Club members;

As required by our bylaws, we are supposed to hold election of officers at our September meeting.  To that end, I have held individual discussions/exchanged e-mails with several members of the club to put together a proposed slate of candidates for office for the coming year.

As always, we will accept nominations from the floor, and then vote for each office.  Please consider this slate, and come prepared to vote.

Since we have a work-party scheduled at W1LW following the meeting, I would like us to stay focused on task at the meeting so we can “get to work” on the tower.

Proposed Slate:     President – see below

Vice President – Pat, NG1G

Secretary – Ed, W1PN

Treasurer – Mike, KB1RFJ

Contest Manager – James, K1SD

I am willing to run for president if someone wants to nominate me.  If elected, I intend to superintend some minor changes in how we function as an organization.  It is my goal to give each member of the Executive Committee a task assignment that should keep that individual focused on a long-term goal for the club.  Each task will be related to the position held, and the betterment of club activities.

Thanks for putting up with me this past year.  For CTRI it’s been a good year, despite my enduring some personal challenges that have been somewhat distracting at times.

See you at the meeting, Mike, K1DM

This is a new function on the CTRI CG website. Its purpose is to provide a listserve capability to members who desire to use it. Listserve is the name for a category of communication techniques of which one is Yahoo Groups. In normal operation one begins a discussion thread by posting an initial message which is reflected to a list of subscribers (another name for a Listserve is Reflector).

When "Send" is pressed this message will be delivered to the Listserve inbox on wa1rr.org. Shortly thereafter it will be sent out to those members who have indicated they want to see Listserve messages.

73
Ed, W1PN

I have changed one of the settings in Postmatic to see if it would send email to the originator when comments are added by the originator.
Ken

OK… I have disabled my other user ID (it MAY have been perfectly correct in what it was causing to be displayed, but it was confusing the heck out of me!) and the Subscriber2 notifications for now in order to reduce the noise level during this testing.

I am posting this to the email address assigned to K3IU by WordPress.com. I expect to receive an email from the web site. I will then Reply to that email and hopefully create a comment to the original posting. Then I will look for an email notification from the web site about that comment.

Ken K3IU

This is to test the listserve posting function.

Proposed subject for discussion at the CTRI meeting of September 19.

During our trip to Boxboro, John W1AN discussed the possibility of a new CTRI call sign; one that would be more beneficial during a contest (WPX).

73 James K1SD

Sending this by email with NO category specified. I think the last time I tried this it got tagged with the default category, i.e., News. KW

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

1. Contest Report
2. Listserv — Post/Comment: Either, Neither, or Both? Demo by K3IU and W1PN
3. Boxboro 2015
4. New Club Callsign
5. Annual Election
6. Matters Arising

Lunch provider: None

Coffee and Donuts by: K3IU(Donuts)

Members who will attend: W1PN, K1DM,  K3IU, K1SD, NG1G, KS1J, W1AN

Venue: North Kingstown Free Library, 100 Boone Street North Kingstown, RI

 

Well, the first CTRI Champions contest has come and gone, so please post your results here for inclusion in this season’s competition.

73, Ken K3IU, Keeper of the Leaderboard

The 2015/2016 Contest Season is about to begin.  Our first contest starts tomorrow, Saturday, 12 September, 2015 in the form of the ARRL September VHF Contest.  To get the club off to a strong start, let’s see how many entries we can accumulate for this one!

The contest begins on Saturday afternoon around two pm local time, so you have your morning free to fine-tune your antennas, run new coax, or get the lawn mowed one more time before the neighbors notice that it’s getting ragged.

Six meters should yield a few easy contacts – each club contact counts double for the club score – or try the 2-m FM only category.  Remember all that wall paper Ken, K3IU has been complaining about – maybe you can grab one or two for your shack!

See you in the pile-ups.

73, Mike, K1DM

Pretty soon I will need to add another wall. In today’s mail there arrived a certificate for the CQWW 160 DX contest telling me that I won First Place Single Op Assisted High Power CW in Rhode Island, and 14th in the First Call area. A total of 117 Qs!

Some of you may notice that I am sending this by email to the newly installed LISTSREVE that several of us have been working on recently.

73, Ken K3IU

Created by emailing to secret address generated by JetPack

Category Listserv

73, Ed W1PN

to Bedlam.

Test One

 

 

 

Test One

 

 

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.