PNWVHFS News

The website has been given a solid cleaning! If you see anything that looks out of place, please drop me a note! -Jessie

Thanks in large part to a presentation on our society and VHF+ weak signal operations by N7CFO we have added a whole pile of new members!  Good job Lynn!

K7VOX, KE7JTU, AJ3N, KB7STO, N7HCJ and KD7SQU

Welcome aboard!

The Pacific Northwest VHF Society would like to announce the creation of the Lewis and Clark awards program. Its goal is to promote VHF+ activity throughout the Pacific Northwest.

A few years ago outgoing Club president Lynn Burlingame (N7CFO) challenged the club to create something bigger in the form of an activity that would encourage VHF+ activity as well as spur growth of the club as a whole. It was in the spirit of Lynn’s idea that this award was created.

The awards and certificates of this program are specific to the culture and pioneering spirit of NorthWesterners. That being said, with e-skip, EME, and WSJT modes, award certificates should be obtainable for stations outside of our region.

The program offers two individual certificate programs that progress towards plaques and endorsements. One program is for home stations and the other is for mobile, portable and rover stations activating only Pacific Northwest grids. We encourage people to participate in both to enhance activity.

Our hopes is that this encourages more people to go to remote grid squares as mobile, portables or roving regardless of contest events. Awards will also be numbered to encourage a bit of competition.

Details of the contest can be found on a link on the PNWVHF Society webpage. (http://www.pnwvhfs.org).

In the near future we will be sponsoring a certificate and plaque design contest for members of the society as well their family members. The design will be the water mark for each certificate and engraving pattern for plaques.

The Awards program will kick off at 00:00 UTC January 1st, 2009. All contacts will have to be made after this point. Specific questions can be forwarded to K3uhf@hotmail.com. Or any PNWVHFS BOD member.

The society continues to grow.  Our newest addition is K7MET in DN07.

Newletter editor W7DHC has put together yet another great issue of the society newsletter “The Noise Floor” and the Winter 2008 edition is now available!

This issue is packed with news from the Moses Lake conference and much more!

Art Moe, KB7WW has become a silent key on or about 09 November 2008.

Art was quite active on the VHF bands, especially on 6M.  He was also PNWVHFS Director for Oregon from 2002 – 2004.  He had been in declining health for several years.

The society extends its condolences to Art’s family and friends.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.

We are happy to announce the addition of a Coppermine photo gallery to the PNWVHFS website!  This was yet another feature we really didn’t have available to us on our old domain host (they had a photo gallery but, well, the way they had it set up was VERY user unfriendly).

N7CFO and W7DHC have uploaded about 55 photos from the 2008 conference and I have added in all the front page photos used on the main site for the past many years as well.  We’ll be adding to the collection over time and hope to go back and drop in photos from past conferences as time allows.

I am still fighting a permissions issue that keeps me from being able to open the floodgates for photos. But once I get that solved I can start giving out “uploader” accounts to folks on an as needed/requested basis.

Go to www.pnwvhfs.org/gallery to peruse the photos or follow the link from the photo gallery tab on the main site.

Are you shown on the PNWVHFS Member Map yet?

Please insert your callsign as your name (or part of your name field anyway) and list the bands you have in the Message field.  You can also load jpg photos to use as your icon.

PNWVHFS welcomes three more new members!  Welcome aboard folks!

The society welcomes our newest members: