Good morning, all:
The little time that I have been able to participate was not too productive. Band conditions seemed to be pretty poor with few stations heard on 10 and 15 meters and not a lot of stations heard on 20 meters. However, there were still quite a few stations sending 4 digit serial numbers.
Please post your results here for this contest.
73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
Those of you who were at the meeting. Great to see some faces. Sorry we had to be as brief as we were but I’m being pulled a few extra ways lately. To restate I need help getting my larger antennas down so I can relocate them while I’m stuck in a rental for what I hope to be a short time.
The planned date is Saturday 3.15 8:30am. But as I stated at the meeting I will take what help I can get when I can get it. I’m not in the greatest of health and I have to focus my energies on the move. So any help any time would be greatly appreciated.
My number 401-615-9976 Feel free to call at any time. If I don’t get to the phone I will call back.
Thanks again for any help and I hope to be back on the air soon with brighter days ahead!!
73 deJohn ko1h
Good afternoon to all:
Attached to this posting is the CTRI Champions Leaderboard that is current with information received through the ARRL DX SSB 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 Russian DX next weekend followed by the CQWW SSB WPX contest at the end of the month.
2013-2104_CTRI-Champions-Leaderboard
73,
Ken K3IU. Keeper of the Leaderboard
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
Lunch provider: None
Coffee and Drinks by: Coffee, Doughnuts: K1SD
Members who will attend: W1PN, K1SD, K3IU, KS1J, KO1H, W1XX, W1AN, NG1G
Venue: North Kingston Public Library, at 10:00AM
As a subscriber to the RTTY list on contesting.com I’ve seen some helpful operating tips I thought we might find useful. The points about sending “UP” frequently and Ed, W0YK’s caution about using digital call stacking are of particular note. I assume at least some of us will want to run RTTY, so these bear some thought. Of course, saying “UP” frequently is a good idea independent of mode. I would even suggest specifying the limits, such as “UP 5-15” or something, and then staying within the limits.
To me, having a TU…NOW…answered by silence is more frustrating than simply working stations one at a time. Most DXpeditions I’ve seen/worked operate this way, as most operators on RTTY are not contesters.
FWIW.
73,
Pat, NG1G
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:44:41 -0800
From: Hank Garretson <w6sx@nullarrl.net>
To: “James C. Hall, MD” <heartdoc@nullnwtcc.com>
Cc: “rtty@nullcontesting.com” <rtty@nullcontesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Being the fox – pileup running
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Yee Haw! You are going to have a blast.
One tip gleaned from my operation as W1AW/6 and from listening to other W1AW/# operations.
When you work split, include UP at the end of every CQ and at the end of each end-of-contact acknowledgement.
Just this evening I was listening to a W1AW/# operator who sometime sent UP and sometime didn’t. It was chaos. Stations calling up, stations calling on his frequency. Even some frequency cops.
Send UP every turnover.
While I’m thinking of it. I tried stacking. It didn’t work well. While stacking works well for me in contests, many of the guys calling W1AW/# are not contesters and are thrown for a loop with w3xxx TU NOW w7abc 599 CA w7abc. I found it was better to work each station one station at a time.
More thinking. Often when running during contests, I send w8aaa 599 CA without a w8aaa at the end. For W1AW/#, I found it useful to always send the call at the end. Likewise during contests, I often send TU W6SX CQ to acknowledge a contact. For W1AW/#, I recommend w5xyz TU W1AW/# CQ (with UP if split).
Diddly Exuberantly,
Hank, W6SX
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:29 PM, James C. Hall, MD <heartdoc@nullnwtcc.com>wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I will be W1AW/4 during the 3rd week of March running RTTY. I need a
> little advice. I, like many, use N1MM with MMTTY and 2Tone for
> demodulation during contests. Being the ‘DX’ for this one means
> potentially split operation, something I do routinely to put DX in the
> log when I’m chasing – but not being the DX.
>
> On our DX club reflector, it was suggested that I consider MMVARI and
> use its multi-channel RX and browser. This sounded appealing to me as
> I could use my mouse and just click the QSO’s into the log (using DXpedition mode).
> I’m set up for FSK operation. With a waterfall type operation, I worry
> about not tight enough filters to effectively copy the signal. It
> looks good and I’m reading more on it such as using the Align button
> to get the target signal properly tuned. I’ll use either my Mark V or
> my K3. I do have a P3 panadapter, so that’s another option to line up and click signals.
>
> I plan on starting simplex and using stacking. If it gets too thick,
> I’ll run split. Stacking looked like a good idea for DX’ing until you
> realize that there’s a lot of jumping around on the frequencies in the
> split window
> – probably not practical. My macro responses will be designed for
> speed – probably as short as Ed W0YK’s !
>
> So, what do DXpeditioners et al do ?
>
> 73, Jamie
> WB4YDL
>
> Sent from my iPad
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:56:27 -0800
From: “Ed Muns” <ed@nullw0yk.com>
To: “‘James C. Hall, MD'” <heartdoc@nullnwtcc.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Being the fox – pileup running
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The DXpeditions I’m familiar with use a standard logger, usually N1MM Logger, with MMTTY or, lately, 2Tone. I would stick to that basic setup.
Setting up multiple decoders will reduce the number of repeats required, but that may not be a big enough factor to worry about. If two decoders, I’d use MMTTY Standard Profile and 2Tone Normal. If 3, I’d add the DXP38 because it decodes off-frequency callers faster (or you’ll pick up calls faster as you tune through a pile-up). Beyond 3 decoders, I’d do multiple instances of 2Tone with Flutter, Selective, etc. settings.
If you operate split and have the sub-RX in the K3, I would use that radio so you can have a DI window on both your TX and RX frequencies. As you note, the P3 will be very helpful to monitor multiple stations calling.
Call stacking will speed things up a bit, so that’s very useful if you’re comfortable with it and adept at running it. However, about 40% of the time I use it in contests, I get silence in return, or else the guy I just sent a report to simply sends his callsign 3-4 times again. Outside a contest, this percentage may rise. The general public of casual ops may not yet be ready for call stacking and therefore it could slow you down!
I can’t imagine the W1AW/4 pile-ups will be any greater than the P49X ones and the plan above has worked well there.
Ed W0YK
It is Saturday morning at 0630 local and already 10 meters is wide open and almost wall-to-wall. Checking 15 and 20 meter bands shows the same thing. My poor little K2 is having trouble discriminating between the signals. My ears are having the same problem. 🙂 Sounds like conditions are great for this contest and I hope that there are many of you out there who are participating.
Please post your results here so that I can include them in the CTRI Champions competition leaderboard.
73, Ken Wagner K3IU, Keeper of the Leaderboard
This weekend brings us the ARRL SSB DX contest. I am extending an open invitation for CTRI members to operate here at W1AN/W1DX in CT. Both stations will be available. Just let me know here or via email that you will be coming. We can operate as a multi or two single stations under separate calls, depending on interest. Bring your own snacks.
73, John, W1AN
For those who played on the top band this weekend, please post your results here so I can include them in the CTRI Champions leaderboard. Thanks!
73,
Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
G’morning, gents:
Well, I remembered to post this before the contest ends tonight. I hope there are lots of members on the air in this contest, ‘cuz the conditions have been very good.
Please post your results here by adding a reply/comment to this posting.
73,
Ken K3IU, Keeper of the Leaderboard
For you W1AW/x chasers, a late announcement from NN1N: W1AW/KG4, Guantanamo Bay, has been added to the list
of W1AW/x operations. This operation will take place during the week (UTC) of 26 Feb – 4 March. Hope you all have worked
W1AW/KH6 this week….they are done at 7 PM local tomorrow Tuesday. GL! — John, W1XX
Good morning, gents:
Please post your results for this contest by adding a reply/comment to this posting. I have been down with a “cold” since last Tuesday (first one in 3-4 years) and am still feeling the effects so I stayed here at home rather than travel to W1AN to help out. Conditions seem to be pretty good and I am sure that stacked yagis on 15 meters at W1AN have been getting a good workout.
73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard
I told someone in this group, but I cannot remember who that was, that I was making a move from my current QTH in Warwick to a new one in Cranston. That move will not take place at this time.
My mailing address remains at 40 Quail Ridge Lane Warwick RI 02886-4262, and home phone remains at 401-825-7122, for the records.
Sorry for any confusion!
73 de KB1LN Bob Rogers
PS Hope to see everyone at the luncheon!
Good morning CTRIers:
Attached to this posting is the CTRI Champions Leaderboard that is current with information received through the CQ 160 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 and download the spreadsheet. The next contest in the Champions Series is the CQ WPX RTTY contest this coming weekend. February is full of FUN contests, so get your butt into the chair and get on the air!
2013-2104_CTRI-Champions-Leaderboard
73,
Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard
This is a reminder that the CQ WPX RTTY Contest is this coming weekend. I hope all that are able will get on the air wherever you are and make some contacts to add to the clubs aggregate score. I will have the W1AN/W1DX station here open as a Multi-2. I’m not sure we can muster all the operators we need but I will guarantee that anyone who shows will have a great experience in one of the chairs.
If you plan on making it let me know either here or direct.
73,
John, W1AN
Effective 1 March 2014 I will be moving from Warwick RI to Cranston RI, about 6 miles north of my present location.
New mailing address will be 175 Hoffman Ave Cranston RI 02920-4578.
No home phone will be installed and I only use my cell phone for emergencies.
My e-mail address remains the same at KB1LN at yahoo dot com.
73 to the group and hope to see you all at the Annual Luncheon.
Bob
