This contest is included in the list of contests counting towards the CTRI Championship competition. Sooo… join in if you can and then please post your results here by adding a comment to this posting.
Good luck!!!
73,
Ken K3IU
Keeper of the Leaderboard
Call: W1XX
Operator: W1XX
QTH: FN41
Category: SOHP
Time (hrs): 5.5
Band Qs Mults
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6 101 31
2 47 13
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Totals: 148 44 Score = 6380
Club: CTRI Contest Group
Comments:
Surprisingly, there was some pretty good E-skip on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon on 6 meters ..open to W4s, W5s, W0s. This is pretty unusual for this time of the year. Operated in short spurts and made a point not to miss the Patriots game. And there was a fair amount of local activity on 2 meters. Nice to hear and work Steve, KB1VEZ, getting his feet wet in VHF contesting….and was able to give Chuck, KA1CQR, the lowdown on the upcoming awards luncheon. I did not run the amp on 6 meters but it probably didn’t make much difference as I could run some and worked everyone I heard….ran 175 watts on 2. K5QE was booming in from Texas most of Saturday afternoon. This will probably prove to be one of the better January VHF contests in a long time. Not much of a score as you gotta have the UHF bands to really compete…but it was fun. 73!
— John, W1XX
Nice score, John, especially for only 5.5 hours of operating time! I didn’t get to operate at all. Not that I didn’t want to, but with school and snow shoveling the time just wasn’t there.
I’m working on setting aside some time next weekend since we have both the CQ 160M Contest, CW and the BARTG RTTY Sprint. The RTTY contest will give me the opportunity to start using N1MM at home in anticipation of our trip to NP3U.
73,
Pat, NG1G
Mike,
I’m waiting for others to weigh in on the software question, but it makes the most sense to me. I’d at least like to hear ‘yeas or nays” as to the choices we have. Rick, KI1G has given his opinion (which carries great weight with me) but there might be a few others as well…
In any event, lacking further input from the membership, I would recommend to John, W1AN and anyone else planning on going that they install N1MM Logger and become experts with it, especially in RTTY mode. There are a number of RTTY contests between now and 2013 WPX RTTY in which to practice. There are several members who are either already experts on N1MM or who are rapidly learning it, so support is not a problem.
I haven’t talked with John about WPX RTTY. I’ll send him an email and Cc: you. Then based upon what he says we can post a call for assistance/operators.
I have fallen behind in my goal of getting ready for this weekend’s contests, but there’s still time.
73,
Pat, NG1G
P.S. – I have had trouble getting my reply to fall underneath your comment. It keeps appearing *before* yours, which is very odd.
I am adding this comment directly to the article and indeed it does display before the comments directed here from the Forum.
Ken
That’s some pretty good detective work, Ken! I doubt I would have figured that out.
Pat
This was my first VHF contest (I think). I didn’t spend much time on it, since I only have a discone stuck up in the attic for everything but 6m. My vertical, that is intended for 160m, was about the best antenna I had for 6m. I managed one 2m contact with an op in East Providence. I heard W1XX on 2m, but our paths didn’t cross. However, W1XX was my first contact in this contest and I managed to work him on CW. That QSO helped my confidence in CW and I worked a few others on CW afterwards. Maybe I ought to try a CW contest one of these days. As others have noted, there was a pretty good opening into the SE US Sunday afternoon.
Low Power, Single Op. All bands, all modes
2.5 hours on
4 CW QSOs, 23 SSB QSOs = 27 total contacts
13 Grids worked
Total Score = a whopping 378 points
73
KA1GEU, Chris
VERY small effort from here in this contest. Five (5) CW QSOs on 6 meters.
Score… 15.
Ken K3IU
Chris — GREAT to see you making even a few CW contacts. Keep working at it…you’ll be amazed what you can work and often how quickly via this mode!
Try the state QSO Parties for real on-air practice in addition to the free Morse Runner and RUFZ downloadable programs…there’s a few this weekend (VT, DE and MN?) and they ramp-up over the next few months. The WA7BNM Contest Calendar has a page just for dates of all QSO Parties so check it out! Good luck and have fun. 73, Bill W1WBB