As many of you may know, I have been suffering from S9+ power line noise for about 4 or 5 months. Loud enough to keep me off the air. But this past weekend, John W1AN showed up to help locate the noise problem. My initial suspect pole turned out to be totally wrong but John and his handy ultrasonic detector nailed the real culprits. I called in the three pole numbers to National Grid yesterday. It was an effort getting through their automatic menu system to finally get a customer service rep. But when I did, she took down the information, frequencies where the noise occurred, strength and the equipment used to locate the poles. She also took my address and phone number but did not give me any idea as to when they might get back to me. I also did not get a case number.

But thanks to John I am finally making progress on this issue!!

I hope National Grid takes timely action but who knows. Watch this space for future announcements.

73

Jim KS1J

I prepared the info in the link for the Saturday meeting. Contest Manager, NG1G, suggested that I post it here on the web site. Attached is a pdf file with that analysis. I tried to just add it to this posting, but somehow the formatting gets all screwed up when I do that. If you open it with your browser plug-in, it may look a bit strange, but if you download it and open it with your pdf reader (Adobe or equal) it displays just fine.

Revision 1: Just received 2 more entries from our leader, K1DM. We still did not break 80 million!

Quick-dirty analysis of CTRI Champions competition

73, Ken K3IU  Keeper of the Leaderboard

 

The final posting of the 2013-2014 CTRI Champions Leaderboard is now available. We did not quite make the 80 million point challange, but got pretty close! If you click on the link below, you may download it. As usual, it is a Microsoft Excel 97-2003 format.

Rev 1: Added 2 contest results from K1DM. Still did not break 80 million points!

2013-2104_CTRI-Champions-Leaderboard_Final

73, Ken K3IU, Keeper of the Leaderboard

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. W1AW/1 for RI
3. KB1RFJ, my time as a Site Manager at WRTC & Submarine Communications if people are interested.
4. Matters Arising

Lunch provider:

Coffee and Donuts by: K1SD

Members who will attend: W1XX, NG1G, KB1RFJ, K3IU, W1AN

Venue: North Kingstown Free Library, at 10:00AM

If you’d like to drop by and drive the station for a while, just let me know.

73 James K1SD

jms_k1sd@nullverizon.net

H: 401.884.2654

C: 401.225.7303

Hi all,

 

Where is the time disappearing to. Just a reminder that the W1AW/1 operation from RI starts this Tuesday night at 20:00 local and runs for 1 week. I will have 3 stations up and running from my QTH. If anyone looking is for a place to operate from I do still have slots open, drop me an email with your availability and I will find you some  airtime.

73

Rick KI1G

KI1G@nullverizon.net

 

I almost forgot to put this up on the web site. Please post your results for this FINAL contest in the CTRI Champions series for the 2013-2014 season by adding a comment/reply to this posting. I will post the final leaderboard on the website around the end of the month. Happy summer to everyone.

73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard

Matt, WE1H and I are going to the convention on Saturday. Who else from the club is planning on going?

73,

Pat, NG1G

CTRI Contest Group;

Several of our regular meeting attendees will be out of the country, out of town, or taking care of their wives this weekend.  Additionally, I am certain many of us have family visiting over the 4th of July weekend, or are visiting family for the weekend.  Thus, getting together would be fun, but lonely.

We have several things going on this month that need our attention anyway, and these things are well underway already.  The CQ WW VHF contest is upon us; IARU/WRTC events are coming quickly, the Centennial ARRL convention is happening in Hartford, CT, AND W1AW/1-RI is almost here.

If you need something to do this weekend, try working all thirteen of the original colonies (K2*).  They seem to be everywhere.  This is a cleaver way to celebrate the 4th of July.

For now, 73, gud DX and Happy holiday.  Mike, K1DM

Here is the CTRI Champions Leaderboard updated through the ARRL June VHF contest posted results. Looks like we have broken the 79 million barrier. Just one more contest remains in the challange to break 80 million!

This is posted as a Excel 97-2003 spreadsheet. To view it and/or download it, click on the link below…

73,
Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard

2013-2104_CTRI-Champions-Leaderboard_20140623

This is the next-to-last contest in the CTRI Champions competition for the 2013-2014 contest season. To have your score recorded, please post your results here by leaving a reply to this posting. I will be publishing the Leaderboard by the end of next week.

73,
Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard

I’m posting this here for Ken Chaffee. Looks like a nice buy. Initially tried to post in Swapmeet with no success.
73, John, W1AN

For Sale: an ALPHA 99, 160 – 10 meter, full legal power amplifier. Since I am a DXer and not a contester with most of my contacts running barefoot I doubt it has 50 hours of actual operating time on it. I’m selling it because I have just ordered an Elecraft KPA500 to match my K3. When I bought the ALPHA (new from the factory) it cost me $3000.00. Since it has so little use I’m asking $2000.00. Please contact me at WA1QXR@nullamsat.org or (401) 377-8490. My address is 10 Colonial Village Road, Ashaway,RI.
Thank-you very much.

CTRI Members,

As you may have noticed, we are scheduled to meet this coming Saturday at the North Kingstown Public Library.  I have a little WARC antenna project I will share with the group.  It should spark some lively discussions.  I have modeled an antenna from the Antenna Handbook, using some of my past experience from my years of professing to know something about antennas.  It should be interesting to see how well the model results compare to the results I get in the real world.  For an antenna, the final answer is always how it plays in the real world, not how nice the “model” results come out.

We also should have some other topics – results from the CT-1 W1AW/1 Operation, the RI-1 W1AW/1 Operation, upcoming field day, June VHF contest, etc, etc.

If you are planing on attending, please add a comment to this post.  We’ll start at 10:00 AM and get finished before 1:00 PM

Hope to see you there.  73, Mike, K1DM

Topics

1. Contest Report
2. Antenna modelling and reality
3. Results from the CT-1 W1AW/1 Operation, the RI-1 W1AW/1 Operation
4. Field Day
5. June VHF Contest
6. Matters Arising

Coffee and Drinks by: 

Members who will attend: K1DM, NG1G, W1PN, W1XX, K1SD, KB1RFJ, K3IU, W1AN, KS1J(?)

Venue: North Kingstown Free Library, at 10:00AM

 

A little OT, I have a CO alarm that just started beeping with an “ERR” – turns out it is an End Of Life warning (throw it out, get a new one) supposedly for safety reasons since there is no good way to ensure it will keep working longer.

In any event, are there any particularly desirable parts I should scavenge from inside – possibly a small sized beeper for putting inside a potato gun projectile,

Hi Everyone!

Greetings from San Diego!

A little OT, I have a CO alarm that just started beeping with an “ERR” – turns out it is an End Of Life warning (throw it out, get a new one) supposedly for safety reasons since there is no good way to ensure it will keep working longer.

In any event, are there any particularly desirable parts I should scavenge from inside – possibly a small sized beeper for putting inside a potato gun projectile, and a small 3 character LED display.  It’s a KIDDE nighthawk CO/GAS detector made in 2006 (End of Life beep starts 7 years after it was first powered up, not after manufacture).

73

Dan

N6ERD