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home | newest check | boards | help index | log | ps | userlogin | send sysop | slog | status forward | bcm news | users | version | remove cookieNK5LA > ALL 14.07.26 10:32l 379 Lines 9730 Bytes #10 (0) @ WW BID : 55595_NS2B Subj: PCL NET SCRIBE JULY 13 2026 Path: JH4XSY<JE7YGF<LU4ECL<LU9DCE<VE3CGR<WG0A<KD6MTU<N5MDT<KR8X<NS2B Sent: 260714/0118Z 55595@NS2B.#WNY.NY.USA.NOAM BPQ6.0.25 PCL Net Scribe PCL Net Scribe for July 13, 2026 NK5LA, Daryl, Arkansas (Net Control/Scribe) N6UTC, Endaf, California (Early Checkin) NS2B, Bob, New York (Sysop) KC2NJV, Wayne, New York VA7RBP, Rick, Canada KX4AC, Carl, Arizona ** GE all, and welcome to the July 13, 2026 PCL Net. Early checkin from Endaf, N6UTC. Net order is Daryl, Bob (NY), Wayne, Rick, Carl, and whoever else shows up. I've ordered some ham radio items, including new address labels (used for mailing and for hamfest prize tickets), a Gold Subscription with HamCall, plus a new Trains Net Badge. The next batch of QSL cards will go out on Wednesday. You can see what the QSL and eQSL cards look like on my QRZ bio...where I have added some ham radio certificates. I had a credit from my healthcare HMO, so I ordered 4 dozen hot dogs, buns, cheese slices, ketchup, and Oreo Lemon Cookies for dessert. It'll be a nice change from the tuna variety sandwiches and Funions. With all the food and other stuff, I've moved all of my doctors appointments down the road, as it were. I got the day and time for my forum for the Quarter Century Wireless Association (QCWA) at the Huntsville Hamfest...it'll be at 12 Noon on Saturday, Aug. 22. I am so excited about this trip...so if you're planning to attend the 2026 Huntsville Hamfest, please stop by the QCWA Table in the Main Hall, have an eyeball QSO with me, and get a QSL card. Speaking of which, I'm mailing these out to hams by request, in the continental US, or they can request a JPG image via email, or get one via either eQSL.cc or DigiQSL. With the first class postage now at 82 cents, I will not be mailing a ton of these off!! Thunderstorms are likely here Tuesday through Wednesday, then it will get hot and dry. Up into New England, there is a significant severe weather threat. They're not expecting severe weather here, but parts of south Texas could see significant flooding. I hope to soon start a local training and trivia net on July 21, on a state repeater network (I have the trivia and the training material through May, 2030). But, if I get "snubbed and shut down", as the club only seems to want to do "public service events", and be a one dimensional ham radio club, I will tell them off, self ban myself from the club's repeaters, meetings, etc., and walk out of the room!! However, I'm doing plenty of stuff in the hobby, that I'm not going away anytime soon. So, you have still must put up with me (hi hi). I saw where Congress is again talking about the making of Daylight Savings Time (or is it Dumb Stupid Time??) permanent. However, they likely are more concerned about the midterm elections than anything else right now. They get more recess time than I did nearly 60 years ago in school!! GE, Bob...how was your week?? >>> ** NS2B: GE All! It was a pretty good week. Still chasing satellite APRS, and still disappointed with my current antenna. Pondering what to do in that department. Finished Hamword today. Took me 4 guesses! Speaking of buying ham stuff. I just ordered a P25 radio. Over the years I've had a love/hate relationship with those. I enjoy writing a code plug for them, but then there is so little activity on P25, I end up selling the radio. This will my 3rd try at it! Nice QSL card Daryl! Thanks for that! And good luck with your new net. Hopefully, it takes off. That's all for me. BTU Daryl >>> ** NK5LA: Bob, first, thanks for letting me know you got the QSL card. QSL Works did a nice job on it. Second, I printed up exam books for the new Technician exam last night, and I saw a question on DMR and code plugs!! I hope the net takes off, and is not taken off, but I'm prepared emotionally if it gets grounded. A fellow ham is going to set up a portable beam antenna in the front room, to get me better coverage into some of the local repeaters, but if I get "banned", I won't have to worry about that. There is an article in the August 2026 issue of QST on the PCARS club in Ohio (I'm a Life Member). They are what a ham radio club should be doing!! GE Wayne, how was your week?? >>> ** KC2NJV: Evening all, been an interesting week to say the least... The bad news: Randolph Mantooth died, for those of us of a certain age, he and Kevin Tighe are probably responsible for a whole generation of EMTs, Paramedics and Firefighters (I was an EMT for NYC EMS (Health and Hospitals Corp - pre FDNY)). Next up, my dog, a 15 year old 25 pound mutt wasn't feeling well, very lethargic. Took him to the vet and extracted 7 teeth...came though like a champ.... On the Ham side, lost my cable for my sole antenna again (2nd time) to some critter.....what a PIA.... but got my TYT in the car working.... and we're about to connect to two new repeaters UHF that are linked via an RF link... Otherwise, everything else is status quo.... Hope all are doing well... BTU >>> ** NK5LA: Wayne, I vividly remember EMERGENCY and EMERGENCY ONE on TV...loved watching it. At least your dog came through OK. Bummer on losing the antenna cable, but FB on the TYT. GE Rick, how was your week?? >>> ** VA7RBP: GE Daryl and all on NET! I guess I was last on here before Field Day, we made out OK, between the two of us, we were over 100 contacts phone and FT8. It rained that whole weekend and as usual, I got soaked, but the radio stayed dry. I should have learned from the past couple of FDs and bought a new tent...nope...maybe next year. I have been off-air for the last week, rewiring the shack lighting, and also going to paint the shack. It will probably take another week, and then I'll have to put it all back together. Temp here is about 95F, so it's a good thing I'm working indoors in the cool. That's about it for me, so BTU Daryl >>> ** NK5LA: Rick, first, FB on the FD contacts, but bummer on the weather. GL on getting the shack rewired, painted, and put back together. They had Extreme Heat Warnings from Montana east into the Great Lakes, and it was over 100 degrees in the Dakotas!! GE Carl, how was your week?? >>> ** KX4AC: GE Everyone! Well, been a bit of a quiet week here, but a little to report. Today was especially lazy, I had an outpatient procedure to make sure my dialysis access keeps working properly, so mostly rested after that today. I did put in my first HAMWORD guess for the week late last night, but have not checked back on that yet. I had a beaglebone black that has been working as my local gps-locked clock for the last decade or so, and it started misbehaving, so I got a new raspberry-pi gps hat from a place called Uputronics. Got it up and configured and reworked my local network to use chrony instead of ntp. So far all looks very good. I have been thinking about trying to build an egg-beater for satellite work, but so far that is still just in the planning stages. Daryl, one of the local nets here does a trivia thing during drive-time on weekdays. It seems pretty popular, so I hope your attempt is just as successful. We are definitely into summer here, been 110 most days or even a little hotter. We should be starting to see monsoon rains soon, so maybe a little cooler for a couple of days, but also more humid. I have been trying to stay on the cool side of the door as much as possible. That's all from Arizona. Back to net >>> ** NK5LA: Carl, first off, HandiHams does a trivia net every Wednesday evening...but I have been busy with other nets. I too, would be resting after any medical procedure... especially if I get to end the fast and pig out (hi hi). Our hottest part of the year is still a month away. FB on getting the GPS clock deal working again...hope you can get that "egg beater" for satellites. That's it for round 1...back to the top for final comments. Bob, thanks for the use of the BBS...anything else?? >>> ** NS2B: An eggbeater might be what I need That's it for me - everyone have a good week! 73 >>> ** NK5LA: Bob, thanks for being here. Egg beaters?? I thought that was the artificial eggs. I have not seen that in the stores in ages!! Wayne, anything else?? >>> ** KC2NJV: Just a pet peeve with ARRL and Field Day.... The ARRL basically says anyone who isn't on HF doesn't count. That excludes a ton of Hams, either Technicians or those who don't have an HF rig like me (I'm an Extra, and no longer have HF).... What a misguided effort...otherwise. Gentleman enjoy your week... 73, KC2NJV, Wayne >>> ** NK5LA: Wayne, even though I'm an Extra, with congestive heart failure, and the way we get lightning around here, the only HF I can do is with remotehams.com (the free one). I did NOTHING for Field Day...except sleep. Now, you know why, on my QSL card, that the ARRL is next to the 3 RED SIGNALS (I only submit exam stuff to them 4 times a year), and yet the QCWA is next to the GREEN over 2 RED signals. So, it's like a STOP on ARRL, and PROCEED with QCWA. They are bleeding members, and they wonder why. Thanks for being here. Rick, anything else?? >>> ** VA7RBP: Nope, that's all for this week, every one have a great week, stay well, 73 for now. BTU Daryl >>> ** NK5LA: Take care, Rick...thanks for being here., Carl, anything else?? >>> ** KX4AC: Nothing more from here. Everyone have a good week. 73 >>> ** NK5LA: Take care, Carl...see you next time. That will do it for tonight's PCL Net. I'll work on the scribe, and post it as soon as possible, as storms roll in tomorrow afternoon. Stay safe, healthy, weather aware and radio-active. 73 and GN DE NK5LA. >>> ** Daryl Stout, NK5LA, Little Rock, Arkansas
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