Potomac Valley Radio Club





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PVRC @ Dayton PVRC members at Dayton Hamventionhttps://www.pvrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/dayton.jpg” alt=”PVRC members attending Dayton”>
alt=”Operators at NR4M”> On the air at NR4M
Contest operations at W3LPL Contest operations at W3LPL
K3MM K3MM in action
AG4TT crew AG4TT crew: N4GU (fg),K4QPL,N4CWZ,NR4O
K3AJ host of remote M/M K3AJ host of many remote M/M
                   

PVRC has won two-thirds of all the calendar year 2025 club competitions as measured by the 5M contest event list!

Next 5M contest is CQ WPX CW starting at May 29, 2026, 8:00 pm Eastern 📅

  • PVRC is the #1 North America Large Club in the DX Marathon

    Thanks to the 115 PVRC members who submitted scores for PVRC’s
    entry in the DX Marathon.  Well done!
    PVRC finished #1 in the North America large club category.
    73
    Frank
    W3LPL
    K3RA 314 Roland Anders UNLIMITED
    K4SO 311 Mark KIllmon UNLIMITED
    W3LPL 307 Francis Donovan UNLIMITED
    W3ICM 300 Fredrick Matos UNLIMITED
    K1HTV 298 Richard V. Zwirko UNLIMITED
    KM3V 297 Chuck Hartley UNLIMITED
    K5EK 296 Edward Kuebert FORMULA UNLIMITED
    K3MM 296 Tyler G Stewart UNLIMITED
    W3FOX 289 DAVID FOX UNLIMITED
    KE4S 285 Dave Putman UNLIMITED
    W4VIC 284 Vic Culver UNLIMITED
    NA3M 279 NIKOLAY SAFRONOV FORMULA UNLIMITED
    N4YDU 257 Nate Moreschi UNLIMITED
    N1EK 256 Edward Kerns UNLIMITED
    W3LL 253 Bud Governale UNLIMITED
    K1BZ 249 David Larrabee FORMULA UNLIMITED
    W3UNX 246 Ron Horrell UNLIMITED
    N6DW 238 Dana Phillips UNLIMITED
    N3MN 238 John Mann UNLIMITED
    K6ND 237 Willem A Angenent UNLIMITED
    N3AM 237 John R Silva UNLIMITED
    N2QT 233 Mark Sihlanick UNLIMITED
    K8GU 233 Ethan Miller UNLIMITED
    W3KN 229 Andy Roberts FORMULA 100
    K3AJ 228 Tom Valenti UNLIMITED
    KB3Z 224 Mark Griffin UNLIMITED
    NR4M 224 Steve Bookout UNLIMITED
    K3WTT 222 Kathleen Dove FORMULA 100
    K3TN 222 John Pescatore FORMULA UNLIMITED
    N3RTW 220 Sean Walberg UNLIMITED
    N4CW 219 Bert Michaud UNLIMITED
    W3IP 219 Michael Cresap UNLIMITED
    K3STX 218 Paul Roche UNLIMITED
    W3IDT 217 Robert F. Teitel FORMULA 100
    N1LN 211 Bruce Meier UNLIMITED
    NZ4N 208 Brian Kuebert UNLIMITED
    WB2ZAB 208 todd 3255 ruby UNLIMITED
    N4DB 207 David H Blake UNLIMITED
    K3ORC 205 Thomas Dove FORMULA 100
    K0GD 205 Richard M Hambly UNLIMITED
    K2YWE 203 Dan Zeitlin UNLIMITED
    N3QE 202 Timothy D Shoppa UNLIMITED
    AG4TT 201 Michael Barts UNLIMITED
    WA3AER 201 Ted Bauer UNLIMITED
    N0YY 200 Richard Heinrich UNLIMITED
    W2GG 198 Bob Dannals FORMULA 100
    NR4O 198 Eric Wagner FORMULA UNLIMITED
    K3WA 198 William Axelrod FORMULA UNLIMITED
    KG4USN 197 ken reid UNLIMITED
    K1EFI 195 Fred Lucas FORMULA 100
    N1RM 195 Rick Miller UNLIMITED
    W3ZQI 194 Neil Gustafson FORMULA 100
    N2YO 193 Ciprian Sufitchi LIMITED
    N4IW 191 David Simms FORMULA 100
    K3LU 190 Ulis Fleming UNLIMITED
    N4QWF 189 John UNLIMITED
    WT3K 188 Daryl Olson UNLIMITED
    W3UL 182 William Rogers FORMULA UNLIMITED
    AG3I 182 Marty Newingham UNLIMITED
    K1GG 181 Gordon Garrett UNLIMITED
    NS3T 177 Jamie Dupree NS3T FORMULA 100
    AA3S 177 Douglas Hart UNLIMITED
    N4CF 176 Mike Dodd FORMULA UNLIMITED
    NN4RB 174 Rick Brown UNLIMITED
    NN3W 173 Richard F DiDonna UNLIMITED
    K2EJ 170 Steven Fook UNLIMITED
    WK3A 170 Bruce Hudler UNLIMITED
    K3JT 169 James T. Wassell LIMITED
    NW3L 169 Dave Sweeney UNLIMITED
    WA4PGM 168 Kyle Chavis UNLIMITED
    W3MR 167 Mel Roberts LIMITED
    N3WD 162 William Dobson FORMULA 100
    KA4RRU 161 Michael Trowbridge UNLIMITED
    K4XD 161 Rowland UNLIMITED
    N3ALN 159 Alan Muldawer FORMULA UNLIMITED
    N2FT 156 Stephen P. Johnson FORMULA UNLIMITED
    N4OC 156 Ed Giambastiani UNLIMITED
    KK4R 155 Rob Neece UNLIMITED
    NA4J 154 NA4J UNLIMITED
    K3EW 150 Phillip Barsky UNLIMITED
    W3UR 146 Anthony B McClenny⸴ Jr UNLIMITED
    W7IY 145 Stu Mitchell FORMULA UNLIMITED
    N1SZ 145 James Pierson UNLIMITED
    K5OF 145 Charles Pitts UNLIMITED
    WD4ETU 144 KIRK MCCULLOUGH FORMULA 100
    WU4G 144 Ronnie Bolton UNLIMITED
    N3KN 141 Kay Craigie UNLIMITED
    W4YVA 137 Joseph Davis FORMULA 100
    K3TM 134 Roger Kaul UNLIMITED
    N3AC 134 Dave Haring UNLIMITED
    NJ4Q 130 William K Smiley FORMULA 100
    KP2M 128 philip Allardice UNLIMITED
    W4TG 126 Frank Stein UNLIMITED
    WC4J 124 JACK COCHRAN UNLIMITED
    K3ZO 120 Phillip Barsky UNLIMITED
    NQ4J 118 Jerome S Svinicki UNLIMITED
    W2GSP 116 Victor Kernus FORMULA 100
    KT0P 116 Scott Hooper FORMULA 100
    K3KU 111 Art Boyars UNLIMITED
    AC8Y 102 Mike Kowalsky UNLIMITED
    K4TMC 101 HENRY A POLLOCK UNLIMITED
    W8KRZ 95 Richard Flechtner UNLIMITED
    K8LF 91 Jerome S Svinicki UNLIMITED
    K3YDX 84 hank hanburger FORMULA 100
    K2KW 84 Kenny Silverman UNLIMITED
    K2MAS 79 Matthew Swint FORMULA 100
    N3CW 77 Ed Goss UNLIMITED
    KD4D 60 Mark Bailey UNLIMITED
    OZ/K3ZJ 59 David Siddall FORMULA 100
    KM4OQO 56 Benjamin Kowalsky UNLIMITED
    N3BTM 53 John Barbour UNLIMITED
    W3EK 52 RICHARD LEHR QRP LIMITED
    AB3CV 51 James Miller UNLIMITED
    WX3B 31 James A Nitzberg UNLIMITED
    KG3V 8 Tom Zeltwanger FORMULA UNLIMITED

  • PVRC Members on the Q5 YouTube Channel

    Many PVRC members have been interviewed recently by W1DED

    K3RA and W3LPL (W3AO FD)
     

  • PVRC wins the WW Digi Contest club competition

    Congratulations, all!

    Club Results

  • May 2026 Newsletter

    The May 2026 PVRC newsletter is available for download here: May 2026 Newsletter

    The quality and usefulness of the PVRC Newsletter depends on contributions from members.
    If you have photos from club meetings, screen shots of new contest software, or brief writeups on station improvements or contest war stories please send them in any format to jpescatore at aol dot com.

    Previous Newsletters may be found under the Navigation tab “Reference” and then submenu item “Newsletters” on our Homepage.

    73 John K3TN