We’re Setting up for a Multi-2 using the club call KE1S. Looks like it’s going to be a good weekend to be indoors and enjoying the activity. I’ve got the RBN set up and working and stations will be prepped to go at the start. Hope you can put some time in here or your home stations. Keep me posted on your plans, here or via email.
73, John W1AN
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I’ll put some time in under the CTRI banner
Radio Ansonia will be using KR1CW
73
Dave W1CTN
We’ll look for you Dave!
I’ll be at John’s today from around 9 or 10 am til 5 or so. If anyone has some free time and wants to join in, come on over! If you’ve never worked RTTY or a RTTY contest before this is a great time to start.
Pat, NG1G
KR1CW...aka W1CTN CQ WPX RTTY Summary Sheet Start Date : 2018-02-10 CallSign Used : KR1CW Operator(s) : W1CTN Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Assisted Category : ASSISTED Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : RTTY Default Exchange : # Gridsquare : FN31LL Name : DAVE ARRUZZA Address : 32 BENZ ST City/State/Zip : ANSONIA CT 06401 Country : UNITED STATES ARRL Section : CT Club/Team : CTRI CONTEST GROUP Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.7047.0 Band QSOs Pts WPX Pt/Q 3.5 145 392 82 2.7 7 155 646 114 4.2 14 178 343 106 1.9 21 21 43 15 2.0 Total 499 1424 317 2.9Score : 451,408
Rig : FT2000 VL1000 500 WATTS
Antennas : T10 LOG @ 60′ 80 AND 40 M DIPOLES 55′
Soapbox : Operated when I could this weekend. I hope all others had fun.
Got some activity in. 10 meters was useless but I was surprised that 15 so was so dead. So it was everyone squished down to 20 and 40. Twenty closed early both days. Lots of activity . I heard KE1S and that was about it for CTRI folks.
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): 14h rs
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 20
40: 158
20: 393
15: 30
10:
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Total: 601 Prefixes = 403 Total Score = 700,001
Club: CT RI Contest Group
73
Jim KS1J
I put in about3 hours on Saturday and then on Sunday decided not to be a wimp and hit the road for Ledyard (W1AN) to give a small hand to the KE1S M-2 effort. Was there for about 6 hours but big rates (well, even small ones) were hard to come by. Here is my score summary from home…..
Call: K3IU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): 3.8
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 0
40: 23
20: 98
15: 6
10: 0
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Total: 127 Prefixes = 114 Total Score = 42,408
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Always an enjoyable contest. Not a full effort but a good time was had by all. Really good to see Pat NG1G break away from his busy schedule and get some BIC time!
73, John W1AN
SOAB QRP–
Band QSOs Pts WPX Pt/Q
7 47 194 42 4.2
14 32 59 27 1.8
Total 79 253 69 3.2
Score: 17,457
1 Mult = 1.1 Q’s
Op time: Random, 5 mins here, 20 mins there
This was the first time I had N1MM playing with fldigi, so it was a lot more fun relatively speaking, with a lot more Q’s, than what I’ve managed in past TTY efforts. QRP+wires doesn’t really work well for RTTY but I did catch some that surprised me. I see how it can get addicting, but it’s so slow…compared to CW, and in WPX you have to wait out a whole cycle to see if it’s a higher value target. See VE9AA’s rant on 3830! I did hear KE1S on 20 but you were busy 🙂 Nice to meet several of you last weekend–Dave K1SX