To all,
Sorry I have been a bit tardy with my work on the CTRI 20th Anniversary Special Event but with the recent holiday and a death in the family the week before Thansgiving I have been away from the hobby.
The Special Event would center around the 2013 NEQP held on May 4th and 5th, but we have a 15 day window of operation so I would suggest we get the 1 x 1 callsigns for the period of May 1 thru May 15.
At W1XX’s we discussed the Special Event but we did not discuss what prefix block ie: K, N or W we would like to use for our 1 x 1 S/E callsigns.
It’s my opinion that a single prefix block would make it more uniform for the stations looking for us but whatever the group would like to do is fine with me.
I prefer the “K” prefix as I find KILO is the one that cuts thru the QRM the best…or it could just be my ears !
We can apply for any prefix block or suffix with exception of an “X” suffix (sorry John).
As I stated during the meeting the special event coordinators will not allow me to apply for all the 1 x 1 callsigns as they did in the past.
It would be nice to get a showing of hands of the members that are interested. Just drop me an email w1ctn@nullyahoo.com in the next couple of days and then I will post the website to go to to request your callsign.
I did a random check of a few callsigns K1A, N1A etc for the period we want and no one as of today has requested any callsigns so we are free to choose.
More to come.
73
Dave
W1CTN
Radio Ansonia