Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 10:13 --- No
temptation has seized you except what is common to man.
And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted
beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he
will also provide a way out so that you can stand up
under it. (NIV)
Two Great
Weekends of Activity
Pennsylvania QSO
Party Oct. 9 & 10 The Pennsylvania QSO Party, one of
the most popular state QSO parties, will be held this
weekend October 9 & 10, 2004. If you are a station
in Pennsylvania the whole country will be trying to work
you. If you are outside the state test your skill at
trying to contact the PA stations and see if you are able
to get a clean sweep by working all 67 counties. There
is a plaque available for the accomplishment. There are
also many other certificates and plaques for the many
categories including a first time entrant
category.
Complete rules and information can
be had at http://www.nittany-arc.net/paqso.html
There are also links to download
free PAQP logging software.
Native Pennsylvanian, Dan Miller,
K3UFG will be operating the contest from W1AW. He will
be looking for those Pennsylvania counties.
Yours truly, another native
Pennsylvanian, could not coordinate my trip back to PA
for this event so I will be QRV from CT. W1AW
Again this year W1AW will be
hosting local scouts on Saturday October 16th for JOTA.
The focus this year will be "merit badge in a day." Mark
Spencer, WA8SME, will be hosting the event. He will be
using a Texas developed syllabus that will lead to the
scouts achieving the radio merit badge during their
participation in JOTA at the station. There will be two
settings for the training, 8 to 12 and 12 to 4. So far
there are about 20 scouts signed up to participate in the
program. Anyone is welcome to stop by to participate in
JOTA.
W1AW
The New Hampshire Section of the
ARRL, the New Hampshire Amateur Radio Service Club
(WB1BSA) and the Lawrence L. Lee Scouting Museum proudly
announce the FCC has granted the callsign N1S to the Max
I. Silber Memorial Station that will be operating for the
47th Jamboree-On-The-Air on Saturday, October 16th 2004.
Max I. Silber, known as "Uncle Max"
to Scouters worldwide, was devoted to Scouting and youth.
Because of that dedication, he was presented with every
honor for service to youth, religion and community. In
Scouting, he received the Silver Beaver, the Silver
Antelope for service at the regional level, and the
Silver Buffalo for exceptional service at the national
level. For many, many years Max Silber was a presence at
Eagle courts of honor across New Hampshire. The Daniel
Webster Council's National Eagle Scout Association
Chapter is named in honor of Max.
N1S will be operating primarily on
20m and 40m in both phone and SSTV modes from 10am-6pm
eastern time. As with the mission of Jambroee On The Air,
we will be encouraging Scouts and their Leaders to try
their hand at Amateur Radio in many cases for the first
time. It has, as always, been our goal to share our love
for amateur radio as well as to encourage new folks to
learn about what we do and potentially become hams
themselves. In addition to the on-air activity, we will
also be offering Radio Merit Badge Classes and activities
for Cub Scouts that will work towards their various
communications awards.
Information about the Lawrence L.
Lee Scouting Museum and Max I. Silber Library can be
found at: http://www.scoutingmuseum.org/
W3IZ
I will be QRV from Bowmansville, PA
on the Lancaster & Berks County line 10/15 - 10/16.
I will have my usual camping station set up consisting of
Yaesu FT-897 with SGC tuner and a wire antenna in a
tilted L configuration.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/w3iz/tuner.html
Operation will be mostly 40m SSB
but will look at 20m & 17m for JOTA activity.
(I tried to convince the XYL to
make this trip for PAQP but we had to accommodate other
family members.)
More information about JOTA can be
found at: http://www.scouting.org/international/jota.html
-and- http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/jota.html
73, Norm Fusaro, W3IZ
ARRL Affiliated Club/Mentor Program
Manager
Have a
great month
October 2004
Jamboree On The Air Oct. 16 & 17
ARRL HQ
225 Main St.
Newington, CT 06011
225 Main St.
Newington, CT 06011
w3iz@arrl.org
860-594-0230
