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We're on the air every Thursday night, 9 p .m.
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And if you missed the show, we're on the archive
on the website and we're also on most popular
podcasting sites. Well, our guest this evening
is Tim Duffy, K3LR. 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, the Western
Pennsylvania ARRL section manager and 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 Team Championship four times.
And he is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State
University. And he is the 2015 Amateur of the
Year Award winner presented by the Dayton Hamvention
Awards Committee. So Tim, thanks so much for
coming back on the show and talking about Contest
University. It's great to be here, Neil. Thanks
for having me. Well, you put on such a fabulous
event each year and we didn't want to neglect
talking about that as we're all making our plans
for the new Hamvention home and trying to figure
out what what events we're going to and so Contest
University is one of those things that you just
don't want to miss and so tell us a little bit
just a brief history of Contest University and
what it's all about for those people who may
not be familiar with it. Well, you know, back
many years ago, the beginnings of Contest University
actually happened, I think, in the living rooms
of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club, where they
would get together for a weekend event of talking
about and teaching various contesting strategies.
And also, the Potomac Valley Radio Club back
several years ago had a contest seminar. where
they got together a lot of great contest experts
from that club, the PVRC, and spent a whole Saturday
educating. What I did was I said, let's take
it to the next level. Let's make it contest university,
and let's name it something very catchy like
CTU. Some people like to say it's CU, but it's
really CTU, and that's contest. And that T is
capital, Contest University. And it has links
back to the popular CT logging software that
Kenny Wolf, K1EA, did back in the late 80s and
early 90s and really revolutionized the way we
log Contest. contest logging and the contest
logging software. So started in 2007. You know,
in 2006, Neil, I was very fortunate to be nominated
and selected to be in the CQ Contest Hall of
Fame. And then my commitment to the contest fraternity
in amateur radio was let's take it to the next
level. And so in 2007, we started Contest University.
And this will be our 11th year in Dayton. Last
year was our 10 -year anniversary. And what a
great event it was. 250 students this year, 11
years of doing contest university in Dayton,
will have 300 students and professors attend
contest university. So every year it gets bigger
and bigger and bigger. And every year it's new
material. Some of the professors teach every
year, like Frank Donovan, W3LPL, has taught almost
every year at Contest University, and he brings
a wealth of knowledge about low -band contesting,
multi -up contesting, station building, team
building, and this year we're very excited to
have some new professors like Dan Zetlin, K2ZWE.
And Dan is going to be, his focus is on beginning
contesters and starting out and taking the next
step. We're also very excited to have Dr. Tammath
Asko, who is really one of the world's experts
when it comes to propagation and space weather.
And now that we're in that low part, getting
into that low part of the sunspot cycle, Neil,
it's so important to understand what's going
on. Is it an old sunspot, a new sunspot? You
know, everybody asks, when is the new cycle going
to start? When is it going to start to get better?
And I don't know that we've bottomed out yet.
That's sort of the bad news. And, uh, but it's
nice to have some science behind it. And that's
where Dr. Scove is just, she's a rock star. And
so we're really excited to have her this year.
We're gonna have a lot of special things that
are gonna go on. We have more scholarships than
we've ever had before from high school, grade
school, and college students. And we're so thankful
for our relationship with the Northern California
DX Foundation, the NCDXF, and you can look them
up on the internet, as they have funded all of
the expense that it takes for signing up to Contest
University for the students that are under the
age of 25. That, I mean, we're very, that's probably
the most exciting part this year here in 2017
is the number of young students that will be
coming to take part and share their experience
in contesting and also learn some new things.
So, you know, there's so much of this that, I
mean, last year we had the CEO of the ARRL Tom
Gallagher addressed the crowd. This year we have
a few special guests that will be addressing
all the students. Rob Sherwood, who we saved
kind of the best for last, and he's going to
give a whole new talk on some radio equipment
that has redefined how we look at transceivers.
And so a lot of people make buying decisions
based upon Rob Sherwood's guidance. And we're
so thrilled to have him come back and his wife,
Terry, travels with him from Colorado. So that's
really special. And, you know, how, how about
registration? What do you think about that, Neil?
Yeah. Now, I was a little disappointed. I told
you this, the last two years I've been able to
bring over some of the members of my high school
amateur radio club over there. And we've learned
so much from there. And I was disappointed that
it looks like this year we're not going to have
any students able to go because of other conflicts
that's going to keep them away from Dayton entirely
that weekend. But I signed up, I'm ready to go
and I'm going to go and then I'll take that information
and fill them in when I get back this year. But,
you know, NCDXF sponsoring us two years ago,
you know, got the ball started and we did it
again last year and we hope to to keep that going.
But yeah, registration. I signed up and did it.
It took maybe a minute or two at most. Went right
on through. No problem at all and got everything
in and signed up and ready to go for this year.
So how are the numbers looking so far? The numbers
are looking great, Neil. We're ahead of where
we were last year at this time, which was a record
-breaking number of folks attending. So this
year, I think we're going to top the 300 number,
which is unbelievable. The first year, I thought
we would be doing great to get 50 people to show
up. And 145 showed up. And now to have 300, I
mean, it's really, really special. The whole
website, Neil, was redone here this past year.
And we're so thankful to Scott, K -A -9 -F -O
-X, at QTH .com for all his help and his guidance
and his design of the website. And Terry, Kate
MNJ, does all of the update work and making sure
that our sponsors get listed correctly. And she
also makes sure that all the students, we get
the right t -shirt size and we get the right
certificate names. And all of the special stuff
that goes into Contest University, I would be
totally lost without Kate MNJ's help. And then
when we get to the Wednesday before, so this
is the Wednesday before Dayton, where we have
registration from 8 p .m. to 10 p .m. You know,
all the students are showing up, getting their
bags, getting their t -shirts, getting all the
materials for the class. You know, we have this
huge textbook. And if you ever wanted to get
textbooks from previous years, we have those
on sale at dxengineering .com. And you know,
it's really special. You can buy the textbook.
It's very inexpensive. And a lot of the lectures,
on video are available right off the contestuniversity
.com website. So you can go see what the talks
looked like in past years. The PowerPoint slides
are up there too. So there's a lot of resources
that even if you can't make it to contest university,
you can get the book, you can look at the videos,
you can get the PowerPoint slides, and you can
share it with your club. Um, you can share it
with your contest team and you can learn and
experience all the great ideas that come apart
about because of contest university. Yeah. It's
so great to come away with that bag full of,
of stuff. You know, you got your t -shirt in
there. You got your book in there that has all
the notes in it and a notepad to take care of
everything. sometimes coupons. We even had PL
259s last year. Tell them a little bit about
the PL 259 last year. That was interesting. Yeah,
you know, and that's, these are the things that
really can help everybody. You know, Neil, everybody
has a PL 259, right? And so that's, that's what
it's all about is finding those things that we
can help everybody with. We don't want to talk
about huge antennas and huge towers. We want
to talk about tri -banders. We want to talk about
wires. We want to talk about antenna tuners.
We want to talk about maximizing your radio,
whether it's a TS590, an IC7300, an FT897. Whatever
your radio is, helping you get the most out of
that so that you can get on the air in these
contest weekends. and make some contacts and
feel like you're progressing, and above all,
Neil, having fun. Yeah, and I was just amazed
at, okay, now you have to use this many turns
of tape, and you have to use this kind of tape,
and then you can put this sealer on there, and
there's this kind of sealer, and that kind of
sealer, and it's like, wait a minute, this is
a whole like 45 minutes on just how to... Put
a PL 259 on and it's it's fabulous And it really
matters Neil. It does You know making I've been
to so many Hams houses that are frustrated and
they say, you know, why don't I get out there?
Why do I have so much noise and Neil they didn't
go and solder the the shield, you know They just
jammed it into the back of the connector and
hope for the best. And so when you show them
how to do it right. And then it makes such a
difference. But, you know, Neil, everything that
you know and I know, we learn from somebody else.
And so that's why it's really, really important
these days when there aren't as many one -on
-one Elmers to have a contest university Elmer,
where if you can come to Dayton, great. If you
can't, you can watch the videos. You can look
at the textbook. You can read the slides. I mean,
you can get the Contest University experience,
a lot of it, for free on the internet with videos
and slides. So these little things like PL -259s
and spending a little bit extra money to get
good quality ones makes a huge difference in
every station, no matter how good your radio
is or how good your antennas are. Well, it's
all great information and so definitely check
out the videos. on contestuniversity .com and
the textbooks available at dxengineering .com.
So run down for us real quick how somebody can
sign up, how we can do the registration, and
what that entails for this year. And then we're
going to talk about a couple of other things
real quick before we go to break. So it's real
simple, Neil, and it's just go to even if you
just Google Contest University, the first thing
that comes up is contestuniversity .com and that
is the website. You go there and you click on
registration. It asks you your name and address
and your t -shirt size and all the particulars.
It sends you to a credit card or PayPal engine
and boom, you're done. And then you show up.
Preferably on Wednesday night, but some some
guys don't arrive till very early on Thursday
morning and You show your PayPal receipt your
credit card receipt and Terry Kate M &J and the
rest of the contest University staff is there
to greet you get you fixed up with that bag you
just talked about your t -shirt and You get a
little bit of breakfast and then you hold on
to your chair Because you know it starts fast
at eight o 'clock in the morning And it goes
nonstop until five o 'clock in the afternoon.
And it's the quickest nine hours that you will
ever go through because, you know, there are
over 20 different presentations that go on in
four classrooms. It is an amazing day and a great
way to start your Hamvention experience. All
right, so that's contest university calm and
you can go there and sign up and There's even
a discount if you have made a presentation to
your club you want to talk about that Yes, you
know, I'm I am all about giving back and I want
to encourage folks that give presentations or
write articles for newsletters or write articles
for the National Contest Journal. So we have
a $10 discount. If you've given a talk or will
give a talk before Contest University 2017 to
your local club on anything about amateur radio,
you give a talk, you write an article, we're
gonna give you $10 off. So it makes it $75. It's
a great value. You get breakfast, you get lunch,
you get... Cookies you get coffee get a super
textbook. Don't bag the t -shirt It's an incredible
deal, and I want to thank also Yasme For their
participation they've sponsored the audio visual
equipment at Contest University so without Yasme
and the Northern California DX Foundation We
wouldn't be able to deliver such a quality product
at at these low prices, but it's a breakeven
deal And thanks to Yasme and NCDXF and also the
American Radio Relay League for helping out with
all the things that they do. And, you know, Neil,
without ICOM America and DX Engineering, you
know, helping with the t -shirts, the instructor
shirts, all the things that it takes to make
this thing go. It's just a fabulous... way of
giving back from ICOM, DX Engineering, NCDXF,
CQ Magazine has been there since the start, but
without Ray Novak, N9JA, we wouldn't be doing
this. Well, thanks to all those involved in this,
and Terri's just, she's on top of everything.
just a great crew all the way around. So check
that out at contestuniversity .com and get signed
up for that while there's still some space available
for Dayton this year. Well, we need to take a
break soon, but I don't want to neglect a couple
of other things that you've got going on during
Hamvention. We've already talked about Dr. Scove
being at Contest University. She's also going
to be at the antenna forum that you're directing.
And then also, Scott, K9FOX, also redesigned
the Contest SuperSuite website recently and all
the information is up there on that. So give
us a quick, just one or two minute rundown on
those. that the place to go if you really want
to have fun in the evening hours and during the
day on thursday is to go to contest supersweet
that's all one word contest supersweet dot com
and there you will find the schedule of events
that starts on wednesday night uh... with this
uh... you know the c t u registration goes Thursday
night, Friday night, Saturday night, and contestsupersweet
.com outlines where to go, what time things are
gonna happen, when the pizza's gonna show up,
when the Spurious Emissions Band's gonna play,
and there is a tab on that website called Contesting
Related Events, and if you go there, it tells
you hour by hour the things that are really...
targeted towards contesters and you know who
is sponsoring what what's happening during the
day at a convention for instance uh... friday
daytime tells you about the antenna forum friday
night it tells you about the top and dinner tells
you about the spurious emissions ban and then
the pizza party that happens after that you know
neil will go through a hundred and twenty pizzas
this year at at the date and crown plaza over
a lot of pizza and uh... this is great because
we're we're meeting new friends we got a lot
of old friends but uh... it's all about having
a great time with the best hobby in the world
amateur radio and then on saturday the ready
contest form is explained All the titles are
up there now for that, as well as the contest
forum is there. And then Saturday evening, Neil,
is really the epitome of what this is all about,
because it's the contest dinner. And we're celebrating
our 25th anniversary of having the contest dinner
at the Crowne Plaza in Dayton. And this started
out... with about 170 people attending back in
1992. And now this year we'll have over 500 people
attend the contest dinner. It is the largest
gathering in the evenings of dinners, of any
dinner that goes on at Dayton. And the 2017 inductees
into the CQ Contest Hall of Fame will be given.
We'll have a great program. and lots of great
door prizes. So it is an evening to be remembered.
Many contest clubs sign up. They buy a whole
table. We recognize them. Clubs are the backbone
of what we're doing in this hobby. So it is a
very, very special event. And so, Neil, I hope
you can not only participate in Contest University,
but come down and spend some time in the evening
at the Crowne Plaza. and and have fun at the
super street yeah and we're looking forward here
in two weeks we've got the spurious emissions
band on in fact we we recorded part of that as
they were rehearsing, so we're really looking
forward to doing a show just on them, so that's
coming up here in two weeks. So right now I need
to take a break, but we'll be back and give you
a chance to call and ask some questions with
Tim Duffy, K3LR, right after this word. You're
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Now, here's more HamTalk Live. All right. Well,
be sure to listen to HamTalk Live every Thursday
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tonight we have an added bonus to the call in
segment. We're going to give away a DX 80 off
center fed dipole from radio waves. Compliments
of Emmett over at Radio Wave. So this week we're
going to take the best call of the night. So
to register for the contest all you have to do
is call in, identify yourself and ask your question
and after the show our crack staff will be picking
which call they thought was the best and we'll
announce it on next week's show. So it's time
for your calls now if you have a question for
Tim K3LR. The number to call is 812 -NET -HAM
-1, 812 -638 -4261, or you can Skype us. The
Skype name is HamTalk Live. You can also tweet
us at HamTalk Live as well. And we want to take
your calls, so we'll open up the lines right
now for that. So give us a call. And I know you've
all in your Emails this week. You also mentioned
about the six meter barbecue that DX engineering
and flex radio are teaming up to sponsor Go ahead
and mention a little bit about that because that's
going to keep that event going Yes, you know,
this is a great event that Many of the serious
VHF UHF crowd are very familiar Started by Dick
Hansen and Jimmy Trey big down in Austin, Texas,
the six meter barbecue. And we're gonna hold
it at the end of September. You know, Jimmy and
Dick decided that this year they didn't wanna
have it at their home, so we're gonna have it
at a nice hotel. And we're just in the final
stages of negotiating all the food rates and
the hotel rates and all the things that it takes
to do this. But rest assured, We're going to
have tremendous presentations all day on Saturday.
I believe it's September 29th, all day on Saturday.
Great presentations, just like you used to have
with Dick and Jimmy's place on VHF, UHF topics.
uh... you know six meter optimization what's
the latest antenna systems what are the trick
transverse all the things that make u h f e h
f really special and we're going to make it very
affordable but you gotta get to austin texas
to do this any you watch the website is just
being constructed we want to get the word out
there neil so that they were there would be a
save the date uh... so guys would know this isn't
going to just you know, fade away. The six meter
barbecue is alive and well. Flex Radio and DX
Engineering got together and said, let's go host
it. Let's make sure everybody can get together
and have some fun. Watch the website. It's six,
S -I -X, meter barbecue. So six meter bbq .com.
S -I -X, M -E -T -E -R, bbq .com. Sixmeterbarbecue
.com is where you're going to find the latest
information. Look for the website here in the
next few weeks and it's going to be really special
and a great time down in Austin Texas the end
of September. All right another great event and
thanks to Flex Radio and DX Engineering for sponsoring
that and we'll be talking about that a little
bit later on in the year. And it looks like we
have a caller right now, so let's take a call.
Who is this? My name is Marty Salloway, KC1CWF.
There he is. It's Marty Chicken with fries. What's
up, Marty? So first, let me vouch on the quality
of that pizza. The super sweet pizza is not the
cheap stuff. They have the real deal. And my
question to Tim is... What you touch on the six
meter barbecue a little bit, but I'd love to
hear more about kind of the content of the presentations
that go on there. Well, you know, Marty, we're
just putting those together right now. You know,
a lot like what I do getting content for Contest
University, which I think has been pretty successful
for the past 11 years. I'm going to do the same
things as we're putting together the VHF, UHF,
six meter barbecue. So stay tuned. We don't have
it all done. It's not all in the can. We gotta
get through Dayton first. And we're really looking
forward to seeing you at Dayton. And I know you're
one of our star scholarship guys coming in. And
we're proud of you. Glad you won the rookie trophy.
And really excited. about all the things you're
doing to give back to our contesting sport, and
congrats on the extra. You're sweet, Tim. I appreciate
it. Well, aren't you sweet, Dinda? I'm really
excited for Red Dayton, and we really appreciate
all that you're doing at ICOM and DX Engineering
and the whole rest of the game for all the festivities
at Dayton. Great job. Keep it up. Thanks, Marty.
All right. Thanks for calling in, Marty. Appreciate
it. 812 net ham one is the phone number to talk
to Tim Duffy k3l are the director of contest
University and You can also Skype us at ham talk
live and again We'll be giving away that antenna
for the best call of the night So all you have
to do is give us a call and chime in here about
Contest University or any of the related activities
Now, I know that last year when you were on the
show, we talked a little bit about Contest University
being emulated, duplicated in some other countries.
Can you give us a little bit of an update on
what's going on there? Well, actually, I have
been working with many other Contest University
staffs, Neil, in other countries. We just finished
another contest university in Italy, and just
outside of Monte Cari, and I've actually been
over there twice and been a professor at CTU
Italy. They have so much demand for contest university
in Italy. We have two of them a year in Italy,
so it has really taken off. I will be participating
in the Contest University in Germany this July
at the Friedrichshafen ham radio, ham fest, and
also I will fly to England and be a part of the
Contest University United Kingdom. But we've
had them in Russia, in Australia, in Brazil,
in Finland. And I also here had two of them down
in Puerto Rico pretty recently. So, you know,
the whole contest university theme is caught
on. We use the basis of the contesting ethics,
contestors code of ethics is our premise, which
is basically do the right thing and be a good
sport. and enjoy the hobby and most of all, Neil,
give back. Help others be an Elmer, be a good
Elmer, help the hobby grow and share the frequencies
and enjoy the ride. Sounds like some great stuff
and I'm glad that it's been able to spread throughout
the world and And get all this information, because
like you said, you know, everything we've learned,
we've learned from somebody else. And so now
that you're putting all of this together in a
nice neat little package and a fun -filled day,
and now spreading that internationally is just
fabulous. And again, thank you for... for all
of your efforts in getting all of this and all
the support from all those involved, including
your employer, DX Engineering. And we're just
so grateful for everything that you do. 812 Net
Ham 1 is the number. We're just about out of
time here. But if you want to call and ask a
question or offer a comment, please do that.
812 Net Ham 1 is the number and you can still
get into the giveaway if you want to do that.
Since I don't see anything here, let's talk just
briefly again. Oh, we do have a call, so hold
on just a second and we will take this call.
Who is this? Hello? Hello, are you there? Hello,
Neil? Yes! Hello? Yes, go ahead, who's this?
Yep, I hear you, who's this? Well, we must be
having Skype difficulties. because i heard him
there but uh that didn't that didn't work so
well sorry uh we missed out on your call but
uh please try to uh to give us a call again well
Tim, I think that's going to wrap things up for
tonight. But thanks again for coming on the show
again and telling us all about Contest University
and all these great things. And I look forward
to seeing you here in just a few weeks. That
sounds great, Neil. Thanks very much for your
kind invitation and for having me on the show
tonight. It's always special to talk to you.
And thanks for your support of everything that
we're doing. with Contest University and a lot
of the events at Dayton and amateur radio in
general. You're giving back in a big way and
I think that is fabulous. So thanks again, Neil.
Well, you're very welcome and thank you for all
your support in doing that and helping out with
our group at school. It's been a big help and
so we really, really appreciate that. Well, that
is a wrap for this week's HamTalk Live. Thanks
to Tim Duffy, K3LR, and everyone out there in
cyberspace for listening and calling in. We'll
invite you all back next Thursday night at 9
p .m. Eastern Time when Carol Perry, WB2MGP,
will be here to talk about the Dayton Hamvention
Youth Forum and Instructor's Forum. And for a
list of all of our upcoming guests, visit HamTalk
Live. So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG,
saying 7 -3, 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours.