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The
CTRI Contest Group is an ARRL affiliated club located in southeastern
Connecticut and southern Rhode Island. As our
name implies, we are specifically interested in contesting. When
the club was first started most of our members lived near the
Connecticut / Rhode Island border, hence our name but now
welcomes members from all the New England States.
The club was started back in 1992
as a project to setup a station where club members and other amateurs
from around the area could go and operate. Being that the major
players in the group were all into contesting, the station started
to take shape as just that, a place to contest from, along with
an open door policy for anyone that needed a place to operate
during the contests, or just to work some DX. After an eight-year
run and many multi operator
operations, and many new people introduced to contesting, the
CTRI club station was dismantled in the year 2000.
We will always be thankful to Andy KA1VMG for letting us use his
property. In the eight years the club station was operating, many
members bought homes and setup stations of their own. CTRI is
still growing to this day and still has a open door policy at
many of it's members stations.
The CTRI Contest Group sponsors
an Internet web page which can be found at http://www.wa1rr.org
This page is provided and kept up to-date by Bill Champagne,
N1HRA. The Page goes through changes from time to time, some of
the things you might find are, Information on on all our active
members, their stations and plans they may have
for future upgrades, and a list of upcoming contests. You might
even find a list of local area activities such as flea markets,
hamfests, and auctions. There are also many links to some of our
favorite contesting and DX-ing sites, pictures, and video clips
of some of the members of the group, and some of our scores from
recent contests.
We have sponsored a large
group of students at the Dunn’s Corners Elementary School
in Westerly R.I. in the SAREX program. This class which was run
by Ken Chaffee, WA1QXR, ran for seven years ending in 2003. It's
not the end of class, there is just something new in the works
for education. The CTRI Contest Group also runs VE test sessions
headed by Joe Natale, K1JN. We also provide an annual subscription
to QST magazine to a different local area school or library each
year. Past schools have been: Wheeler High School in North Stonington,
CT. Block
Island school on New Shoreham, The Westerly library in Westerly,
RI, and Cross Mills Public Library in Charlestown RI.
The Biggest project the group
took on was the "Grenada Computer project" and with
the help of the YCCC
Membership we were able to ship 12 complete computer systems and
more than enough computer gear to make up another 12 systems which
the kids will build themselfs.
The CTRI Contest Group sponsors
a number of other things, too. We provide the plaques for a
number of contests throughout the contest year. Some of the
past plaques were for the Rhode Island section winner of the
New England States QSO Party, the CQ Worldwide DX SSB and CQ
Worldwide DX CW contests in the World Single Operator, Unlimited
category. Back in (2004-2005) CTRI added couple of ARRL contests
to the list.
CTRI members have made the
trip to DX locations to operate during the during some of the
big four CQWW DX Phone, CQWW WPX Phone. These trips started
with Grenada in 2002 operating as J3A, Bermuda in 2002 as VP9I
and in 2004 operating as NP3U at the "Mi Casita" Contest
Station in Puerto Rico. Member also headed back to Bermuda in
the fall of 2005 to operate during the CQWW WPX Phone contest
once again using the Call VP9I. In 2007 eight members traveled
back to Puerto Rico for the CQWW WPX Phone operating once again
at the "Mi Casita" contest station of Carlos WP4U
in a Multi-2 operations that ended up with tthe guys putting
over 6000 Q's in the log and over 23 Million points. This year
2008 members traveled back to Puerto Rico to operate in the
CQWW WPX RTTY where they beat last years record by over 7 million
points. The group put just under 15 million points in the log
with 14,905,00 points.
If you have any questions regarding
the CTRI Contest Group operations and/or membership please contact
any of
the officers our drop a general e-mail to wa1rr
Ham Logs Online was started by Matt Atwood
WE1H for "ALL" Amatuers to use. Version 2
(Beta) went on line in October of 2003 and has been tested by
the membership of CTRI and is now avaliable for everyone to
use.(09/01/05) This is a FREE site! Please take some time to
take a look and see what this site might have to offer you.
www.hamlogsonline.com
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