This isn’t one of our Club Competition contests, but I recall it is a fun contest. BIG scores available and if memory serves me correctly quite a bit of activity. Check it out at
home.arcor.de/waldemar.kebsch/The_Makrothen_Contest/TMC_Rules.html
For some reason, I can’t make the link to the website work by clicking on it. Just copy/paste the URL to your browser and it does work. At least it works here. 🙂
73, Ken K3IU
The Nearfest flea market at Deerfield NH is next weekend. At the clubs direction much of the items from Chris KA1GEUs estate will be brought there for sale, with the exception of a few large or expensive items such as the Heights Tower, the Alpha 9500 amplifier, the Flex 5000A radio, The SteppIR antenna, some spools of 50 ohm cable, etc. The below list is the items available to club members before the flea market. Please let me know if you are interested at the listed (price) by next Friday so I can make sure the item stays behind. If you think the price should be lower or higher please advise. Nothing is written in stone here. If two or more members are interested at same price we will pull the winner out of a hat.
The items that have member offers for at least the amounts on the list I receive up thru Friday 10/10 will be set aside. Other items will go to Nearfest, where the plan is to see what sells, generally asking for more than the amounts on the list. If there is a member offer below the list on an item, we won’t sell it for any less at the flea market. If no better offer we will bring it home for the member at the offered price.
Look over the list. There are several nice items at much less than new prices. If you have any question on an item, let me know. I have revised some prices down after searching the web for recent sales.
73, John, W1AN
w1an@nulldxusa.net
cell 860-536-1118, leave message
23 Oct: Some items have been sold at Nearfest and have been removed from the list. I will update as time permits. Offers still needed!
Item
1 MFJ Versa-Tuner V 3KW roller inductor Tuner (200)
2 MFJ-760C Dry Dummy Load 50 ohm 300W (20)
3 Wavetek PP-75 Precision Preselector CATV (10)
5 Heath SB102 with book, No PS cable, Needs Rubber O-rings, Cabinet Good, restorable (25)
6 Heath SB600 P.S., No interconnecting cable, AC plug missing, Cabinet Good (35)
9 Reecom NOAA Radio Model R1630 Specific Area message Encoding & Hazard Alert, manual is on web (20)
11 Palomar VLF coverter, 10-500KHz, IF 4.4.5MHz with 12VDC wall wart, no manual (20)
12 CALAN Star 2010SLMS CATV signal analyzer, bad battery, no charger, no manual (25)
13 National NC57 General Coverage Receiver, Powers up, hum from speaker, No signals heard,
6SGY sockets have WE 717As a usual upgrade, no cracks in dials, Cabinet good, restorable (30)
14 SteppIR DB-18E, with SDA 1100 control box, interconnecting cables, splice kits, truss kit,
(needs new plastic truss couplers for about $25)(2000)
15 HiQ HF Antenna, MC Series, CAGE/PRIME 4X4W4, SN 14187 (200)
16 Fluke 45 Dual display Multi-Meter Min/Max Storage (40)
17 BK Precision 1601 Variable DC Supply, Dual Meter 0-50, 2A (40)Nice Lab supply!
18 Heil Pro-Set Plus (40)
20 MFJ 259B Antenna analyzer with AC adapter (100)
21 Tektronix RM503 Oscilloscope, has trace (15)
22 Pacific Measurement Portable RF Power meter Model 1034A (40)
23 Wavetek Oscilloscope 1901C, has trace (5)
24 Radio PLus Quantum QX Loop (80)
25 Palomar VLF Converter 10-500KHz in 4-4.5MHz IF (15)
26 MFJ910 200W Mobile antenna Matcher (25)
27 Simrad Taiyo ADDF TD-L1100 (10)
28 Auto Direction Finder, missing loop antenna and power adapter (10)
29 Flex1000 SDR, 1W no power amp or tuner (350)
30 Flex5000A +VHF&UHF options, Probable 2nd receiver, receives, transmitter not yet checked (2000)
31 Misc coax cable on reels. (save for club members, field day, etc. charge per foot)
32 Misc patch cords, serial, usb cables, connectors (2 each)
33 Rosewill 4-RS232 port full height PCI-E card (12)
34 Scanner antennas (15)
35 Heights CUA55 all aluminum crank-up tower, with options: hinged base, foldover kit, rotor shelf,
thrust bearing, safety brake system, with factory motorized tilt and raise and cabling,
no rebar cage ($6500) This was over $13K new. Now only 2 years old. Beautiful!
36 M2 Rotator, Control and cable, OR2800PXAZ (1300)Real Heavy duty!
37 1 Footswitch with 1/4" plug (10)
38 RCA Test Oscillator 167A, bad power cord, not tested (10)
39 Heath Electronic keyer with book, not tested (15)
40 W1VLF 9 pole low pass filter 680KHz (30)
41 W1VLF 9 pole low pass filter 1020KHz (30)
42 Trilithic AL-1 AM loop Antenna P/N 2010830000 (20)
43 Digital Measurement Wave-Node WN-2 with 2ea 1.8-60MHz filter, no accessories (75)
44 1ea Array solutions Surge/lightning arrestors AS302/AS303 (25ea)
45 Heath Condenser Checker w tuning eye, works! Antique (35) (Tuning eye worth $20)
46 4ea FRS? Handhelds, not checked, one bat cover missing (15)
47 Alpha delta 2 position Surge Protector Antenna Switch(35)
48 Rital Smart Power strip 16 outlets with digital current monitor, Fused, needs cord (80)
50 Assorted lengths copper braid for staion equip grounding ($1/ft)
51 Kramer Video Distribution amp VM-80V, New in box (200)
55 Weller 140W Soldering Gun Kit (25)
56 Sears soldering gun (10)
58 Velcro strips both sides 10-20'(15)
59 CSI/SPEC 7Amp 13.8V DC power supply, works (20)
61 DX Engineering Balun Current BAL050-HO5A 1.8-30 2KW-4KW (55) Heavy duty!
62 Radio works current balun B1-4K (20)
63 Misc. Parts and tools, connectors, cables, wres, jumpers
64 Alpha 9500 Amplifier 1.5KW HF Auto tune, Not checked yet for function
66 Pyramid 25A 13.8 V DC power supply two meters, works(75)
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
Lunch provider:
Coffee and Donuts by:K3IU(Donuts)
Members who will attend: K1SD, NG1G, W1XX, K3IU, KS1J, KI1G
Venue: QTH of K1SD, at 10:00AM on Saturday, Oct 4, 2014
Please post your results for the RTTY contest here for entry into the CTRI Champions Competition.
DON’T BE LATE SUBMITTING YOUR RESULTS TO CQWW.
This from the rules…
LOG DEADLINE:
I know. Time flies. It’s hard to believe the CQWW RTTY is this weekend. I’m finishing up some cleanup and will be prepared for those who may like to operate at my QTH. There will be the usual two stations available. Let me know if you will be dropping by.
Conditions for the W1AW/1 operation this past week were very good. 12M and 10M were open into the early evenings. Could be a good for us this weekend.
w1an@nulldxusa.net
73, John W1AN
In case you missed or forgot the date on my first post, the 2nd ARRL W1AW/1 Centennial operation for CT started 9/17 Tuesday. There are many open band/mode slots available. I will have my host station open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and next Monday and Tuesday. If you want to operate from here let me know and I will get the slot reserved for you.
For available band slots:
http://w1aw.dxusa.net
73, John, W1AN
This is the first contest of the CTRI Champions series. If you participated and are submitting a score, please post your results here.
73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard
Sorry I’m late in posting this. Here is a listing of the contests and dates for the 2014-15 competition.
73, Ken K3IU
After postponing it to the last, I am finally upgrading to Windows 7. My trusty turtle beach is no longer so I wonder what the RTTY gang uses for sound cards and if there are any recommendations.
73
Jim KS1j
At the meeting yesterday, I submitted a proposal for a score handicapping system to be used in the CTRI Champions competition. We debated it and the membership decided to give it a try this season to see how it goes. Not as official scores, but as a trial run.
Here’s the link to the file: CTRI Championship Score Handicapping Proposal
I am asking everyone to take a few minutes to review my proposal and give me feedback – what problems you see, how it might be improved, or if it’s great the way it is. I am not asking for folks to tell me if they think we should or shouldn’t do it; that’s something that should be decided at a meeting.
The proposal is short and, I think, self-explanatory. But if you have any questions please feel free to post them here or email me. Thanks for your consideration!
73,
Pat, NG1G
The next CTRI meeting is this Saturday Sep 6 at 10 AM at the W1XX QTH in South Kingstown. Usually this has meant that antenna work is needed, but so far that is not the case. Agenda: This is the annual election of officers meeting so attendance is the best means of self protection. W1AN will probably have an update on the disposition of the KA1GEU estate.
Hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill is the fare. Parking for several cars at the top of the hill, on the side at the bottom of the driveway (walk up), across from the driveway on Shannock Rd., next to the mailbox, last resort on the hardtop on the upper half of the up-hill driveway.
Please indicate your intended attendance with a comment so we can have a count for refreshments. Thanks & 73! — John, W1XX
Gentlemen,
These are the area Hamfests that I’ve identified.
9/14 Western CT, Newtown
9/20 Forestdale, RI (76 Repeater BVRC?)
10/10 NEAR Fest, Deerfield, NH
10/12 CT State Convention (Nutmeg Hamfest), Meriden, CT
The Flea at MIT is every month or so.
73 James K1SD
Gentlemen,
I’ve an ICE Model 419 Automatic Bandpass Filter that is excess of my needs.
Any interest?
73 James K1SD
Gang,
I would like to get set up to operate split using RTTY. I wish to monitor my transmit frequency AND the transmit frequency of the station I am trying to work (usually the DX station). To do it, I believe I need two digital interfaces running at the same time, one on the main VFO (my RX freq) and the second on the second VFO (my TX freq) [ I am using a K3 for this experiment].
Can someone give me a clue how I might configure this both hardware wise, and software wise. I currently have MMTTY and MMTTY2 on my RM2 desktop. Do I just start the first one, and then start the second one? Are there instructions in the N1MM Logger documentation that I should be reading?
After I get everything configured, I would like to try some on-air tests while I learn what I am doing. Currently, when I want to grab a W1AW/? station on RTTY, and they are operating split, I keep switching VFOs (A/B) until I get each VFO set to where I think he’s listening, and then I give a call. But, I feel like I am operating blind, since I can’t copy except on the signal that’s on the A VFO.
Help please. Thank you. 73, Mike, K1DM
The second W1AW operating session for CT starts Tuesday evening or 0000Z on 9/17. The schedule is posted at w1aw.dxusa.net. Managing the schedule will be Dick KB1H and Tom W1TJL. They show the contact email addresses as kb1h@nullarrl.net, w1tjl@nullarrl.net and w1aw-ct@nulldxusa.net.
I plan on hosting here and will have the two operating stations available all week, but possibly not daytime Sunday the 21st. It’s first season home game for the Patriots! You can contact Tom or Dick and get your password or just let me know when you will be over to operate and your preferred bands/modes. We will also be able to fill voids in the schedule most any time, but if you have band preferences it’s best to reserve on your own.
73,
John, W1AN
