Providence Radio Association, Amateur Radio Station W1OP, founded in 1919


1 -- W1OP ARRL Field Day, June 20-21, 2020 2 -- State of Rhode Island 3 -- Newport County	W1OP Kilo Award
	4 -- Beavertail State Park K-2868	5 -- Beavertail Lighthouse L1422	6 -- NA-031 Conanicut Island	7 -- RI007S Conanicut Island

W1OP Centennial Year 2019 . . . Look for W1OP/100 FN41 RI

DXCC 310 Countries ... Mixed-Band DXCC ... 5-Band DXCC ... CW DXCC ... Phone DXCC ... Digital DXCC @143 Countries
160M DXCC ... 80M DXCC... 40M DXCC ... 30M DXCC ... 20M DXCC ...17M DXCC ... 15M DXCC ... 10M DXCC
160M WAS 2x ... WAS Triple Play ... WAS Digital ... WAS FT8 ... WAS FT4 ... WAS 40M ... WAS 30M ... WAS 20M
FD 2018 3A #9 USA ... IARU NE Record Holder 2018 ... 1st --160M

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Centennial W1OP Activity
Hit milestone of 18,000 digital contacts from RI as we started to use our special event call W1OP/100 to wrap up W1OP's 100th Year.
Particiated in the CQ Worldwide DX Contest SSB.
Hit milestone of 13,000 digital contacts from RI running heavily on DX FT4.
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."
Surpassed the 1,000 confirmed countries on different bands mark to qualify for the ARRL DXCC Challenge Award
Added second remote station for 80M FT8 and FT4 using TeamViewer
Hit 10,000 Digital contacts from RI -- FT8 and FT4
ARRL confirmed 17M DXCC
Annual Delegation to the Boxoboro ARRL New England Division Convention
Started remote activation of W1OP Station and LPDA for FT8 and FT4 via TeamViewer software and JetPack.
Parks on the Air has accepted our 2019 logs for their database. This is the second year for W1OP in the POTA program with just over 5,100 total contacts from Beavertail State Park K-2868.
Competed in the World Wide Digi DX Contest using FT4/FT8. Cabrillo log filed.
Hit 7,500 Digital contacts from RI -- FT8 and FT4
W1GS, a charter signer of the 3905CC WAS net in 1977, checked into that net with priority status as a "Charter Signer." The Net is a carry over of a net used during the 1976 ARRL promotion of the the Bicentennial signing of the Declaration of Independance in 1776.
N1DM conducted a well attended 2-hour course on DMR and programming consultations.
Started FT4 operations as FN41 via WSJT-X v2.1.0.
Contest Operation for the IARU World Campionship event.
Another 3A Field Day operation on Conanicut Island
Yearly Activation of Beavertail State Park K-2868 for Parks on the Air [POTA]
MFJ-1234 RigPi Station Server arrived and scheduled to be tied into the 237B-1 by late October to allow remote access to station.
Hit Centennial mid-term target of 7,000 Digital Radio Contacts. Goal is 10,000 contacts by end of year.
Set up Weekly Operations Net via DMR on the New England Digital Emergency Communications Network (NEDECN) region-wide DMR system ... NE TAC1 Channel at Sunday, 8pm local time. Visitors Welcome. Contact N1DM.
Multi-band, multi-station simultaneous operations started on FT8
DXCC 30M confirmed ARRL, 5-Band DXCC plaque now updated.
DXCC Digital confirmed ARRL
Armed Forces Day (AFD) Crossband Test using the Call Sign NAF from Beavertail. "The Army Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) hosts the AFD Crossband Test to test two-way emergency communications between military communicators and radio stations in the Amateur Radio Service."
Annual Delegation Trip to help at NEAR-Fest, the New England Amateur Radio Festival in Deerfield, New Hampshire
Tested "multi" operations in Studio A using a combined mix of SSB and FT8 stations working simultaneously
New England QSO Party contest [ and Special Event ] using Centennial Call W1OP/100
New 130ft 80M doublet erected at 60ft with help of tennis cannon
Arrival of W1OP's 5-Band DXCC Award Plaque from ARRL with additional 160M band endorsement
European FT8 Club's FT8 DX Contest
Winter Field Day run on site by the Bishop Hendricken High School Amateur Radio Club -- W1BHX
CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest, CW
ARRL Sweepstakes -- Phone
ARRL 160-Meter Contest
IARU HF Championship
ARRL International Grid Chase activating EL96 on FT8
North America QSO Party

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Licensed Radio Amateurs in Service

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.

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!

1-LI W1OP's Call from 1926 ... Allowed CW transmission only

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Weekly Net via DMR on the New England Digital Emergency Communications Network (NEDECN) region-wide DMR system ... NE TAC1 Channel at Sunday, 8pm local time. Visitors Welcome

Why is RI so hard to work for WAS?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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W1OP Centennial Dinner
September

W1OP Centennial QSL Card
NOTE: W1OP operates from various locations throughout RI, New England and Florida. Check with Operator for actual location, and pay attention to Grid Square on Digital Modes.
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W1OP/100 Wallpaper file here

W1OP Centennial Goal --
10,000 Digital QSOs

From RI as W1OP FN41

FT-8, FT4 -- 18,200+ uploaded as of 11/17/19

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   Digital contacts from W1OP FN41 are mostly remote controlled by operators in RI and FL. The clubhouse uses a JetPack hotspot [cable not available], and TeamViewer into a IC-7300 and into the Collins 237-B1 Log Periodic Dipole Array [see below] that covers 10M through 40M.
   Whatever matching requirements are handled by the autotune in the 7300 with an average output of about 80W. 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, N3FJP, and JTAlert. Logs are LOTW and ClubLog.

From FL as W1OP EL96

FT-8 3,500+ uploaded as of 2/15/19
[EL96 program closed 2/15/19]