Happy New Year!
Our first meeting of the year will be held at KVH, Monday, January 11, 2016.
National Park on the Air: N1PSX, TR23, 14.252 MHz
Rich Russell (KC1ARO) and Paul Silverzweig (N1PSX) have hiked up in Northwestern RI to put “TR23”, which is part of the Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail National Scenic Trail, on the air (they are in the Parker Woodland. They are using N1PSX as the call, and are on 14.252 MHz.
By the way, the pile-up is huge. They are working a station every 15 seconds with no signs of it stopping. And I can’t say this enough — they are doing a fantastic job of managing a large pileup.
This is a BIG Deal for the ARRL. Much like the Centennial QSO Party, they have setup dedicated webpages for this, leaderboards, etc. Once the QSOs are uploaded to LotW, you will receive your points for working that park automatically.
See this website: https://npota.arrl.org/index.
Click on the “On the Air” tab and look for TR23 and you will see Paul and Rich’s details — as well as all the other parks on the air.
Once the LotW setup is complete NCRC member can start using the W1SYE call sign for other NPOTA events.
Rich, KC1ARO, making NPOTA Chasers Happy
Paul, N1PSX, Dulcet Tones Make for a Joyful Pileup
Passing of Dave Sagamang
Jason Sagamang’s father, Dave, passed away suddenly Sunday evening. Although he had some health issues, this was unexpected. Dave was the second of the three generations of Sagamang NCRC members (Dave Sr., Dave, and now Jason). Dave held calls KC0KDA and AC0CQ.
There will be a wake from 3-7 PM on Thursday (Dec 31) at Memorial Funeral Home in Newport. On Saturday (Jan 2), the procession from Memorial Funeral Home will leave at 9:15 AM for a funeral mass held at St Barnabas church in Portsmouth at 10 AM. Following the mass, there will be a service at St Columba cemetery in Middletown.
Winter Solstice Activation
Rich, KC1ARO, Paul, KC1AQP, and Paul, N1PSX, went to Arcadia State Park for a campout on the solstice and some radio activation. They made 21 contacts on 6, 20 and 40m. Some on CW, but mostly on SSB, running 80 watts from battery power.
You won’t find fish in trees
But you might find strange metal wire growth in trees
More Antenna Work
Happy Camper (unusual temps for the first day of winter)
More fun than a tailgate party at Gillette
Yet another station
A lamplight QSO
XMT2XMT ?!?
XMT2XMT — What the heck is that? Well, it is Christmas Tree to Christmas Tree QSOs, of course!
John, WA1ABI, Rich, KC1ARO, Bruce, NJ3K, and Bob, WB4SON, have all used their Christmas Tree Lights and QRP rigs, and had CW QSOs using the lights as an antenna.
John’s matching network shown — adjusting it with his KX3
Lights used by John, WA1ABI
Bob, WB4SON’s, Christmas Tree Lights with remote tuner feedpoint circled
Rich’s station for XMT2XMT QSOs
Finally an audio recording of the QSO between John and Rich