2024 August PSK Expedition (APE)

 

GO APE THIS YEAR!!

 To encourage PSK31 operations in the field and to research and gain practical experience in the portable capabilities of the PSK31 mode, the PODXS 070 Club offers to the members the August PSK31 Expedition (APE) Award. The APE Award is offered to any 070 Club member who during the month of August, organizes, sets up, and operates a portable PSK31 expedition which meets all Award requirements.   Note that a successful APE expedition makes 20 contacts and earns a certificate of achievement.  Working a shrewdness of APE’s earns an Attaboy.   You may earn the sticker by working the same station on different bands and on different days for 5 credits or more.

To participate, submit your planned operations to the APE Manager This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than two weeks prior to your planned APE. See details on the PODXS070.com website on the APE Requirements   link.  Last minute expeditions can be accommodated but may not be advertised as well as planned ones. 

The planned APE’s for this year as of 5 August are:

Darin, NY7H. The APE consists of 20 grids and 42 parks through 9 states covering 4100+ miles in 22 days.  We leave AZ on 10 Aug with our first grid activation on 11 Aug at Crowley Lake in California DM07. On 18 Aug, we will begin The Great Northern Road Trip following US-Hwy 2 from Everett WA to the border of the MT/ND border where we turn south and head home leaving the ND-MI section of US-Hwy 2 for another time.

Elisabeth, KJ7MEB August 6-12 I'll be in Newfoundland activating parks (including Marconi's Signal Hill) and the island itself. If GN37 is on your list, please add N7MEB and VO1AA to your HamAlerts. She'll also be in GN36 and GN38.

Dick, KC3EF will be traveling starting 8/12 visiting grids in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota returning home on 8/26.  See the Planned APEs page for more details.

Questions or Comments? Please email the APE Manager at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

2023 RC3 Leader Board

 

Final Standings
 

Rank Call Total Points
1 N5SLY 1024.24
2 KC3FL 944.99
3 W9SMR 806.58
4 W3HF 803.81
5 NO8R 800.09
6 VA3TPS 796.64
7 WB9KVI 743.06
8 KE8QYK 676.41
9 WA5AMM 657.73
10 N8FL 638.33
11 KF3AA 633.13
12 AC8NM 612.18
13 N8TCP 609.91
14 N0NM 595.44
15 KO4CVU 578.90
16 K4REB 514.64
17 N7WE 470.20
18 VE3OOZ 461.16
19 K8FER 454.00
20 W3WMU 443.85
21 KC9UR 429.70
22 KA5VZG 417.85
23 KN4ZXG 391.34
24 KC9CSC 376.07
25 AB8YZ 342.68
26 K5SP 315.48
27 KC4TIE 312.68
28 VA7GEM 302.61
29 W4BZM 300.01
30 N9VEL 245.91
31 N8EUI 240.65
32 N5YS 237.00
33 AB3GY 236.09
34 K0CIE 231.38
35 NY7H 225.60
36 AC2OC 221.11
37 N5PTA 215.14
38 WB8TDG 212.10
39 WU9D 204.92
40 VE3LTN 202.35
41 KC8ROA 195.64
42 AA4RF 192.34
43 AB8SF 184.58
44 K9FER 177.10
45 W9YV 174.40
46 W5TN 162.84
47 AI4WW 161.68
48 KF0MLW 161.00
49 K9VIC 159.46
50 NE0DA 158.93
51 KG6MZS 154.25
52 N3CHX 153.70
53 KA6J 150.10
54 N7RI 147.56
55 KG0LH 147.38
56 KF8MZ 146.87
57 W7JSD 143.94
58 N5JDT 141.04
59 AG4QX 139.81
60 W0IZ 134.51
61 KW7MJA 134.40
62 KD9NHZ 129.68
63 WB8C 120.00
64 KR4U 120.00
65 W4GHV 117.67
66 WA8UMT 106.29
67 K0JV 102.86
68 N9JCA 101.74
69 KD6TR 98.65
70 AF7NX 98.62
71 K4RVA 96.32
72 VA3OGG 93.58
73 K7DWI 91.61
74 N6MG 90.81
75 WY7AA 87.93
76 K7PAX 87.73
77 N2EPE 87.15
78 K3URT 87.00
79 KG5OIB 85.71
80 NF1T 84.75
81 KZ4KX 84.69
82 KC3VPB 82.67
83 KF3AA/3 80.25
84 K8RGI 79.52
85 KE8JNT 75.75
86 WA3LXD 73.50
87 WD4RCG 73.25
88 WA3AAN 72.69
89 KI4WVW 71.96
90 N9BBE 70.65
91 N4TQX 70.44
92 N1ZZZ 67.90
93 K9CEW 67.89
94 W7OXB 65.58
95 KB0GT 64.85
96 WA8OJR 64.72
97 N6TE 64.50
98 WJ4HCP 64.38
99 N7WLC 64.29
100 AF1R 63.66
101 W8YA 63.07
102 N3DQU 61.76
103 KE8JNU 61.75
104 NU4N/QRP 61.69
105 K4VBM 60.58
106 KF5RLL 60.17
107 N3PPH 59.29
108 W4IFP 58.79
109 KB7LE 58.34
110 N7GVV 56.83
111 KC1RET 56.77
112 KE0JBT 56.62
113 VA3RTG 55.42
114 NN9C 54.23
115 OK1VSL 52.21
116 WS5ADV 50.83
117 WA2PCN 47.88
118 TI2YO 47.41
119 KO4YIN 46.50
120 N5JGE 46.03
121 K6NIA 45.59
122 N3BE 44.57
123 K1YB 44.08
124 KA9BHD 44.00
125 W2ECK 41.54
126 N5ILQ 41.46
127 KR0ES 39.57
128 NG4L 37.17
129 KD9ADB 36.83
130 NU4N 36.80
131 KD2SGM 35.47
132 N3XL 35.05
133 KD5DE 34.45
134 K9DWR 32.24
135 II4PNF 31.72
136 VA3FLF 30.49
137 AD8FD 28.92
138 AC6DF 28.15
139 K3NOP 27.50
140 KC2WUF 26.31
141 KE7GKI 24.21
142 KC3SMW 23.77
143 N9BC 22.38
144 AC9VM 22.25
145 N8XI 20.91
146 AE7UF 20.79
147 VA3PCJ 20.30
148 KC1DVT 19.67
149 W4LX 18.97
150 AB9CA 18.68
151 N7AME 18.52
152 KO8V 18.07
153 ON4VT 14.96
154 AJ5S 14.66
155 KC4OBB 13.06
156 KE0NHQ 11.15
157 VE7BGP 11.00
158 2E0INN 9.41
159 NN1DX 8.41
160 KJ7MEB 7.75
161 AC2ZZ 7.71
162 EB3JT 7.35
163 OM3TPN 1.00

 

2023

 

RC3 - The Rollo Cup
 

Contest Championship Series

 

RC3 Top Ten Standings

 

Final Standings
 

Rank Call Total Points
1 N5SLY 1024.24
2 KC3FL 944.99
3 W9SMR 806.58
4 W3HF 803.81
5 NO8R 800.09
6 VA3TPS 796.64
7 WB9KVI 743.06
8 KE8QYK 676.41
9 WA5AMM 657.73
10 N8FL 638.33

 

2022 August PSK Expedition
(APE)

 

GO APE THIS YEAR!!

 To encourage PSK31 operations in the field and to research and gain practical experience in the portable capabilities of the PSK31 mode, the PODXS 070 Club offers to the members the August PSK31 Expedition (APE) Award. The APE Award is offered to any 070 Club member who during the month of August, organizes, sets up, and operates a portable PSK31 expedition which meets all Award requirements.   Note that a successful APE expedition makes 20 contacts and earns a certificate of achievement.  Working a shrewdness of APE’s earns an Attaboy.   You may earn the sticker by working the same station on different bands and on different days for 5 credits or more.

To participate, submit your planned operations to the APE Manager This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than two weeks prior to your planned APE. See details on the PODXS070.com website on the APE Requirements   link.  Last minute expeditions can be accommodated but may not be advertised as well as planned ones. 

The planned APE’s for this year are:

August 4-7 K9VIC operating as N9ANA #488 from  Yellowstone Lake State Park, WI gridsquare EN52as and  POTA K-4347

August 6 AG7CC Cliff from Dworshak State Park, Idaho Gridsquare DN16un.  He will be operating multibands starting late morning from POTA K-2232.

08 August WA1LAD Gil #2923 will be in George Washington Memorial State Forest, POTA K-5484, in West Gloucester, RI....Grid FN41. “I will be running a Yaesu FT991, dipole and a windows 7 laptop using FLDigi. There are VERY few places far enough from my home QTH that meets the APE requirements in RI, but this does. I also have access to a large area not usually open to the public. My son is the park ranger there and provided access to that area. Operation will be between 1400-1900 UTC on 10-40M.  Please spot me if you hear or work me. Will primarily focus on PSK but will do SSB or CW if requested. I get a lot of requests for different bands/modes from "rare" RI.”

13 August KB3RAN Dave #1692 will be operating from King’s Landing Park in Huntingtown MD gridsquare FM18pp as part of Calvert County Amateur Radio Club for MD QSO Party using K3CAL.   Other stations will be on the air on SSB and CW but Dave will be the only station on PSK.  The op will run from 10 AM EDT to Midnight EDT.  Dave will be on as long at bands hold up.  Look on 20 and 40 meters.

August 15-21 KJ7MEB. #2774 Elizabeth from Olympic National Park WA Gridsquare CN87et or thereabouts and POTA K-0056. She’s requesting spots on POTA.app and will not have phone or internet service. She’ll be using QRPworks SideKar without a waterfall display so transmit back on her call frequency.

August 19-21 KC9UR Bob (with W9SMR Stan) will be doing their 10th anniversary KC9UR APE from Trine State Recreation Area, IN, Grid square EN71mr and POTA K-4182. 80 meters to 6 meters. APE Hunter Certificate for working them on 3 bands.

Dave Hardy APE Manager

KB3RAN

1692/381

 

Questions or Comments? Please email the APE Manager at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.