W1OP.com and .org
are always under construction.
ARRL News
and Features
2023 W1OP Contest+
Operations
 ARRL January VHF Contest Jan. 7
CQ 160M
WorldWide CW Jan. 27
Winter Field Day — SSB/CW/JS8Call Jan.28/29
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W1OP
2023
l 104th Anniversary
Club
Founding
l 102th Anniversary
ARRL
Affiliation
l SSB Remote RS-BA1
and
Win4Icom
l Now Active on FM
and Linear Satellites
l Five-Band RI FTx
Email Award Program
l "Work RI FTx Campaign" Continues
Total QSOs 3/5/23 - 107,000 - RI FN41
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9,398 Email Awards delivered by 2/4/22 via
N1ET Program
During Jan. 2019, W1OP
decided to jump into the new FTx World using a fiber optic internet remote
connection to its Clubhouse and Collins 237B-1 LPDA at the top of
historic Neutaconkanut Hill about 300 ft. above the Atlantic Ocean.
With over 107,000 contacts now recorded, W1OP
found many Hams have now worked us on at least FIVE DIFFERENT BANDS (in some
cases as many as Eleven different bands). W1OP started 2022 sending out via
email our Five Gold Star, "Worked W1OP FN41 RI FTx Five-Band Award".
We appreciate your help that leads to us
getting awards, as well as your participation in our special events, and
helping us build our contest scores. This enables W1OP to give back to our
worldwide Ham community by providing RI to those seeking "Worked All States"
Awards.
If you want to see how many times you
actually have worked us on the different bands, you can access that information
on ClubLog available below. If you have any questions on our QSOs, we can
provide our contact records for your station. Thanks for being a Friend of W1OP
FN41 RI. W1OPawards@gmail.com
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multiple computers and a large database, we combine worked FTx files and load
them to LoTW and Club Log on a weekly schedule, more or less. Check to see how
many bands you have worked us on. If you would like an email copy of your
detailed contact info contact NE1Y@W1OP.com.
We log on receipt of signal reports. |
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[Click on
image to see W1OP's 100th Anniversary ARRL Plaque recently presented at the
Clubhouse.]
Press
Coverage Article
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2022 W1OP Contest+
Operations
ARRL RTTY Roundup
— Jan.8/9
Winter Field Day — Jan.29/30
CQ World
Wide 160M CW contest — Jan. 30
ARRL
International DX Contest (CW) — Feb. 19-20
ARRL
International DX Contest (SSB ) — Mar. 4-5
Spring
6M Sprint — May 14
ARRL
International Digital Contest — June 4-5
ARRL
Field Day -- June 25-26 3A at K-2868 #1 RI
ARRL
Field Day -- June 25-26 W1C 3E at HQ, #5 USA
ARRL
Sweepstakes SSB -- Nov 5-9
ARRL Sweepstakes CW -- Nov 19-20
ARRL 160
CW -- Dec 4
FT Roundup -- Dec 5-6 19-20
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W1OP
2022
l 103rd Anniversary
Club
Founding
l 101th Anniversary
ARRL
Affiliation
l Five-Band RI FTx
Email Award
Program
l Armed Forces Day
Crossband Test,
using
callsign NAF,
Newport Naval Radio Station Museum at Ft.
Burnside
l "Work
RI FTx Campaign" Continues
Total 12/25/2022 - 103,000
- RI FN41
Total 7/4/2022 - 1000 W1C - RI FN41
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2021 ARRL+ W1OP Contest
Participation: ARRL RTTY Roundup — Jan.2/3
ARRL DX
CW Contest — Feb. 20-21
ARRL DX SSB Contest — Mar. 6-7
NEQSO
Part — May 1-2
ARRLField Day — June 26-27
ARRL160M
CW Contest — Dec. 3-5
FT Roundup — Dec. 4-5
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W1OP 2021
l 100th Anniversary
ARRL Affiliation
l W1OP/100
l 2021
Year in Review
Work W1OP FTx
Contacts Campaign Continues
12/29/2021 - 74,000 - RI
FN41
3/15/2021 - 4,400 - FL EL96
W1OP/P
WAS Mixed, Digital, FT8 |
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Why is RI so hard to work
for Worked All States?
[image:
Wikipedia]
[RI is less than a third of FN41]
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W1OP 2020
l"Work RI FTx"
Campaign 
From W1OP FN41 RI
From W1OP/100 FN41 RI
52,000+ RI
Contacts*
uploaded to LOTW as of 12/21/2020, 1716+ grid
squares
[6M, 10M, 12M, 15M, 17M, 20M, 30M, 40M, 60M, 80M, 160M]
FTx
operations launched 1/21/2019 from RI
Average FTx contacts 500/wk since
1/21/2019 |
| * 2020 GOAL 40,000 |
| * 2020 WW DIGI Contest * 2020 ARRL Field Day * 2020 ARRL June VHF Contest |
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W1OP 2019
Centennial
Activity |
ARRL confirms that W1OP was First in RI, 2nd in New England and 27th in
the USA Multi Op for the 160M CW Contest Dec. 7-8 2019
rttycontesting.com confirms that W1OP was First in RI, and 23rd Single Op
in the USA for the FT Roundup held on Dec. 7-8 2019
CQ
Magazine confirms W1OP was First in RI, and Second in New England for the start
of the Centennial Year's World Wide 160M DX Contest.
ARRL 160 CW contest 568 QSOs, 23 countries, 118,910 score operating in
Studio B while the FT Roundup contest was operating simultaneously in Studio
A.
First REMOTE control contest completed -- FT Roundup with 400 contacts,
45 countries. Station control was in Naples, FL using the Verizon Fios cable
connection.
W1OP has broken its QSO by year record for the
last century with 26,000+ QSOs, all modes, logged into LOTW this year.
Competed
in ARRL November Sweepstakes.
Multi Op, single xmit.
Particiated in the CQ Worldwide DX Contest SSB.
Scored 2nd in W1-land in the World Wide
Digi DX Contest. Ranked #80 out of 660 submitted scores world wide.
Qualified for ARRL's Worked All States Awards for Digital, FT4 and FT8
categories.
Held Centennial Banquet at the RI Yacht Club with
members attending from around the county. Keynote speaker was
W3LPL [originally W1OP's
12-year old KN1LPL] who used to walk to the club after school to work DX just
60 years ago.
Received a State of Rhode Island Citation from the RI House
of Representatives "congratulating W1OP on its 100th Anniversary of providing
emergency communications on a local, national and global scale to assist the
state in maintaining strong communications during national
emergencies."
Added second remote station for 80/160M FT8 and FT4
ARRL confirmed 17M DXCC
Started remote activation of W1OP Station and
LPDA for FT8 and FT4. |
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| Licensed Radio Amateurs in Service
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 SATERN
is the official emergency communications service of The Salvation Army SATERN,
a group of licensed Amateur Radio Operators providing emergency communications
support for Salvation Army operations in local,
 regional, and international
disaster and emergency situations.
Connected to the
Red
Cross Safe and Well Program. |
 The Amateur Radio
Emergency Service (ARES) consists of licensed Amateur Radio Operators
who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment, with their
local ARES leadership, for communications duty in the public service when
disaster strikes. |
 The "Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service,"
RACES is a protocol created by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications
Commission. RACES volunteer operators are licensed Amateur Radio Operators
certified by a civil defense agency to be able to communicate on Amateur Radio
frequencies during drills, exercises and emergencies. They are activated by
local, county and state jurisdictions and are the only Amateur Radio operators
authorized to transmit during declared emergencies when the President of the
United States specifically invokes the War Powers Act. |
The Hurricane Watch Net is a group of licensed
Amateur Radio Operators, trained and organized to provide essential weather
related communications support to the National Hurricane Center during times of
Hurricane emergencies. |
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1935 through
1955 ... the Providence Radio Association used the W1INM call sign. In 1976 we
used AC1OP. |
In 1934 the PRA moved
to 3 Valley Street in Olneyville where it was first licensed as W1INM. This
address had previously been a broadcast station complete with two 80 foot
towers. This is it! |
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| 1-LI W1OP's Call from 1926 ... Allowed CW transmission
only |
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Providence Radio Association
Interested in our membership program?
Contest
operators always welcome
Contact: President@W1OP.com
New
England Digital Emergency Communications Network
(NEDECN)
Including direct access to
SKYWARN Amateur Radio
Network
K1DS
explains Earth-Moon-Earth [EME] amateur comunications in
this recent presentation at W1OP.
W1OP on PBS
K1DT, David Tessitore, President of the Providence Radio
Association, speaks with Llewellyn King, host of White House Chronicle, about
the history of Amateur Radio and its impact on
telecommunications.
[click on image for video
https://vimeo.com/647568809]
W1OP Newsletters
The Old Professor, Dec.
2022
with special feature articles:
Looking
back to Princess Elettra Marconi's
Visit to W1OP
( by Paul
DePetrillo, W1PRA )
Audio vs Brain Fundamentals
(
by Jim Meltzer K1TNX)
Introduction to Test
Equipment
( by Dom Mallozzi, N1DM)
Major
Improvements at W1OP
The Old
Professor, September 2022
The Old
Professor, June 2022
The Old
Professor, March 2021
The Old
Professor, December 2021
The Old
Professor, September 2021
The Old
Professor, June 2021
PRAfoundation.ORG
Under
Construction
President@W1OP.org
501(c)(3)
ARRL New England Division Newletter
Serving
ARRL members
who reside in the New England
sections.
W1OP/r 223.98 MHz
 W1OP YouTube
Videos
W1OP Log
in
Member Access
to Remote Stations and
Servers
now includes SSB and FTx — 2022 |
W1OP's 2021 DMR
Repeater
on the New England
Digital Emergency Communications Network (NEDECN) region-wide DMR system ...click here for detailed
information |
W1OP's Weekly DMR Net on the New England Digital Emergency
Communications Network (NEDECN)
region-wide DMR system ... NE TAC1 Channel at Sunday, 8pm local time. Visitors
Welcome, N1DM net control.
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N1DM's Introduction to DMR — Alico/Anytone
Programming Originally set up as a
Slide Show,
this
presentation outlines DMR: Programming Notes for Anytone and Alinco
Radios.
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N1DM's
Introduction to FT4/FT8 Originally set
up as a Slide Show,
this
presentation outlines a basic guide to getting on the air in FT mode. W1OP
currently uses FT4 and FT8 to provide RI contacts to amateurs all over the
world who are looking to get their Worked All States Awards.
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An annotated history
chapter
in the History of RI Radio
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[Click on map to see GRID MAP PAGE]
W1OP's FT4, FT8 JS8Call
Operations
Digital contacts from W1OP FN41 RI are
mostly remote controlled by operators in RI, MA, NH, TX, and FL. The station
uses AnyDesk remote control of three IC-7300's tied into either the Collins
237-B1 Log Periodic Dipole Array [see below] that covers 10M through 40M, an
80M Doublet, or a 73ft end fed vertical using a Icom AH-4 that covers 6M
through 80M. During the winter a 160M antenna is also available. A Verizon FIOS
optical cable provides internet connection.
Whatever
matching requirements needed with the LPDA are handled by the autotune in the
7300 with an average output of about 80+W. Most of the time the LPDA is
oriented toward the Mediterranean as we are located on a hill favoring the
Atlantic Ocean. Our logs reflect a very high percentage of DX because of this.
It takes about 10 minutes to turn that 3,000 lb. beam
stateside. Our software is the standard package of WSJT v2.6.1 and N3FJP
v7.0.7. Logs are loaded to LOTW and ClubLog. |
Another Centennial Year activity was particpating in the
Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test using Call Sign "NAF" (with assigned
Military Frequencies) representing the original Navy NAVRADSTA (T) site in
Jamestown, RI. NAF operated on Military Frequencies and made contacts with
amateur radio operators on ham frequencies --"Crossband". The Army Military
Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) hosts the test.
Bishop Hendricken High School Amateur Radio Club —
W1BHX does Winter Field Day at W1OP as part of three-event Jan. Centennial
Weekend: 1 — Set Up of Ft8 FN41 Station, 2 — Winter Field Day, 3
- CQ WW 160M CW Contest.
In
1957, When other radio clubs were spending time working with resistors, tubes,
coils, and capacitors, members of W1OP were digging, sawing, lugging and
hammering their new Clubhouse together.
Lookups 36,000 12/31/2018
Lookups 80,000 9/9/2020
Lookups 117,000 3/1/2022
W1OP/100 Lookups 8,000 3/1/2022
HQ -- Grid: FN41gt in RI
Beavertail State Park-- Grid: FN41hk in
RI
 W1OP
Annotated History
1919 -- 2016
W1OP
History Early Press
W1OP's First License '1LI'
signed by
Herbert Hoover after WW1 in 1926
Note to W1OP from Pres. Clinton
1997
75th
Anniversary Report 1997
ARRL Certificate of Affliation
1923
 W1OP Photos
Starting
2/22/2022
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W1OP.com
Info@
W1OP.com
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W1OP.com
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Radio Assoc., Inc., 1 Ludlow St., [GPS: 30 Ludlow] Johnston, RI
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