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…!
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Because it was such a monumental occasion, being the 50th anniversary of the first entry into the CQ Worldwide contest from Signal Point, we opted to QSL 100% for this contest. Geoff, W0CG, designed a foldout commemorative card and arranged for printing by a vendor in Vancouver who has done super work for us before. PVRC donated $300 of the printing cost and our former member K4LT (now AD8CW) also donated $300. NA2U kicked in $50 and the club covered the small remaining balance. From there W9VA did a TREMENDOUS job printing and sticking labels and sending out the cards for distribution. W0TT, W0CG, and W1FJ himself also helped with the distribution.
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WA9S Wins Dayton Raffle
Each year we draw from a hat at the Dayton meeting to see who wins a $200 trip subsidy to Curacao for the coming season. This year Keith Wishmeier, WA9S, was the lucky winner, and that discount will be applied to his trip in February 2019 for ARRL DX CW. This is funded half from the PJ2T general treasury and half as a donation from the W0CG real estate fund.
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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.
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Membership is on the Rise
This Spring we have been fortunate to reach our highest ever CCC membership count. Assuming that everyone renews in the coming weeks, we will have a record 25 members. This is a compliment to the club that so many contesters believe that PJ2T is a good thing and are willing to tangibly support the group through membership. It also provides an ever-growing pool of top ops to staff our contest operations without the need to seek help from outside the club. We welcome and thank Egon Behle, KF4DX/DK8FZ as our most recent new member of the PJ2T family. As much an advantage as it is to grow, we need to be a bit careful not to over-grow to a point where there is contention for seats at radios at Signal Point. So far that has not happened, and a larger club relieves some of the relentless financial stress we have experienced in recent years.