Title: CTRI CG Meeting
Location: W1PN QTH
Description: Regular Meeting
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2014-01-11
End Time: 12:30

It’s that time again. If you are familiar with the interactive meeting notice skip down to “Topics“. This is an interactive meeting notice. What, you may ask, is an interactive meeting notice? As the phrase suggests, it is a meeting notice which requires interaction by the readers. For example: we need to have topics for presentation at the meeting; we need presenters; we need volunteers to provide lunch; we need to know who is coming to the meeting so the quantity of lunch portions may be determined, and so on. This post will be updated as interactions (comments) are appended.

Topics

1. Contest Report
2. Report on effect of Resolution of Dues issue
3. W1AW/1 operations
4. Building Tower 5 and raising the antenna at K1SD
5. Demo of Flex 6500 software defined radio
6. Prioritize the plaques we intend to sponsor
7. Upcoming holiday luncheon in February
8. Matters Arising

Lunch provider: W1PN

Coffee and Drinks by: KB1RFJ

Members who will attend: W1PN, K1DM, NG1G, KB1RFJ, K3IU, W1AN, W1XX, K1SD

Venue: W1PN, 7 Juniper Ln, Johnston, RI,  at the usual time of 10:00

 

 

Good morning and Happy Holidays to all:

Attached to this posting is the CTRI Champions Leaderboard that is current with information received through the ARRL 10 meter contest. It is a spreadsheet compatible with MS Excel 97-2007 and hopefully you will have no problems opening it. Clicking on the link below should work to open and download the spreadsheet. The next contest in the Champions Series is the ARRL RTTY Roundup the first full weekend in January.

2013-2104_CTRI-Champions-Leaderboard

73,

Ken K3IU. Keeper of the Leaderboard

 

I almost forgot this! Please post your results for this contest here by replying to this posting. I was not very active yesterday (Sat) but will probably make a few contacts today. I guess conditions are pretty good!

Thanks…
73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard

Please post your results for this contest here by adding a reply/comment to this posting. I even was able to sorta match my NVIS 80 meter dipole for this contest and made quite a few (for me) contest QSOs. From here it sounded like pretty fair conditions.

73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard

Happy December, everyone:

Before I moved to RI from MD in 1981, I was a dues paying member of PVRC. There is a philosophy in PVRC which says, “Once a member of PVRC, always a member of PVRC” so I receive newsletter mailings.  Reading this month’s PVRC newsletter, it occurred to me that our l’il contest club has something in common with PVRC… we are both “no dues” clubs. I don’t recall when PVRC changed to “no dues,” but it was after I moved up here. What caught my attention in the lead article was a paragraph about the cost of their intra-club awards (plaques and endorsement plates) was the second highest item in their budget at about $1200 per year. I was the beneficiary of one of the intra-club awards in 1980 when I earned the 5 Million Point plaque. I don’t know what the biggest budget item is. The writer of the article then made this statement: “Please do remember that the Club operates on a no-dues basis, but needs your support in order to continuing to offer these programs.” Does that sound familiar? If you have been paying attention to what is happening in the club, it should. Soooo… my question to you all now is, “Have you sent a contribution in to the Treasurer to help support the club?” Of course, you don’t need to answer me. Just send a check to Chuck. In case you have forgotten, the Treasurer is Chuck Newman, KA1CQR. His address in QRZ.com is good… but I don’t know who the guy in the picture in QRZ.com is… perhaps someone auditioning for being a Santa Clause.

73, Ken K3IU

Good morning, all:

I believe that this is the first posting of the Leaderboard for this contest season. It is current with reported results through the CQWW DX CW contest. It is a spreadsheet compatible with MS Excel 97-2007 and hopefully you will have no problems opening it. Clicking on the link below should work to open the spreadsheet.

CTRI-Champions-Leaderboard_20131202_PROTECTED

73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

Happy Thanksgiving to all CTRI members and their families!

Let me start this month’s notes by apologizing for my relative inactivity over the last month or so. I’ve been pretty busy with work, school, and family, and just recently was hired as the Graduate Research Assistant in PC’s History department, so I have not had much free time with which to enjoy amateur radio in general. Unfortunately I missed operating in the CQ WW CW Contest, which I had been counting on to improve my country count of 80M and 160M. There’s always next year, I suppose.

On to December’s contest happenings. December is a great month for contesting, although I don’t know that most contesters would view it as such. There are some interesting opportunities with plenty of activity to satisfy almost anyone I would imagine.

If you like 160M December and January are your months. The ARRL 160-Meter Contest runs between 2200z December 6th through 1600z December 8th.

Please post your results here. Don’t forget that the deadline for submitting your log is 2359 UTC November 29, 2013 for the CW contest. That’s 6:59PM (EST) Friday evening the 29th.

When I get all the results from this contest, I’ll put an updated Leaderboard on our web site.

73,

Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard.

CTRI’ers,

I want to contribute to the effort this weekend @ John’s, but I have some commitments that are going to force me to operate only at certain times.  I’d like to coordinate those times if at all possible so that we spread the operators out over the entire weekend, instead of us having a lump of ops all at the same time (sitting around rag-chewing instead of operating).

Please post what times you can be there, and what times you absolutely can’t be there, and perhaps we can “force fit” ops to the entire weekend without too many problems.  I will work with John on Thursday and Friday during the day to assist with final preparations, like making sure the F-key labels are ready, the computer files are up-to-date, etc.

I CANNOT operate early Friday evening, nor Sunday morning through mid afternoon.  I guess that means I could be available most of Saturday.  I would like to get some sleep Saturday night since I have a busy Sunday morning/afternoon.

Thanks for posting your options.  I am looking forward to sitting behind the stack on 15-meters (5 over 5).  We should have good propagation – it should be a blast.

73, Mike, K1DM

This weekend is the Phone Sweepstakes weekend. Hopefully conditions will be as good as they were for the CW weekend and that everyone will get a clean sweep! Don’t forget that there are now 83 sections now that Ontario has been split up.

Please post your scores and comments here by adding a comment to this posting. Thanks…

73,

Ken K3IU, Keeper of the Leaderboard

Found this posted on the RTTY  Reflector. You may recognize some of the call signs. Click on links below.

ARRL RTTY ROUNDUP records through 2013 are up:

VE/US

DX

 

It’s that time again. If you are familiar with the interactive meeting notice skip down to “Topics“. This is an interactive meeting notice. What, you may ask, is an interactive meeting notice? As the phrase suggests, it is a meeting notice which requires interaction by the readers. For example: we need to have topics for presentation at the meeting; we need presenters; we need volunteers to provide lunch; we need to know who is coming to the meeting so the quantity of lunch portions may be determined, and so on. This post will be updated as interactions (comments) are appended.

Topics

1. Contest Report
2. Report on Resolution of Dues issue
3. K1DM technical presentation on Vector Network Analyzers and affordable instrumentation
4. NP3U 2014 possibilities
5. Prioritize the plaques we intend to sponsor
6. Matters Arising

Lunch provider: K1SD

Coffee and Drinks by: K1SD

Members who will attend: W1PN, K1SD, K3IU, K1DM, NG1G, W1XX, KS1J, W1AN, KI1G, W1WBB

Venue: QTH of K1SD at the usual time of 10:00

This weekend is the CW Sweepstakes weekend. Hopefully conditions will be as good as last weekend and everyone will get a clean sweep! Don’t forget that there are now 83 sections now that Ontario has been split up.

Please post your scores here by adding a comment to this posting.

73,

Ken K3IU, Keeper of the CTRI Leaderboard