North Coast Contesters
July 27 NCC Member Meeting at K3LR!
The annual summer picnic at K3LR will be held on July 27, 2024 and we would love to see you there! Please arrive at 1200 and at 1230 Tim will conduct a walk-around tour of the antenna farm and the radio room. Then at 2 PM, one of those great K3LR catered lunches will start and at 4 PM there will be a business meeting. All members welcome. It will be great to catch up with friends, talk about station updates and discuss contesting events.
NA Sprint CW Contest 2024
Congratulations NCC Sprint Contest Team Ops!
CQ 160m CW Contest 2024
Congratulations to all of the NCC Members and their awesome 160m scores!
Successful Annual K8AZ Open House & NCC Meeting
Greetings NCC contesters!
The 33rd annual K8AZ Open House took place on
January 6, 2024, and was a great success. Those in attendance had a great time talking about our
favorite hobby and eating pizza. The Business Meeting immediately followed where the 2024 officers
were elected: Tom Lee K8AZ, President; Tim Duffy K3LR, Vice-President, and Tim Jellison W3YQ,
Treasurer. Amy Leggiero N8AMY, will remain the Website Manager.
NCC Sponsors ARRL DX CW Plaque
Bryan Bydal, W5MX was the winner of the NCC sponsored ARRL DX CW 2022 Contest Plaque.
(N4SS was the contest club call.)
He wrote a nice message thanking NCC for the plaque and said he hopes to see us all in Dayton at the 2023
Hamvention!
2023 Hamvention Mobile App
Download the new 2023 Hamvention Mobile App to maximize your fun in Dayton!
The app will allow you to find and schedule forums, find ARRL affiliated events, and preview exhibitors.
You can create MyProfile to connect with your friends and other hams, as well as share a QR code of your event badge.
Click the picture below to access the Hamvention App website.
2023 YDXA Special Event – July 29 at K3LR
The Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure is proud to announce a 2023 Special Event as W3Y on July 29, 2023. The K3LR Contest Group is hosting us at their station for this event.
This is the first time that this event will be hosted in the USA. As K3LR is one of the largest stations in the world we are confident that this adventure will be truly special for the David Kalter kids and their parents.
The trip is being sponsored by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association.
Look for us on July 29 as we look forward to a great number of QSO’s from around the world. The team is currently being formed and more information will be available soon. We are anticipating a team of 4 youth operators.
Please contact Jim Storms, AB8YK at ab8yk@hotmail.com with any questions.
July 29 NCC Member Meeting at K3LR!
The annual summer picnic at K3LR will be held on July 29, 2023 and we would love to see you there! Please arrive at 1200 and at 1230 Tim will conduct a walk-around tour of the antenna farm and the radio room. Then at 2 PM, one of those great K3LR catered lunches will start and at 4 PM there will be a business meeting. All members welcome. It will be great to catch up with friends, talk about station updates and discuss contesting events.
2023 ARRL Contest Logs
This year, NCC members have been hitting the contests hard and submitting logs showing their best efforts!
Great job participating and submitting logs on behalf of NCC:
2023 ARRL International DX Phone Contest
- K3LR Multi Op, Multi Transmitter, HP
- K8AZ Multi Op, Single Transmitter, HP
- N2WK Single Op Unlimited, HP
- WW3S Single Op Unlimited, HP
- W8CZN Single Op Unlimited, HP, 10m
- K8LY Single Op Unlimited, LP
- K8ZT Single Op Unlimited, QRP
2023 ARRL International DX CW Contest
- K3LR Multi Op, Multitransmitter
- K8AZ Multi Op, Single Transmitter, HP
- W2FU Multi Op, Two Transmitter
- K8CX Single Op Unlimited, HP
- N2WK Single Op Unlimited, HP
- N8NB Single Op Unlimited, HP
- N8TR Single Op Unlimited, HP
- NJ3K Single Op Unlimited, LP
- K8LY Single Op Unlimited, LP
- K8RR Single Op Unlimited, LP
- K8ZT Single Op Unlimited, QRP
- W1NN Single Op, LP
- W8WTS Single Op Unlimited, LP 80m
- WW3S Single Op Unlimited, HP 15m
NCC Captures Medium Gavel in 2020 ARRL International DX Contest
17 members submitted scores for the CW and SSB weekends in the 2020 ARRL International DX Contest, amassing a score of 21.5 million points, more than enough to secure another gavel for the club in the Medium club competition. The club placing second was the Central Texas DX & Contest Club, which had 40 entries. Congratulations NCC!
Unfortunately, the rules of the club competition do not allow K3LR’s scores to be counted, because more than half of Tim’s operators live outside the club territory. If not for this rule, our club score would have been considerably larger.
Leading off the high scorers in the CW weekend for the club was W2FU’s first place USA/VE Multi2 score of 6.5 million points. Nice job Jeff and crew. The next-largest score was that of K8AZ. Tom’s ops produced 5.5 million points and placed fourth in the M@ category, not far behind the second and third place stations. Single ops K8CX (#1 in Ohio in the SO Unlimited HP category), WW3S and N8TR also contributed large scores for the club on the CW weekend. N2WK, K8LY, NJ3K, K8ZT, W8WTS and K8RR also made smaller contributions.
In the SSB weekend, K8AZ’s ops managed a second-place US finish in the M2 category to account for the largest contribution for the club. K8ZT, who came in first in the country in the SO unlimited QRP category, WW3S, K8LY, K8CX and WZ8P also contributed scores.
Aside from the club competition, the K3LR superstation racked up another USA/VE win and another runner-up score in the Multi-multi category in the 2020 ARRL International DX Contest. Tim’s ops dominated the action in the SSB weekend, coming in well ahead of their perennial Maryland rival W3LPL. K3LR’s final score was 7.3 million points, with 4,989 QSOs and 495 mults versus a score of 6.3 million (4,476 and 477) for W3LPL. In the CW weekend, it was a real squeaker but ‘LPL edged out the K3LR ops by a mere 43,397 points (9,706,275 versus 9,662,778). What a heartbreaker! Both W3LPL and K3LR amassed exactly the same number of mults (537), but ‘LPL managed a mere 50 more contacts!
W1NN, operating 7J1AAI at JH1GTV in Tokyo, managed a first place finish in the single band 40 meter category in Japan on the CW weekend with 678 contacts and 53 sections. This was also the top score in Asia but just 16th in the world. The Europeans have a significant advantage over Asian stations in this contest.
