This is the LAST contest in the 2012 CTRI Contest series. Please post your results by adding a comment containing your results to this posting.
NOTE: If you use N1MM Logger for this contest AND you were single band (either 50 or 144), the Cabrillo file header should be changed to indicate the single band per the following on the contest web page…
“BAND should be ALL, 144 or 50 only. 6M and 2M will converted to ALL by the robot”
Good Luck and Have Fun Contesting!!
73,
Ken K3IU
There will be no CTRI meeting this month.
Regarding Boxboro… W1AN has reserved 3 spaces for Club use in the Flea Market area. NG1G is coordinating the volunteer efforts. Please contact Pat to volunteer. The “suite” has been reserved.
I am not sure if there will be a meeting in August before Boxboro, but in the past there HAS been a meeting there during the event.
Continue enjoying this nice warm summer 🙂
73, Ken K3IU
Starts: 1800 UTC Saturday, July 21, 2012
Ends: 2100 UTC Sunday, July 22, 2012
The CQ VHF contest for 6M and 2M is coming up next weekend. Band conditions especially 2M has been extraordinary these last couple of weeks. There has been much tropo ducting activity up and down the east coast and some real good conditons towards the west and southwest with contacts exceeding 500 and 600 miles common. I plan on getting a 6M antenna up on the crankup tower this week. With a little help I will lower the 2M beam 4 feet and place the 5 element 6M beam about 7 feet above the HF yagi where I hope there will be only a slight effect on the radiation pattern.
If you don’t have a 6M antenna see what your antenna tuner can do by loading one of your HF antennas. It is surprising what will work on the magic band!
I also plan this week to continue the 15M monoband stacked antenna project on the tall tower to side mount a rotor at the 75 ft elevation. I’m looking for ground crew volunteers who would like a free lunch some nice day this week. One or two men will work until we get the courage to raise the monobanders.
John, W1AN
Big multi-mode HF contest of the summer is this weekend 1200z 14 Jul – 1200z 15 Jul (just 24 hrs) as Pat NG1G mentioned in an earlier post. Simple exch of RS(T) and ITU zone (W1 is in ITU Zone 8); work domestic and DX stns; use SSB, CW or both (mixed-mode)…have fun and make some QSOs!
Solar flux level remains quite high and sunspots have been up lately so give the bands a try. Additional contest info can be found here: http://www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship including an ITU zone map.
73 & good contesting… Bill W1WBB
I’m beginning to wonder if maybe I’m the first guy to receive my paper copy of July’s CQ magazine (although Rick, KI1G already had his electronic version – makes me think I should add that to my subscription). Here are the results – I’m sorry if I miss any call signs:
SOAB HP –
W1BYH with 800,496, #6 in the #1 call area, also #1 Tribander/Single Element in the #1 call area
NA1QP (op. W1CTN) with 398,246, #10 in the #1 call area, and #4 Tribander/Single Element in the #1 call area
KA1GEU with 267,288, #13 in the #1 call area, also #6 Tribander/Single Element in the #1 call area
SOSB HP (7 mHz) – K6ND/1 with 59,664, #1 in the #1 call area
SOSB HP (21 mHz) – KN6DV/1 (op. K6ND) with 2,253,537, #1 in the #1 call area, also #1 Tribander/Single Element in the #1 call area
SOAB LP – KS1J with 101,904, #13 in the #1 call area
QRP AB – KO1H with 2,448, #1 in the #1 call area
M2 – NG1G (@W1AN) with 6,963,268, #1 NA and #8 world
Club – CTRI finished #6 in the US out of 41 clubs (and 20th in the world out of 93 total), and with only 9 entries we had a total of 10,854,589 points. The top 5 US clubs had between 15 and 47 entrants, so I’d say we did pretty darned well! We were right below the “biggies” – PVRC, NCCC, YCCC, SMC, and FRC.
Congrats to everyone on a great CTRI showing!
73,
Pat, NG1G
For those of you who’d like to keep up with your RTTY skills, the DL-DX RTTY Contest is a fun way to do it. It’s very popular, which means lots of activity and maybe even a chance to work a rare band/mode-country. Running only 24 hours, it starts at 1100Z Saturday and ends at 1059Z Sunday.
You can check out the particulars at WA7BNM’s contest calendar web site: http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php?mode=custom&week=current#4099
I hope to hear some CTRI members this weekend!
73,
Pat, NG1G
CTRI Field Day – 2012
(A preview of February 2013 – NP3U)
Here is the plan for “Field Day” 2012 for CTRI Contest Group:
At 1300 on Saturday, June 23, 2012, we will gather at the QTH of our past president, W1AN.
We will put together two RTTY stations using K3’s and RTTY Meister stations running N1MM Logger.
Our objective is to activate two RTTY stations with computers networked together running the N1MM
Logger. We will be keeping track of problems and potential challenges while we throw contacts to
other Field Day stations. We’re going to use commerical electric power, and we will use the
W1AN antenna farm as our pipeline to the ionosphere.
K3’s will be supplied by K3IU and K1DM. W1AN’s K3 will be “standing by” while serving as our
“multiplier seeker” station. RTTY Meisters are being supplied by W1AN.
What we need from members planning on traveling to KP4 land in February is your participation
in this and upcoming training/practice events. This will be a team effort, and we’re holding try-outs
for the team by organizing these practice events that coincide with RTTY contests.
We want this Saturday to be a time of perfecting of operator skills, practicing set-up, and
preparing to meet Murphy’s attempts to stall progress. We’d also expect to have some fun playing
ham radio.
So here’s the summary of the event:
Time: 1300 EDT
Place: QTH of W1AN
What to bring: Your self
some snacks
We look forward to seeing you at “Field Day 2012” for CTRI Contest Group.
Best 73 Mike, K1DM, President, CTRI Contest Group
If you are planning on attending Field Day with us, please post a comment below Thanks
Here is the current reported status of the CTRI Champions competition. If you have not reported your scores by commenting to the postings or sending an email, they are not here.
Click on the link below and then click on the link again to download the spreadsheet.
73, Ken K3IU, Keeper of the Leaderboard
CTRI-Champions-Leaderboard_20120616_Protected
This is the next-to-last Contest in the CTRI Champions competition for 2011-2012 contest season.
Please post your results here by leaving a reply below to this posting.
73,
Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Spreadsheet
If you have not yet submitted your log for the 2012 NEQP please do so ASAP…the sponsor’s deadline is NLT Tuesday 5 June. Submit logs to: logs@nullneqp.org with your electronic log as an attachment. Even logs with just a few QSOs are appreciated by the sponsor and our club.
If you used your assigned special event 1×1 callsign during NEQP, ensure that specific c/s appears in your log callsign header. Use your regular c/s in the operator’s c/s header. Double-check as well that the NEQP site receives your log with the proper callsign used during the event.
And… anyone using their CTRI CG 20th anniv 1×1 c/s *anytime between May 1-15 2012* should *also* send a copy of their log to Pat NG1G for future QSL and certificate purposes.
Any questions regarding final log submittal…just ask here.
73, Bill W1WBB
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: W1AN
XYL is preparing lunch. Please RSVP as soon as possible so a count may be determined.
Coffee and Drinks by:
Members who will attend: W1PN, K1DM, W1AN, K3IU, KA1GEU, KA1CQR (maybe), W1XX, N6ERD, K1SD
Venue: W1AN QTH, Ledyard, CT
Please announce your results for this contest by adding a comment to this post.
Thanks…
73, Ken K3IU
2012-05-28
CQWW WPX CW is this weekend May 26 – 27… the last major HF contest that counts for the CTRI CG intraclub championship for this contest season.
Up-to-date tips and operating info for the event can be found at the WPX blog here: http://www.cqwpx.com/blog/
The CQ WPX website – linked to the above site – may be the most comprehensive and interesting site on the web for *a specific contest*…it is really very well done and is a ‘must view’ before jumping in to CQ WPX CW this weekend — check it out!
Even if you have little time available to operate this holiday weekend (and especially if you have a rare-type prefix in your call) you will be in demand for those in the contest… so turn on the radio, call CQ and have some fun.
Additional food for thought…for LoTW users the WPX award program is presently being implemented into LoTW. Many rare and unique prefixes will be on-air THIS weekend and can soon be applied towards the WPX award electronically.
GL es 73, Bill W1WBB
Results for the 2011 ARRL 10m ‘test can be found here: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/ContestResults/2011/2011-10M-Web-V1_3.pdf This is an extensive detailed event report with graphs, tables, pictures and in-depth analysis…and a great spot to plan your 2012 10m effort!
Record-breaking activity as anticipated resulted in the highest number of logs ever submitted for *ANY* ARRL contest. CTRI CG was no exception, breaking our own intraclub best combined score for this event (more than doubling it, actually) with 2,566,664 points and a new high number of ‘official’ club participants at 15. Great job by so many club members who jumped on 10m, made some QSOs, submitted their logs and hopefully had some fun!
Rick KI1G led the way in CTRI with almost 1350 QSOs and 767k points. John W1AN had a low-key part-time ‘flea power’ effort from his great station and got the New England high score for Mixed-mode QRP! Operating in the newly created Multi-Op Low Power category (mixed mode, of course, and just using the spotting network as assistance) this author was able to initiate a record score for New England where none existed before! Lots of ‘chair time’ and the new Hexbeam certainly helped my effort.
Additional results info can be found here: http://www.arrl.org/contest-results-articles
Just click on ‘2011 Contest Results’, then scroll down to the ARRL 10 Meter Contest and select from the options such as Printable Linescores, Results Database, Log Checking Report, QST Articvle, etc.
Hopefully, 10m will make a resurgence this year and into 2013 as we near the cycle 24 ‘peak’.
73, Bill W1WBB
On Tuesday afternoon the availability of N1MM Logger v12.05.03 was announced with “Important bug-fix for multi ops in WPX CW” in the Subj Line.
Pete Smith, N4ZR, adds the following…
“This version incorporates a bug fix to prevent a database (“3022″) error
when editing the first QSO on a computer that is in a networked-computer
configuration. This could be disconcerting if it happened at the start
of this weekend’s WPX CW. We’re sending e-mail to all the multi-op and
networked-computer single-op users we are aware of, but will probably
miss some, so be advised.
Otherwise, this release involves only minor bug-fixes, which should be
unobtrusive.
73,
The N1MM Logger Team”
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Steve London, N2IC, added this in an email…
“It is actually much worse than this !!
It can happen if you edit or quick edit any QSO – the error will appear on EVERY
other computer in the network.
Here is e-mail I sent out to a number of networked-computer users. Please feel
free to pass it on:
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If you are planning on using N1MM Logger for 2012 WPX CW, it is very important
that you use version 12.05.03, which can be downloaded from the N1MM Logger web
site (www.n1mm.com).
A serious problem was recently found that causes error message 3022 to be
displayed on all networked computers if a QSO is edited with the “Quick Edit” or
“Edit QSO” feature. This is fixed in version 12.05.03.
In addition, a new feature was recently added that removes all QSO’s from a log.
This is very useful for removing QSO’s that were made as “practice” before the
start of a contest.
– Added WIPELOG text command and confirmation window. Entering “WIPELOG” in the
Entry Window callsign field will remove all QSO’s from the currently active log
on the local computer. To clear all QSO’s on all computers in a
networked-computer configuration, type WIPELOG on each computer.
Please forward this message to others who may be using N1MM Logger in a multi-op
(networked-computer) configuration in WPX CW.
Thanks and 73,
Steve, N2IC”
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