Baron KI7FDU

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field Day Report We did great! CUL & 73s Jim W7JWT

Congratulations! You've successfully submitted your Field Day entry, as well as uploaded all required

documentation. Your confirmation number is 4431981. A summary of your submission is provided

below for your review.

If you need to update your entry, enter soapbox comments or upload photos of your Field Day

activities, please use the appropriate link below.

Links:

Update entry/upload documents http://field-day.arrl.org/fdentry.php?call=k7jar&id=4431981

Soapbox comments/photos

http://contests.arrl.org/contestsoapbox.php?call=k7jar&id=4431981

Summary:

Entry received at: 2020-07-06 19:52:26

Call Used: K7JAR GOTA Station Call: (NONE) ARRL/RAC Section: EWA Class: 2E

Participants: 17 Club/Group Name: PARC-K7JAR

Power Source(s): Generator, Battery, Solar

Power Multiplier: 2X

Preliminary Total Score: 2,290

Bonus Points:

100% emergency power 200

Media Publicity 100 - Documented by Newspaper Media FD2020.jpg

Formal message to ARRL SM/SEC 100 - Documented by Radiogram to EWA Section

Manager.jpg

W1AW Field Day message 100 - Documented by Field Day Message 2020.txt

Natural power QSOs completed 100 - Documented by Solar Powered Contacts.odt

Site visit by invited elected official 100

Site visit by invited served agency 100

Educational activity 100

Youth participation (2 x 20, max of 100) 40

Social media 100

Entry submitted via web 50

Total bonus points 1,090

Score Summary: CW Digital Phone Total

Total QSOs 0 267 66

Total Points 0 534 66 600 Claimed Score = (QSO points x power mult) = 1,200

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Submitted by: James W Tills, W7JWT JTILLS@ABBNEBRASKA.com

Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:

CW Digital Phone

QSOs Pwr(W) QSOs Pwr(W) QSOs Pwr(W)

160m

80m 85 100

40m 151 100 32 100

20m 28 100

15m 31 100 6 100

10m

6m

2m

222

432

Other

Satellite

GOTA

TOTAL 0 267 66

Randy N7CKJ – Is he enjoying Field Day a little too much??

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Wayne KI7UIY working the late shift

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Calendar of Events – 2020

July 2020 ➢ 1st VHF-UHF FT8 Activity Contest 1700z-2000z

➢ 2nd NRAU 10m Activity Contest 1800z – 1900z

➢ 4th Fourth of July!!

➢ 4th Alberto (KE7QOK) & Nicole’s Wedding in Miami Florida

➢ 4th Marconi Memorial HF Contest 1400z – 1400z

➢ 4th PODXS 070 Club 40m Firecracker Sprint 2000z – 2000z

➢ 5th PARC Net 8:00pm Net Control Opeator – Jim W7JWT

➢ 9th QRP Fox Hunt 0100z – 0230z

➢ 11th FISTS Summer Unlimited Sprint 0000z – 0400z

➢ 12th PARC Net 8:00pm Net Control Opeator – Larry KR7LRJ

➢ 13th Four States QRP Group Second Sunday Sprint 0000z – 0200z

➢ 15th RSGB 80m Club Championship, SSB 1900z – 2030z

➢ 16th Colville Sidewalk sale and street faire

➢ 17th PARC Club Meeting 7:30pm Colville City Park Snacks by: Betty

➢ 17th Glacier Waterton International Peace Park 85th annual Hamfest ➢ 18th Tiger-Tri CANCELLED

➢ 18th North American QSO Party, RTTY 1800z – 0559z

➢ 19th PARC Net 8:00pm Net Control Opeator – Tim KG7VMV

➢ 19th CQC Great Colorado Gold Rush 2000z – 2159z

➢ 25th Chehalis Valley ARC 22nd Annual Ham Radio Tailgate Swapmeet ➢ 26th PARC Net 8:00pm Net Control Opeator – Baron KI7FDU

➢ 26th ARS Flight of the Bumblebees 1700z – 2100z

➢ 30th QRP Fox Hunt 0100z – 0230z

August 2020 • 2nd PARC Net 8:00pm Net Control Opeator –

• 4th Worldwide Sideband Activity Contest 0100z – 0159z

• 4th RTTYOPS Weeksprint 1700z – 1900z

• 6th NRAU 10m Activty Contest 1800z 1900z

• 7th NCCC RTTY Sprint & NCCC Sprint 0145z – 0230z – 300z

• 8th Hell’s Gate ARC Swapmeet Clarkston WA

• 8th Maryland-DC QSO Party 1400z – 0400z

• 9th PARC Net 8:00pm Net Control Opeator –

• 10th Four States QRP Group Second Sunday Sprint 0000z – 0200z

• 10th SARL Youth Sprint 1200z – 1400z

• 11th Worldwide Sideband Activity Contest 0100z – 01592z

• 15th SARTG WW RTTY Sprint 0000z – 0800z

• 15th Russian District Award Contest 0800z – 0800z

• 15th North American QSO Party, SSB 1800z – 0559z

• 16th PARC Net 8:00pm Net Control Opeator –

• 16th Run For The Bacon QRP Contest 2300z – 0100z

• 21st PARC Club Meeting 7:30pm Corner or Hawthorne & Walnut St. Snacks by: Jim W7JWT

• 22nd RTTYOPS Weekend Sprint & Hawaii QSO Party 0400z – 0400z 1600z-1959z

• 22nd Ohio QSO Party 1600z – 0400z

• 23rd PARC Net 8:00pm Net Control Opeator –

• 29th YO DX HF Contest 1200z – 1200z

• 29th W/VE Islands QSO Party 1200z – 0300z

• 29th Kentucky State Parks on the Air 1400z – 2200z

• 29th Kansas QSO Party 1400z - 0200z

• 30th PARC Net 8:00pm Net Control Opeator –

• 31st QCX Challenge 1900z – 2000z

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K7JAR Panoramaland Amateur Radio Club Membership Application Welcome and thank you for supporting your local Amateur Radio association. Annual Club dues are $15.00 for individuals and $20.00 for a family (all must be living at the same address).

Membership extends from January to January of each year. Annual dues that are paid after the 1st of September will be applied through the following year. If you would rather just donate toward our repeater fund, any amount would be gladly accepted. Please make sure to note this on your donation so that the money is applied to the right account.

Please remit your payment, in person at a monthly meeting, via our Website (below), or by check, made out to

PARC, mailed to the following address:

PARC P.O. Box 7 Colville, WA 99114 Name(s) ________________________________________________ Call Sign(s) ______________________________________________ Mailing Address _________________________________________________________________ City/State _____________________________________________________ Zip _______________________ Telephone __________________________________________ Amount Paid _________________________ Email Address _____________________________________ ARRL Member _______Yes/No__________________ The PARC maintains the 146.620 (77.0 Hz tone) repeater located on Monumental Mt., near Colville, WA. All

licensed Amateur Radio operators are welcome to use this open repeater system. Your support would also be greatly appreciated. For more information, please contact Randy, N7CKJ, at (509) 684-3361; Dave, WD7K, at (509) 738-6786 or visit the PARC website at: http://www.qsl.net/k7jar/Home.html