Re: Bennington Co On The Map For VTQP
Very Cool Nathan! It sounds like you scored well by devoting time to it and coming up with a good strategy. It's always fun to better your previous year's score!
I started out planning to operate QRP CW only, but quickly bailed on that plan as competition for bandspace with the guys doing the FOC CW contest was pretty fierce. So I changed to 100 watts and made my challenge to beat my last year's score. It seems the last several years I always come in at 5th place- this year I hoped to achieve 4th. At the top is some real tough competition that I will never catch, such as my friend Ron, KK1L who is a very skilled contest monster and always quadruples my score. (Chittenden Co)
In the end, judging by reported scores on the 3830 score page, I should alas, be in 5th spot again! Lol.
It is strange how close our SSB and Digi numbers are. My results: CW- 314 QSOs - 62 multipliers Digi- 125 QSOs- 25 multipliers SSB- 79 QSOs- 35 multipliers
Always a fun contest. Don't forget the New England QSO Party in May- Bennington Co is rare on that as well.
Randy
On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:06?PM Nathan Mazanec via <nathan.mazanec= [email protected]> wrote: So checking my logs, for the VT QSO Party, I had 127 Digital Contacts (FT4/FT8), and 72 SSB. It is the most I've ever done for a QSO Party!?
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I was able to figure out a way to remote into my laptop that was connected to my computer, then I could control my WSJT-X from anywhere in my house, when I was going about other thing, having family conversations, and still allow me to initiate and log each digital contact.
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It really helped.
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Nathan Mazanec?
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SOVARC RADIO CLUB METEING FEB 26 2025 7PM
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?The Sovarc club, Meets every fourth Wednesday of the month at 7PM. The location is Masonic Lodge 504 Main street in Bennington VT. We enter the building form out back in the big parking lot behind TD Bank.??
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? ?I would like to invite everyone to come out to our SOVARC meetings. As your club president
I plan on trying to have each month. New or old ideas to share with the club.? ?I would like to see the camaraderie come back to SOVARC club. With that being said. A good friend of mine reminded me Rome wasn't built in a day.? So, with that in mind I will take things slow But do have a plan on growing our club.? At each meeting I will be asking and have a signup sheet for people to give ideas of things people would like to see or do. I do know that some months there is going to be not much, but I would like to see each month with something fun for the club to do.??
? ? ?This Month Feb 26 , 2025, I have asked Randy N1SP to share something. He will be sharing on the following.??VOACAP DX? ?Thank you Randy?
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With closing this email to everyone. I have put down my EMAIL and Cell phone Number for everyone to reach out to me with your ideas or just to get hold of me.? ?
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From the club President Bill Clark W1BVT Email w1bvt@...
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VOACAP Propagation Predictions
Greetings all,
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I just finished the writeup for the presentation that I will be giving at our club meeting on the 26th. I thought I might give you a "sneak preview" here on the groups page in hopes you may review and provide any comments/ suggestions if you wish- that is what the group is for! Just click the reply button below to respond to everybody (Only 9 so far) in the group.
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I will have some handouts of this text at the meeting, but viewing on your computer will make my screenshots more clear- plus you can expand them to see better. After the meeting I will email this to everyone on the newsletter list.?
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Enjoy! The attachment is below.
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73, Randy
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Re: VOACAP Propagation Predictions
Got the attachment and looked it over.?
Opened the site.? I've been there before.? Looks good; nice work.
Roland Stiner, NK2U
On 2/19/2025 11:13 AM, N1SP via
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Greetings all,
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I just finished the writeup for the presentation that I will
be giving at our club meeting on the 26th. I thought I might
give you a "sneak preview" here on the groups page in hopes you
may review and provide any comments/ suggestions if you wish-
that is what the group is for! Just click the reply button below
to respond to everybody (Only 9 so far) in the group.
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I will have some handouts of this text at the meeting, but
viewing on your computer will make my screenshots more clear-
plus you can expand them to see better. After the meeting I will
email this to everyone on the newsletter list.?
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Enjoy! The attachment is below.
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73, Randy
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Re: VOACAP Propagation Predictions
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Got the attachment and looked it over.?
Opened the site.? I've been there before.? Looks good; nice work.
Roland Stiner, NK2U
On 2/19/2025 11:13 AM, N1SP via
wrote:
Greetings all,
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I just finished the writeup for the presentation that I will
be giving at our club meeting on the 26th. I thought I might
give you a "sneak preview" here on the groups page in hopes you
may review and provide any comments/ suggestions if you wish-
that is what the group is for! Just click the reply button below
to respond to everybody (Only 9 so far) in the group.
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I will have some handouts of this text at the meeting, but
viewing on your computer will make my screenshots more clear-
plus you can expand them to see better. After the meeting I will
email this to everyone on the newsletter list.?
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Enjoy! The attachment is below.
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73, Randy
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SOVARC Club Property
? ? ? ?I have the club's Grounding Rod Driver in case a needs it.
Personal equipment/tools available?to loan to CLUB MEMBERS
? ? ?200 watt HD Soldering Iron
? ? ?Pole Pruner/Saw? (useable for branches 12ft high
? ? ?Rope Chain Saw? (useable for cutting branches/limbs up to 25ft high)
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Thanks Art,
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I may like to borrow the ground rod driver this spring. (If spring ever comes!)
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HF Digital ARES/RACES Net
I had mentioned this on the ARES net, but as a reminder this weekly net and YouTube session will begin tonight. I encourage anyone who is interested to join in.
The original invitation follows:
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Hello;
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This is an invitation for Vermont and regional amateurs to get some weekly practice setting up and using "FLDigi" to send and receive text and files over the radio.
Text and standard formatted messages are useful for emergency communications, plus, the ability to use FLDigi opens up scores of interesting digital modes.
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The net will occur weekly at?7pm Eastern, Wednesday evenings on 80m 3.570Mhz using THOR22.
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Simultaneously, there will be a Zoom meeting:??
Meeting ID?880 8990 7163
Our focus?initially will be to establish keyboard to keyboard communications, using the basic FLDigi application.
We will use the Zoom meeting to help folks get their set-ups working.
The net will use 3.570 Mhz and THOR22 to start with, because it is part of our?"Communications Down Scenario & Self-Activation"?procedure, see page 8 of the?Vermont RACES-ARES Comms Plan.??For a current copy of the plan, it can be found on our??webpage "Files" section:?
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Over time, as we learn our way through this, we will explore other components of the FLDigi software suite, such as FLmsg, as well as other modes available in FLDigi.
We can also explore other software packages as well, such as "AndFlmsg", for Android/smartphone depending on participant interest.
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Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments or questions regarding this net.
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Thanks;
- John Colt
NV1Y
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SOVARC ARES NET 3/10/2025
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SOVARC Newsletter Email List
Good morning all!
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I am attaching the current list of folks that receive the SOVARC Newsletter.
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If you see any errors, additions or deletions, please let me know. We don't want anyone to miss out.
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Thanks and 73,
Randy
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I just worked Thailand on 12 meter CW, 100 watts and a wire doublet. And it was well past greyline/sundown at his QTH.
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10, 12, and 15 have been in great shape!
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On Mar 18, 2025, at 9:23?AM, N1SP via groups.io <randyn1sp@...> wrote:
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I just worked Thailand on 12 meter CW, 100 watts and a wire doublet. And it was well past greyline/sundown at his QTH.
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Nice!? I'll probably get on soon.
73,
Roland Stiner, NK2U
On 3/18/2025 9:23 AM, N1SP via
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I just worked Thailand on 12 meter CW, 100 watts and a wire
doublet. And it was well past greyline/sundown at his QTH.
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10, 12, and 15 have been in great shape!
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Rainy Saturday Tape Measure Foxhunt Yagi
I was getting very tired of my beat up, kinked tape measure when an article I had read a long time ago came to mind:
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I had the tape measure, a piece of 3/4" PVC pipe, hose clamps, coax, solid wire- all I needed was the PVC Tee and Cross Unions. A trip to Home Depot and 2 1/2 hours and the antenna was born.?
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Please note in the picks that the director element is indeed shorter than the driven and reflector elements- the camera angle makes it look longer!
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I haven't put it on an analyzer yet but have confidence that it will be close. I also ordered a $10 rf attenuator kit from 3rd Planet Solar to build as a mounted addition to the antenna.
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william clark
Roland Stiner