NCRC Places 3rd Nationally in Field Day 2021

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Every Field Day has its challenges.  Last year (2020), due to the pandemic, there really wasn’t a Field Day.  This year was a big improvement, but a shortage of CW operators really hurt, and participation was down as COVID surged yet again.

Nevertheless, Newport County Radio Club, was in the 3rd place NATIONALLY for its Field Day operation in Category 2A (the most competitive).  Hats of to Willy W1LY who did an outstanding job getting the antennas up, Nancy KC1NEK who coordinated the schedules, Paul K1YBE who did an outstanding job with the GOTA station, John Mills who took care of our logging and computers, as well as many others who operated or helped setup the stations or take them down.

NCRC Meeting 7PM Monday November 8

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Our November club meeting will be via Zoom on Monday November 8, at 7 PM.

In addition to the regular business items, we will be holding elections for the 2022 officers.  We have several on-air events coming up next year to discuss as well.

Following the business meeting, Paul K1YBE and Will KO4DLO will give a presentation called “Going around in circles – what IQ can do for you” where he will describe and demonstrate some signal decoding methods using In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) techniques used in SDR.

Club members will be receiving their invitation via email later today

The presentation is at GoingAroundInCircles-What IQ can do for you

Antenna-Build-A-Thon

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RI ARES is having a J-Pole build party this Saturday afternoon.  Details:

All Are welcome!

We will be building the antenna.   Some Kits still available.

AT: Warwick Public Library

600 Sandy Lane

Warwick, RI 02889

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
In large conference room

Yankee Clipper Contest Club CQ WW

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NCRC club member Dave Neal, W2DAN, is YCCC RI Area manager and wants you to be aware of two big CQ WW contests at the end of this month and next.

CQ WW Contest Dates

SSB: October 30 – 31, 2021

CW: November 27 – 28, 2021

Starts: 0000 UTC Saturday        Ends: 2359 UTC Sunday

Anyone looking to join the Yankee Clipper Contest Club ( http://yccc.org/ )  should contact Dave Neal

Email:  w2dan@arrl.net
Cell:  401-241-9888

Club POTA Event Saturday October 23rd: 11 AM at Colt State Park

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We have just put back a POTA Tab on our website, which we will populate with information that might be helpful to POTA  Activators and Hunters.

More importantly, Next Saturday (Oct 23) Jim KA1ZOU, John K1JSM, and Andy AB1BX, will be holding a NCRC club-wide POTA adventure at Colt State Park in Bristol RI. We’ll be on the air with two K3 radios on 20 & 40m. The event will start at 11 AM. Club calls W1SYE and NE1RI will be used on air..

This is primarily a show & tell for any NCRC club member who has an interest. Other members who are POTA veterans are welcome and needed to help explain POTA operations to others.  Since this is an outdoor location (and stunningly beautiful too), this is a COVID safe activity.

You will be able to see the simple hardware (radio, battery, antennas) that can be used as well as electronic logging via laptop (N3FJP’s ACL – Amateur Contact Log.  In some ways, it is easier to get on the air from a car/truck/van than from a home location.  20m and 40m bands are excellent for working dozens of POTA contacts.

Be sure the check our website BEFORE heading to Colt State Park.  We may be able to provide some more specific location details.  Also, in the event of cancellation due to bad weather, will we post a cancellation notice on the website.

Email invitations will be sent out shortly to club members and will have a cell phone # for John Mills so he can help you locate the spot.