Here is the FINAL edition of the Leaderboard for the 2012 Contest Season. The CQWW VHF contest was the final one in the series. Congratulations to everyone who participated in the competition.
Member Posts
BOXBORO 2012 Friday Banquet
Are we going to reserve a table at the Friday evening banquet (DX speaker K1DG?)?
If you will be there and want to attend, I can order the table for 8 if we have enough people. Otherwise, I guess we’re each on our own. We still have time to get a reservation, but we need to act soon.
If you are planning on attending Boxboro, please indicate the times you will be there and let Pat, NG1G, know when you will help with the parking or ticket selling.
Time is getting short.
Mike, K1DM
CY9M on 6M
If you need St. Paul Island he is on 50.105.6 CW. He peaks at S5 on my measely antenna and I worked him first call with 100W. Also on 15M – 21.016.
73,
Pat, NG1G
Please Post CQWW VHF Results Here
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
No July 2012 Meeting
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
CQ VHF Contest July 21 and 22
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
Biggest HF contest of the summer: IARU HF World Championship
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
2012 WPX RTTY Results
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
DL-DX RTTY Contest This Weekend
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
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
CTRI Champions Leaderboard – 16 June 2012
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
ARRL June VHF QSO Party – Results
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
Reminder! NEQP 2012 logs due Tuesday
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
Meeting Notice, June 16, 2012
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
- Contest Report
- Boxboro
- Field Day plans
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
CQ WPX CW – RESULTS
Please announce your results for this contest by adding a comment to this post.
Thanks…
73, Ken K3IU
2012-05-28
