January 2006

NEXT MEETING: Monday, 23 January 2006, 8:00 PM at the Sterling Community Center Annex. Contact Gordon (NQ4K) email: nq4k@arrl.net PRESENTATION: None. REFRESHMENTS:  Forrest, N4UTY. PRESIDENTS THOUGHTS: Hi, It seems strange having the January meeting this late in the month. But the time has gone by fast and I am looking forward to seeing all of you again. I volunteered to give presentations on the Virginia QSO party to any organization requesting one. My first presentation will be at the combined North Shenandoah DX Association and Winchester Amateur Radio Society meeting on Friday, 20 Jan, in Winchester. I hope to report that these clubs enjoyed the briefing and will increase their participate in this year's event. If we have time, I will show the briefing. There are some interesting statistics in it about last year's party. The Virginia QSO Party preparations are coming along fine.  Harry, KI4MSE, a new club member, is working on a log scoring program. Jim, AF4MO, is still working county and inndependent city coverage. We have emailed the ARRL cabform developer to see if they will develop on on-line entry form for our Party. We still need to discuss how we are going to contact hams in Virginia. fter our last meeting Don, K7CS, downloaded the FCC license files. Hopefully we will hear how far he has gotten. See you at the meeting on Monday. 73, Gordon, NQ4K

WEBSITES http://www.qsl.net/sterling/SparcGap/www.qcwa.org Quarter Century Wireless Association http://www.qsl.net/sterling/SparcGap/www.qsl.net\sterling SPARC Website http://www.qsl.net/sterling/SparcGap/www.amateurradio-far.org FAR Website http://www.qsl.net/sterling/SparcGap/www.groups.yahoo.com\group\k4nva http://www.qsl.net/sterling/SparcGap/www.arrl.org\divisions\roanoke\ ARRL Roanoke Division http://www.qsl.net/sterling/SparcGap/www.wage.com WAGE Radio, Leesburg, VA http://nist.time.gov%20/ NIST time site http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html International Space Station tracking information HAMFESTS UPCOMING SPARC ACTIVITIES 18-19 March 2006    VA QSO Party CONTESTS 18-20 February 2006     ARRL International DX Contest (CW) 4-5 March 2006     ARRL International DX Contest (Phone) OTHER NOTES None.