It has been a busy season, but another activity fast  approaching is the ARRL DX phone contest. This is the one where all the DX wants to work you! I plan on opening up the station here with the possibility of a Multi-2. In any event please post your plans here and get on the air! Make some point for the club and add to your DXCC totals.

73, John W1AN

I am preparing the agenda for the upcoming meeting.  If you have items you would like to include, please send them to me via e-mail, or post them as comments to this post.  I will collect everything into one post so it’s there for all to see.

Mike, K1DM, President.

Here’s a cut at the agenda items I’ve come up with:

Agenda for 12 March 2016 CTRI Meeting

Reports:       Minutes (Notes by KS1J – thanks, Jim)
                        Treasury
                         Contest

Old Business:     National Parks On the Air Update
                                 Plaques sponsorship report (What has been added this month?)
                                 Youth involvement in Amateur Radio – letter to ARRL
                                 Resolution of the club at its termination

New Business:    Field Day 2016 – if we’re gonna do it, let’s make it official
                                  Letter of thanks to W1PN for his years of service
                                  Annual report for 501(c) 3

There was some question as to whether the club incorporation had been completed.  W1AN found a link that verified that the club is now incorporated.  We will have to make some changes to that document now that Ed moved west.

We also need to modify trustee for KE1S.

This looks like enough to keep the meeting going to well past dark!

Mike, K1DM

Gentlemen,

I’ve been thinking about the CTRI Plaque Sponsorship effort. At one point, I believe we said we should consider sponsoring a plaque(s) in Memory of Chris Seeber KA1GEU (SK).

I thought I would get started on just one for now. If we like it: OK. If not, we don’t do it again.

Anyone know Chris’ favorite mode or contest? Any suggestions?

73 James K1SD

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Please post your results here by replying/responding/commenting to this posting so that your result will be included in the CTRI Champions Competition Leaderboard.

Thanks…
Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

Contest starts at 5:00PM local time until 2200Z Sunday.  Work everybody. Exchange is US states and Canadian provinces and zones for DX. I’ve got my QRN level down to S5/6 from 10db over S9 just a few minutes ago after my horse farm trip so I’m ready to go. Hope to work you!

73, John W1AN

Gentlemen,

The 2016 CTRI Meeting Schedule:

March 12 1000-1230 North Kingstown Free Library, Lower Level Conf Rm (TEN people MAX)

April 9 1000-1300 NK Library, Upper Conf Rm

May 14 1000-1300 NK Library, Upper Conf Rm

June 18 1000-1300 NK Library, Upper Conf Rm

73 James K1SD

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Halleluyah!  There are new photos on the website masthead.  Looks great!  I presume we have John, W1AN to thank…unless it’s by remote control de OK.  Also, I was able to post without entering my password.  Think that’s different…hopefully a sign that access to the website is easier to locate for recruitment of new members.  Speaking of which:  anybody know AA1AC in Newport?  Worked him on CW this past weekend on 80M in the contest.  One more thing on the masthead…suppose we need to graphically change the club call-sign to KE1S.  Also, if John is willing, how about a big time ARRL DX Phone Contest  multi-2 effort by a large contingent of club members?  Out. — John, W1XX

The ARRL International DX CW Contest is now in the can. Please post your results here for inclusion in the CTRI Champions Competition by replying to this posting.

73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

The ARRL CW DX contest is this weekend. Get your stations ready. I will be activating the W1DX call here at my QTH.  Hope to see all get some time in the chair! Please post your plans here.

73, John W1AN

Please post your results here for this contest for inclusion in the 2015-2016 CTRI Champions Competition. Thanks!

73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

 

Don’t forget the WPX RTTY contest. Conditions should be favorable. I’ll have the stations setup for a M2 this weekend and there will be plenty of chair time available. Permission has been granted for us here to use the NW1E call.  And don’t forget that the clubs new call KE1S may be available. As far as I know it has not yet been reserved for use this weekend! Get on the air and make some noise!

73, John W1AN

Just got my January CQ mag where the results for the 2015 CQWW VHF Contest were posted.

John W1XX (3rd ) and John W1AN (2nd) for USA all band standings!

Congrats to both for a great showing!!

Jim KS1J

Hi Jim,

The only thing in the League’s newly adopted Strategic Plan that might remotely pertain to the Youth Initiative is the 1st goal:

• Grow Amateur Radio worldwide.

Except for this broad goal, the League doesn’t seem to be addressing targeting Youth.

73 James K1SD

ARRL Board Adopts New Strategic Plan

The ARRL Board of Directors has adopted an updated Strategic Plan that defines the League’s vision and guides its direction over the next 5 years. ARRL COO Harold Kramer, WJ1B, a member of the Strategic Planning Working Group, said the revised plan represents more than 8 months of work on the part of the group’s seven members. Now-Honorary ARRL Vice President Jim Fenstermaker, K9JF, chaired the panel, which met some 2 dozen times, mostly via webinar. Kramer said input to the Strategic Plan was considerable and comprehensive.

The ARRL Board of Directors adopted a new Strategic Plan when it met for its Annual Meeting in mid-January. [Rick Lindquist, WW1ME, photo]

"It will let the members know what to expect from their association," he said. Kramer stressed that the updated plan "was not developed in a vacuum" but includes survey input from ARRL members, the Board of Directors, the Field Organization, advertisers, Headquarters staff, and similar strategic plans. "We really tried to take into account what all of these different constituencies thought were the main issues, concerns, and direction of the League for the future," he added.

When it adopted the Strategic Plan at its Annual Meeting in mid-January, the Board said in its resolution, "Further, the ARRL Board recognizes the Strategic Plan presented is the beginning of a more formal process for the ARRL and requires establishing priorities, resources, monitoring, review and modification and/or addition of goals, initiatives, and tactics supporting the Strategic Plan as future conditions and the environment change."

Kramer said the Strategic Plan’s mission statement — To advance the art, science, and enjoyment of Amateur Radio — describes "what we are supposed to do as an association," while its vision statement spells out "what we want to be."

The meat of the plan is its six strategic goals, each of which includes a list of initiatives to further differentiate those goals. The goals are:

• Grow Amateur Radio worldwide.
• Increase the vitality of Amateur Radio.
• Keep Amateur Radio accessible to all.
• Advance Amateur Radio science and technology.
• Organize and train volunteers to serve their communities by providing public service and emergency communications.
• Practice good governance and organizational management.

"Tactics will be developed to define what must be done to support the goals and initiatives, as well as to prioritize activities and programs for development," Fenstermaker explained. "ARRL management is responsible for implementing and managing the process with the Board of Directors’ oversight."

As the Strategic Plan states in its Preamble, "This plan is a starting point to assure that ARRL continues its leading role in the Amateur Radio community."

Hi Jim,

This looks like a significant effort underway by our fellow New Englanders to target the same population that you’re after.

Maybe there could be some synergy among the area clubs. YCCC, Blackstone Valley, Newport County, Providence, and the League.

73 James K1SD