Here is the final update for 2011 which includes results posted or emailed to me through the ARRL 10 Meter contest. The next contest in the Champions series is the ARRL RTTY RoundUp on the weekend of 7-8 January 2012. Rick, KI1G, has already posted an article about that contest. Before that contest, I will post an article where everyone can post their results by adding a “comment” to the posting.

Wishing everyone Happy Holidays and a healthy and prosperous 2012.

CTRI Champions Leaderboard

73, Ken K3IU, Current Keeper of the Leaderboard

Please post your results for this contest by adding a comment to this posting.

Thanks…

Ken K3IU

Please post your ARRL 160 Meter Contest results here by adding a comment to this post.

Thanks…

73, Ken K3IU

 

WOW! I say again… WOW!

I was looking forward to this contest and wasn’t disappointed. My BIC time, according to the N1MM Logger calculation was 22h-47m… put in about 4 hours on Friday night, got a full night sleep on Sat night (From what I hear, I guess I missed the exciting mag storm event from the CME a couple days ago .

To the best of my recollection, I heard the following club members at least once… K1NEF, W1WBB, KI1G, and KS1J. Sorry if I forgot anyone, but I don’t take notes during the contest.

I think that this is the personal best score for me in this contest from home. Actually, to NOT coin a phrase, it was like shooting fish in a barrel using the telnet generated bandmap and S&P I was able to keep up a rate greater than 75 for long periods of time. Overall average for my operating time was about 58/hour. I know, I know… why didn’t I spend more time running! Well, I tried Runnin’ & Gunnin’ several times and was never able to get a rate that warranted more, so most of these QSOs were from S&P.

Call: K3IU
Operator(s): K3IU
Station: K3IU

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: USA - RI
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:    0     0        0
   80:   71    14       45
   40:  180    20       79
   20:  359    35      111
   15:  306    31      115
   10:  328    27      118
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Total: 1124   127      468  Total Score = 2,100,945

[I tried putting the HTML Preformatted tags in the above score listing]

73,

Ken Wagner K3IU
Portsmouth, RI

 

Our very own Rick Davenport has landed in Guam. It’s already tomorrow there. Depending on his workload, he plans to get on the air from someplace while he is there. Here is latest info from him just received. I’ll post new information here as I get it.

73, Ken K3IU

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On 11/15/11, Ken K3IU<kenk3iu@nullcox.net> wrote:

Thanks, Rick! I’ll put the word out around here when you sort out your schedule.
73,
Ken K3IU
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On 11/15/2011 5:18 PM, Rick Davenport wrote:

Ken

I finally got in touch with N2NL, I am planning on going to see him either Saturday or Sunday Guam time so Friday or Saturday here. I will try to give you more notice once I get settled in out there.

 73,

Rick

Looking Towards New World Record for CQ WPX RTTY

There has been recent discussions about a crew from CTRI heading to Puerto Rico in February 2013 to make a run for the World Record in the WPX RTTY contest. This should be near the peak of the sunspot cycle and will be a great opportunity run up a BIG score at Carlos’ station.

I just did a little research to identify exactly what the records are at the present time. This posting is to put that information in plain view. You should particularly note that the North American record and the United States record are held by pretty familiar callsigns….

Category                                 Record Holder               Year                        Score                    WPX

WORLD – Multi-2                    EA8AH                                  2007                       17,001,420           895
North America – M2             NP3U                                      2008                       14,053,680            894
United States – M2                NG1G (W1AN)                      2011                        7,862,238              873

A crew from CTRI also went south to NP3U in Februray 2009 for this contest. However, the gods weren’t with us on this trip. Equipment problems and antenna problems caused us to be Multi-Single for about 25% of the contest time. The score from that effort for NP3U (9.895,184) was still enough to win First Place Honors, Multi-2, in both the World and North America.

 

The 2011 ARRL November Sweepstakes, CW version, is history. This is one of my favorite contests and this year, after many intervening years, I need to get out the broom.  According to the N1MM logger report, my “On Time” was 16:46 (1006 mins). It seemed longer than that to me, but I knew that I’d never make it for the full 24 hours allowed.

I know at least 2 other members were participating because I worked one of them , W1WBB, and heard W1AN as he masterfully busted the early pile up on the VE4 late on Sunday afternoon. I tried for a while to get him, but finally went up to watch the football game. At half time I came back down here and found the pile up not quite so huge. After a couple of attempts, I finally worked the VE4DR at 2240Z on 20 meters. The thing that is so great about that is that MB was my final section for the Clean Sweep! I worked VY1EI  earlier as he wandered around the 10 meter spectrum after trying to sort out the bedlam he was causing. I came across him shortly after he has QSYed to a new frequency and worked him first call. Those were the only 2 sections that I was missing since about 0800 local on Sunday morning.

I operated SOAB HP Unlimited.  Here are my results…

Band        QSOs        Sect

3.5          99           6
7           196          24
14          150           8
21          137          31
28           98          11

Total       680         80

Score  :    108,800

WPX CW has come and gone and I guess I wasn’t as enthusiastic as I thought I would be. Friday nght conditions actually seemed pretty good and I was able go get about 150 Qs on 15, 20 and 40 before I crashed at about 10:30. I should have stayed up and cranked out more of those 6 pointers on 40. Saturday was not good here at all… so I  spend most of the day working outside and only occasionally dropping in to the shack to see what was happening. All in all, I put about 11 hours in the chair, virtually all S&P. My heart simply wasn’t in it.

A good thing happened though… Sunday afternoon I worked HI3TEJ on6 meter CW and heard several mid-Atlantic and southern states working southern Europe on 6m.

Here is the result of my efforts. I operated SOAB Assisted HP.

Band    QSOs    Pts  WPX
3.5      13      21    7
7     131     534  102
14     236     548  169
21      87     211   52
28      16      40    9
Total     483    1354  339

Score : 459,006

73 and please do celebrate Memorial Day,

Ken K3IU

Published by K3IU for John, W1XX.

In the coming few days leading up to the New England QSO Party (NEQP), we’ll be posting what I hope are helpful tips on maximizing your NEQP score.  I’ve been NEQPing since 2003 and have seen it grow and morph into my favorite contest of the year.

 

Before we hit today’s topic, I want to first thank John, K1JSM, of Bristol for  his nice e-mail. In announcing his intention to help CTRI score “1-million,” John will operate “from a modest station and limited contest experience.”  Bravo, John!  You epitomize what this quest is all about.  First and foremost the challenge is for everyone in the club to participate to whatever extent possible.  John says he may also go over to the W1AN multi-single on Sunday.

 

On to today’s topic:  There are three other contests the same weekend [May 7 – 8] that  can assist your NEQP score.   First 7QP – the 7-land QSO Party.  This will already be in progress when NEQP starts at 4 PM.  There will be lots of 7s on calling CQ both on CW and SSB.  Early on work as many 7s as you can to get the somewhat difficult state multipliers like WY and NV.   7QP is over at 3 in the morning Sunday – so better to work the 7-land multipliers on Saturday while they are plentiful. Their exchange also includes county-state; log the state.

 

The Italian “ARI DX Contest:” This is an everybody works everybody DX contest, so this is the best way to work DX country multipliers. There will not be a lot of DX stations in NEQP per se, so working them in ARI will boost your multiplier country count, especially Europe. Propagation to Europe will be best all day Sunday ‘til 4 PM when ARI is done.  20 should be hopping with European ARI stations at our re-start time of 9 AM Sunday.  Keep a side tally number sheet (starting with #1), as you need to send a serial number to stations in ARI…but also send your county/state exchange as required by NEQP.  I’ve even resorted occasionally to calling “CQ ARI.” Working those European DX multipliers will make a big difference in your score.

 

Next:  INQP, the Indiana QSO Party.  There will be lots of INQP activity to give you contacts.  They are big on mobiles.  I’ve even worked bicycle mobiles!  But it’s only one multiplier (IN), so don’t work INQPers to the exclusion of other potential multipliers. Work ‘em on Saturday as INQP is done at midnight.

 

Be on the lookout for our next upcoming topic to help boost your score:  “NEQP:  Phone vs. CW.”

 

73!

 

— John, W1XX

CTRI Contest Mangler

Here is the latest update by our intrepid Contest Manager of the CTRI Championship Leaderboard.

Clicking on the link below should allow you to download the file so that you can open it with Microsoft Office Excel or the Open Office equivalent.

 

CTRI Champions Leaderboard

 

The results of the 2010 ARRL Phone sweepstakes are posted on the ARRL web site. Here are the CTRI results. With all you phone operators out there I sure thought there would be more than 5 participants in this contest…

The results of the 2010 Sweepstakes(CW) are posted on the ARRL website. Here are the results for the club.

For those who weren’t there yesterday, Pat, NG1G, did a very fine presentation on the use of the Logbook of the World. When I first signed up for the program in April 2008, I thought it was quite a cumbersome effort to get started and get all of the right boxes checked, etc. I think that the Help files and instructions available now are much better than 3 years ago. I had never chased DX for an award before and decided to try for DXCC using only LotW and uploaded all my recent stuff that I had in the computer and see how close I could get. On December 7, 2008, I got my first DXCC certificate. Later certificates were for CW and 20 meters in April 2009 and 15 and 40 meters in February 2010. I just noticed that I have enough confirmed QSOs now for DXCC Phone. Haven’t decided yet whether to flip for the 45-50 bucks to buy the credits and then pay the award fee for DXCC award.

I just checked and it looks like I have a pretty good QSL rate in LotW… 20,302 QSOs and 9,357 QSLs… a l’il less than 50%. I also just noticed that my certificate expires in April of this year, so I must keep an eye out for the renewal notice from ARRL.

So, for those of you out there who are not utilizing the services of the Logbook of the World, I suggest that you reconsider and sign right up! I don’t think you will be sorry.

73,
Ken K3IU

Clicking on this link should cause your browser to open the download window and allow you so Save the file to your computer for you to open with MS Excel, or equal. The file name is “CTRI Champions Leaderboard.xls”

CTRI Champions Leaderboard

If you have any problems with this link, please leave a comment.

Thanks…