PCARS (K8BF)

ENIGMA RELOADED

Eight Edition – 2024

from September, 27th to October, 5th

The main goal of the Enigma Event is to promote as much radio amateur activity as possible all over the world, celebrating the history of the Enigma cipher machine and its crucial role in the outcome of World War II, and spreading the knowledge of those key people who contributed to its decryption.

The eighth edition of “Enigma Reloaded” event will take place in two steps :

• From September, 27th to October, 04th, Italian and foreign Amateur radio stations registered as “Activator stations” will ensure the activation of their radio stations in order to allow the participants to get their scores for the “Enigma Award” Contest.
• On October, 5th, the final event’s day, the Activator Stations will exchange predefined CW messages previously encrypted by a real or emulated Enigma machine.

All details and rules are available on the official website : www.enigma-reloaded.it (english version: http://www.enigma-reloaded.it/index_eng.html )

Project made possible by:

A.R.I. – Italian Amateur Radio Association – Radio Club of Fidenza, PR – ITALY

“Rover Joe” Museum – Fidenza (PR, Italy)

A.R.M.I. – Marine Italian Amateur Radio Association

73 – Chuck W8PT

The old ODOT tower was removed on September 19, 2024.

It took about 8 hours for Tri-County Tower to completely remove the tower. Two sections at a time were removed and moved to an area with the crane where another crew cut the tower into smaller chunks to fit in a dumpster. Did not take long to fill the dumpster. They had to order another dumpster to complete the job. The weather was perfect. Sunny and clear.

You can watch a video at: https://youtu.be/nV8YZRZ1hpg

73,

Parky, KB8UUZ

PCARS Contesters:

Here is another reminder: This weekend, on Sep 21-22, K8BF will be put on the air to participate in the Washington State Salmon Run. This is the name of their State QSO Party. The event runs from 1600UTC on Saturday to 0700UTC (Noon until 3AM) on Sunday and then there is a break. The contest then continues from 1600UTC on Sunday until it finishes at 2400UTC (Noon until 8PM) Sunday evening. So this is a 23 hr contest.

It is a CW/Phone only contest. Sorry, no FT8 or any digital at all.

We will be entering in the “Unlimited” category. It’s the one that allows Multi op/Multi transmitter entries. I would like to see a couple of CW ops, in addition to our regular phone ops, join us so that we can make a very good showing in this contest. Please let me know if you are going to join us by emailing me at chuckw8pt@gmail.com.

We will be gathering, starting around 10am on Saturday to review the rules. Hope to see a lot of you at the club site for this event.

73 for now,

Chuck W8PT
PCARS Contest Coordinator

The next meeting of the PCARS Antenna Special Interest Group will be held September 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM. We will be in-person at the PCARS club site and on Zoom.

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://zoom.us/j/99273855876?pwd=VWhuemc0T3JRdWVUd2NTZGJZWnBUQT09

Meeting ID: 992 7385 5876

Passcode: 047804

At the August Antenna SIG Meeting we discussed end fed antennas and which balun to use, 49:1 or 9:1. We also talked about NVIS antennas and which would be best for OSPOTA.

The Antenna SIG meetings are open to all PCARS members and guests. All ham radio operators or anyone interested in Amateur Radio are also welcome to attend. We will be discussing all aspects of antenna design, construction, test equipment, and experimentation. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion, and talk about their antenna related projects with the group.

PCARS will be looking for a new Antenna SIG Moderator starting in January, 2025. If interested please contact Mike KP4VZ to apply.

Bob N8QE