May

2003

NEXT MEETING: Monday, May 19, 2003 8:00 PM At the Sterling Community Center Annex. Open house Contact Bill Rowlett (KC4ATU) eMail: kc4atu@yahoo.com

PRESENTATION: SPARC Amateur Radio General meeting.

REFRESHMENTS: W2YE

- Who will volunteer for June ????

GENERAL:

PRESIDENTS THOUGHTS

This months meeting will be about !field day! and !elections!.

I am a one term pres. so we need someone to step up and have a go at it. One of the newer members would be good.

Also, I will not be at the Manassas hamfest in June so the members who do go will need to check in with Dick at the table to see if he needs a break.

73, Bill kc4atu

 

QSL Bureau

Due to work and school demands, Tracy Mawhinney, KF4ZFY, has had to give up the "F" letter. The new manager will be John Murphy, N3QT, who has been an active member of the Sterling Park Club, and is currently Secretary.

Thanks, Tracy, for your fine years of work, and welcome aboard, John.
73, Dick W2YE

 

Please remember to go to and subscribe at

www.groups.yahoo.com/group/k4nva

- AI2P

Strays:

 

 

 

Items for Sale

1. G5RV

2. Dentron Tuner. <– AI2P

WEBSITES

www.qcwa.org Quarter Century Wireless Association www.qsl.net/sterling SPARC Website

www.amateurradio-far.org FAR Website

www.groups.yahoo.com/group/k4nva

www.arrl.org/divisions/roanoke/ ARRL Roanoke Division

www.wage.com WAGE Radio, Leesburg, VA

http://nist.time.gov NIST time site

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html International Space Station tracking information

HAMFESTS

http://www.arrl.org/hamfests.html#listing

Manassas hamfest is in June so the members who do go will need to check in with Dick at the table to see if he needs a break.

UPCOMING SPARC ACTIVITIES

Field day !!!!!

CONTESTS

www.arrl.org/contests

http://www.contesting.com/

May-June 2003

US Counties QSO Party, SSB 0000Z, May 17 - 2400Z, May 18

Manchester Mineira CW Contest 1500Z, May 17 - 2400Z, May 18

Anatolian RTTY WW Contest 1800Z, May 17 - 2100Z, May 18

His Maj. King of Spain Contest, CW 1800Z, May 17 - 1800Z, May 18

Baltic Contest 2100Z, May 17 - 0200Z, May 18

CQ WW WPX Contest, CW 0000Z, May 24 - 2400Z, May 25

VK-ZL Trans-Tasman Contest, Phone 0800Z - 1400Z, May 24

QRP ARCI Hootowl Sprint 2000 local - 2400 local, May 25

MI QRP Memorial Day CW Sprint 2300Z, May 26 - 0300Z, May 27

June 2003

Six Club WW Contest 2300Z, May 30 - 0200Z, Jun 2

Great Lakes QSO Party 0000Z, May 31 - 2359Z, Jun 1

VK-ZL Trans-Tasman Contest, CW 0800Z - 1400Z, Jun 7

IARU Region 1 Field Day, CW 1500Z, Jun 7 - 1500Z, Jun 8

ANARTS WW RTTY Contest 0000Z, Jun 14 - 2400Z, Jun 15

Portugal Day Contest 0000Z - 2400Z, Jun 14

WW South America CW Contest 0000Z, Jun 14 - 1600Z, Jun 15

Asia-Pacific Sprint, SSB 1100Z - 1300Z, Jun 14

West Virginia QSO Party 1600Z, Jun 14 - 0200Z, Jun 15

ARRL June VHF QSO Party 1800Z, Jun 14 - 0300Z, Jun 16

All Asian DX Contest, CW 0000Z, Jun 21 - 2400Z, Jun 22

SMIRK Contest 0000Z, Jun 21 - 2400Z, Jun 22

AGCW VHF/UHF Contest 1600Z - 2100Z, Jun 21

Kid's Day Contest 1800Z - 2400Z, Jun 21

DIE Contest 0600Z - 1200Z, Jun 22

From SPARC Gap Editor.

Changes to SparC Gap: We will be offering the newsletter in HTML email format and will be posting it on our webpage at http://www.qsl.net/sterling/uf1.htm. Shortly we will only send out newsletter to members who requested it. Please email any comments to pengel@hotmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STERLING PARK AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Call Box 599, Sterling Park, Virginia 20167

SPECIAL EVENTS

http://www.remote.arrl.org/contests/spev.html#june

Chehalis, WA: Chehalis Valley ARS, W7A. 1200Z May 23-0300Z May 24. 100th Anniversary of President McKinley's whistle stop. 28.500 21.250 14.250.

Caldwell, NJ: West Essex Amateur Radio Club, W2EF. 1400Z-1900Z May 24. Operating from President Grover Cleveland's birthplace. 28.350 21.330 14.250 7.250.

Huntington, WV: North East Indiana DX Association, KC9DGH. 1700Z-2200Z May 24. Celebration for Rally For America. 14.260 21.370 7.280 echolink.

Fort Wayne, IN: Fort Wayne Radio Club, May 24-May 26. Memorial Day.

Lancaster, TX: Southwest Dallas County Amateur Radio Club, W5AUY. 1800Z-2200Z May 24. Live@Library! Celebrating Library's 2nd anniversary. 14.250.

Monroe, LA: Twin City Ham Club, W5EA. 1300Z-2200Z May 24. Memorial Day at the Avation Historical Museum of Louisiana. 28.400 21.350 14.250. QSL. .htm.

Vincennes, IN: Old Post Amateur Radio Society, W9R. 1400Z-2000Z May 24. Celebration of the 25th Annual Vincennes Rendezvous. 7.260.

San Antonio, TX: Alamo DX Amigos, W5BE. 0000Z May 24-2400Z May 25. 29th Anniversary of the Alamo DX Amigos ARC. 50.150 28.450 21.350 7.250. e.

Belleville, MI: Yankee Air Force Museum, W8YAF. 1200Z-2000Z May 26. Observing Memorial Day at the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport. 7.270.

Fort Monmouth, NJ: Robert D. Grant United Labor Amateur Radio Association, N2UL. 1200Z-2400Z May 26. Labor remembers those who made the supreme sacrifice. 28.420 21.360 14.260.

West Brookfield, MA: Radio Operators for Missing Children, KB1HGK. 1500Z-2000Z May 26. 3rd Annual Missing Child Day Special Event. 21.325 14.250 7.225.

Baton Rouge, LA: USS Kidd ARC/Baton Rouge ARC, W5KID. 1400Z-2200Z May 30. Memorial Day. General class bands, 14.250 to 14.320; CW QRP subbands.

Estes Park, CO: HamCon Colorado, W1AW/0. 1800Z May 30-1800Z Jun 1. ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Convention 2003. 28.320 21.320 14.245 3.875.

Windsor Locks, CT: BEARS of Manchester, W2N. 1300Z-1900Z May 31. Dedicating the 58th Bomb Wing Hanger at the NE Air Museum. 21.362 14.262 14.052 7.052.

Oakland, CA: Western Aerospace Museum/East Bay Amateur Radio Club, W6CUS and N6RQQ. 0300Z-1300Z May 31. Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the First Trans-Pacific Flight. 20 m/15 m voice and pactor,

Grosse Ile, MI: Motor City Radio Club, W8MRM. 1400Z May 31-2100Z Jun 1. Annual Spring Island Fest, US Island #MI005R. 28.375 21.375 14.244 7.244.

Newington, CT: Newington Amateur Radio League, Inc, N1C. 1700Z May 31-2300Z Jun 1. Celebration of Annual NARL Hamfest. CW 28.030 21.030 14.030, phone 28.550 21.300 14.250.