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

ARRL Field Day June 28-29, 2025	Join us as we participate W1OP's 88th annual Nationwide Emergency Communications Test!	W1OP — W1C Info@W1OP.com
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W1OP FN41 - RI 150,000+ FTx QSOs 2,391+ Grid Squares 3,739+ Prefixes

ARRL: DXCC 323 Countries ... Mixed-Band DXCC ... 5-Band DXCC ... 5-Band DXCC +160M, +30M, +17M, + 12M ... DXCC Challenge [1972] ...
CW DXCC [271] ... Phone DXCC [254] ... Digital DXCC [259] ... 160M DXCC [144] ... 80M DXCC [168] ... 40M DXCC [241] ...
30M DXCC [224] ... 20M DXCC [277] ... 17M DXCC [223] ... 15M DXCC [245] ... 12M DXCC [193] ... 10M DXCC [220] ... VUCC 6M [225]

ARRL: 5-Band WAS +160M, +30M, +17M, + 12M ... Mixed WAS ... WAS Triple Play ... 160M WAS ... 80M WAS ... 40M WAS ... 30M WAS ... 20M WAS ... 15M WAS ... 12M WAS... 10M WAS ...
CW WAS ... CW 160M WAS ... CW 40M WAS ... Phone WAS ... 40M Phone WAS ... Digital WAS ... FT4 WAS ... FT8 WAS ... 80M Digital WAS ... 40M Digital WAS ...
30M Digital WAS ... 20M Digtial WAS ... 17M Digital WAS ... 15M Digital WAS ... 12M Digital WAS ... 10M Digital WAS

PARKS ON THE AIR: Kilo — Beavertail State Park RI K-2868 — 30,000+ QSOs ( #1 ACTIVATOR SSB/CW/Digital ) ...
Kilo — Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge FL K-0243 ( #1 ACTIVATOR ) ... Echinacea Paradoxa Hunter (1500 Unique Reference Areas ) ...
Oasis Activator K-2868 ... Early Shift Activator 4,100 ... Late Shift Activator 4,400 ... Park-to-Park 350 ... Rover Warthog Activator ... All States Hunter Award ... Western Praire Fringed Orchid 1000 ...
Rafflesia Flower Hunter 900 ... Georgia Aster Hunter 800 ... Wiggens Acalpha Hunter 700... Texas Wild Rice Hunter 600 ...Howell's Spectacular Thelypody Hunter 500 ...
Late Shift Hunter 500 ... Worked All of St Paul Island ... DX 35 Hunter

FT8DMC: One Hundred Countries (OHCA Award) 5 BAND +12M, 17M, 30M, 60M ... Worked All Continents (WAC) 5 BAND + 12M, 17M, 30M, 60M ... One Hundred Countries Award 60M ...
Worked All Members Award 8,000 ... Worked United States Stations Award 10,000 ... Worked Europe Stations Award 10,000

FT4DMC: DX Entities (DXEA 150) ... DXEA 20M ... DXEA 40M ... Worked All States (WAS) ... Worked All Europe (WAE 60 Silver) ...
Worked All Continents (WAC) ... WAC 10M ... WAC 12M ... WAC 15M ... WAC 17M ... WAC 20M ... WAC 30M ... WAC 40M ...
Worked All Japanese Call Areas (JCA) ... Worked All Indonesia Prefixes (WAI) ... Worked All Austria counties (WAA)

2023 ARRL Field Day [3A] #3 in US at Buttonwoods Park / W1D [3E] #4 in the US at HQ Johnston ...
2023 WW Digi DX Contest single op #3 in 1st call, #27 in NA, #100 World
2022 ARRL RTTY ROUND UP #1 in RI -- #3 in US/Canada ...
2022 CQ World-Wide DX Contest SSB, #9 in North America, #3 in 1st call area ...
IARU NE Record Holder 2018 ... 1st —160M

W1OP.com and .org are always under construction.

PSKReporter scan of the LPDA on 10M headed West; and the 80M doublet tuned on 40M running East/West . . . the doublet West USA is under the Pink traces -- both working multistation. (Larger file here)
How W1OP's Collins 237B-1 LPDA Works (VU2NSB)
ARRL News and Features 2024 W1OP Contest+ Operations ARRL January VHF Contest CQ 160M WorldWide CW Contest Winter Field Day — SSB/CW/ ARRL International DX CW Contest ARRL International DX Phone Contest RSGB FT4 Activity Day ARRL International Digital Contest ARRL June VHF Contest ARRL June Field Day Operations WW Digi Contest W1OP and W1XPO/1 Operations ARRL September VHF Contest Why is RI so hard to work for Worked All States? [image: Wikipedia] [ RI is less than a third of FN41]	W1OP 2024 l 105th Anniversary Club Founding l 103th Anniversary ARRL Affiliation l SSB Remote Win4Icom l Now Active on FM and Linear Satellites l "Work RI FTx Campaign" Continues
As W1OP uses 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.

2023 W1OP Contest+ Operations
ARRL January VHF Contest Jan. 7
CQ 160M WorldWide CW Contest Jan. 27
Winter Field Day — SSB/CW/JS8Call Jan.28/29
MARS Armed Forces Day (AFD) Crossband Test
ARRL International Digital Contest, June 3/4
ARRL June VHF Contest, June 9/10
ARRL June Field Day Station 1 3A W1OP, June 24/25
ARRL June Field Day with GOTA Station W1C, June 24/25
ARRL June Field Day Station 2 3E W1D June 24/25
IARU World Wide, July 8/9
ARRL/VOTA Program as W1AW/1, July 25-Aug 1
WW Digi DX Contest as N1PRA, Sept 23/24
ARRL SSB Sweepstakes Contest , Nov. 18-20
ARRL/VOTA Program as W1AW/1, Nov 28-Dec 5
ARRL 160M CW Contest as W1AW/1, Dec 1-3
FT Roundup Contest as W1AW/1, Dec 2-3

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

     During Jan. 2019, W1OP decided to jump into the new FTx World using a fiberoptic internet remote connection to its Clubhouse and the Collins 237B-1 LPDA at the top of historic Neutaconkanut Hill about 300 ft. above the Atlantic Ocean.
     Hams have worked us on at least FIVE DIFFERENT BANDS (in some cases as many as fifteen different bands slots). W1OP started 2022 sending out via email our Five Gold Star, "Worked W1OP FN41 RI FTx Five-Band Award." In three years over 10,000 Hams qualified for this award and received it via email through a program set up by N1ET. We closed this program down when it hit 10,000.
     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.

[Click on image to see W1OP's 100th Anniversary ARRL Plaque recently presented at the Clubhouse.]
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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

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


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	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

Why Licensed Radio Amateurs?

Cape Cod ARES and SKYWARN Provide Support
in Rare Cape Cod Tornado Event

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

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

W1OP's DMR Repeater 447.725 MHz
on the New England Digital Emergency Communications Network (NEDECN) region-wide DMR system ...click here for detailed information

W1OP/r 223.98 MHz

W1OP Log in

W1OP Newsletters
The Old Professor, June 2024
A Special Edition highlighting the wide range of new and traditional Ham activities our members are into: The Club Hisory during the Armenian Earthquake, Contesting, Parks on the Air Activations, Ham Shack Hotline, DX tools, ... among others.
The Old Professor, December 2023
The Old Professor, September 2023
The Old Professor, June 2023
The Old Professor, December 2022
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

K1DS explains Earth-Moon-Earth [EME] amateur comunications in this recent presentation at W1OP.

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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 ]

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 YouTube Videos

Member Access
to Remote Stations and Servers
now includes SSB and FTx — 2022

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.

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.

An annotated history chapter
in the History of RI Radio

[Click on map to see GRID MAP PAGE]

W1OP's FT4, FT8 Operations
   Digital contacts from W1OP FN41 RI are mostly remote controlled by operators in RI, MA, NH, and FL. The station uses TeamViewer, AnyDesk, or Chrome Remote Desktop for remote control of three IC-7300's, or three Elecraft K3's, and sometimes an additional IC-706Mk2G.
   Antennas include the Collins 237-B1 Log Periodic Dipole Array[see below] that covers 10M through 40M, an 80M Doublet with a LDG AT6 Pro II tuner, a 5 element 6M beam, a 2M beam, or a 73ft end fed vertical using a Icom AH-4 that covers 6M through 80M, and a 160M inverted L antenna. A Verizon FIOS fiber cable provides internet connection.
   Whatever matching requirements needed with the LPDA are handled by the autotune in the 7300 or K3 with an average output of about 85+W. Most of the time the LPDA is oriented toward the Mediterranean as we are located on a 300ft high 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 v2.7.0 and N3FJP v7.0.10. 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.

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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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Lookups 36,000 12/31/2018
Lookups 80,000 9/9/2020
Lookups 117,000 3/1/2022
Lookups 139,000 3/23/23
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

From the ARRL's QST:
All about "Field Day"
     Every June, hams throughout North America set up temporary transmitting stations in public places to demonstrate ham radio's science, skill and service to communities and the nation. It combines public service, emergency preparedness, community outreach, and technical skills all in a single event.

     Some participants may also choose to operate from home, using the exercise to develop and practice their personal radio communications capability. Field Day has been an annual event since 1933 and remains the most popular event in ham radio.

     The main focus of Field Day is to work as many stations as possible on the 160-, 80-, 40-, 20-, 15-, and 10-meter HF bands, all bands on 50 MHz and above, and to learn to operate in abnormal situations in less-than-optimal conditions.

     A premium is placed on developing skills to meet the challenges of emergency preparedness and acquaint the general public with the capabilities of amateur radio. Many local amateur radio clubs participate in ARRL Field Day.

Boom: 63ft, Longest Element: 80ft, Shortest Element: 10ft, Weight: 3000 lb, Height at Boom: 75ft

About the Collins 237B-1
13-element LPDA [c 1960s]
[erected in 1982]

Additional Photos

Collins 237B-3 Instruction Book

Collins HF Antennas:
Selection and Applications 1961

LCF12-50J

237B Return Loss 2016 Test 1

Zaven W1IUX [SK]

Collins237Liason@ W1OP.com

2022 -- Complete Checkout and Renovation ... Relocation of DMR and 220 Repeater Antennas

Photos here and video below by N1BBM

Each Photo Below Links to YouTube Videos of Repair Work on the LPDA in 1997

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