Regular Meeting 

The Triangle [NC-East] Chapter of the Potomac Valley Radio Club holds its meeting monthly on the 1st Thursday of most months. The NC-East chapter meetings are held at Manchester’s Bar and Grill on the 9100 block of Leesville Rd. in North Raleigh, with “QRM” beginning at or just before 5:30 to 6:00pm, and the dinner meeting following shortly thereafter.  Cancellations or changes usually announced here.

The Triad [NC-West] Chapter of the Potomac Valley Radio Club holds its meetings on the 4th Monday of each month at the Mellow Mushroom, 314 W. 4th St., Winston-Salem, NC. Ragchew at 7:00pm, dinner meeting starts at 7:30pm.

All contesters and interested guests are invited!

NC  Chapter  contact  information

Longtime PVRC member and good friend to many, W0UCE, Jack Ritter key went silent on Feb 20th.

A memorial service for Jack is being held on  Saturday Feb 27th at Woodland Baptist Church in Wake Forest.

Saturday, February 27th, 2016
2:30 p.m. – friends and family greet
3 p.m. – service begins (followed by cookies and drink in the fellowship hall)

Google Map link

Woodland Baptist Church
190 Woodland Church Rd
Wake Forest, NC 27587

Just a FWIW(i.e., maybe not much).  An interesting two part RadCom article by G8JNJ about voice communications.

Improving the intelligibility of SSB transmissions, Part1

Improving the intelligibility of SSB transmissions, Part2

Also, a link to Bob Heil’s tips/recommendations for rig audio settings.  I found I personally got better results via computer DVK sound card with the sound card’s software EQ, but whatever floats yer boat.  Shaded by the implied expectation you are using a Heil headset/mic.  Voice characteristics vary widely, YMMV.

http://www.heilsound.com/amateur/dsp-settings

Nate(N4YDU) will be the team leader of “NA4E” and is partnered with “Kam” Sirageldin, N3KS in this year’s WRTC competition as part of the July IARU contest being held this year on July12-13th.  The WRTC 2014(World Radio Team Championship) is being held in the greater Boston area this year, with “59 teams from 29 qualifying regions around the world”.  For contestants, WRTC is a week-long event.

At this month’s(June 2014) meeting, our illustrious President and cat-herd-in-chief Nate Moreschi(N4YDU) was presented with gift cards totaling $1,000 from members of the NC chapter. The collection effort was spearheaded by Rob(K4OV) in a chapter effort to help N4YDU with the out-of-pocket expenses associated with being a contestant and participating in the events associated with WRTC.

Congratulations to N4YDU for the hard work he put into qualifying for the event and best of luck to Team YDU/KS (??pronounced as iDuks???).  You can still help by working ALL of the teams(using 1×1 US type call signs) during the contest.  5x2x59….thats 590 Q’s right there.   (W4KAZ slogan: WTF….GO iDuks!)

Jim Jordan K4QPL announces to Nate N4YDU and club members that PVRCNC has solicited contributions from club members to offset costs associated with Nate’s participation in WRTC. Jim explains that he had to get 2 gift cards from the bank, since each card is limited to $500.

Jim presents Nate with gifts cards totaling $1,000 on behalf of our proud PVRCNC membership.