[NCC] Contest Clubs Update - January VHF Contest Logs, ARRL DX Contest is coming, NA Sprint team invite and more

[Tim Duffy]

From: Jahnke, Bart, W9JJ [mailto:w9jj at arrl.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 1:07 PM
To: Contest
Subject: Contest Clubs Update - January VHF Contest Logs, ARRL DX Contest is
coming, NA Sprint team invite and more

 

Re: Contest Clubs Update - January VHF Contest Logs, ARRL DX Contest is
coming, NA Sprint team invite and more

 

 

To:  ARRL Contest Clubs

 

 

Follows are a few updates for contest clubs:

 

*         The 2019 January VHF Contest just ended:  With the January VHF
Contest weekend now just behind us, the 10-day log submission deadline is
2359 UTC January 31st.  You can upload your Cabrillo log to
https://contest-log-submission.arrl.org/  (or we still accept paper logs --
and for the past several years we have been graced with the voluntary
efforts of K9JK who transcribes and keyboards these VHF Contest paper logs
and submits them in Cabrillo format for us {see
http://www.arrl.org/january-vhf for paper logs submission - be sure to thank
"JK" for these efforts when you see him at the various events or work him on
the air!}).  Email me with any questions regarding logs submission.  If you
have not yet sent in your log, please do so!  Once you submit your
electronic log, your call sign and basic detail will be listed at
http://contests.arrl.org/logsreceived.php (after the logs deadline has
passed, claimed scores and entry category will also be shown) Despite the
bad weather in many parts of the country this past weekend, a log with even
a few QSOs helps us measure the activity of the event.

 

*         The February and March ARRL DX Contest weekends loom:  The
February 2019 ARRL DX CW Contest weekend (see rules at
http://www.arrl.org/arrl-dx) is just a few weeks away - February 16-17,
2019; and the March 2019 ARRL DX Phone weekend is two weeks later - March
2-3, 2019.  Are you ready?  If you are part of a Club Competition effort, be
sure your Club Membership Eligibility List is up to date (eg, are your new
members added, members that moved away deleted, and members with call sign
changes updated?)  

 

*         National Contest Journal (NCJ) - CW Sprint - Register Your Teams:
K3LR will organize teams for NCC after te CQWW 160 CW Contest.

 

 

Until next time.

 

73, and see you in the contests!

 

Bart Jahnke, W9JJ

Contest Branch Manager

ARRL - The national association for Amateur RadioT

225 Main St

Newington CT 06111

860-594-0232

 <mailto:w9jj at arrl.org> w9jj at arrl.org

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Scott Wright [ <mailto:drscott.wright at gmail.com>
mailto:drscott.wright at gmail.com] 

Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 4:29 PM

To: Jahnke, Bart, W9JJ

Subject: Request to send to contest clubs via your reflector

 

Bart

 

The NCJ is asking major North American contest clubs to consider expanding
the learning and training tools available to help new and mid-skill level
contesters learn and raise their skills to the next level.

 

In 2007, the NCCC published a video series on So2r which I personally found
very helpful. They are going to re-post it to their website so all of us can
learn from the series.  Contest University also posts its lectures to the
web and the power point slides - both extremely helpful to new and mid-skill
level contesters. 

 

We would like contest clubs to discuss with their members the need to
develop additional video based and power point-based training tools on the
following topics:

 

1. How to do the Sprint contest - CW and/or RTTY 2. How to set up and be a
Mobile rover in state QSP.

3. Optimization of SO2R techniques in SSB/CW/RTTY contesting 4. How to do
SO2V contesting 5. Advice on planning for a 48 hour contest - what are the
techniques the winners use?

6. Setting up n1mm+ or Win-test with a rig - a basic how to video or power
point set.

 

The video recordings might record both sides of a QSO, and in the example of
the Sprint contest, slow it down enough to show beginners how to "Sprint"
when you are done with the QSO, what to do if you lose a "jump ball" and
other techniques.  It might involve recording, then narrating what to do and
listen for in the right and left audio channels.

 

These are only ideas for what we believe is currently lacking for up and
coming contesters. There are probably plenty more issues that our major
contest clubs can identify and create training films to help all of us.

 

You Tube is full of videos describing rigs and other things like building a
ham shack table.  Perhaps we can post some helpful videos on contesting to
You Tube also? 

 

If there is enough interest in this, we can have an inter-club competition
and I will award an "Editor's Cup" to the club that makes the best or most
innovative video in 2019.  It can be awarded perhaps at the 2020 Dayton
contest dinner (if the organizers agree) . 

 

Thanks for considering!

 

Scott Wright, K0MD

 

NCJ Editor

 

 <http://www.ncjweb.com> www.ncjweb.com

 

Twitter: @EditorNCJ