Thanks to everyone that participated in the CQ World-Wide RTTY contest over the weekend! Both experienced and newbie operators got to work the busy bands. Over 2400 QSOs were logged and just shy of 3 million points. The weather was perfect and we had a great fire going.
Many thanks to the Southern PA Amateur Radio Club, K3IR for sponsoring this beautiful award! Skyview took first place in the PA QSO Party club competition with 5 to 25 logs submitted! Congratulations to all of the operators that worked the contest from the clubhouse and to those that submitted logs with Skyview listed as their club. Add to that, our clean sweep plaque (Worked all 67 PA counties)
KORN Roast
Outstanding corn and good friends were the order of the day at the annual Skyview KORN roast. The weather was perfect and the corn was just phenomenal. There were lots of desserts and more, even an authentic muffuletta. Combined with a nice fire, it was an evening to remember
August weather night – Fire weather
Thanks to all that attended the August weather night – Fire weather. Steve, K3FAZ presented the National Weather Service, Weather 101 class on fire weather. Wildfires can create a weather system unto themselves. Predicting and attempting to control these systems is paramount to saving lives and protecting property
Ice Cream Social
The weather was perfect for the annual Skyview ice cream social. Great fire on the outside. Lots of ice cream and smiles on the inside. Special thanks to our ice cream bartender Bob, KB3OMB. Many thanks to all that came up to partake! Enjoy some pics
13 Colonies
MANY thanks to all that operated as K2M for this year’s 13 Colonies event. At K3MJW we put over 3400 QSOs in the log! The K2M QSL card requests have already started to arrive. There were a number of other great K2M operators this year including the Steel City ARC, W3KWH! It was big fun.
Field Day 2026
KD3KA special event
PA QSO Party 2019 (Images courtesy N3BPB Bill)
HELP WANTED FOR PUBLIC SERVICE EVENTS
Always check with event coordinator for final details!
Allegheny County ARES net is on Wednesday nights at 8:00pm on 147.090+ (Also SKYWARN nets)
Westmoreland County ARES net is on Wednesday nights at 8:00pm on 145.15- (Also SKYWARN nets)
Western Pennsylvania Phone Traffic Net is at 5:30 pm daily on 3.918 MHz
EPA Phone Traffic Net daily 5:00 PM 3.918
WPA Phone Traffic Net daily 5:30 PM 3.918
As Radio Amateurs, the very reason for our existence is to provide communications in times of emergencies. Because of this, we are given sections of radio spectrum to perform our work. This spectrum is worth billions of dollars to commercial interests and they would love to obtain any of it. As practice for emergency communications we help with communications for public service events.
