This is an interactive meeting notice.

What, you may ask, is an interactive meeting notice?

As the phrase suggests, it is a meeting notice what 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. A club station on wheels
2. FunCUBE Dongle Demo
3. CTRI CG Group activities – equipment setup/testing
4. It’s time to start plans for the upcoming contest season. What contests do we want to concentrate on? How are we going to prepare for the world record RTTY quest from KP4 land?
5. A stealth/Field Day/DXpedition 20/40 antenna Part I
6. Dan Roy will be doing shadow puppets of various tower configerations
7. Club Size

Lunch provider:

Coffee by: K1DM

Lunch fixins by: NG1G

Members who will attend:

W1PN, K1DM, K1FUG, KA1GEU, W1XX, NG1G, KA1BNO, NR1H, W1WBB, K1JSM, KS1J, K1NEF, W1AN

Fellow CTRI’ers,

     Due to it being summer, the meeting scheduled for July 23, 2011 is cancelled, and we will meet in August at the regularly sheduled time and place.  Keep checking the web site  for updates in the latest news.

73’s,

Mike, K1DM

W1XX has posted a suggestion for a club “LIMO” on the Yahoo site.  I think this is an interesting concept.  It certainly sounds more fiscally feasible than acquiring several acres of land and erecting several towers adorned with aluminum Christmas Trees.

Perhaps we should discuss this at the upcoming meeting.

Mike, K1DM

This is a copy of an email sent by W1AN in December:

The following Saturdays will be reserved for the 2011 meetings. There
should be no conflicts with the major contests. Please note that Feb 5
will be for the After Holiday luncheon. I think the consensus is that we
should have this again at Greggs’s in North Kingston and that Chuck
volunteered to spearhead the effort. and get room and menu information.
We can see what the menu costs are to decide how much the club can chip
in to level the cost to a reasonable amount.

The Crandall House is now available We will look into the possibility of
internet access. I will provide the coffee/ donuts for the meetings.
Lunch will be brought by member volunteers and a donation can will be
available for costs. Please advise at the prior meeting and on yahoo if
you will be providing food.

Jan 8
Feb 5 After holiday Luncheon
Mar 12
Apr 16
May 14
June 11
July 23
Aug 13
Sep 17
Oct 22
Nov 12
Dec None

We are always looking for programs. If you have a small project you are
working on or some ham related experience you would like to share with
the group it will be welcome. I would like EACH member to prepare at
least one small presentation. I now have an lcd projector available to
help with your presentation.

Some Ideas for programs:
LOTW
Terrain modeling for antenna performance
Antenna modelling EZNEC
Simple 160M antennas
Remote antenna switching
SO2R contesting
FD
N1MM
Ham Radio Deluxe
Writelog FKeys Setup
Network Analyzer Use/Antenna analyzer Use
Photo Slide Shows
My greatest antenna
My Shack
Hints and Kinks
Contest Aids
CW Practice
Contest College
IARU NE Contest Participation
DXPeditions

73, John W1AN

Rep. Karen MacBeth (D-Dist. 52, Cumberland) presents a House resolution designating this week as Amateur Radio Week to, from left, Robert Beaudet of Cumberland, American Radio Relay League Section Manager for Rhode Island and Blackstone Valley Amateur Radio Club (BVARC) member, and Richard Langlois of Burrillville, BVARC president.

BVARC invites the public to discover the fun, excitement and services provided by amateur radio during its annual field day starting Saturday at 2 p.m. through Sunday at 5 p.m. on the grounds of the North Scituate Senior Center, the former Chopmist Hill Inn, 1315 Chopmist Hill Road (Route 102). Visitors will have the opportunity to operate radios and make contacts with other amateur stations worldwide.

I hope youse guys new to 6 meters have been monitoring the band on a regular basis looking for openings especially to Europe.  Yesterday afternoon, Saturday 6/18, we had probably the best opening of the season to Europe with many many signals both SSB and CW.  I had a run going on 50.162.5 where I had to sort out the many callers from G, GM, DL, OZ, SM, I, F, etc which didn’t quit for a couple of hours.  I may have missed some of it as I came in from outdoors doing a home project around 3 PM and checked the band and it was wide open.  I proceeded to find a clear frequency and call CQ and then the fun started.  A bunch of callers each time I stood by.  I didn’t slow down til about 5:30 when I think I was running out of stations to work…as I still heard EU stations calling for North America.  I didn’t count the number of contacts but it was well over 100.  I did hear Will K6ND who was on.  A guy in Plymouth, MA who was portable at a campground called in to say he had worked some EU with a marginal setup….so it apparently didn’t take much to make it across the pond.  Hope some of you caught it….and keep an eye on 6 meters for DX.    BTW, it’s been open to the Caribbean often late in the afternoon …if you can hear the C6 beacon on 50,040 you know something is cooking.  Look for PJ4E, HI3TEJ, a bunch of FGs.  GL!

— John, W1XX

The following brief article appeared today in the Providence Journal:

The American Legion will establish The American Legion Amateur Radio Club at national headquarters in Indianapolis to conduct regular nets with licensed ham vets who will be able to ask questions about veterans’ benefits and how to obtain help with their claims

To get the station up and running TALARC needs HF and dual-band VHF/UHF transceivers and associated gear. Interested donors should send an e-mail to k9tal@nulllegion.org for more information.

John, W1AN, was scheduled last month to discuss his vision for a club contesting station but the preceding topics ran long so we didn’t hear from him. He will be first on the program this month.

Do we have a volunteer for lunch fixins?

Yes…now active on LoTW here!  Hooray!!  Have BEGUN to upload older contest logs as time permits.

As for this year’s CQ WPX CW contest I had VERY little op-time available…and only later on in evenings due to family visiting all weekend.  Checked the WPX website Searchable Score Database for my planned op category “All Years” W1-area high score, set a goal and used it for motivation…it worked!  Had fun just operating on 40m with my nighttime limitation as SOLP(A) 40m (Triband/Wires).

A post-Memorial Day “Thank You” to all our Veterans…I enjoyed spending Sunday with family at Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA.

            CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: W1WBB
Operator(s): W1WBB
Station: W1WBB

Class: SO(A)SB40(TS) LP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): 7.5

Summary:
Band  QSOs
————
  160:    
   80:    
   40:  280
   20:    
   15:    
   10:    
————
Total:  280  Prefixes = 234  Total Score = 224,406

Club: CT RI Contest Group

Comments:

Very little time to participate…operated a few hours Friday and Saturday
evenings on 40m when I was able but even partially missed prime hours into
Europe.  Only a handful of QSOs Sunday.  Pretty good condx observed on 40m.

All contest Q’s will be now be uploaded to LoTW!

Station: Icom 737 into 88′ doublet up at 45′ broadside to Eu; N1MM logger

73,  Bill  W1WBB

WPX CW has come and gone and I guess I wasn’t as enthusiastic as I thought I would be. Friday nght conditions actually seemed pretty good and I was able go get about 150 Qs on 15, 20 and 40 before I crashed at about 10:30. I should have stayed up and cranked out more of those 6 pointers on 40. Saturday was not good here at all… so I  spend most of the day working outside and only occasionally dropping in to the shack to see what was happening. All in all, I put about 11 hours in the chair, virtually all S&P. My heart simply wasn’t in it.

A good thing happened though… Sunday afternoon I worked HI3TEJ on6 meter CW and heard several mid-Atlantic and southern states working southern Europe on 6m.

Here is the result of my efforts. I operated SOAB Assisted HP.

Band    QSOs    Pts  WPX
3.5      13      21    7
7     131     534  102
14     236     548  169
21      87     211   52
28      16      40    9
Total     483    1354  339

Score : 459,006

73 and please do celebrate Memorial Day,

Ken K3IU

Well gang, that was fun.  I was involved with the Angel Ride Fund raising bicycle tour this weekend, so I didn’t have lots of time to throw at the contest.  My goal was to advance my DXCC entity list for 40 meters.  I spent some time operating on Friday evening, Saturday evening, and Sunday afternoon after I got home.  I managed to get in just under 11 hours in the chair (10.8 hour).   I used assisted category, and also was running about 500 watts using my refurbished SB-201 that I got from Ernie’s estate.  He would be proud.  I also have got my QSK working the way I want it.  So in my view it was a fun effort, and I think I am much closer to DXCC CW on 40 now.  I will find that out in the next few days.

Here’s how it come out:

To: 3830@nullcontesting.com
cc: k1dm@nullarrl.net
From: k1dm@nullarrl.net
Subject: WPX CW K1DM SO(A)AB HP

                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: K1DM
Operator(s): K1DM
Station: K1DM

Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Connecticut
Operating Time (hrs): 10.8

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    0
   80:    0
   40:  259
   20:  111
   15:   59
   10:    0
------------
Total:  429  Prefixes = 303  Total Score = 411,777

Club: CT RI Contest Group

73, Mike, K1DM