Shown immediately below are the Rules for the CTRI Champions Program. At the bottom of this page will be links that will allow you to view or download these rules in PDF format and the current Leaderboard in Microsoft Excel (.xls) format. If anyone has any trouble downloading these documents, please let me know.
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CTRI Contest Group Champions Program

By John Lindholm, on August 15th, 2010

(Edited for current dates)

CTRI Contest Group Champions

1. Objective: The 21 major contests of the year feature a club competition. To maximize the CTRI standing amongst other clubs, the CTRI club member(s) who contributes the most points in the contest-year to the club’s credit is the CTRI Contest Group Champion. A champion will be recognized in the High Power, Low Power, and QRP categories in accordance with the specific rules which follow. Authorization for this program was by club vote at its May 23, 2009, meeting. [ed. It was subsequently reauthorized after the first year to continue the program. Also, the addition of the Tenderfoot award was authorized by the club.]

2. Scoring:

A] An individual’s submitted score will be used for “keeping score.” If at the end of the contest year there is a very close race for determining champion, then the official published scores will be used.

B] The score must be submitted to the sponsor for CTRI credit.

C] To be eligible for a champion award, at least 25% of the contests (see list) must have a submitted entry.

D] If a club member submits scores in different categories (HP, LP, QRP), his category for champion will be the highest power used unless at least 25% are in a single lower power category.

E] A member participating in a multi-operator effort gets individual credit as follows: total score divided by number of operators.

F] After each contest, a member gets credit by either posting his score on the CTRI Yahoo reflector, the CTRI Website www.wa1rr.org, or submitting the score to the official scorekeeper.

A running tally sheet (leaderboard) will be posted on the reflector periodically so that members can see individual progress and standings.

3. Contest season: The yearly contest season runs from September 1 through August 31. The following contests which have a club competition component count for champion credit:

Sep:       ARRL September VHF Contest

CQWW RTTY Contest

Oct:        CQWW SSB DX Contest

Nov:      ARRL Sweepstakes CW

ARRL Sweepstakes Phone

CQWW DX CW Contest

Dec:       ARRL 160 Meter Contest

ARRL 10 Meter Contest

Jan:        ARRL RTTY Roundup

ARRL January VHF Contest

CQWW CW 160 Meter Contest

Feb:       CQ WPX RTTY Contest

ARRL CW DX Contest

CQ SSB 160 Meter Contest

Mar:      ARRL SSB DX Contest

Russian DX Contest

CQWW SSB WPX Contest

May:      New England QSO Party

CQWW CW WPX Contest

Jun:        ARRL June VHF Contest

Jul:         CQWW VHF Contest

4. Awards: A suitable plaque will be awarded in each of the three categories in which there are qualified entries. The plaque will indicate champions in memorium of all past CTRI Contest Group members whose keys now remain silent (SK).

5. Resolution: In the event of any dispute over the results of this program, a panel of three members selected by the President shall review the matter with its decision final.

6. The Tenderfoot Award:  This is a special category that recognizes individual effort by a club member who has made substantial progress in improving his/her contesting effort usually with somewhat less than top-of-the-line equipment or vast prior experience.  It may be a so-called “rookie” effort from someone new to contesting or from many years of dormancy from operating.  It may – but not necessarily – be someone newly licensed. Making due with basic equipment and wire antennae are often the sign of a potential Tenderfoot winner.  There is no minimum number of contests to be entered. The winner is selected on the subjective judgment of a panel of club officers, and is only awarded when one is found truly worthy.  An individual can win this only once and cannot repeat in subsequent years.
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CTRI Champions Rules

CTRI Champions Leaderboard

 

JARTS WW RTTY Contest

Call: K1SD

Class: Single Op HP

QTH: Rhode Island

Summary:

Band  QSOs  Pts  Mults

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80:   3     7     3

40:   6    16     5

20:  11    26     8

15:  10    24     8

10:  24    68    13

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Total:  54   141    37  Total Score = 5,217

Club: CT RI Contest Group

Comments:

I just wanted to get on all bands and run a little power, mostly to check out the station. I ran the K3 at 10-15 watts; the Titan was abt 500-700 w output.  Previous high power efforts would light the house with RF: CO2 alarm blasting in the middle of the night is not fun.  This time only the touch table lamps would cycle on and off; just un-screwed the bulb.  Good openings into Asia.  / 73 / K1SD /

 

Makrothen DX RTTY Contest

Start Date : 2012-10-13

CallSign Used : K1SD
Operator(s) : K1SD

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange : FN41
Gridsquare : FN41GP

State : Rhode Island
Country : USA

Club/Team : CTRI Contest Group
Software : N1MM Logger V12.9.2

Band   QSOs       Pts
3.5       17       32692
7       58       277624
14      54       249890
21    140       815056
28      28       168110

Total   297     1543372

Score : 1,543,372

This is a fun contest I just discovered a week before the contest. Simple rules: strictly a DX contest; you exchange grid square only; score based totally on distance between grid squares, worldwide.  Good timing format: 8hrs on, 8hrs off, 8 on, 8 off and 8 on again.  Good participation.  Not many contests where a very casual operation yields over a million points!

Good morning:

Did anyone participate in and submit a score for this contest?? That was the first contest in the Champions competition. I am trying to get the 2012-2013 CTRI Champions Leaderboard spreadsheet up to date and can not find any indication that any club members participated.

If you participated and submitted a score, please Leave a Reply below with your score.

73,

Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

Greetings,

     What’s the history behind starting our Saturday meetings at 11:00 A.M.?  I’m just looking for information, since I have not been around that long (still a new guy).  Thanks for the input.

73, Mike, K1DM, CTRI Contest Group President

Hello,

 

New Guy Question:  I have dug up my backyard and installed 1.5″ conduit from my basement to my storage shed where the grounding rod & surge protector connecting to a wire antenna will live.  I installed the conduit thinking of expansion for other cables, control wires, etc.  Or at least that what I tell myself…

 

Anyway, this is approximately a 100′ run of coax.  I was thinking of buying a DXE-400MAX pre-made cable from DX Engineering.  Yet I walked away from the September meeting thinking the people in the club preferred 213U coax.  And do people buy pre-made cable of terminate them themselves?

 

The New Guy just looking for knowledge.  This is my FIRST coax so I’d like to buy the best stuff.  The costs between the 400 & 213 are about zero.  Is one more flexible than the other – there are a few 90 degree conduit turns.  I figure I’d use 8X from the surge protector to the wire antenna.

 

Thanks,  Mike

KB1RFJ

I need to install a Printer port and a couple of serial ports on my Dell 5150 that is in the shack. Anyone have any ideas of what card I should by that will work?

 

Thanks

Bill N1HRA

With the instant e-mail alerting working now, I am listening on 15 with my 40-

dipole about 30 feet off the ground and copying JA’s on CW!  Jump in and work a few.

73, Mike, K1DM

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Ken

At Saturday’s club meeting at the home of K1SD the annual election of officers was held. There were no speeches or attack adds, just a unanimous election of the current officers to serve another one year term. Hmmm… sounds like a rigged election, but what else would one expect of an election held in Rhode Island?  🙂

The officers elected for the 2012-2013 term are:

President – Mike McKuaghan, K1DM
Vice Pres – Ken Wagner, K3IU
Secretary – Ed Haskell, W1PN
Treasurer – Chuck Newman, KA1CQR
Contest Manager – Bill Bliss, W1WBB

 

The first of three planned monobanders for W1AN/W1DX is in the air. The project was started over a year and a half ago by Mike K1DM and I after collecting parts for two monoband antennas from a pile of aluminum at the QTH of Bill N1HRA. One antenna was a 15M-5 element and the other turned out to be 20M-4 element. The second 15M beam was from Mikes QTH. Missing parts, aluminum and new hardware were purchased for all three antennas. The old aluminum was given a thorough steel wool cleanup and two 15M beams were assembled per changes found in the ARRL Antenna Book. Testing on the MFJ analyzer was done by Mike and I at 40 feet by raising with a line and pulley on the south 90 foot tower. Minor adjustments were completed.

Tower preparation continues. Along with Mike, Pat NG1G and Ken K3IU have also contributed to getting the rotor and mast at the top swapped and old antennas down and new mounts up. The 36 foot side mounted mast and rotor were installed a couple weeks ago. There still remains some relocation for the repeater antennas and old mounting hardware needs to be removed.

Since we were going to stack the 15M beams, identical 3/4 wavelengths of coax were cut and checked with the MFJ analyzer to confirm they had the same electrical lengths. I slipped and secured several ferrite cores on the coax near the feedpoints of both to keep most of the RF off the outside of the coax to minimize the affect on the RF lobes of the antennas. I fabricated attachment points from aluminum strap and angle and used phillystran to minimize boom sag for both beams.

To raise the antennas I welded up a fixture that would slip over the galvanized steel tram cable and hold the antenna in a position to keep the boom level with the elements at an adjustable upright angle to avoid interference with the guy wires on the ride up. A pulley was secured about two feet above the end point of the tram cable and 1/2″ line provided by Mike K1DM was attached from the pulley to the tram fixture to haul up the antenna. Initially I was going to haul up the antenna with the use of a garden tractor with a climber ready to receive it on the tower. But first, I wanted to see how much effort would be required if I used my own horsepower to raise it. It turned out to be surprisingly easy. In fact, I hauled it up first with only a slight upward angle on the elements. This angle turned out to be too small, so I lowered the antenna and changed the angle to almost 45 degrees and it went up the 75 feet with little pain.

Once the antenna was up I took a break and has some lunch. I hadn’t secured it yet to the mast and was trying to decide if I had the energy to make the climb. I could wait for another day. Having a ground crew would certainly make things easier and much more would be accomplished including getting ready for the second antenna. I have a personal limit of one cliimb a day. I had planned this to be a three man project. I made the climb and with some effort I was able to secure the antenna on the mast. It looks pretty nice up there. On this one, I can say, I put it up all by myself. That done, for the second antenna I will need a ground crew. It’s a much longer way down if you forget a tool or drop a wrench from 110 feet. And it’s much more enjoyable to share the accomplishment with friends.
73,
John, W1AN

CTRI gang,

      How many stations participated in the CQP this past weekend?  I submitted a score, I heard W1CTN, Radio Ansonia, but I didn’t hear anyone else.  If there is one more club member, we can enter the club competition.

      Please post here, and make sure you submit your score.  It is really easy to use their Log Submission form.  Go to their site, fill in a few things, tag some buttons, and then paste your cabrillo file into the appropriate window.  That’s it.  They will also accept the “normal” e-mail with the cabrillo file attached.

     I needed California on 80 meters, so I got into the fray.  Spent some time on Saturday evening, and then a couple hours on 15-m on Sunday afternoon.  My 40-meter dipole actually worked pretty well.  It will be much better when we get the stack for 15 playing at W1AN.  It’s getting closer to a reality!

73 for now. Mike, K1DM

Contest         : CQ World Wide DX Contest
Callsign        : K6ND
Mode            : RTTY
Category        : Single Operator (SO)
Overlay         : —
Band(s)         : Single band (SB) 10M  A
Class           : High Power (HP)
Zone/State      : 5
Locator         : FN42FC

 BAND   QSO  CQ DXC DUP S/P  POINTS   AVG
——————————————
   80     0   0   0   0   0       0  0.00
   40     0   0   0   0   0       0  0.00
   20     0   0   0   0   0       0  0.00
   15     0   0   0   0   0       0  0.00
   10  1246  30  80  19  33    3497  2.81
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TOTAL  1246  30  80  19  33    3497  2.81
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          TOTAL SCORE : 500 071

Fellow CTRI’ers,

      It seems that events have overtaken our plans to meet Saturday, 6 October 2012.  Jim, K1SD, has said we can meet at his place NEXT Saturday, October 13th.  There are several members of the Executive committee who cannot make it to the meeting on the 6th, so that’s why I am going to change the meeting date!
     I give all of you permission to attend the Steam Up this Saturday, if you promise to come to the meeting on the 13th at the QTH of K1SD.
     I will post this on the Web Site, and attempt to post it on the Yahoo group, if I can get into it.

This will be one of the most important meetings of the year!  We will be holding elections!

Best 73, Mike, K1DM, President, CTRI Contest Group.