From what I heard when I had the opportunity to operate, the bands sounded good. Congrats Ken on an excellent score.
Single op assisted
73,
Rick KI1G
QSOs QSO points Zones Countries Multipliers Score
160m: 4 10 4 4
80m: 42 102 14 30
40m: 184 532 24 78
20m: 112 313 28 80
15m: 160 462 28 91
10m: 110 303 28 94
Totals:612 1722 126 377 503 866166
I hope members are planning to support the club’s effort to get on-the-air for “Operation ARRL 10 Meter Contest” this coming weekend.
Similar to our efforts earlier this year in the New England QSO Party our goal is to *maximize club activity* and have fun. Additional activity for this event by club members should make us competitive in the Affiliated Club Competition and perhaps, help us establish a new CTRI club combined high score compared to our own previous 10 Meter Contest club high. Conditions on the band seem prime to help that happen.
The contest starts Friday evening at 7 P.M. EST (0000Z) and runs 48 hours until Sunday through 6:59 P.M. EST (2359Z). Additional info on the contest can be found here: http://www.arrl.org/10-meter
Folks can get a feel for the event and read the write-up about last year’s ARRL 10 Meter Contest here: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/ContestResults/2010/2010-10M-Web-V1_0.pdf
And, additional info from members (including contest-specific tips and strategies from KS1J) can be found at this previous post from our website: http://w1pn.com/wp/2011/10/27/operation-arrl-10-meter-contest-december-10-11-2011/
A reminder: when submitting your log to ARRL ensure the club name appears on the club line only as: CTRI CONTEST GROUP
This ensures each club member’s score is also credited to our specific club for the Club Competition.
Good luck with your planning and operating in this CTRI CG-focused “Operation ARRL 10 Meter Contest” event! With the expected conditions this event should not be missed!!
73 and CU on 10 Meters…
Bill W1WBB
How come this antenna which has been chopped for 10 Meters, performs well on 15 meters without tuning? It isn’t harmonically related to 10 m correct??
Please post your ARRL 160 Meter Contest results here by adding a comment to this post.
Thanks…
73, Ken K3IU
At the half-way point in the ARRL 160 Mtere Contest, things are not going well. Condx are not very good. Skip is very short. Making contacts past 9-land and the Mississippi River has been a struggle. So far I’ve only worked one station in California. Did manage one WWA, a BC, and did work KH6LC, who was weak. So far only 53 sections. Went to bed at two different times last night in the hope it would be better later. It wasn’t. Did work a few Europeans early, but they were not on for their sunrise around midnight. So far only 10 DXCC countires. I’m way behind last year’s score. Worked several CTRIers including K3IU who said he was running 10 watts! Anyone having better luck? Hope for better condx to the West Coast and EU afater 4 PM today. Out!
Radio Ansonia calling…
The gin pole at W1AN’s is unfortunately up at 120′ and not readily available. So I would like to know if anyone has one I can borrow for this weekend.
Pat NG1G is travelng to Radio Ansonia located at the “western frontier of the CTRI empire” on Sunday to help me do some antenna/tower work and without a gin pole only 1/2 the work can be done.
I’m willing to drive to get it either Friday night or Saturday morning and will return it next weekend.
Drop me an email or call 203-735-9725 if you can lend me one.
73
Dave
W1CTN
Radio Ansonia
To all,
Sorry I have been a bit tardy with my work on the CTRI 20th Anniversary Special Event but with the recent holiday and a death in the family the week before Thansgiving I have been away from the hobby.
The Special Event would center around the 2013 NEQP held on May 4th and 5th, but we have a 15 day window of operation so I would suggest we get the 1 x 1 callsigns for the period of May 1 thru May 15.
At W1XX’s we discussed the Special Event but we did not discuss what prefix block ie: K, N or W we would like to use for our 1 x 1 S/E callsigns.
It’s my opinion that a single prefix block would make it more uniform for the stations looking for us but whatever the group would like to do is fine with me.
I prefer the “K” prefix as I find KILO is the one that cuts thru the QRM the best…or it could just be my ears !
We can apply for any prefix block or suffix with exception of an “X” suffix (sorry John).
As I stated during the meeting the special event coordinators will not allow me to apply for all the 1 x 1 callsigns as they did in the past.
It would be nice to get a showing of hands of the members that are interested. Just drop me an email w1ctn@nullyahoo.com in the next couple of days and then I will post the website to go to to request your callsign.
I did a random check of a few callsigns K1A, N1A etc for the period we want and no one as of today has requested any callsigns so we are free to choose.
More to come.
73
Dave
W1CTN
Radio Ansonia
As the club’s newly designated ‘Contest Manager’ I wanted to let folks know that Ken K3IU (also our new club V.P.!) has kindly volunteered to take over the maintenance of the CTRI intra-club Champions scoreboard from John W1XX, commencing immediately. Thanks much John for providing your many updates of member’s scores over the last few contest seasons. And thanks Ken for your help.
The scoreboard is now updated per Ken’s earlier post of today. Club members are **highly encouraged** to submit their claimed scores for any of the designated contests VIA THIS WEBSITE as the **preferred method**, using the ‘Create a Post’ button at the top of the main page. Please make sure your full operating category also appears in your post (esp. indicating HP, LP or QRP power levels) so your score can be properly credited. And don’t forget to submit your score to the contest sponsor by the deadline! (note: the trend is now for shorter deadlines, ie. ARRL Sweepstakes, CQWW SSB/CW and CQ WPX).
I also encourage you to provide your comments regarding your particular contest experience as part of your Post…others members enjoy and can really benefit from your observations.
By the way, a much less preferred method for members score submittal (but available alternative) is to submit directly to Ken at his e-mail address: k3iu@nullarrl.net I suggest this route as only a last resort.
Any score, large or small, is welcome! It’s nice to see contest activity from members, no matter how much time/effort could be put in during any particular event.
Below the ‘content’ area of your Post in the ‘Post Tags’ area (when creating your Post), members may want to enter the words ‘contest results’ so their claimed score info will also be available for history purposes in the Contest Results subforum.
So, the ARRL 160m contest starts this Friday eve @ 2200Z, going to 1600Z Sunday A.M. (exclusively on CW)…word is that a certain South County RI station with a recently repaired tall vertical is planning a strong effort. Any others??
I hope most folks have plans to support the club effort the following weekend in getting active in some form or another for the ARRL 10 Meter Contest. With the expected great propagation, choice of SSB, CW or Mixed Modes, large amount of available frequency space and growing interest in contesting in general, this event could be one for the ages!
Good luck and hope to see you in the contests.
73,
Bill W1WBB / CTRI CG Contest Manager
Hi everyone,
Today I received an email from Yahoo! Groups customer support stating that I have been changed from Moderator to Owner of our group.
I don’t remember what we agreed would be the next step in the process of migrating completely away from the Yahoo! Group, but whatever it is I now have the ability to do what the club membership decides.
Oh, I forgot to say “thanks” to all those who voted for me…I think. Putting an end to the online meeting place that kept us together for so many years isn’t an enviable task, but I guess it’s better that one of the oldest active members of the club does it.
73,
Pat, NG1G
With such good conditions on the upper bands I gave the new Hexbeam a pretty good workout. Running SOLP(A) my goal was to go for the mults, turning the N1MM ‘available mults’ window from green to red, then blue…then repeat on next best band. Great choices abounded during daytime on either 20, 15 or 10m! Allowed me to also better track beam’s effectiveness to various regions around the globe. Ran a little Sunday when mults thinned/rate slowed.
Was fun and relaxed, and I was quite pleased to break many pile-ups early by moving up or down just a bit from the spotted frequency, esp. on Sunday when competing vs. fewer big-guns. Sunday morning brought huge signals on 15m and I ran up my QSO total there. Agree with Jim KS1J that 10m propagation was very good but not quite the same as during CQWW SSB…BTW, *amazing* QSO totals for Jim again in this contest – 2000+ with, I assume, LP!
Heard K1DM snag 8Q7DV on Sunday, who was too weak with too big a pile to likely work here at the time. I did get more Africans in the log but was disappointed with the propagation to JA/SW Asia. Only 1 JA worked but 3 from KH2/KH0 – strange.
No big operating for ARRL 160m here this coming weekend. Will save time for the ARRL 10m event the following weekend…hope many from CTRI plan activity for that one.
What are the plans at W1AN/W1DX for ARRL 10m Contest John?
73, Bill W1WBB
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: W1WBB
Operator(s): W1WBB
Station: W1WBB
Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: RI – USA
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
——————————
160: 19 7 10
80: 59 12 45
40: 214 19 75
20: 157 31 101
15: 163 26 109
10: 128 28 105
——————————
Total: 740 123 445 Total Score = 1,160,424
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
The new Hexbeam worked great on the high bands!
Strategy was to go DXing, using N1MM Logger ‘available mults’ to clear out
unworked zones and countries as best as possible, exercising patience as an LP
stn but knowing when to skip the major pile-ups for later. Then, repeat on
next band with highest available mult count. Great results on 10/15/20m,
working DXCC+ on each.
CQ’d a bit Sunday afternoon/eve when point/click rate was slow and few workable
‘available’ mults. Less than 10% of QSOs made running. Found a few good mults
late that were not posted while I searched in-between callsigns on bandmap
going ‘old-school’ – turning the dial!
Good fun with great participation from around the radio globe. Thanks for the
Q’s, and esp. to the many DXpeditions and big sig M-Op stns for getting on.
Log will be uploaded to LoTW.
This contest was a blast. There was great activity and great band openings. However, I felt that 10 wasn’t quite as hot as it was for the SSB contest in October. The signals were there but seemed a bit weaker and it didn’t stay open as long. Did anyone else notice this or was it just me? Anyway, I shudda moved down from 10 earier on Saturday when things started slowing down but kept at it thinking the band would stay up. I learned my lesson and on Sunday I moved down to 15 then to 20 about an hour or so earlier than on Saturday.
Unlike the SSB contest, I got more balance by operating on the other bands more evenly. That helped in bringing up the mult total. So I guess the lesson here is that despite the great conditions on 10, staying there all day could actually hurt in the final score.
Ken, great job. When conditions are good like this, it is tough getting out of the chair. There is always another mult popping up or endless EU’s answering your CQ’s. When conditions are rotty, it is a lot easier to push the chair away and do something else. Lets hope things stay hot for at least the next several years.
I tried yet another 80 meter antenna and the jury is still out. I put up a two element phased job. I could pretty much work everything but I was expecting better results over the single element I had before. I still have some tinkering to do on it so time will tell.
Like Ken, I heard K1NEF, KI1G and heard Ken. We need more CW participation. So guys keep practicing with RUFZ and jump into the fray.
BTW I didn’t realize I was to prepare notes for the 10 meter contest!! But no problemo.. I will have something out this week. Don’t expect any great revelations. This is still largely a domestic contest and I am hardly the one to provide advice on racking up big scores in any of those (NAQP, NewEnglanQP or SS). With conditions the way they are, the 10 meter contest ought to be real fun.
This was Single Op All Band Low Power (Assisted)
QSOs QSO points Zones Countries Multipliers Score
160m: 0 0 0
80m: 130 361 17 53
40m: 366 1043 25 92
20m: 451 1309 28 93
15m: 376 1087 29 104
10m: 695 2046 28 112
Totals: 2018 5846 127 454 581 3,396,526
Jim KS1J
Gang,
Here are the results from the K1DM/W1AN Multi-Single layed back effort this weekend. We wanted to have fun and still spend some time on the air. I think we met both goals. It was too much fun to hear and work prefixes that I didn’t even recognize. Many times the stations would come back to me first (that’s the High-power category at work I am sure). On 40 meters, I had to get used to having the beam – an added decibel advantage over my normal wire antenna.
I didn’t hear any of the CTRI CG gang, but that’s probably because I was mostly shooting the fish rather than trying to reel them in. I was amazed at the rates I could get going by pointing and clicking on the band map or multiplier list. Neither John or I tried much “running.” When I did, the rate dropped, but remember, we were looking to have fun and not get burned out.
Here is our summary:
<pre>
Contest: CQWW CW 2011
Call: K1DM
Club: CTRI Contest Group
Band QSOs Pts Zones DXC
1.8 11 26 9 6
3.5 32 88 32 11
7.0 195 566 71 17
14.0 197 567 93 28
21.0 121 335 61 20
28.0 147 393 79 25
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Tot 703 1980 345 107
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Score: 894,960
</pre>
We’ll see if the formatting works here. I will figure out how much time we spend next time I open N1MM
(I am the forgetful professor, remember:)
73, Mike, K1DM
WOW! I say again… WOW!
I was looking forward to this contest and wasn’t disappointed. My BIC time, according to the N1MM Logger calculation was 22h-47m… put in about 4 hours on Friday night, got a full night sleep on Sat night (From what I hear, I guess I missed the exciting mag storm event from the CME a couple days ago .
To the best of my recollection, I heard the following club members at least once… K1NEF, W1WBB, KI1G, and KS1J. Sorry if I forgot anyone, but I don’t take notes during the contest.
I think that this is the personal best score for me in this contest from home. Actually, to NOT coin a phrase, it was like shooting fish in a barrel using the telnet generated bandmap and S&P I was able to keep up a rate greater than 75 for long periods of time. Overall average for my operating time was about 58/hour. I know, I know… why didn’t I spend more time running! Well, I tried Runnin’ & Gunnin’ several times and was never able to get a rate that warranted more, so most of these QSOs were from S&P.
Call: K3IU Operator(s): K3IU Station: K3IU Class: SOAB(A) HP QTH: USA - RI Operating Time (hrs): Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 0 0 0 80: 71 14 45 40: 180 20 79 20: 359 35 111 15: 306 31 115 10: 328 27 118 ------------------------------ Total: 1124 127 468 Total Score = 2,100,945[I tried putting the HTML Preformatted tags in the above score listing]
73,
Ken Wagner K3IU
Portsmouth, RI
I will be on the road tomorrow so I’ll take this opportunity to wish all CTRICG members and their families a very happy Thanksgiving. I’m thankful to have our club’s excellent hams to associate with.
This weekend I’ll be in the chair for the CQ WW CW Contest, probably as a LP single-band entry (10M), but I also plan on spending time on 160M. Should be a good time, especially given the tasty DX that has been on the air the past several days.
73,
Pat, NG1G
Eight members assembled Saturday morning as the November meeting returned to Crandall House in Ashaway, RI. High on the list of agenda items was the election of officers for 2011-2012. Three members found out why it is important to attend, in their absence they were elected to office!
The photo below shows the presence of a quorum of qualified members (W1PN was also present but behind the camera).
Elected were:
K1DM, President
K3IU, Vice-President
W1PN, Secretary
KB1BNO, Treasurer
W1WBB, Contest Manager
Reports:
Secretary: Minutes of October 22 are on the website and were distributed. Adopted as presented.
Treasurer: Absent
Contest Manager: Focus should now be on the ARRL 10 Meter contest, December 10-11, 2011. It was attempted to set a specific goal for the club with the intent to involve everyone, much as we did for the NEQP contest earlier. NG1G suggested a goal of 3 billion points, but cooler heads prevailed. K3IU suggested a participation related goal, e.g., at least 15 members operating for 20 hours each. NG1G raised the possibility of a promise of individual achievement (time and/or points) in advance of the contest and then an aggregation of these promises to a club goal. Additional discussion revealed the difficulty of setting a goal without further analysis and comments. It was decided to continue this topic through a post on the website.
KS1J observed that we should have a Tips, Hints, Strategy post for this contest. Jim volunteered to write the post.
Old Business:
W1AN continued the on-going discussion of the club going to Puerto Rico in 2013 for the CQ WW WPX RTTY contest. Carlos would like to host our operation. (See http://w1pn.com/wp/2011/11/17/plan-ahead-2/ for more information.) A sometimes raucous discussion ensued on the vicissitudes of operating in a tropical environment. NG1G is the ramrod for this effort and will bring order out of this chaos and report on the website.
New Business:
Jim, KS1J, is trying to assemble records of our performance in the past. Please append a comment here with your recollections of contests in which we have scored at or near the top to assist Jim in this data collection task.
W1AN raised the question of what to do about the Yahoo reflector. Consensus was to shut it down since its function has been replaced by the new website. Mechanics of how and when this will be done must be resolved. Discussions revealed that some members do not know how to accomplish their needs with the website. This is exemplified by how to use RSS to cause notification of new and changed information. Additionally it would be useful if non-Members could see some things on the website for the purpose of recruiting. It was agreed that we should limit the reflector to being a repository of old but perhaps useful information and change its parameters so that the origination of new emails, files, etc, is not possible. NG1G is responsible for the implementation of this decision which implies that we find ways to help members who have trouble understanding how to use the new website.
The issue of club members vs reflector members arose several times in the preceding discussions. Who gets unrestricted access to the website and who does not? Who are the members? How do we serve both groups? Should we? While lots of issues were raised none were resolved and were left for subsequent meetings.
Holiday Luncheon (February meeting) at Greg’s. Chuck will be asked by W1AN if he will organize again. Club will not pay for the dinner this time because we don’t have the money (an issue that has to be discussed at a future meeting).
Motion to bestow Honorary Member status to Bill, N1HRA, was passed unanimously.
It became obvious that members were becoming fatigued so the meeting adjourned at 1350.
Respectfully submitted,
Ed Haskell, W1PN, Secretary
