I have been texting Carlos over the last couple of days. He and his wife are doing fine.

The antenna farm was completely destroyed.

All 8 towers and associated antennas are gone.

He will be running “under radio silence” for awhile.

With the present conditions on KP4, ham radio is probably his last concern.

73

Dave W1CTN

Radio Ansonia

 

CHANGE in QTH and TIME

The CTRI Contest Group meeting at the South Kingstown Public Library (aka Peace Dale Library) at 9 AM.

Address:  1057 Kingstown Road, Wakefield, RI 02879

Web site:  http://www.skpl.org/

Agenda: Presentation on Remote Ham Radio by Lars Mohlin, KE1J

It was cold in the shack despite the heater going so I operated about 8 hours. I couldn’t tell if conditions were good or bad since my tower was cranked down so had to depend mostly on the verticals. I find this contest tougher on the ears than even CW since the diddles are so monotonously (sp?) the same.

I heard only W1AN and never did work another RI station!

 

73 Jim KS1J

Anyhow, here is my score:

ARRL RTTY Roundup

 

Call: KS1J

Operator(s): KS1J

Station: KS1J

Class: Single Op LP

QTH: RI

Operating Time (hrs):

 

Summary:

Band  QSOs

————

80:   47

40:   74

20:  154

15:    8

10:    0

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Total:  283  State/Prov = 47  Countries = 15  Total Score = 17,546

 

Club: CT RI Contest Group

CHANGE in QTH and TIME

The CTRI Contest Group meeting at the South Kingstown Public Library (aka Peace Dale Library) at 9 AM.

Address:  1057 Kingstown Road, Wakefield, RI 02879

Web site:  http://www.skpl.org/

Agenda:  Antenna presentation by John Lindholm, W1XX

Probably no one else from RI entered. Nevertheless, always pleased to have more wall paper.

Happy New Year to all.

73, John, K1JSM

I was up my tower today in the nice wx to realign some antennas that were twisted on the mast and saw the remains of a massive Hornets Nest under my top plate. Wow, that would have been an unpleasant climb with a quick descent had I gone up there before the big windstorm blew their nest off the tower. I also fixed my 160m antenna and made 60 QRP Qs this weekend to check it out – and to make sure our big guns XX and AN had the RI multiplier in their logs. Purely S&P with such low power and interesting which stations can hear and which can’t. Worked as far West as MO. I will send in my paper log later on for what the puny score is worth. 73, Chris

Guess I'll go ahead and post my results. Go ahead and add your scores here too.

2017 ARRL 160M Contest
Call: W1AN
Location: CT
Category: Single Op, HP Unassisted
Club: CTRI Contest Group
QSOs   Sections  Countries
--------------------------
824    70        28
Score: 178,596

I repaired my beverages after all the windstorms of the last few months. Large trees and limbs and wires were down everywhere in the lower woods with the RG6 coax broken and chewed by some small creatures with little teeth. I also added an unterminated ~200 foot beverage running East and West. This proved out to work great as I didn’t need to do as much switching between the others. Noise levels were fairly low except for some occasional man made noise. Possibly leaf blower motors or mowers? Missed several west coast sections and ND MB NT and PR. Mostly running, no assistance. Surprised to work S01WS. A total of 52 5 pointers are in the log. Did hear and work KE1J(VT), KS1J, W1XX, K3IU, W1CTN. Also several RI stations are in the log. Slept thru both sunrises so I gotta set the alarm next time.
Beat last years score by a little.

There is no members meeting this month. Next meeting is Saturday January 13, 2018 at 10 AM.

Guess I’ll start things rolling. Please report your contest results here. Don’t know how many operated, but I worked John, W1XX, on 80m at about 0600 local on Sunday morning. Didn’t hear/work any other club members. I kept my butt-in-chair for about 9 hours. Not my best ever effort, but I’ll take it! 73, Ken K3IU

       Band     QSOs     Pts   ZN  Cty  Pt/Q
         3.5      21      42    8   14   2.0
           7      73     205   15   39   2.8
          14     217     623   21   76   2.9
          21     117     324   17   61   2.8
          28       3       9    3    3   3.0
       Total     431    1203   64  193   2.8

Score : 309,171

 

Guide to the ARRL Sweepstake Contest – here is the link:  arrl sweepstakes contest.

Thanks to PVRC for this 8 page pdf info document.

Don’t know if anyone besides me and XX operated in this contest. Didn’t hear you, John. Mid-level effort from here with about 9.6 hours BIC time. Managed to almost get a clean sweep, but missed NNY, VI, EWA and MB. Heard nothing on 10, 15 was open nicely on Sunday afternoon, but as usual for me, it was a 2 band contest… 40 meters and the rest of them. About half of my Qs were 40m.
73, Ken K3IU

K3IU SOAB HP
Band  QSOs Pts Sec Pt/Q
 3.5    5   10   0  2.0
   7  153  306  35  2.0
  14   95  190  24  2.0
  21   65  130  20  2.0

Total 318  636  79  2.0
 Score : 50,244

It is a sad day that I find I must sell my beloved ham radio gear.  It seems like I just put the station back together to where it should be, a nice loud station, but now I have to tear it down again.

 

Prefer to sell as a package: $2500.00

IC746 Pro with hand mic and Heil Pro Headset

Alpha 86 Legal limit amp loafs along at 1500w with 65w in.

Heathkit SA-2060A 3kw tuner

Is fully operational right now with no known issues.  Come see it!  In Norwich, CT.

Call Chuck -na1cn- ex -ka1cqr- at 508-826-3458.

Who will be active in Sweepstakes this weekend?

I will do some remote operation as K2LE in VT.

Hope to work a bunch of CTRI members!

 

The next members meeting will be Sat Nov 11 at 10AM.

Venue:  T’s Restaurant,  91 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882

Note: The meeting is NOT at Mike Visich’s QTH as previously announced.