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W3B at Bolton Mansion — September 27

On Sunday, September 27, Penn Wireless activates special event station W3B to honor Bolton Mansion — the Phineas Pemberton House in Levittown, whose oldest walls went up in 1687. Pemberton was William Penn's right hand in Bucks County; the Continental Army surrounded the farm in 1777 and the British pillaged it in 1778; and in the 1950s the mansion was the operations center from which Levittown was built. On the 27th, it becomes a radio station — and we need operators. Two ways in: Operate on site at the mansion (9 AM–3 PM, one-hour slots). The club provides the radio and the antenna — you just bring your voice. It's a single SSB station with one mission: put Bolton Mansion into logbooks around the world, one contact and one piece of trivia at a time. No other radios or antennas are permitted on site. Only a handful of hours exist and some are already claimed, so don't sit on it. Operate W3B from home (9 AM–9 PM, two-hour slots). No travel needed — run the callsign from your own station in two-hour blocks, with separate slots for SSB, CW, and Digital. Take one slot or several. Everything about the event — the mansion's three-century story, the rules for both stations, and live counts of which slots are still open — is here: W3B at Bolton Mansion Members can claim slots now on the sign-up page (log in first). No slot? Chase W3B from home that day and put 1687 in your own log. See you at the mansion, Penn Wireless Association · W3SK

PA QSO Party — October 10–11

One weekend a year, the entire ham radio world points its antennas at Pennsylvania — and for once, we're the rare DX. The 70th Pennsylvania QSO Party runs Saturday, October 10 (noon–midnight) and Sunday, October 11 (9 AM–6 PM Eastern), and every station on the air that weekend wants Bucks County in their log. The short version: — CW and voice only (no FT8), on any band except the WARC bands. CW contacts are 2 points, voice is 1. — The exchange is a serial number plus your county — for most of us that's "BUX." (Yes, Bucks is BUX, not BUC. We checked.) — No registration, no fee. Operate one hour or all 26 — every contact counts. — Chase K3ZMC, this year's bonus station: 200 points per contact. Now the big ask: submit your log. Penn Wireless enters the club competition, and the club's aggregate score is simply the sum of member logs — we need at least three submitted logs just to appear in the results. Ten casual contacts from an attic dipole genuinely moves the needle. Upload your Cabrillo file at paqso.org within 7 days (by October 18) and enter "Penn Wireless Association" as your club on the submission form — that one box is what makes your effort count for W3SK. Everything else you might wonder — the exchange word-for-word, county abbreviations, logging-software setup, what to do with a paper log — is answered on one page: PA QSO Party guide Warm up on the pre-party net Friday, October 9 at 8 PM Eastern on 3.910 MHz LSB, and bring questions to the club forum or the next meeting. Get on. Make noise. Be the DX. 73, Penn Wireless Association · W3SK

Elections!

It's that time again! Voting is now open for the Board of Directors positions. You may vote by logging in to your member account and casting your vote in the "Vote" tab to the left. Voting will close on Sunday September 20, 2026. Get your ballots in by then. This is an online only Ballot, do not print and submit via paper/mail.