Category: Governance

2018-2019 Contest Plans

As you can see online at www.pj2t.org, in the left frame, under “Upcoming Contests,” much planning has been done.

CQWW SSB will be based out of the white and blue Galo rental house on the hill with a heavily Canadian team and W3ACO feeding the team like royalty. There may be one open bed left. Interested?

CQWW CW also has one bed still open unless DF9LJ is able to get here for that contest. We’ve rented the Moran pool house for this contest.

ARRL CW (February 2019) is fully staffed, but if you’d like to join this team we can always find a room off site, no worries.

Just When I Thought I Was Out

Post author By Jim Galm
Post date 2018-08-11
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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in,” is what Michael said in The Godfather: Part III. I am not a Mafioso, but I think that I know a little about how he felt. After four years as CCC President and a smooth transition to a new President, I was looking forward to kicking back, playing on the radio, and generally enjoying myself. That didn’t work out at the CCC Annual Meeting at Dayton last month, when I was elected CCC Treasurer. Just when I thought I was out…

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Caretaking of Signal Point

Post author By Geoff Howard
Post date 2018-08-11
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Last March, Gene Shea, KB7Q, and his XYL Joyce participated in an experiment with caretaking of the station. They stayed on site after I left and hosted contests and took care of the QTH and worked on several station projects. They of course paid no rent, and were reimbursed 50% of the metered utility usage and 33.3% of the cost of their rental vehicle. This is advantageous on both sides. This enabled them to have some time on the tropics and access to the big station inexpensively compared to the full costs of a rental home elsewhere in a warm place, yet it enabled PJ2T to continue to operate, provided the fun of remote operating PJ2T for those of us who do that, and made for great security for our house and equipment when teams visited. The experiment was a success, and they have indicated that they will probably do it again in 2019. The advantage for me is that I was able to leave about a month earlier than every before and get back to a happy non-solitary life at home with Dorothy. If any one else in CCC is interested in being caretaker at some other time of the calendar year, let’s talk…!

Governance Overview

Club Work Roles

Mark Beckwith, N5OT, was elected to serve as the club’s President at the Dayton CCC Annual Meeting. Mark is a top operator and brings the tremendous asset to the club that he is extremely well-connected in the contesting community. He seems to know everybody and vice-versa. He led the fund drive for the Europe tower and now we look forward to his leadership as PJ2T moves toward its 20th year. As president, N5OT also produces the club newsletter.

Gene Shea, KB7Q, was not present at the Dayton meeting, so of course we elected him Vice-President. Gene has been Mister Do Everything since he joined the group, serving as a contest team leader, the computer guru for the station, and moving us single-handedly into the realm of remote operations. Gene is a retired teacher, very patient and gifted at conveying difficult concepts, always has a smile, and is always gracious in dropping what he’s doing to be a tutor and support guy. He also put PJ2T on the EME map in a big was with 2 meter moonbounce earlier this year, very exciting to witness.

Equipment Governance Membership Overview

A Day in the Life

It’s 10 minutes past 9 in the morning. I hope to go to my radio station (8 miles from home) and get on to work my friend Rus, K2UA, as he puts his first ever summit on the air. But before I do that, I wanted to share a slice of my life if it will help anyone relate to me better.

We are all busy. I get that. I am not writing this to show you how much busier I am than you are. But I do know that some will find it helpful to know exactly what chainsaws I juggle.

I woke up to emails from Tim, K3LR, about some mutual tower/antenna stuff we have going on at a personal level. Completely different from anything PJ2T has going on with DX Engineering, where as you know, Tim is a major player.