There is a short (4 hour) RTTY contest this Sunday (28th) from 1700 to 2100 GMT that might provide some short term fun. Here is a link to the rules. Note that it is 75 Baud RTTY ONLY. Also be aware that the 2Tone decoder will not work with 75 baud RTTY.
73, Ken K3IU
I have a coil of old MIL-C-17E RG-11 that is excess to my needs (and has been for 30+ years). There are about 37 loops and the coil diameter is about 2 – 2.25 feet. You can do the math, but there is more than 200 ft. It is .405″ diameter and has an impedance of 75 ohms. Can be used for matching stubs or feedline for a dipole, which if you recall has a characteristic impedance of 72 ohms.
Anyone interested, please email me. Next stop is the RI Swap ‘n Sell Net.
73,
Ken K3IU
k3iu @ arrl.net
While no scientific study has been made the author suspects that Jim Bowman, KS1J, routinely produces the highest score per watt of any contest operator.
At the April meeting his exceptional skills were recognized as club Vice President Ken Wagner, K3IU, presented Jim with a plaque recognizing his achievement as CTRI Contest Group Champion 2011-2012 Low Power. Jim produced more than nine and a half million points for the authorized club championship contests.
Way to go, Jim!
You may recall that Jim, KS1J, gave his thoughts and ideas at our meeting on Saturday about operating “Assisted.” He had available an essay by our own Rick, KI1G, that he was using as a reference. You may download the file by clicking on the link below. The file is a PDF file so you will need an adobe-type reader to view it.
73,
Ken K3iU
With only four(4) contests remaining in the Intra-Club competition, here are the results so far with current information through the CQWW WPX SSB contest. There were only 4 results posted by club members for the WPX SSB contest. The link in this posting is to a Microsoft Excel (97 – 2003) spreadsheet. You should be able to download it by clicking on the link.
Champions Leaderboard dtd 10 Apr 2013
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
Lunch provider:
Coffee and Drinks by:
Members who will attend: W1PN, K1DM, K3IU, W1XX, KS1J, K1FUG, NG1G, K1SD
Venue: Crandall House, Ashaway, RI at 10:00am
CTRI’ers: As many of you know, the W1XX station antennas incurred some serious damage during Blizzard Nemo in February and also during Hurricane Sandy. The biggest loss was my “killer” 40 Meter 2 element Yagi at 100 feet. 1/2 of the reflector sheared off and fell to the ground…plus some other damage to the linear loading. I at first anticipated getting some CTRI assistance to do a fix..Rick KI1G and others offered to help. Upon further reflection however and not to impose too much on the club’s generosity…I pursued a claim on my homeowners insurance for a professional takedown and replacement by XX Towers who did the original tower installation. The estimate has now been approved and I will shortkly be scheduling Matt & Co. to proceed with the take down of the damaged antenna and replacing with with a new one. The end result will be that I will end up with an extra antenna on the ground that can be repaired at low cost (which I will do). Someone in the club may be interested in having a 2-element rotary on 40 meters. If so, this is the ticket. This is a big antenna: www.m2inc.com and find 40M2L antenna. This will be VERY resonably priced. If you think you might be interested, contact my off site at: w1xx at cox dot net. Come some much warmer weather, I would still like to schedule a meeting at my house to hopefully raise by then repaired 80 and 160 (again!) verticals…we just bought a new grill for hotdogs and hamburgers that proved popular at previous work-party meetings. 73!!!
— John, W1XX
Results for the 2012 NEQP are in, and once again CTRI is the leader of the pack in club competition, with some very impressive single- and multi-op scores!
Check it out at http://www.neqp.org/2012/2012-results.html
73,
Pat, NG1G
Hello all. As you may know, I’m selling my towers and accessories. All radios and amps have been sold. These parts that I have listed MUST GO. They are all listed on eham.net, but wanted to give the club members a chance to get in the action. You have all worked on my towers, and know what kind of condition they are in. Below is a pasted copy of my ads, including a couple items that are not on eham.
Selling a HyGain TH5 Triband antenna. No abuse, in excellent condition. Asking $350 for it. Sells for $699.95 new. No rust, no cracks, no missing parts. Comes with the standard HyGain mast mount clamp. If you would like pictures of this item, please feel free to email me.
Selling 5 1/2 sections of Rohn 45 tower. Asking $200 for each section. Also I have a BPL 45G Top Plate which I am asking $125. Lists for $250 new. Also have the R-BPC 45G base plate, asking $75. Pictures available upon request.
3 Rohn 25G tower sections with a tilt over base plate. No bends, slides right together. Asking $75 per section.
I also have 2 Ameritron Antenna switches (Remote Coax Switch). $75 each, or $150 for the pair. They run $159.99 New from ameritron.
Astron RS-35A power supply. Lists for $239.99 New, but asking $100 for any of the club members.
Alpha Spid Rotator. You can look this rotator up on alphaspid.com I paid $600 for this rotator. I’m asking $300 for it. Needs a new plastic cap from when the top section of the tower decided to shorten the length of the gin pole hihi. If you buy this rotator, I have all the rotor cable to go with it. Come with the control box and control mouse to control it.
That’s all I guess. Contact me if you’re interested.
Bill N1HRA
For anyone interested, you have a chance to upgrade your license. We at W1CGA are hosting a licensing session on Saturday morning 10:00, April 27, 2013. If you might be interested, contact K1DM so we can make sure we reserve a large enough room. There are several cadets who will be sitting for their Technician Licenses. All license class exams will be available. Testing fee is $17.00 (last time I checked).
There’s plenty of time to get your brain sharpened up, and get that next class of license!
K1DM
Please post your results here by adding a Reply to this posting. Thanks! Don’t forget…
All log entries must be emailed or postmarked NO LATER than April 6, 2013 for SSB section.
73, Ken K3IU(Keeper of the Champions Leaderboard)
The CQWW WPX Contests have grown in recent years to become some of the most popular worldwide contests. The 48 hour SSB version takes place this weekend and the bands will be full of domestic and international stations. Unlike ARRL DX and CQWW DX the WPX contests also provide points for domestic contacts so other U.S. stations can be worked for points (and their many prefixes counted) by us.
See the rules at the CQWW WPX website for the *many* operating categories (by power, assisted or unassisted, single band or all-band, single op or multi-op… and the ‘tribander/wires’ as well as ‘Rookie’ {licensed 3 yrs or less} overlay categories!) , scoring details (more points for low band contacts on 40, 80 and 160m) etc. Note: Off-times must be a full 60 mins, logs are due NLT 5 days after the contest, and LP output pwr is 100 watts amongst other contest-specific rules… go to: www.cqwpx.com
Callsign prefixes are the sole multiplier — so many rare and unusual calls will be heard, provide an abundance of contest multipliers throughout the weekend and help contribute to an exponentially growing final scoring total which makes for a lot of fun. The many available prefixes also count towards the various WPX awards available through CQ magazine and which are now tracked as part of ARRL’s Logbook of the World electronic QSL tracking system.
The solar flux is expected to slowly increase thru this weekend and lowband conditions should improve as the geomagnetic indices decrease each night.
A record 5300 + logs were submitted for the 2012 CQWW WPX event and well over 1700 unique prefixes were available so the HF bands WILL be busy this weekend. So check that microphone out, verify your logging software is up-to-date and then make some QSOs this Saturday and Sunday.
Good luck in the contest…73, Bill W1WBB
Received this from CQ Magazine this morning. Look who made the cover of WorldRadio! Jose, KP4JRS. Operating NP3U during our own 2013 CQ WW WPX RTTY effort. Great shot and kudos to the CTRI op who submitted the pix!
73 James K1SD
Hope all is well in CTRI land… will be heading East in mid May
timeframe. Does anyone plan on a Multi op effort for WPX CW weekend in May
OR want their station to be activated that weekend?? I’m REALLY into contesting
CW. Let me know so we can plan. Hope to work some of you guys this
weekend, we use callsign AK7AZ will be M-2
(hope ur winter ends soooon!!) Later Foster N3KCJ
Gentlemen,
I wanted to let the Group know that I have the CTRI Gin Pole as well as the bag of 1/2″ rope.
Pat NG1G came by Saturday to deliver them and got a quick look at the outdoor layout for the upgraded tower.
73 James K1SD
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