CTRI CG Sets New Record In CQ WPX RTTY Contest
Update: The plaques are in and the results are official. When parts of this article were first published we thought we had a good chance at breaking the US record we set in 2007. The results are official and the club holds a new US record, and a winning score for 2011 North America. Read more for the story of how this was accomplished.
What a wild ride! In the week before the contest we put together a multi-2 effort at W1AN. Minutes before the contest started, Mike, K1DM asked what call sign we were going to use. Good question! No one had given any thought to that, and as this is a prefix contest, Mike thought it might be good to use NG1G. So we decided to go with that and one can only figure it helped, since we might have been the only NG1 in the contest.
All together we had 8 operators from the club take part, and it was great getting N1HRA, KO1H and KA1CQR in the chair and catching up on old news. This was Chuck’s first time in a multi-op contest with the club, and what a good one to start with. Chuck brought new member Chip, N1MIE, with him, and I enjoyed a good chat with Chip while I put Qs in the log on 15M.
We started out on 20M and 40M but after 13 20M Qs decided to go down to 80M. 40M was hopping but 80M was slow going, with signals being tough to decode. By the time we went to 20M and 15M at 1222Z, we had 493 40M Qs and 305 80M Qs in the log. We spent the entire day CQing on one frequency on 20M, and divided our time on 15M between CQing and S&Ping. Our S&P rates stayed high, as we were consistently answered on the first call. Starting just before 2200Z, W1AN worked a nice pile of JAs and socked away more mults. At the end of 24 hours we had over 1,600 Qs in the log and things were shaping up for a run at the US record we set in 2007 at KI1G. This was the first time in a RTTY contest for both Ed, W1PN and John, W1XX. With just a little instruction (apparently on a strict one-hour limit) both men were clicking away like pros in no time.
The Sat/Sun overnight dragged a little, as it always does. But we managed to add 200 Qs on 80M and over 300 Qs on 40M. By around 1600Z we had hit 7M points. Shortly afterward, unbeknownst to us, a Class C solar flare had occurred, causing our rates to plummet. However, the Two-of-Three Johns (W1AN and KO1H) soldiered on like QSO robots, eventually putting the ribbon on the whole shebang at over 8.4M points. Depending on how many mistakes we made, we have a good shot at beating the US record we set in 2007, raising the bar just a little higher for next year.
There seemed to be an unusual number of stations duping us. It was very frustrating and although it was our policy to work all dupes, it slowed us down on more than one occasion.
Many thanks to everyone who came out to support the operation and contribute to our great score! Everyone seemed to have a good time. A special thank you to John, W1AN and Nancy for hosting the operation. Nancy takes such good care of us with plenty of great food and drink! They are wonderful hosts.
We had no equipment failures. No lightning strikes, floods, power outages, or other disasters, man-made or natural. There was nary a hiccup to be had except for Writelog’s timed CQ function causing some havoc. Perhaps using a different call at W1AN confused Murphy, who might have been hanging around my house looking for me. Sucker! John’s station is a pleasure to work. There’s nothing like being a big fish once in a while!
Other than K3IU, KO1H, and KA1CQR, I’m not sure of what other club members we worked. Thanks for the Qs guys!
| Band | QSO | Points | Pref |
| 80M | 484 | 1554 | 127 |
| 40M | 923 | 3880 | 344 |
| 20M | 1047 | 2479 | 278 |
| 15M | 616 | 1582 | 133 |
| 10M | 9 | 23 | 4 |
| Total | 3079 | 9518 | 886 |
Score 8,432,948
73,
Pat, NG1G
Annual Awards Luncheon
Hi Gang! The Annual Post Holiday Dinner or you may prefer to call it the CTRI Annual Awards Luncheon is scheduled for Saturday, February 4 at Gregg’s in N. Kingstown at 12:00 noon. We will order from the normal menu. Let us know here if you will be coming. Spouses and guests are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you!
73,
John, W1AN
The address is:
Greggs Restaurant
4120 Quaker Lane – Route 2
North Kingstown
2012 ARRL RTTY RoundUp Results
When the contest is over, please post your results here so I can enter them in the CTRI Champions Series Leaderboard.
Just add a comment to this posting and I’ll pick it up.
Good luck to all!!!
73, Ken K3IU, Current Keeper of the Leaderboard.
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Boxboro 2012!
I reserved suite 114 at Boxboro today (under my name), which if memory serves me right is the suite we have used in the past. Now that we have somewhere to stay, let the fun begin as we figure out what we’ll do to make this Boxboro as much fun as those in the past.
73,
– Matt, WE1H
Meeting Notice — January 14, 2012
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
- Establishment of club goals for 2012
- Contest Report
- Election of new Treasurer
- Future of the Yahoo reflector
- Holiday Dinner
- Special Event 1×1 callsigns
- Discussion of pile-up operating strategies/protocol
Lunch provider: Lunch fixins by: W1PN
Coffee and Drinks by: W1AN
Members who will attend: K3IU, W1XX, KS1J, W1WBB, NG1G, K1DM, KA1GEU, W1AN, W1PN
Venue: Crandall House, 1100 to about 1400
letter of Res.
January 2,2012
Dear members and officers of CTRI Club
This is to notify you I will be giving my notice of resignation from my position of Treasurer of the CTRI Group. Effective as of the next club meeting date January 14,2012.
The reason for this is a change of direction I am making for the New Year. I am getting involved in a New Church in my local area, and my wife and I are beginning to get somewhat active in BVARC in Woonsocket. My wife and I are trying to be more active in similar interest and activities. I have enjoyed my time and involvement with the ctri group over the years I have been a member. Especially the antenna work crew involvement. As you know I am not at active contester. I did participate in the New England QSO party. and the Local VHF simplex grid contest. And had I a great time doing those events. I feel this is the time to make some changes for the New Year for both me and my wife. I will turn in the ledger with balance information, and will turn over the clubs fund balance by making a personal check from my checking account payable to who ever takes over my old position or who ever you designate to make the balance out to. The current balance is as follows: $593.56.
Sincerely yours:
Daniel A. Roy
ka1bno
logs due reminder//upcoming events
Happy New Year!
Just a reminder that logs for last month’s ARRL 10 Meter Contest are due to ARRL NLT Jan 10. This event was marked by outstanding participation by CTRI CG and most members who were active have already submitted their logs. For the few who may have been active that weekend but have yet to submit, there is still time! ARRL is just a few logs shy of 5000 for the event…and every point helps the overall CTRI club score.
…and logs for the ARRL 160 M Contest are due NLT 1600Z Tuesday Jan 3!!
Good luck to those participating in ARRL RTTY Roundup this weekend — the first significant contest of the New Year! The contest calender is very busy for the next few months with a big contest just about each weekend…check out the convenient calendar link at the top of the webpage for general dates.
The following two weekends after RTTY Roundup will have the North American QSO Party CW, then Phone. These events are excellent for accumulating needed U.S. states on all the HF bands 10-160m. The exchange is simple too — name & state! This event is only 12 hours long too (max 10 hrs for single-ops). We may put teams together for these events if there is interest (teams consist of max. 5 single-op **UNassisted ops**only).
ARRL’s January VHF Sweeps coincides with the NAQP SSB during the 3rd weekend in January for the VHF’ers among us.
Hope to see you in the contests.
73 – Bill W1WBB
CTRI 20 ANNIV. S/E -May 1 – May 15
To all…
First, Happy New Year…I hope everyone has has a healthy and happy 2012.
Second, before the week is out I should have confirmation that the first special event callsign has been granted, K1C.
I used the KILO prefix since I only received one response as to what prefix block we wanted to use.
When the confirmation arrives I will post the application website and a copy of my application. We just need to all follow the same format I used so our dates and info are correct.
More info to come
73
Dave W1CTN
Radio Ansonia
PS: please go to my QRZ page to see the nice job Pat NG1G did erecting my new 40 meter rotary dipole.
2012 and CTRI CG
I would like to wish all the great members of CTRI Contest Group a Happy New Year for 2012. As a club, we have many things to look forward to, and I trust we will have many enjoyable opportunities to get together and enjoy our fabulous hobby.
So, what goals are you going to set for yourself for this coming year? Personally, I want to continue persuing 5-Band DXCC. I have completed the first 100 in 2011, and am rapidly closing in on 40-meter DXCC. I have 96 confirmed on LoTW, and I have four cards that should put me right at the magic number!
One really good way, as you all know, to increase these numbers is to operate in the various DX contests! And, submit your scores so the club aggregate can take advantage of your progress toward your personal goals.
I believe a good topic for our first meeting in 2012 would be to establish some club goals. That way, we can keep an eye on our progress as the year passes beneath our feet as we trod along together.
Again, Happy New Year. See you in the pile-ups, and at a club meeting now and then. 73, Mike, K1DM
CTRI Championship Leaderboard – 12/22/2011
Here is the final update for 2011 which includes results posted or emailed to me through the ARRL 10 Meter contest. The next contest in the Champions series is the ARRL RTTY RoundUp on the weekend of 7-8 January 2012. Rick, KI1G, has already posted an article about that contest. Before that contest, I will post an article where everyone can post their results by adding a “comment” to the posting.
Wishing everyone Happy Holidays and a healthy and prosperous 2012.
73, Ken K3IU, Current Keeper of the Leaderboard
2012 ARRL RTTY Roundup is coming soon
Hi everyone and Happy Holidays
Just a reminder that the 2012 ARRL RTTY Roundup is just a couple of weeks away. This is one of the more popular RTTY contests and it does not require an entire weekend commitment. The contest is 30 hours long of which single op’s may operate 24 hours. Lots of stations to work and alot of DX participation as well. Full rules at http://www.arrl.org/rtty-roundup
Hope to hear some CTRI activity in the contest.
73,
Rick KI1G
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