The 28th Annual Dayton Contest Dinner at the Crowne Plaza in downtown Dayton, Ohio 2020 Contest Dinner tickets are on sale now exclusively via our web site. HUGE thanks to Scott, KA9FOX and QTH.com for designing, building, donating and running the Contest Dinner web site. http://contestdinner.com Master of Ceremonies for the 2020 Dayton Contest Dinner […]

Save the date!  Tom Lee, NCC vice president and owner of the K8AZ Superstation has announced the date for the 2020 Annual K8AZ Open House and NCC Meeting.  The date is Saturday, January 4.  This will be the 32nd such meeting at Tom’s place in Chesterland, Ohio!  This meeting will be especially important in view […]

Mark your calendar for July 27, 2019 for the regular summer picnic and NCC business meeting at the K3LR superstation in West Middlesex, PA.  The festivities get underway at 11 AM with Flavia morning coffee and donuts and conversation with fellow members.  At 1230 Tim’s caterers will deliver a delicious smoked chicken and hamburger lunch.  […]

NCC members and countless others mourned the sudden loss of Reno Tonsi, WT8C, who passed away at his home on February 27, 2020.  Reno was 83.  Reno had had health issues and had been hospitalized last year but was released and seemed to be doing better, so his loss came as a shock to everyone.  […]

Congratulations are in order for the fantastic performance of the W2FU team in the recent NAQP CW.  Based on claimed scores, Jeff’s ops took back the number one spot in the M2 competition after losing it to the guys at K5RM in January 2019.  Last year K5RM ended up with 2,398 contacts, nearly 200 more […]

The claimed scores for the 2019 CQWWDX SSB and CW contests have been posted and NCC calls are once again well represented in the rankings. SSB Weekend Unfortunately, extremely challenging conditions characterized the October phone weekend and North American scores turned out to be the worst in many years.  The K3LR multi-multi crew managed to […]