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he is the founder and chairman of Contest University
In addition to being the director of Contest
University, Tim is the president of his local
club, the Mercer County Amateur Radio Club, the
Radio Club of America, and the former Western
Pennsylvania ARRL section manager, and of course
he is the chief operating officer of DX Engineering.
Tim is a member of the CQ Contest Hall of Fame
and was on Team USA for the World Radio Sport
Team Championship four times and will be competing
once again this summer and a graduate of the
Pennsylvania State University. And Tim is a 2015
amateur of the year award winner presented by
the Dayton Hamvention Awards Committee. So Tim,
welcome back once again. It's great to be here,
Neil. Thanks for having me. Yeah, well we've
had you on here a few times now and always want
to talk about Contest University because it's
one of the uh, most educational opportunities,
uh, that a ham radio operator can get. And, um,
you've been on here talking about it and we want
to talk about some of the other contest and DX
activities tonight. Cause we've talked about
this a lot, but we, we can't ignore the big ones.
So, uh, give us a preview of what's happening
at contest university for this year. So for 2018,
you know, we have a tremendous lineup. This is
our our 12th year of running Contest University
in Dayton and Dayton is is the flagship home
for Contest University in the United States a
month ago, we ran Contest University in Italy
and We had 310 there We also had professors in
Italy from the United States John Doar K1 AR
was part of the curriculum over there, so very
proud of that. But back in Dayton, and of course
this occurs the Thursday before the Dayton Hamvention
opens, so this is all day on May 17th, and it
is at the Crown Plaza Hotel. All of the information
that I'm going to talk about this evening is
available on the Contest University website,
and it's contestuniversityaltogether .com. ContestUniversity
.com will get you right to the Contest University
website where you can see all of the things that
will be talked about as well as you can sign
up. You do have to pre -register and there are
two registration available and the first one
is if you haven't given a talk at a radio club
It's $85. If you've given a talk in the last
year at a radio club, it's $75. We also have,
through the generosity of the Northern California
DX Foundation, we have scholarships for those
that would like to attend Contest University
that are 25 years of age or younger, and that
will pay for the tuition. But the Contest University
starts early with a breakfast. First thing in
the morning at seven o 'clock and by eight o
'clock we are in session and off and running
and there'll be over 20 presentations during
the day on. Thursday, all the way from things
about how to improve your antenna systems, the
reverse beacon network. There's a whole session
on digital nodes like FT8 and MSK 144 for use
in VHF contests. There's a session taught by
Ward Silver on grounding and bonding. And we
also cover sessions on RTTY. We have one of the.
the world's best RTTY guys in Ed Munn's W0YK
who teaches the RTTY sessions. We also have Contesting
Best Practices taught by Dan K2YWE. This is great
for beginning contesters or those that just want
to get better on HF operating. This is a great
opportunity to listen to Dan. He gives a tremendous
talk. We will have a special guest speaker. That's
going to be a surprise during lunch. And then
in the afternoon, we break into our small group
sessions where you actually can sit with some
of these experts and talk about antennas and
propagation and the reverse beacon network and
towers and antennas and grounding and bonding,
receiving antenna. ideas, and so a lot of this
material is aimed at just yet becoming a better
operator, a more knowledgeable operator, and
enjoying more of the ham radio hobby. If you're
a contestor, this is going to give you an edge.
There's no doubt about that. There's a tremendous
textbook that comes along with it. You also have
some discount vouchers. There's breakfast and
lunch and a couple of breaks, but you have access
to some of the best operators and station designers
available here in the United States. We finished
the day off with Rob Sherwood who has been a
guest here on HamTalk Live and he'll give his
2018 contest radio review. That is a packed house.
It is almost an hour long and it is a great time
to understand what improvements have been made
in the past year. And if you're thinking about
maybe a new radio, you want to put off your decision
until you hear Rob Sherwood's talk. So it's a
great day. It goes extremely fast. We finished
at five o 'clock, but it is a jam packed day
full of information and learning and sharing
and meeting new friends. And then after it's
over, you have access to the color slide deck
so that you can give presentations to your clubs.
We also have the opportunity, you know, you can
trade email addresses with the professor so you
can do follow up material. So it's just a great,
great day. And if you've been there before, this
is all new information. So there's nothing here
that's been repeated. This is all new data and
you're going to find it great. If you haven't
been to Contest University and you've been thinking
about it, this is the year to do it. So tremendous
time. I'll have an updated webinar here in a
few weeks that you'll be able to click on. But
go to the Contest University website and all
the information is there. You can even see videos.
from past years if you want to see what it looks
like. And we're expecting 350 students. It's
going to be great. Wow, that's great. Well, I've
been fortunate enough to go the last three years
and I can testify to the fact that, you know,
you're going to learn a lot. You're going to
have a great time doing it. And you definitely
will pick up an edge on contesting. We reached
a point with our school club that We were just
kind of trying to figure out how in the world
are we going to boost our scores and we had talked
to Dr. Scott Wright and he kind of contacted
you and got us set up and we were actually able
to bring some students over for a couple of years.
We were able to get them away from their final
exams and AP testing and everything else and
get them over there. We picked up some little
things along the way that made a huge impact
in the way we approached contesting and it paid
off. It's really improved. We have all kinds
of evidence here of what Contest University can
do for an operator. That's great. It's always
a pleasure to hear those stories of success.
And I got to tell you, Neil, I hear them all
the time. You know, where you see the light go
on and the students go back home. Whether it's
field day, whether it's a state QSO party, whether
it's the ARL sweepstakes, and a lot of the techniques
that we teach at Contest University, they adapt
and use, and it's all good. Absolutely. So if
you haven't registered for Contest University
yet and you want to go, there are still a few
spots available. So remind everybody how to register
for that. talk about the registration just one
more time. Yes, so you go to the contestuniversity
.com website and you click on registration. You
fill out a few simple deals. You know, your call
sign. We want to know your t -shirt size because
there's a great t -shirt this year, Neil. uh...
and i can't help me i'll tell you this i'm in
fact i think this is one of our best years for
the t -shirt wait until you see the back of this
shirt yeah it's it's it's great so uh... but
uh... you know you get uh... you get all the
materials to go along with contest university
uh... you just uh... it's a very simple registration
form and uh... then you get your confirmation
email And you show up the night before Wednesday
night in the contest super suite at the Crowne
Plaza on the second floor. And that's right in
downtown Dayton, right next to the convention
center is the Crowne Plaza. And we have registration
from 8 o 'clock till 10 o 'clock. And you can
pick up all your materials, hang out with the
professors, hang out with other students. We
have some pizza at 1030. It's a great way to
get started. Well, you mentioned the super suite
and that's exactly where we want to Head next
in addition to contest University going on there
at the Crowne Plaza You've got the super suite
set up and and the rumor is that ham vincen week
accounts for the majority of the second quarter
sales figures For the Dayton pizza establishment.
So so tell us about the suite and the pizza parties
Well, you know, this is something that has evolved
over the years I've been doing the the contest
super sweet now over 30 years and Every year
we tweak it and make it even a little bit better
And we've got a great surprise this year a little
demo that's going to go on We'll have ham nation
will be live there on Wednesday night as well
with Bob Heil and Val Hotzfeld and Val NV9L is
the 2018 Hamvention Ham of the Year and so we're
gonna have a lot of fun that night but Wednesday
night May 16th is the first of four nights in
a row so Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
where we're gonna have pizza parties. Wednesday
and Thursday the pizza party starts at 10 30
And on Thursday night, we even throw in some
wings. There's a great wing place there. So we
have chicken wings and pizza on Thursday night.
And then Friday night and Saturday night, the
pizza party's at 11 o 'clock. And that Friday
night pizza party follows the band. And there's
a new band this year. You know, we've had the
Spurius Admissions Band at the Contest Super
Suite for many years. Well, just like the Beatles,
they broke up. But there's a few of them got
together with some new members, and they put
together a new band. And the band is called Working
by the Numbers. And they'll be live in the presidential
ballroom at 10 o 'clock on Friday night, second
floor. We just take over the entire second floor
of the Crowne Plaza, and they will be there.
And so... your stomach's gonna hurt afterwards
from laughing so hard, but 10 o 'clock to 11
o 'clock, come and hear the band, stick around
for the free pizza at 11 o 'clock, and that's
Friday night. Of course, everybody's sort of
worn out from the first day out at Hamvention,
out at the Green County Convention Center. And
then on Saturday, we do another, we have the
contest dinner first, and then we have pizza
at 11 o 'clock. So it's it's an amazing event
at the Contest SuperSuite. There are plenty of
chairs, there's bars, you can sit there, talk
to your friends, meet new friends. There's always
something special going on at the Contest SuperSuite,
a great place to hang out for four nights during
Hamvention. And rumor is you might even hear
Some of those songs from the Spurious Admissions,
I've heard that rumor. These guys might just
be a cover band for the Spurious Admissions.
I guess we're going to have to wait and see,
Neil, but you don't want to miss it. The YouTube
videos are great, but live, it's just phenomenal.
Of course, our favorite one from the Spurious
Admissions is... Gets played on here every once
in a while, so we had to throw that in there
Nobody said Balfang on the show in a while whenever
somebody says the word Balfang we play a little
clip of that So had to throw that in well the
last people get burned out on pizza There are
several contest and DX and even youth dinners
for that matter Happening during hamvention weekend
and you're associated with a lot of those contest
dinners, so fill us in on the ones that you're
affiliated with and any others if you like so
yeah, it it seems like conventions all about
food and You know part of it is is spending time
together with with the folks that are attending
the hand bench and Attending contest University
and so Thursday night at 6 o 'clock the ready
guys are having the ready contesting dinner over
at the spaghetti warehouse and then on Friday
night we have the We have the in the 29th annual
top band dinner. So these are guys that really
get into the 160 meter band. And we got a phenomenal
speaker. Jerry Rosalia's WB9Z is the speaker
for the top band dinner. And you can get tickets
and learn more about Jerry at top band dinner,
topbanddiner .com. And we still have Few seats
available for the top band dinner. So that's
on Friday night And also there's the DX dinner
is down at the Marriott on Friday night and just
saw the Tapper dinner has got Jerry Ellsworth
AI 6 TK and That's on Friday night. And I think
there's there's probably two or three more dinners
Friday night as well. You can just go dinner
hopping That that's it and then but Saturday
night Neil is really the big bang of it all This
is the the contest dinner 26th year in a row
contest dinner and We have that the WRTC chairman
Chris deal one Mike golf Bravo from Germany Will
be at the contest dinner and also what is very
special about the contest dinner is that two
new members? of the amateur radio fraternity
will be inducted into the contest Hall of Fame.
And that's just very, very special. So over 500
people will attend that dinner. It is a tremendous
evening. And the speaker, Chris, is going to
be just super. So looking forward to that. And
during the day, I host the Antenna Forum. And
I've been doing the antenna forum for 32 years
at Hamvention. And so up on the Contest SuperSuite
website, under contest related events, you can
see what the titles of the papers that will be
given at the antenna forum. They're right there.
There are four great papers that will be presented.
And also the paper titles and the guys that are
presenting them. for the Ready! Contest Forum
and the Contest Forum on Saturday are also there.
So you get a lot of data is already available
on the Contest SuperSuite website. So some websites
to remember. If you only remember one, just the
Contest SuperSuite will take you to Contest University
Contest Dinner and Top Band Dinner. But contestsupersuite
.com, contestuniversity .com, ContestDinner .com
and TopBandDinner .com are the whole suite of
websites that are surrounded by the events at
the Crowne Plaza. All right, great rundown there
of all of the sites. And you can still get into
those things. So you won't have long, but if
you... Get in there soon and register. You'll
be able to go to a lot of these fun things outside
of Hamvention. So we'll be back to talk with
Tim some more about some of these things and
give a chance for you all to chime in at 812
-638 -4261 or on Twitter or Skype. Give us a
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first question is a There's a long -distance
dedication, as Casey Kasem would say. Our first
question for Tim comes from Ed Durant, DD5LP
in Germany. He's one of our correspondents and
a copy editor for Amateur Radio Newsline, who
will be doing most of our WRTC 2018 reporting
on that program. And he's a big fan of this show
as well. But since he's asleep right now, he
sent in his question. in a recording. So Tim,
here is Ed's question for you. Hi Neil, hi Tim,
this is Ed, DD5LP. I would have called in but
it's 3am here where I am in DL land. It's great
to hear that yet again Contest University will
be a very important part of many a Ham's visit
to the Dayton area and I would like to thank
you for the many years that you have been involved
with running the event. For those who don't know
what the contesting part of our great hobby is
all about, the University not only teaches what
it is but also how to operate in contests. By
that I'm referring to the DX code of conduct
that I know you and experienced contesters operate
by. Can you give a quick run through of the code
for the listeners please as I feel it would benefit
amateur operators in general. With a contest
almost every weekend of the year now other operators
such as those taking part in SOTA or WWFF or
other portable activities using QRP and simple
antennas have their enjoyment stomped on by bad
contest and DX operators who don't follow the
DX code of conduct. Do not listen to see if a
frequency is clear or worse still operating of
the band that are not supposed to host contest
stations. Just to show I'm not anti -contest,
just bad operators, let me put a plug in here
for the World Cup of Amateur Radio, the World
Radio Team Sport Championships, which I know
you'll be taking part in in July this year in
Germany. For details of how amateurs around the
world can take part in that through several award
schemes, please go to wrtc2018 .de. With that
plug over, back to Tim. Alright Tim, it's all
yours. All right, so do we want to answer Ed's
question first? Yeah, okay. All right. Let's
do that. You know, Ed, that's a great question.
And I think that it is very important that all
radio amateurs, not just contesters and DXers,
be very aware of the Contesting Code of Ethics
and the DX Code of Conduct. They're a little
different, but they're both focused on achieving
the same goal, and that is making sure that we
try to do the best job possible of utilizing
the frequency spectrum that we've been given
and get along. One of the things that's in the
Contesting Code of Ethics, and by the way, the
Contesting Code of Ethics is available on the
Worldwide Radio Operators Foundation website,
which is wwwrof .org. And it's also available
on the Contest University website under the files
tab. And you'll see the contest code of ethics
under additional files and contest terminology
2018, which is a great resource of what the heck
are we talking about on some of these abbreviations
like SO2R, et cetera. But on the contest and
code of ethics, one of the things is that Number
five says I will adhere the DX code of conduct
in my operating style so that immediately You
know goes to the DX code of conduct and you can
get the DX code of conduct on DX dash code dot
o RG and In there it talks about I'll never interfere
with a DX station I will wait for the DX station
and the contact before I call I will call and
then listen I will not interfere. So and most
most importantly, the last thing in the DX code
of conduct did is that I will respect my fellow
hands and conduct myself so as to earn their
respect. So and that's what it's all about. You
know, I understand the QRP issues. I understand.
Nets that have occurred on the same frequency
every week at the same time. And here come these
contesters. And frequently, if you just ask in
a very courteous form, hey, would you mind moving?
Most of them will move. And that comes back to
Contest University, where the first thing we
talk about is ethics and ethical operating and
contesting. it goes to everybody it is it is
a almost an hour -long discussion about that
very topic so we take it serious I think we're
making a difference it's never going to be perfect
for everybody but all we got to do is just try
to get along Neil all right thank you very much
and a good answer there so thanks Ed for the
long -distance question there and Hope you're
getting some good sleep right now. So you can
listen to this in the morning. Well, we do have
a couple of tweets that have come in, and one
of them is from a young ham that you actually
introduced me to. It's Bryant, KG5HVO, and he
says, Mr. Duffy, do you have a favorite CTU professor?
Someone not to miss regardless of topic. Wow,
you know that is a that is a really tough question.
I I can't think of a favorite I think that I
have worked very hard to select CTU professors
every year that are at the top of their game.
They are the best of the best. They also can
present well and that they also take every question
that is asked of them, no matter how basic it
is to heart and really, really try to help. And
so, you know, I wouldn't miss the problem with
CTU is no matter how hard you prepare, you cannot
see every one of the presentations because for
the majority of the day, there are four classrooms
going on at once. So it's like trying to drink
from a fire hose. And so there's just so much
information that is so good from people like
K1DG and W3LPL and W0YK and W5ZN. And the list
goes on and on. There is not a weak professor
in the whole group. All right. Very good. So
there's your answer, Brian. And thank you for
The tweet, we also have another tweet here from
our friend Dr. Scott Wright, KZeroMD, and wanted
to follow up on Ed's question. Scott says he's
noticed less and less civility by some operators,
including those running high power and stacks,
and asks, what can we do to improve and incentivize
better operator behavior? He's raised these concerns
also in the next National Contest Journal from
the editor column and might this be a topic someday
at Contest University? Well, I think we do touch
on it again in the ethics area About being a
good neighbor and being courteous and being respectful
But I think in all these cases The the most effective
way of dealing with these things is peer pressure
And it is it's it's one -on -one. It's not in
a public forum calling people out and Calling
them up and saying listen. This is just a hobby
and we have you know ethics and standards and
the whole world is listening to us and I you
know and then put in your personal belief of
I don't think what you're doing is right whether
it's running excessive power or stepping on people
or whatever the case may be, whatever the undesirable
behavior is, and just let them know. And because,
you know, trying to enact rules or trying to
do those sorts of things, the radio sport that
we enjoy, known as contesting, is largely a self
-policing deal. And so you have to have Strong
ethics and and strong background in this and
be wanting to do the right thing And wanting
to gain the respect of your peers. So to me peer
pressure is the only really Source of trying
to root this out and it's not easy you know God
knows it is not easy but I think that what Scott
is doing with the National Contest Journal, that's
one pillar. What we're doing at Contest University
is another pillar. What happens in CQ Magazine,
what happens at the ARRL, all these things combined
is what is going, you know, and setting good
examples. I can't say that enough. Setting good
examples is very important so people know how
to act. uh... brian k g five h b o uh... some
bad habits and he you know he's young and impressionable
and uh... now he thinks it's it's okay to run
uh... you know four thousand five thousand three
thousand walks you know and break the rules break
dot not only the rules of the contest but break
uh... the fcc rules he's going to do whatever
you know he's told to do so we don't want that
and that's why it's so important that We get
off on the right foot, but peer pressure to me
is really the only thing that has a hope of working,
but it's not an overnight fix and it doesn't
work all the time. Yeah. Positive peer pressure
is definitely good, uh, good tool for that. And,
um, yeah, unfortunately it does not work all
the time and we've, we've heard those. people
out there, but you try to mentor them and do
the best you can. Thanks for answering that and
thanks for the question Scott once again. So
let's open it up again for calls and tweets 812
-638 -4261 is the phone number. We have a few
minutes left here with Tim Duffy K3LR from Contest
University and of course DX Engineering. So if
you have a question or comment you'd like to
throw in here, now's the time to do that 812
-638. 4 2 6 1 so You mentioned that the the new
band is gonna be there Running by the numbers
was that is that right? It's by the numbers.
Yes by the numbers. Okay by the numbers. Okay,
so So we will have some some live music from
them and and and and can you give us any? any
more Inside information on that Right, I really
don't have it these guys, you know are working
hard I think they they're gonna practice once
in the day and once in the night and so they
might have two practices before we see them live
and that's okay because they're they're just
amateurs and And we're all gonna have a good
time regardless, but they as has been their practice
when they were the spurious emissions You never
know what you're going to get until you show
up on Friday night at 10 o 'clock. So it's going
to be exciting. I know that much and you're going
to have a good time. All right. Well, I'm looking
forward to Hamvention and trying to get everything
ready to go. And, and it's just, it's starting
to take over. trying to try to get everything
ready to to run but we're looking forward to
some more preview shows here on ham talk live
to to bring you some of these things that you
don't want to miss and and this is some of those
tonight and next week we're going to talk about
the Award winners Val that you mentioned in V9L
Val Hotsfeld will be here the amateur of the
year and Also, dr. Chip Cohen W1 YW will be here
along with Michael Coulter w8ci to talk about
the Award winners and then one of your business
associates is going to come on and talk about
shopping No, that's great. Yeah, Bob nowman w50
v who is the DX Engineering National Sales Manager.
And boy, he's got a real treat. We're going to
have a whole boatload of new products that we're
going to show at Dayton. So come by the booth.
It's going to be great. And just suck it all
in, because it is outstanding some of the new
products that we're manufacturing. Excellent,
and I've been making use of one of them here
recently, although I have to say it is under
unfortunate circumstances, but that coax stripper,
I'm telling you, has really come in handy in
the last month. Yeah, that's one of our marquee
pieces, a cornerstone. Um, every day, you know,
uh, somebody gets it and says, man, I don't know
how I have lived so long without this tool. And
so we're, we're really proud of that tool. And,
uh, we've, uh, we've been busy. Uh, we're busy
every day making some of the best amateur radio
equipment on the planet. And, uh, we're very
excited about the products that we're going to
show this year. All right, so that'll be coming
up and Bob will tell us what to look for and
shop for at Dayton and then of course the night
before we'll be on with All you need to go to
Hamvention parking information traffic weather
the the whole bit and the meteorologist chief
meteorologist from channel 7 w HIO will be here
with us to give us the weather forecast and all
kinds of stuff. So make sure you continue to
listen to the show and find out more about all
that's going on at Hamvention. And Tim, we're
out of time, but thank you so much for coming
on and talking about all this stuff again. And
best of luck with it all and hope to see you
here in about a month. All right, Neil, thanks
very much for inviting me. And I hope, uh, that
everybody gets signed up for contest university
and the dinners. And I look forward to seeing
as many of your viewers as possible at, uh, at
hamvention and also down at the crown plaza.
And let's run down those URLs just real, real
quickly. Yeah. The main URL is contest, supersweet
.com. And then you've got contest university
.com. Uh, then you. You also have topbandinner
.com and contestdinner .com. So those are the
four, but you can get to all of them by going
to contestsupersweet .com. And if you can't remember
that, just go to www .k3lr .com and right at
the bottom of my homepage is links to all that
stuff. All right. There you go. Well, thank you,
Tim. And we'll see you here soon. And that's
a wrap for this week's Ham Talk Live. Thanks
to Tim Duffy, K3LR and everyone out there in
cyberspace for listening and for tweeting in
tonight and sending us a call from Germany even.
And we invite you back next Thursday night, 9
p .m. Eastern Time when Val Hotsfeld, NV9L, Dr.
Chip Cohen, W1YW and Michael Coulter, W8CI will
be here and talk about the Hamvention Award winners.
all of our upcoming guests, just check out HamTalkLive
.com. And if you like HamTalk Live, please consider
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listen. It'll help others find us faster. So
for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7375.
Happy World Amateur Radio Day on Wednesday, and
may the good DX be yours. Thanks for watching!
73, and good luck from HamTalk Live.