Congratulations to John Murphy, KD3CDF who has passed the Extra exam!
Next Meeting: Monday, March 18,
2002 8:00 PM At the Sterling Community
Center Annex. Contact Bill Lorentz, KS4II, at 703-444-6341 or
ks4ii@arrl.net.
Presentation: Amateur Radio above and beyond VHF/UHF presented by Bill Seabreeze, W3IY and Bernie Keiser, W4SW.
Refreshments: Svetozar Gerashev, LZ3SM
Reminder...It's time to pay those 2002 club dues!
2001 VA QSO Party
SPARC will host the Virginia QSO Party March 16 - 18, 2002. Contest
times are from 1800 UTC on March 16 through 0200 UTC on March 18.
Frequencies: 160 meters and up, except no WARC band QSO's permitted.
Complete rules for 2002 may be found on the Club website
www.qsl.net/sterling.
SPARC will operate K4NVA for the Virginia QSO Party from the QTH of
Dick, W2YE, in Leesburg. We will have two or three transmitters
available from the start time of 1:00 PM Saturday afternoon, March
16th, through the end time of 9:00 PM Sunday evening, except for late
Saturday night and early Sunday morning. This will be a low key, fun
type operation although we do want to make K4NVA available to as many
stations as possible, since there is a 500 point bonus for working the
club station. If you would like to participate, please call or email
Dick(703-443-0522 or W2YE@arrl.net) and let him know what time(s) you
would be available (Sat PM, Sat eve, Sun AM, Sun PM, Sun eve) and what
your operating preference(s) would be (CW, Phone, Log, observe/kibitz).
All are welcome, except that if you are allergic to, or uncomfortable
around, dogs and cats, you should probably not come.
WEBSITES
www.qcwa.org Quarter Century Wireless Association www.qsl.net/sterling
SPARC Website
www.amateurradio-far.org FAR Website
www.arrl.org/divisions/roanoke/ ARRL Roanoke Division Home Page
www.wage.com WAGE Radio, Leesburg, VA
http://nist.time.gov NIST time site
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.h tml International
Space Station tracking information
HAMFESTS
April 6 & 7, 2002 Maryland State Convention, Timonium, MD
UPCOMING SPARC ACTIVITIES
2002 Virginia QSO Party March 16 & 17, 2002
ARRL Field Day June 22 & 23, 2002
CONTESTS
www.arrl.org/contests
March 16 to 18
BARTG Spring RTTY Contest, 0200Z Mar 16- 0200Z Mar 18. Frequencies:
80-10 meters; work stations once per band.
Russian DX Contest, CW and SSB, from 1200Z Mar 16-1200Z Mar 17.
Montana QSO Party, Phone and CW/Digital, sponsored by the Flathead
Valley Amateur Radio Club from 2300Z Mar 16-2300Z Mar 17.
April 6 to 7
Missouri QSO Party--CW/SSB--sponsored by the Boeing Employees Amateur
Radio Society of St Louis (BEARS) from 1800Z Apr 6 to 0500Z Apr 7, and
1800Z Apr 7 to 2400Z Apr 7.
MARAC County Hunters Contest--SSB--sponsored by The Mobile Amateur
Radio Awards Club from 0000Z Apr 6 to 2400Z April 7.
46th Annual QCWA QSO Party--CW/Digital/SSB-- sponsored by the Quarter
Century Wireless Association from 1900Z Apr 6 through 1900Z April 7.
April 13 to 14
QRP ARCI Spring QSO Party--CW--sponsored by the QRP ARCI, from 1200Z
Apr 13 through 2400Z Apr 14. (See Oct 2001 QST, p 103 for Fall QSO
Party information.)
April 20-21
4th Annual SETI QSO Party - CW/SSB - sponsored by the Search for
Extraterrestial Intelligence League and Burley (WA) Amateur Radio Club
from 0000Z to 2359Z Apr 20.
Michigan QSO Party--CW/SSB--sponsored by the Mad River Radio Club, from
1600Z Apr 20 through 0400Z Apr 21, no time limit.
TARA PSK31 Rumble--sponsored by Troy ARA, 0000Z--2400Z, April 20.
Frequencies: 80,40,20, 15,10,6 meters, work stations once per band.
April 27 to 28
Florida QSO Party--sponsored by the Florida Contest Group from 1600Z
April 27-0159Z April 28 and 1200Z-2159Z April 28, no time limit, work
FL stations.
Nebraska QSO Party--CW/SSB--sponsored by the Heartland DX Association
1700Z Apr 27 through 1700Z Apr 28.
SPECIAL EVENTS
www.arrl.org/contests/spev