OK, all you Top Banders…
Please post your contest results here by adding a comment/reply to this posting.
The best my ATU does is make my NVIS 80 Meter Dipole match to about 3.00 : 1 but even with that I was able to work all the way across the bay and down the coast to W1XX this morning. So far, one(1) QSO here. 🙂
73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
Please post your scores here by adding a comment to this posting. I have been messing around but on six meters the conditions are not too great.
73,
Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
I will be operating this weekend in the ARRL VHF contest. It’s been a long while since having 222 and 432MHZ on the air. And this year for the first time I will have a big 10W on 1296! Getting the VHF shack back in operation has been in the back of my mind for the last few years and now I am ready to give things a try. I hope to work several CTRI members on at least the 6M band during the contest. And feel free to stop by if you want to put a few hours in.
73,
John, W1AN
I meant to mention this while at the meeting today…
I have a 35-inch Panasonic TV (not a flat-screen) that can be anyone’s property who needs it.
I no longer have a use for it and I may be moving soon, so I won’t have room to take it with me.
It works perfectly, has a great picture (In fact, I think it does Picture-in-Picture) and comes with the remote control.
All you have to do is claim it and come pick it up! Such a great price!
73 de KB1LN Bob Rogers in Warwick RI
Hello gentlehams,
It is time once again to spend an afternoon relaxing with the members of the club around the fire at Gregg’s in North Kingstown, RI for our annual Holiday Meeting. I have made reservations at Greggs for February 1, 2014 starting at 11:30am. As always friends and family are encouraged to visit. Let’s fill that room up!
Please contact me with a head count.
73 and good DX,
Chuck -ka1cqr- Newman
17 Thomas Ave.
Norwich, CT 06360
ka1cqr@nullyahoo.com
860-367-7505
Good morning, CTRIers:
Please post your results for this contest here by commenting/replying to this posting. I have had other obligations this weekend and have not been able to spend much time in the contest, but did make a few Qs on 10 meters yesterday and will probably be able to make a few more today.
73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
I hope to work many CTRI members this weekend. Look for me at the high end of the bands 80-10 meters…away from the riff-raff !
I haven’t decided to do it LP or HP yet.
GL and Happy New Year to all.
73
Dave
W1CTN
Radio Ansonia
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
Lunch provider: W1PN
Coffee and Drinks by:Â KB1RFJ
Members who will attend: W1PN, K1DM, NG1G, KB1RFJ, K3IU, W1AN, W1XX, K1SD
Venue: W1PN, 7 Juniper Ln, Johnston, RI, Â 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.
