If you haven’t seen or found the ARRL write-up on the Centennial portable operation, here is a link:

ARRL Centennial PDF

If I had known my comments would be published I would have added much more. Hi!

73, John W1AN

Please post your results for this contest by replying to this posting. I know there were a few of us out there… W1WBB, W1XX, W1AN, KS1J, and me with my NVIS 80 meter low dipole. Postings here will be included in the CTRI Champions Leaderboard.

And… don’t forget to submit your score to the sponsor in s timely manner.

73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

Take Back Your Power is an independent Canadian documentary directed by Josh del Sol that was released in 2013.  The film explores the health, legal, and economic ramifications of wireless utility “smart” meters.  Most people do not know about the risks associated with the radiation emitting from wireless utility meters that are already installed on many of our homes.  Nor do they understand that utility companies are pushing for 100% wireless utility metering, even though people across the country are reporting that the radiation from these meters is making them sick.  If you or someone you love is suffering from health problems, please watch this movie.

 

This documentary features narration from the mayor of Peterborough, Ontario (Daryl Bennett), as well as American researcher De-Kun Li, U.S. journalist Blake Levitt, and Dr. Sam Milham.   The film won a Leo Award for best feature-length documentary, as well as the Annual Humanitarian Award from Indie Fest the following year.

 

Take Back Your Power can be viewed for FREE until midnight tonight.  Take this opportunity to educate yourself about how your health, safety, and privacy are being impacted by wireless utility meters and the radiation they emit, as well as the accompanying infrastructure.  I firmly believe this is the most important film you will ever watch.  Please make the time to watch it, and forward this link to everyone you know.  And please make a call or send an email to your state representative and state senator, asking for a ban on ALL wireless utility meters.  We have a right to protect our health, safety, and privacy in our own homes.

 

https://takebackyourpower.net/free-viewing/

—

Mary Adkins, M.Ed.

Rhode Island Regional Director

Citizens for Safe Technology

www.citizensforsafetechnology.org

Former Configuration Manager

Mark 48 Advanced Capability Torpedo Program Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI

(401) 284-4530

 

Sent from a safe, hardwired computer

Here are a few statistics of the Multi-2 operation at W1DX this past weekend. There are many other possibilities of presentation of the information, however, some would exceed the reasonable accomodation standards of presentation on a web posting. The big gun operator for the whole effort sure looks like W1WBB who ground out almost 600 Qs on 40 and a total of just over 1100. Obviously, 40 meters was the real money maker band!

 

 

 

 

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QSOs per Band per Zone

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QSOs per hour per Op

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Please post your contest results here for inclusion in the CTRI Champions competition leaderboard. Don’t forget to submit your log to the sponser on time…

 

• All entries must be sent WITHIN FIVE (5) DAYS after the end of the contest: no later than 2359 UTC October 30, 2015 for SSB and 2359 UTC December 4, 2015 for CW. Resubmitting an entry after the deadline will result in it being considered as a late log.

73,
Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

 

Gentlemen,

Attached is the updated Contest Calendar. Note:

No January meeting or luncheon date or venue is yet identified.

For both the February 6 and March 12 meetings, I have reserved the NK Library small conference room on the lower level from 1000 to 1230. Be aware this conference room is limited to a maximum of 10 persons and there is NO food or drink allowed. Maybe we can set up a Net Meeting for the overflow crowd?

Happy and safe Thanksgiving to all.

73 James K1SD

CTRI 2016 Contest Calendar 11.26.2015.docx

Many of us have done (frustrating) business with Idiom Press for, especially, their automated rotator control boards. Hopefully, this move will be a significant improvement.

73 James K1SD

Ham Radio Accessory Dealer, Publisher Idiom Press Changing Hands

Idiom Press of Merlin, Oregon, has announced the sale of its assets to Ham Supply of Elizabeth, Colorado. Owned by Wayne Ordakowski, N0UN, Ham Supply is a new business formed to manufacture and distribute the products previously offered by Idiom Press, as well as other new Amateur Radio products.

Ham Supply will honor warranties for existing Idiom Press products, and once production is resumed, Ham Supply will honor all existing orders placed with Idiom Press after reconfirming them with the customer. Ordakowski has said he intends to have the new business in full operation by the first week of January 2016, although some previously placed orders may ship earlier.

Idiom Press published The Complete DXer by Bob Locher, W9KNI, who started the business before turning it over to his son Rob, W7GH, who is returning to the computer programming field.

The station will be open for operations this weekend for a Multi-2. So far, K1DM, W1WBB, K3IU and W1XX have expressed interest. I will attempt to put a schedule together of preferred times so we can all get in some hours. I will take a backup, fill in, support position for times when we have the chairs full. You can email me directly at W1AN(at)dxusa.net
73, John W1AN

From: ctricg@nullyahoogroups.com [mailto:ctricg@nullyahoogroups.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 7:47 PM
To: ctricg@nullyahoogroups.com
Subject: [ctricg] Fw: CQWW SSB KA1VMG SOAB LP

From Bobby

From: ctricg@nullyahoogroups.com [mailto:ctricg@nullyahoogroups.com] Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2015 5:01 PM
To: Erin & Garry Rogers; John Lindholm; James Bowman; CTRI Contest; George Emery; Bob Beaudet; Ken Wagner; Andy Clark; James Setzler; James Harper; Karen Simpkins; Garry Rogers; Anne Tony Manna; darrell.l.griffin@nulllmco.com; bgjones49@nullverizon.net; k1dm.dr.michael@nullgmail.com; ‘Grey John’ ; Jack Hunter; Dave St. Onge ; Ken Carr; brian.halpin@nullnavy.mil
Subject: [ctricg] Permanent change of address for KB1LN Bobby Rogers

Hello Everyone!

Just thought I’d send out my new address change to some of my closest friends, co-workers and other people who might need or want the info. I don’t yet have a new phone number. That’s coming in about 2 weeks or so. My e-mail address will remain the same.

My permanent mailing address is changing as of the date of this e-mail to:

91 Reservoir Road Middletown RI 02842-5832.

I can be reached at work at 401-832-8562.

Feel free to write back if you’d like to. I try to check my e-mail at least once each day.

Bobby V. Rogers

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

73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

The following email posted on the N1MM reflector by K1TTT…

“If you are trying to use my cluster node on port 23 it won’t work. change to 7373 instead. please pass this on to anyone you know, it has been down for months now and still getting 30 connect requests per minute!”

Gentlemen,

At the last meeting I thanked John AN and Dr. Mike for the F Key Template that we used at Field Day. I’ve been using it ever since tailored to each contest I’ve operated. Ed suggested that I post it to the web site. Sorry it took so long (er, I forgot).

Here’s the template that I’ve set up for Sweepstakes SSB this weekend. It’s just a Word file and easily modified for your circumstances.

Good luck this weekend and hope to work many CT and RI members!

73 James K1SD

F keyTemplate SS SSB.docx

Anyone planning to play in ARRL Sweepstakes this weekend may find this helpful or, at least, somewhat interesting.

73 James K1SD

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YCCC does not usually put forth an all-out effort in the Sweepstakes contests, as the Northeast is typically geo-challenged in this domestic contest. So we let our friends to the west have at it, and we are happy to participate and have fun.

Other contest clubs take Sweepstakes much more seriously! I happened to be doing a bit of web ‘recon’ and came across a gem on the PVRC website, a strategic encouragement for their members to participate in Sweepstakes. It includes a lot of specific operating tips which may (or might not) be applicable to those of us joining the fray this weekend.

So I’ll share the link:

http://pvrc.org/Powerpoint/pvrc_sweepstakes_2015R.pdf

-Tony, K1KP