Belated big congratulations to club members Rick KI1G and Jim KS1J for winning their respective operating categories (Rick – High Power; Jim – Low Power) *overwhelmingly* in this past contest season’s CTRI CG Intra-Club Championship (2011-2012).  Rick recorded an astounding 28.49 million points with Jim achieving just under 10M points (at 9.54M), by far the two highest totals for club members this past season.  Well done to these two gifted ops and their fine stations!

No club member got real serious about operating QRP in the contests of 2011-12 (min. of 5 designated QRP contest entries) so no winner for that award.  Competitive ‘flea power’ ops for 2012-13…now’s your chance.  The club’s Tenderfoot award for a deserving ‘rookie’  contester also remains available for a club member demonstrating a serious interest in contesting but one who is very new to the world of radiosport – no minimum # of contest entries required.

Special mention to John W1AN whose  excellent station (W1AN/W1DX) appeared in 18 designated contest events (by far the most entries), including numerous multi-ops hosted in fine fashion by he and his wife Nancy W1NAN.  FB and TNX John!  He and 9 other club members exceeded the individual 2M points mark during contest season 2011-12 with the total club aggregate exceeding 74M.  That’s alot of QSOs!

Special thanks to Ken K3IU who so ably maintains our club member contest scores on the ‘Leaderboard’.  Final totals for the 2011-12 season can be found at Ken’s recent post here:  http://ctri.club/2012/08/08/ctri-champions-leaderboard-final-2012/

So…the new season is NOW upon us!  The first qualifying event for 2012-13  is the ARRL September VHF QSO Party Saturday/Sunday Sept. 8-9.  Then, CQWW DX RTTY Contest is Sept. 29/30…the last (fifth!) weekend of September.

Good luck in the contests!

73,  Bill  W1WBB