December
2005 Meeting/Newsletter – CVVHF
Current Member Roster:
David
Aho
N9TTX
ARRL
Secretary
Darrell
Schreiner
K9AIH
ARRL
Justin
Glasener
K9MU
ARRL
Web page editor
Robert
Rohrssen
KB9PJL
ARRL
Vice President
Charlie
Betz
N0AKC
ARRL
President
John
McDonald
KB9TLV
ARRL
Ray
Johnson W9RAY
ARRL
Randy
Westerberg
KB9POI
ARRL
Allan
Schlaugat
N9ISN
ARRL
Treasurer
Brad
Zuelke K9BZ
ARRL
Paul
Brooten KB9TYC
ARRL
Web page Host
Steve
Bluem KA9OMY
ARRL
Bill
Noble
KA9GNG
Jay
Grokowski N9CIQ
ARRL
Marvin
Opitz N9RVV
Wanda
Rohrssen
KB9QGL
ARRL
Christian
Lantz
W9CDL
ARRL
Mary
Slifer
KC9FVS
ARRL
Michael
Fenske
KC9EXW
ARRL
Amber
Ericksen
KC9FVW
Kayla
Kurtti
Scott
Littfin N0EDV
Albert
Pichler KC9GIQ
ARRL
Events of Interest:
·
Jan. 21-22, 2006
- ARRL January VHF
Sweepstakes
·
Jan. 28, 2006
- CQ WW 160 Meter CW Contest
·
Feb. 4, 2006
- Minnesota QSO Party
·
Feb. 4-5, 2006
- 10-10 Winter Phone Contest
·
Feb. 11-12, 2006
- CQWW WPX RTTY Contest
·
Feb. 18-19, 2006
- ARRL DX Contest CW
·
Feb. 25-26, 2006
- CQWW 160 Meter SSB Contest
·
March 4-5, 2006
- ARRL DX Contest SSB
·
March 12-13, 2006
- Wisconsin QSO Party
·
March 18, 2006
- 10-10 Mobile Contest
·
March 25-26, 2006
- CQWW SSB WPX Contest
·
April ????
TBA -
CVVHF Antenna Party/Annual Meeting
·
April 29, 2006
- NLRS Aurora Conference
·
May 6-7, 2006
- 10-10 Spring CW/Digital
Contest
·
May 19-21, 2006
- Dayton Hamvention
·
May 27-28, 2006
- CQWW CW WPX Contest
·
June 10-11, 2006
- ARRL June VHF QSO Party
·
June 24-25, 206
- ARRL Field Day
·
July 8-9, 2006
- IARU HF World
Championship
·
July 15-16, 2006
- CQWW VHF Contest
·
July 27-30, 2006
- Central States
Conference – In the Twin Cities this year!!
Scores:
IARU 2005
(Official)
Call
Score
QSO
Multipliers Class
N9TTX
33,516
204
63
SOLP
August
UHF contest 2005 (official)
K9CVC
75,492
189 108
Multiop
K9MU, N0AKC, N9TTX,
KB9TLV
6,240
62
32
Low Power (A)
Totals:
81,732
251
140
September VHF Contest 2005
(unofficial)
Call
Score
QSO Mult
Class
KB9TLV 32,342
229
103
Low Power (A)
N0AKC
23,828
185
92
Hi-Power (B)
KB9PJL 21,675
195
85
Low Power (A)
KZ9O
17,730
179
90
Low Power (A)
N9TTX
12,600
139
70
Low Power (A)
W9RAY
8,183
110
49
Low Power (A)
W9CDL
5,195
88
49
Low Power (A)
K9AIH
2,175
64
29
Low Power (A)
Total Club Score: 123,728
I will be doing a supplement Newsletter for this quarter also, as I
wanted to add a few write-ups on some of the activities, but I have not gotten
any yet from those I have talked to ß gentle reminder.
So, here is the basic newsletter and the meeting minutes from a Burger
King near you.
Members Present:
Dave Aho
N9TTX
Darrell Shreiner
K9AIH
Chris Lantz
W9CDL
Charlie Betz N0AKC
Bob Rohrssen
KB9PJL
Mike Fenske
KC9EXW
Ray Johnson
W9RAY
Scott Littfin
N0EDV
Kayla Kurtti
The August UHF contest was a head turner.
For those that are not ARRL members I will send a copy of the QST
write-up. Those that are members or
those at the meeting this time, you have seen the bit that K9JK wrote.
Here is a recap and quick breakdown.
Justin, Charlie, Ray, and I ran a multi-op effort for the UHF contest.
We had 222, 432, 902, 1296, and 10G at the W0AIH/W0UC farm facility.
We had various issues, but it all came together very well. Here is a brief breakdown of the contest as written in QST:
“In the Central Division,
the operators at K9CVC broke the multi-op record that had stood for 14 years,
and besides their 3rd place finish in Multi-op, the K9CVC team also
achieved the highest multiplier counts of ALL
(emphasis added) entrants on 222 and 432 with 38 and 39, respectively.”
We came in 3rd place in Multi-op overall behind W2SZ and N0HJZ
who had 313,962 and 86,136 respectively. We
came in 1st place in Central division in class.
Field
Day 2006:
There was a proposal by Jim Statz KI9H, who had talked to Darrell and
Chris and some other members of the Chippewa Valley Radio Club, about possibly
doing a joint Field Day effort between our three clubs and possibly the
Menomonie club. It was mentioned
about doing it at the W0AIH farm. Put
the club callsigns in a hat, 1st one out gets their call for the main
call, 2nd out is the GOTA station call.
Here is the discussion:
Pro’s:
NO setup or teardown -- good
equipment already there.
Good location for propagation.
More Power…Arrr Arrr.
Con’s
Will everyone be able to work the contest when they want
Operating styles…can the three groups work together?
Ummm….one of the reasons we started our group is because of
dissatisfaction with the
ECARC.
And we are unofficially gunning for them in the contests ya know.
Research This was brought up by
Justin at Chris and Mary’s wedding (Congratulations by
the
way again)…We might not be able to utilize the Farm as a FD site due to its
permanent
structure.
I
looked in the rules, and the class choices for this type of operation only
leaves
Us
able to use the “F” Class, which is the EOC (emergency Operations Center)
Class…It
gives us the permanent structure, and the GOTA station, but I am not
sure
if Paul’s place is designated as per the Rules as an actual EOC.
My
consensus: I don’t think that
this would be a feasible thing at the W0AIH farm, due to the
Strictures, and possibly other issues.
I would say we should plan to do Field Day on our
own again at the same location if available, or if not, we can look for
other options.
EME/Scatter
Report:
Due
to the phenomenal success of the EME Contest at Charlie’s this year using
JT65 as a mode other than CW, and working a small gun station to boot off the
big cheese, I thought it might be nice to have a breakdown for those out of
the know. Please send me what you have via email or snailmail…or find me on
person. This way I can get a
newsletter supplement out.
I had asked Justin and Ray to do a quick and dirty write-up on how to
do JT65 for EME, and possibly WSJT for meteor scatter work.
This would be included in a newsletter follow-up.
This would give those who might want to experiment with some digital
modes for weak signal work a heads up on how to setup and run the
station…and maybe what to expect.
I had also asked Charlie to do a quick and easy EME blurb on what a
small gun station might expect (using JT65) and what one might need.
Also a good report sequence would be nice to have for those that might
not know what to say for their QSO.
Shortly before the meeting, after the digital bit was experimented
with, Randy stumbled onto a digital contest on six meters and worked a bunch
of DX stations. Also since the
meeting, Justin has worked Chris and Bob from EN65 and has done a little of
Cheesebouncing with his setup at the EN65 expedition with Amber KC9FVW, and at
his house.
January
QSO Party Plans:
Everyone should be on the air. The
only differences or issues offhand that seem to be showing are the following:
N0EDV:
Scott may have 222 and 10 Ghz added to his setup of 6 and 2 meters.
He is in
the
process of putting transverters together.
K9AIH:
Darrell will have 222 but only on FM in addition to the other 3 bands.
W9CDL:
Chris will have 1296 online, but only with a butterfly antenna I guess.
That is if
he
is still ready to go after a trip to Jamaica for his and Mary’s Honeymoon.
KB9PJL:
Bob should be back on the air with all bands after the spring’s bad
luck
N9ISN:
Al still has a non-rotating tower, but at least he will be able to work
all of us.
N9TTX: If
everything goes right, I will be high power class this time around.
Hopefully I don’t make the court bleed.
Terms:
Officer terms are coming due as of the annual antenna party. If you want to stand down as an officer, or would like to
become one, gather your thoughts, and speak up during the meeting.
Just for the record, I am don’t plan on standing down, but I’ll run
as an incumbent if anyone else was interested in the Secretarial position.
Treasurer’s
report:
Same as before…there is a bit of petty cash in our balance from various
donations. Al was still looking for
account ideas for the club. It had
been tabled that the idea of having a club account for donations (RCU I believe
it was mentioned), was a good idea and unanimously voted on as a go-ahead.
So Al, get with Charlie or Bob if you have not already done so to get the
details hashed.
VHF
Plaque Sponsorship:
Another idea was tabled
to look into possibly sponsoring a contest plaque.
We would not get to choose what plaque it would be, but our club name
would get put on one of the plaques. I
cannot remember how much it is, but I think the NLRS mentioned it being
$40…does this sound right? In any
case, would we as a club be interested in doing this? Think about it and we’ll discuss it at the next meeting.
CSVHFS:
A few points here:
The Date for the Central States VHF Conference is listed above.
It is being held this year in the twin cities.
Those who have that time available should consider going for at least one
of the days. The Hotel is the
Thunderbird, in case you are wondering. The
conference is a three-day event that has talks/presentations, antenna range
testing, equipment testing, swapfest, & more.
It is Aurora at a larger scale.
It was also tabled to possibly host a “hospitality suite” at the
event. The motion carried as yes
for one night, we would like to host it preferably Friday night.
Either as one night ourselves or joint with Badger Contesters for 2
nights…Charlie will get a-hold of W9GA and hash out some things and get back
to us on cost and details.
Chris and Mary were
married Christmas Eve day. Congratulations
to both of you. They will be
departing for Jamaica mon dude this coming week, and will be back sometime
Saturday during the VHF contest. No
radio is being carted to the land of Rum and Punch, but maybe we will hear a
signal when they get home to Eau Claire.
No date or place has been set yet. Details
will be sent out when things get hashed out.
Note it is listed as the 2nd weekend (Saturday) in April which
would be April 8, 2006. This may
change due to schedules for a hosting house.
Think up ideas or projects to work on from now until then.
I will send out a newsletter supplement to this one when I get the little
write-ups from Charlie, Justin, and Ray. It
was also suggested after the meeting by Justin, to have submissions by members
of projects, ideas, etc…so others can see what each member is doing for
projects or operating ideas. If
anyone has something they want to share, please send it my way and I will put it
together for all to see.
Dave….N9TTX