The ARRL CW DX contest is this weekend. Get your stations ready. I will be activating the W1DX call here at my QTH.  Hope to see all get some time in the chair! Please post your plans here.

73, John W1AN

Please post your results here for this contest for inclusion in the 2015-2016 CTRI Champions Competition. Thanks!

73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

 

Don’t forget the WPX RTTY contest. Conditions should be favorable. I’ll have the stations setup for a M2 this weekend and there will be plenty of chair time available. Permission has been granted for us here to use the NW1E call.  And don’t forget that the clubs new call KE1S may be available. As far as I know it has not yet been reserved for use this weekend! Get on the air and make some noise!

73, John W1AN

Just got my January CQ mag where the results for the 2015 CQWW VHF Contest were posted.

John W1XX (3rd ) and John W1AN (2nd) for USA all band standings!

Congrats to both for a great showing!!

Jim KS1J

Hi Jim,

The only thing in the League’s newly adopted Strategic Plan that might remotely pertain to the Youth Initiative is the 1st goal:

• Grow Amateur Radio worldwide.

Except for this broad goal, the League doesn’t seem to be addressing targeting Youth.

73 James K1SD

ARRL Board Adopts New Strategic Plan

The ARRL Board of Directors has adopted an updated Strategic Plan that defines the League’s vision and guides its direction over the next 5 years. ARRL COO Harold Kramer, WJ1B, a member of the Strategic Planning Working Group, said the revised plan represents more than 8 months of work on the part of the group’s seven members. Now-Honorary ARRL Vice President Jim Fenstermaker, K9JF, chaired the panel, which met some 2 dozen times, mostly via webinar. Kramer said input to the Strategic Plan was considerable and comprehensive.

The ARRL Board of Directors adopted a new Strategic Plan when it met for its Annual Meeting in mid-January. [Rick Lindquist, WW1ME, photo]

"It will let the members know what to expect from their association," he said. Kramer stressed that the updated plan "was not developed in a vacuum" but includes survey input from ARRL members, the Board of Directors, the Field Organization, advertisers, Headquarters staff, and similar strategic plans. "We really tried to take into account what all of these different constituencies thought were the main issues, concerns, and direction of the League for the future," he added.

When it adopted the Strategic Plan at its Annual Meeting in mid-January, the Board said in its resolution, "Further, the ARRL Board recognizes the Strategic Plan presented is the beginning of a more formal process for the ARRL and requires establishing priorities, resources, monitoring, review and modification and/or addition of goals, initiatives, and tactics supporting the Strategic Plan as future conditions and the environment change."

Kramer said the Strategic Plan’s mission statement — To advance the art, science, and enjoyment of Amateur Radio — describes "what we are supposed to do as an association," while its vision statement spells out "what we want to be."

The meat of the plan is its six strategic goals, each of which includes a list of initiatives to further differentiate those goals. The goals are:

• Grow Amateur Radio worldwide.
• Increase the vitality of Amateur Radio.
• Keep Amateur Radio accessible to all.
• Advance Amateur Radio science and technology.
• Organize and train volunteers to serve their communities by providing public service and emergency communications.
• Practice good governance and organizational management.

"Tactics will be developed to define what must be done to support the goals and initiatives, as well as to prioritize activities and programs for development," Fenstermaker explained. "ARRL management is responsible for implementing and managing the process with the Board of Directors’ oversight."

As the Strategic Plan states in its Preamble, "This plan is a starting point to assure that ARRL continues its leading role in the Amateur Radio community."

Hi Jim,

This looks like a significant effort underway by our fellow New Englanders to target the same population that you’re after.

Maybe there could be some synergy among the area clubs. YCCC, Blackstone Valley, Newport County, Providence, and the League.

73 James K1SD

Jim,

Here is just a small part of what YCCC is doing for Youth encouragement.

73 James K1SD

FYI

A little more background on todays discussion.

Here is my original email to Bob on the subject. (I replied to the wrong email and subsequently sent it direct to him).

Note this was in response to the following email Bob had sent to his list of RI hams. (So you CT guys didn’t get it). It was *not* a Division meeting but a prep meeting for the semi-annual Board of Directors meeting.

…………………….

I am planning to attend the New England Cabinet meeting in Springfield on

January 9th. Our Director, Tom K1KI typically holds an all-day meeting a

week before the regular semi-annual ARRL Board of Directors meeting. Tom

invites all New England Section Managers and ARRL affiliated club Presidents

in addition to other division leaders. At the Cabinet meeting, participants

may bring up timely topics to discuss and possibly move K1KI to bring them

to the Board’s attention. Do you have issues that you would like me to bring

to the meeting? Please e mail your suggestions and questions to me at

w1yrc ASAP.

I promised you a short Activity Report this month and I intend to keep my

promise. Sincere wishes from your ARRL staff workers for a wonderful

Christmas and happy, healthy and DX filled New Year. Thank you for your

support this year. I’m hoping for more of it in 2016. See you next year….

73,

We’ve “only” gotten 5 – 6″ in East Greenwich, but it’s still snowing, albeit lightly.  The worst should be over around here.  They’ve been plowing my street regularly and it is reasonably passable; driveway’s not though.  The snow is “supposed” to be less further south of here.  I’ll wait to see if I can get out in the morning.

If we want to cancel, so be it.  It will be tough to reschedule though since we are booked with Championship Contests every Saturday until our next scheduled meeting at the NK Library on March 12.

73 James K1SD

I don’t know how you all are making out.  It’s still snowing here in Salem, CT.  I have already surpassed 12 inches.  At this point, I am less than optimistic that I will get out of the driveway in time for the meeting on Saturday morning.  As long as I have power, I will be able to communicate via the internet!

More to follow.  Mike, K1DM

This was a “two contest” weekend for CTRI Champions Competition! This is one of two contest for this weekend.

Please post your results here for inclusion in the CTRI Champions Competition.

73, Ken
Keeper of the Leaderboard

This was a “two contest” weekend for CTRI Champions Competition!

For those who dabbled in the VHF contest this weekend, please post your results here for this contest to be included in the CTRI Champions competition. Don’t forget to submit your results to the contest sponsor.

73, Ken
Keeper of the Leaderboard

For everyone who might be interested in this aspect of the NPOTA!

73

Jim KS1J

From: Bob Beaudet [mailto:w1yrc@nullverizon.net] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 3:18 PM
To: ks1j@nullarrl.net
Subject: Fw: Question on NPOTA credit

Hi Jim,

Here is your answer, straight from the head of the program.

73, Bob

From: Kutzko, Sean, KX9X

Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 10:15 AM

To: Beaudet, Robert, W1YRC

Subject: RE: Question on NPOTA credit

Hi Robert-

For National Historic Trails, the following rules apply:

k) Operations from National Historic Trails may be conducted within one hundred (100) feet of the trail itself. Operations from private property are prohibited, unless permission has been received.

m) Activations of National Historic Trails, National Scenic Trails, National Parkways, National Rivers and National Wild and Scenic Rivers may not be conducted from fixed-location, permanent stations ("home" stations).

So, KS1J can hand out Blackstone from his home QTH, but not the Rochambeau trail. To activate the trail, he must operate away from his home station.

73,

Sean Kutzko, KX9X

Media and Public Relations Manager

ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio

225 Main St.

Newington, CT 06111

860-594-0328

skutzko

Web: www.arrl.org

www.twitter.com/arrl_pr

From: Beaudet, Robert, W1YRC
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 10:11 AM
To: Kutzko, Sean, KX9X
Subject: Question on NPOTA credit

Hi Sean,

Thank you for your help when I was starting up to be active in the NPOTA program. I am all set now, I believe, and have made several contacts with more to come.

As Section Manager, I am the target for many questions from members. After all, that’s what they pay dues for, right?

Jim, KS1J lives in Barrington, RI. The Washington-Rochambeau Trail runs from Newport to Washington, DC and goes through Barrington, on Routes 114 and 103, not far from Jim’s home.

Jim asked me this morning if he must literally be set up directly on the road such as in a mobile or RV to qualify as activating the Wash-Roch Trail. He lives a short distance away in the same town.

Can he activate the Trail from his home? My personal feeling is if the Trail runs through a particular town, everyone in that town should qualify. The station does not need to be set up on the centerline of the highway.

My personal situation is a little different since I am in Blackstone River Corridor, HP49. The map for the Corridor includes my town (and many others) as part of the 400,000 acres designated.

Thank you for helping.

73,

Bob Beaudet, W1YRC
ARRL Section Manager
Rhode Island

I received in today’s mail a new item of wall paper from the league saying I had won First Place Rhode Island Section, Single op, High Power, for 50 MHz band in the 2015 January ARRL VHF Contest.

My score was 91.

As my father used to say, ” Nothing ventured, nothing lost.” Maybe it was “nothing gained.” 🙂

73, Ken K3IU

 

 

Sorry folks… I thought that I had posted this but I sure don’t see it. The CTRI Champions Competition Leaderboard is now available with reported results through the ARRL RTTY Roundup contest. Don’t forget that we are using a handicapping system and show both the Raw Score as well as the handicapped score. To learn more about the handicapping, see this posting on the club website…

http://ctri.club/2014/09/07/a-proposal-for-handicapping-scores-in-the-ctri-champions-competition/

You may view or download the new leaderboard spreadsheet by clicking on the link below. It is a Microsoft Excel 97-2003 format spreadsheet.

2015-2106-CTRI-Champions-Leaderboard-20160122-PROTECTED

73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard