With what passes for beautiful warm weather to snowbound New Englanders, please be aware that our regular NCRC meeting WILL be held tonight, Monday March 9th, at 7 PM at KVH.
We are delighted that we were able to reschedule our February speaker to tonight. Rob Vincent, K1DFT, will be giving a presentation on his “Distributed-Load Monopole” antenna design.
Congratulations to our newest General Class ham, KC1CWX. Forrest took his General Exam today and passed. Just in time to snag Navassa Island on the HF bands. As a new technician, Forrest has already been active on the repeaters and 10 Meter HF, and looks forward to being able to operate on all bands now.
Congratulations Forrest!
K1N, Navassa Island, is the #2 most wanted DX entity. That need will be satisfied over the week or so as they are now on the air. Propagation into the New England states is fantastic, with S9 signals on multiple bands during the daylight, and one or two bands 24×7. That’s the good news. The not so good news is that the pileups are fierce. 30-Meter pileups have filled almost the entire band, and 70+ KHz pileups on the SSB bands is not uncommon. Still its worth the effort to snag this rare DX.
Information on Navassa, including some excellent photographs, can be found here.
Our next NCRC Meeting is scheduled for Feb 9th, at 7 PM, at KVH.
The agenda is as follows:
The presentation will be given by Rob Vincent, K1DFT, and will describe his URI research work on efficient, shortened, broadband vertical antennas known as “Distributed-Load Monopole” (DLM) Antennas.