Everyone is welcome!!! Activities to include Annual Field Day event, Annual PA QSO Party, Annual 2 Meter Contest, Club Picnics, Annual Club Ham Fest, ARRL/VEC exams, special events, local ARES/RACES support, VHF/UHF repeaters and more.
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Club News / Events!!
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Club 2 Meter Contest
 Announcing the 12th Annual WASH 2M Contest! |
Club Dues Announcement
The end of 2011 means that Annual Club Dues are due by January 1st. Full membership in the club will remain at $20.00 per member. Family membership add-on will remain at $3.00 per family member.
Membership requirements are as covered in Article V of our Club By laws which are posted on the website.
Membership expires December 31 of current year regardless of the month you joined. That is why we have discounted dues for new members joining later in the year.
Dues can be paid at any meeting, by mail or online via PayPal. Click HERE to pay your dues online for 2012.
Club HAM Fest
Now in our Seventeenth big year! |
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AND BOUNCE IT DID! Field Day 2011 brought another milestone to the Wireless Association of South Hills in it's first complete “Earth-Moon-Earth” QSO. More commonly referred to “Moon Bounce” or “EME” the successful contact occurred at the WASH Field Day 2011.
432.065 MHz - JT65B 06/26/2011 - 12:10 to 12:47 Local Time DL7APV - Bernd Wilde Nordhoferstr. 816833 Fehrbellin—Germany http://www.mydarc.de/DL7APV Special thanks to Kevin Smith - N3HKQ and Jim Sanford - WB4GCS for their technical efforts in assembling the station components; Dave DeMotte - N3IDH, Larry Comden - K3VX, Bill Hill - W3WH and Rick Bell - KB3IAC for their work on the antenna array. And last-but-not-least Thank You to the Wireless Association of South Hills for approving the project and acquiring of the antenna array as an asset. |
The EME quest started back in the fall of 2010 when Kevin approached the club with the idea of constructing a station to participate in the Echoes of Apollo annual event. Early Spring 2011 brought more information and more interest as the club authorized the construction of a 2 x 2 - 70cm antenna array. After many hours of constructing, testing, modifying, and practicing the effort paid off. There were partial successes at every step of the way and it was a learning process for all involved. 
The contact was made using a digital software packaged developed by K1JT specifically for this type of low signal work. Using the JT65B mode on 432.065 MHz the call log was started at 12:10 local time on Sunday June 26th, 2011. Over the next 37 minutes the exchange took place with DL7APV with Kevin Smith, N3HKQ, operating the station for the WASH Field Day effort at Mingo Park. The receive signal was a minus 31 dB but through Kevin's skill and perseverance the call was completed and in the books at 12:47 local time. Over the next year WASH Club members will have the opportunity to “log” their own EME contact. Keep a look-out for dates and times! 
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