Just wondering if there would be a gathering at W1AN.

Wanting to see what Contesting is all about with the Pro’s!

 

73   Mike

KB1RFJ

 

 

Member Chris Seeber, KA1GEU, passed away Monday, May 13, 2013, at Boston Medical Center at the age of 60. He was an active Ham and a good member of CTRI CG. We’ll miss him.

The obituary may be read at the link below.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thewesterlysun/obituary.aspx?n=christopher-t-seeber&pid=164896838&fhid=4185#fbLoggedOut

Although the team was ready, the weather didn’t cooperate for us to raise the section of tower as planned last Saturday.

The forecast looks good for this Saturday.  If we could get a crew here for about an hour or so, the top section and permanent guys can be raised and rigged.  And then I can look forward to finishing and raising the Bencher Skyhawk!

All help will be appreciated.      Saturday,  18 May  ~ 0900

I’ll have a pot of coffee ready.

73 James K1SD

401.884.2654

 

With only three(3) contests remaining in the Intra-Club competition, here are the results so far with current information through the NEQP contest. Only seven(7) members posted results for the NEQP contest. The link in this posting is to a Microsoft Excel (97 – 2003) spreadsheet. You should be able to download it by clicking on the link.

Updated 15 May 2013

Champions Leaderboard dtd 15 May 2013

73,
Ken K3IU… Keeper of the Leaderboard

I know, I know… it is nine months away.  However, I thought that I would put out a query to see what the interest level might be for a team heading to Mi Casita next February. I sent an email to Carlos asking him whether he would be going to the Orlando HamCation in Feb 2014 (on the same weekend as WPX RTTY contest) or whether Mi Casita would be available for that weekend.  His response was, “The contest will be more important to me. So hope to see you again and broke the old record.”

If anyone is interested, we shouldn’t let this subject drop off of the radar until the last minute. I am not sure that I am interested in going down next year, and I believe that John, W1AN, said that he might like to make a run at a M2 op from his QTH next year. However, there may be enough interest that a team heading to NP3U and manning a M2 at John’s may be possible.

Whatever the interest level, at some point down the road, we should let Carlos know whether or not we will be sending a team so that he can make other plans if we don’t.

Please post your NEQP results here by adding a comment to this posting. Conditions haven’t been very good, but if you want your score included in the CTRI Champions leaderboard, please post your results here.

73, Ken K3IU, Keeper of the Leaderboard

Hello all,

As maybe most of you are aware, myself and Chip -n1mie- are members fo the Radio Amateur Society of Norwich (RASON) where Chip is also President.  We would like to formally invite CTRI to our Field Day festivities at Giddings Park on Route 207 in Franklin, CT.  Chip has placed us on the ARRL Field Day Locator page.  Last year we ran 6A and had a good time.

We are hoping to set up 6A again this year, but expect to be down two stations this year (20m cw and 80m ph).  CTRI has a wealth of great operators and I think we could make a great team together.  We would like help in all the areas, setup, operators, and breakdown.  If you can set up stations, that is great.  I will be at the field Friday night for security if you want to come early to either stay or drop something off.  Campers (dry camping) and tents are welcome.

Operating tents or screen houses, stations, generators, operating desks and chairs along with computers (we do network logging with N1MM Logger) are needed.

Giddings Field is a large field with lots of trees for wire and room for yagis.  More importantly there are bathrooms!

I have been tasked with setting up the kitchen this year.  I am working on a menu that should not leave anyone hungry!  We are providing breakfast, lunch, and dinner Saturday, and breakfast and lunch on Sunday.  I expect to have plenty of coffee and water available as well as munchies throughout the day and night.

The next RASON meeting is May 16 at 7:45pm at the Norwich City FD HQ, with the final RASON FD meeting on June 20 just before FD.  That meeting will have training on N1MM Logger.  We get extra points for a training session related to ham radio.

 

Please contact Chuck or Chip, or, reply to his thread with availabilty.

Best,

Chuck -ka1cqr-

 

 

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.  CW WPX CW contest on the weekend of 25/26/ May
3. Matters Arising

Lunch provider:

Coffee and Drinks by: K1SD

Members who will attend: K1SD, NG1G, K3IU, KB1RFJ, KS1J

Venue: K1SD QTH in East Greenwich at 10:00am

I have been asked to help find hams to assist with communications for the Americans with Diabetes Association Tour de Cure bicycle ride. The ride Includes several routes from 7 miles to 100 miles covering much of southern Rhode Island. They would like to finalize as much as possible by the end of this month or the beginning of next month. It is a great event and the riders are very appreciative of our assistance on the courses. If you are interested in helping you can email me or Al Roda.

Al can be reached at aroda@nullrisd.edu if you have questions.

If you know any other hams that might be interested feel free to forward this email or let me know.

Date: Jun 2, 2013
Start Location: Narragansett High School
Routes: 100, 62, 30, 15 and 7 miles (Maps are on their website)
Positions: Sag and Rest Stop
Website
http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/TourdeCure/A1ENE-NewEnglandArea?pg=entry&fr_id=8601
Schedule of Events
Overview of the schedule for the Ocean State Tour.
*Subject to change – updated schedule will be distributed at Volunteer Training*

5:00 am
Event set-up
6:00 am
Rider check-in begins
7:00 am
100 mile ride starts
8:30 am
60 mile ride starts
10:00 am
30 mile ride starts
11:00 am
15 and 7 mile rides start
12:00 pm
Festival, Expo, lunch and post-ride celebration begin
2:00 pm
Top Fundraiser and Gran Fondo awards presentation
4:00 pm
Festival and Expo end

Jim Creamer
KB1MAO
Westerly, RI

There is a short (4 hour) RTTY contest this Sunday (28th) from 1700 to 2100 GMT that might provide some short term fun. Here is a link to the rules. Note that it is 75 Baud RTTY ONLY. Also be aware that the 2Tone decoder will not work with 75 baud RTTY.

BARTG RTTY SPRINT75

73, Ken K3IU

I have a coil of old MIL-C-17E RG-11 that is excess to my needs (and has been for 30+ years). There are about 37 loops and the coil diameter is about 2 – 2.25 feet. You can do the math, but there is more than 200 ft. It is .405″ diameter and has an impedance of 75 ohms. Can be used for matching stubs or feedline for a dipole, which if you recall has a characteristic impedance of 72 ohms.

Anyone interested, please email me. Next stop is the RI Swap ‘n Sell Net.

73,

Ken K3IU
k3iu @ arrl.net

While no scientific study has been made the author suspects that Jim Bowman, KS1J, routinely produces the highest score per watt of any contest operator.

At the April meeting his exceptional skills were recognized as club Vice President Ken Wagner, K3IU, presented Jim with a plaque recognizing his achievement as CTRI Contest Group Champion 2011-2012 Low Power. Jim produced more than nine and a half million points for the authorized club championship contests.

Way to go, Jim!

You may recall that Jim, KS1J, gave his thoughts and ideas at our meeting on Saturday about operating “Assisted.” He had available an essay by our own Rick, KI1G, that he was using as a reference. You may download the file by clicking on the link below. The file is a PDF file so you will need an adobe-type reader to view it.

Single Operations Assisted

73,

Ken K3iU

With only four(4) contests remaining in the Intra-Club competition, here are the results so far with current information through the CQWW WPX SSB contest. There were only 4 results posted by club members for the WPX SSB contest. The link in this posting is to a Microsoft Excel (97 – 2003) spreadsheet. You should be able to download it by clicking on the link.

Champions Leaderboard dtd 10 Apr 2013

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

1. Contest Report
2. WRTC-2013 Test Run
3. W1XX Disaster Recovery
4. 2013 NEQP in early May
5. May meeting place
6. Assisted Operating
7. Matters Arising

Lunch provider:

Coffee and Drinks by:

Members who will attend: W1PN, K1DM, K3IU, W1XX, KS1J, K1FUG, NG1G, K1SD

Venue: Crandall House, Ashaway, RI at 10:00am