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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

If you have a new email address, please send a message to the NCC Mailing List to make sure you do not miss a thing!

NCC@contesting.com

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 is Contest Hall of Fame member and CQ WorlWide Contest Director, John Dorr, K1AR.

Our dinner speaker is Bryant, KG5HVO – his bio is here:

Thanks to Teri, K8MNJ for coordinating and organizing the 2020 Contest Dinner.

The 2020 Contest Hall of Fame inductees will be announced during the 2020 Dayton Contest Dinner by Dave. K3ZJ.

Thanks to Icom America N9JA – the MAIN prize is a Icom IC-7610

The Dayton Contest Dinner will be held on Saturday night, May 16, 2020 at 6:30 PM Cash bar opens at 5:30 PM.

Located at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (Official Contester Hotel) 5th and Jefferson Streets (Next to the Dayton Convention Center) Dayton (Downtown), Ohio in the PRESIDENTIAL BALLROOM on the second floor.

Seating is random. Tables are set in rounds of 10 and rectangles of 12. You can purchase an entire table for your group (purchased group tables are set for round 10 or rectangle 12). Full Table purchases are reserved seating.

Tickets are only available on http://contestdinner.com
There are no tickets for sale at the door.

The 32st annual Contest Super Suite (all FOUR nights during Dayton) details are here: http://contestsupersuite.com

And the 14th Annual Dayton Contest University seats are filling up fast http://contestuniversity.com

The 31th annual Dayton Top Band Dinner tickets are available at http://topbanddinner.com

We expect another sold out event for the 2020 Dayton Contest dinner. Get your tickets early! http://contestdinner.com

2020 Dayton Contest University Professors and the 2020 Course Outline have been posted.

https://www.contestuniversity.com/course-outline/

2020 Dayton TopBand Dinner speaker is Glenn Johnson, W0GJ

https://www.topbanddinner.com/

Info about the Glenn’s talk is here: https://www.topbanddinner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/VP6R-pg1-3.pdf

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 of the fact that last year’s Open House was cancelled due to inclement weather.  More details will be provided on the NCC mailing list.

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.  (These lunches are always very good!)  At 1:30, Tim will conduct a guided tour of the antenna farm and shack, followed by a short NCC business meeting at around 2:30.  This meeting will be more important than usual because the January meeting at K8AZ had to be cancelled due to a bad snowstorm.  YLs and XYLs are welcome!  You don’t want to miss this fun summer gathering where you have one of the few chances during the year to actually meet and chat with your fellow members.  See you there!

Spring is coming and to North American contesters that means Dayton Hamvention and the Contest Dinner!

Hosted by the North Coast Contesters, the contest dinner this year will take place on Saturday, May 20 at 6:30 PM with a cash bar opening an hour earlier. The dinner will be held at the Hope Hotel, Wright Patterson AFB the official contester’s hotel at Dayton.

This year’s speaker will be KG5HVO, Bryant Rascoll.  Read Bryant’s bio, learn more about the dinner and buy your tickets at www.contestdinner.com. 

And don’t forget that the Contest University will be held on Thursday, May 18, also at the Hope Hotel.  This event takes up the whole day from 7 AM to 5 PM and is well worth the $85.00 price tag.  May 18 is the day before the Dayton Hamvention opens up on Friday, May 19.  See the entire course outline and register at www.contestuniversity.com. 

Important announcement:

The 31st Annual K8AZ Open House will be Saturday January 19, starting at 4 pm at Tom’s QTH. Due to the fact that the popular NAQP CW contest is scheduled for the previous weekend, Tom chose this date to accommodate as many members as possible. 

The K8AZ Open House is always one of the highlights of the year for NCC and you don’t want to miss it.  This one will be especially interesting to many because Tom will be showing off his upgraded shack, a project that Tom and friends have spent months working on this year. 

See you there!