communications, and help others to advance the state of our VHF es above communications readiness. Mark your calendars for June 8-10, 2002, and give K8GP, the PVRC, and yourself a big boost. Your efforts will also be much appreciated on the higher bands during the subsequent Field Day. CU on the bands. ..Bill W3IY/R (http://members.fcc.net/wseab). (The June VHF is not a 5 Mil award club competition contest but may be a vehicle via which locals can be introduced to the fun of contesting. -editor)

PVRC SUMMER ACTIVITIES IN BOLD.

HAMFESTS by K3SWZ and www.arrl.org

May

4

5

5

11

25

available to operators at multi-ops as well as single-ops -- on the honor system, tell me what your hours were. Many of the multi-op operators are NOT on the lists yet.

To date, I cannot find any operating time numbers for the following. If you’re on this list please send me e-mail.

AJ3M K1GG K3DI K3RA K3SV K3YDX K4GMH

K4IQ K4KDJ K4YT K8OQL KG6AR N1WR

N3KW N3OC N4EL NE3H W3AZ W3BP W3EKT

W3HVQ W3MR W3OU W3SO W3YD W4TNX

W4YE WBZA WA3RGH WD3A WR3L.

I have the following as recipients of the

48-hour (Diamond) certificate with lapel pin:

AA4NC K3FT K3MM K4MA KD4D W2GG

W4NF K3TM. Anything over 47 hours I’ll

round upward. Same rounding standard applied

between Greensboro and the 140/85 split east of Durham. The PLAN had been to make first meeting at Ryan’s, and second meeting at RARSFest between RUFZ runs and usual exchanges of radio junk and computer parts. Instead...

The 4 Apr meeting had already dissolved to miscellaneous BS and scientific discussion, and after the usual 1 5 minute delay, had QSY’d out to the parking lot to let the staff clean up, where the last straggling scientists were holding forth.

Raja and Don walked past the stragglers, of course not recognizing any of them, and the manager inside told them all the “radio club guys” had already left (true, after a fashion). So they gave up and had supper. After a while the straggle out in the parking lot broke up and

4

6

7

14

20

20

27

27

28

August

3

4

10

10

10.11

11

17

24

25

31

September

Reunion On-the-air

Mannassas VA

Bloomsburg PA

Franklin VA

Winston-Salem NC

W3LPL open house

Frederick MD

Easton MD

8

14-15

21

22

October

I have the following for the 36 to 47-hour

award (Platinum, certificate with lapel pin):

N2NFG K2PLF W3PP W3UJ WJ9B W4MYA

W3CB W3SY N3HUV.

I have the following for the 24 to 35-hour

award (Gold): N4ZR N3UM N4CW W4IDX

W4ZYT N3FX W4RIM K2UOP NX9T W2CS

WX3B AA4KD N3HXQ N4AF N4MM WM3T

WW4M N2QT N4YDU.

And finally, I have the following for the Silver

award (12-23 hours): NI4S K3KO AI3M K3DNE

W3ARS K4QPL KV3R N4GG NT4D K7SV

KO4PY N4RV K3HS N3GPU K2YWE AD4L

N4TL K4TMC K3AN K3GV K3IXD KE4MIL

KF4OKG KM3V W3UL.

Any more for any award? Please, additions or corrections by e-mail. If you’ve already told me about your time, and it didn’t make it into these lists, 1 apologize, but please play along and tell me again. There’s a lot of data to keep track

of.

NC CHARTER MINUTES by Guy Olinger, K2AV

Carnac in big trouble with NC chapter secretary who is chasing Carnac around with Wouff Houngg demanding minutes and muttering things under his breath about publishing deadlines.

Carnac has had some rough months, and just catching his wind. Hasn’t had time to worry about Middle East, root for Hurricanes, find out who won NCAA, finish cleaning up the new-old 75A3, or chase DX on 40 (horrors).

WW4M and K2AV found about it later that evening via a round-robin repeater/cellphone call sequence. And were duly horrified, more so when careful consideration of the times meant that Raja and Don had probably walked right past them coming in. Carnac went into convulsions mumbling something about letting 2 new member’s worth of SS scores get away. Something HAD to be done. Since K2AV was going to have to make repeated trips to Morganton (way past Winston-Salem to the west) the next 2 weeks (3 round-trippers) a time was picked when a W-S group could get together concurrent with K2AV passing through. Settled on Sunday 7 April, 10:30 am at Peters Creek IHOP (the one with the BIG flag visible from 140.. .didn’t want to stress out Carnac over directions). This would be the first western meeting of the NC chapter. To Wit:

NC Chapter, 7 April, P Creek IHOP, Winston-Salem.

Attending: Guy K2AV, Henry N4VHK (member), Raja KB6MTH (1st meeting), Don WS4NC (1st meeting), Robert KG4NEP (1st meeting), Gene WB4MSG (1st meeting).

Carnac notes that regular PVRCNC meetings anywhere seem to fall into five clear divisions:

Unofficial BS in the parking lot; Eating inside with mumbled food-in-mouth unofficial BS; Eating inside with officialBS; Inside with unofficial BS; Unofficial BS in the parking lot. However, a western meeting will go about ten minutes longer due to additional distributed BS on trucks, mobiles, and how to use an abacus to compute shortest rover route for max counties/grids before contest is over.

NOVEMBER SS LIVE WIRE AWARD by Pete Smith, N4ZR

The following is transcribed from an e-mail sent to the PVRC reflector on April 8. If you’ve already responded, no need to do so again. If you haven’t, read on!

The Live Wire certificates come in four flavors

DID show up at meetings, though. An analysis of the high number of NC chapter meetings Mar and Apr reveals that 7 March was a regular meeting, 4 April was a regular meeting, and 14 April was the regular annual unregular meeting at the RARSFest at NC Fairgrounds. More on those later. First, as tc 7 April.

Unbeknownst to the NC gathered crowd at Ryan’s 4 Apr, KB6MTH and WS4NC were enroute to Ryan’s from Winston-Salem, and had been delayed in the 24/7 1-40 traffic snaggle

Official BS dwelled on PVRC, joining, staying current, submitting logs, etc. This was mostly a PVRC primer session.

Carnac says this group of five is a real gung-ho starter crowd for a group that might grow as large as the Raleigh/Durham based crowd (given that Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem is the largest population center in NC).

These guys already turning in scores for

Graysonville MD

Hagerstown MD

Ripley WV

Lebanon/Fredericksburg PA

Durham NC

June

1-2

2

B

8

8

15

16

23

July

Harrisburg PA

Salisbury NC

Wilkes Barre PA

Kimberton PA

Beach Haven PA

Cary NC

W4MYA open house

Waynesville NC

Timonium MD

Lewistown PA

Berryville VA

Huntington WV

Westminster MD

WAEDC CW contest

Shrewsbury PA

W3YOZ fowifest

Weston WV

Hanover PA

& 9/1 Shelby NC

Symrna DE WAEDC ‘phone contest

Allentown Schnecksville PA Howard County MD

3