N1SFE

Paul Bourque
East Hampton, CT 06424
Middlesex County
Grid Square FN31rn

This page last updated 24-March-2024

24-March-2024: All links have been verified and dead links removed. Some new links have been added to the Mapping and DX Tools section.

A Little Bit About Me: I'm currently employed as the ARRL Contest Program Manager, a position which I've held since June of 2019. I'm responsible for all aspects of the contests which ARRL sponsors, from log submission through the publication of results. It's a challenging job, but I'm very fortunate to be employed doing something that I'm passionate about.

As of October 2021, I'm also the editor of the ARRL Contest Update, which is published every other Wednesday. I'm always looking for content, so if you some across anything that you'd think that would be of interest to the amateur radio contesting community, send it along to [email protected]

I was originally licensed as a No-Code Tech in 1994- upgraded to General in 2017 and passed my Extra in 2019- N1SFE is my original call from 1994. In the 90's and early 2000's, I was very active on the VHF and UHF bands, but interest waned in the later part of the decade and I wasn't on the air much, but still made sure to renew my license.

I was bitten by the bug again in 2017, when I regained an interest in AM Broadcast DXing (which always fascinated me when I was younger) and realized that I didn't have any decent receivers. When I started searching for a good receiver, many of them were also HF transceivers, so I decided to study and upgrade to General- which I passed in Sept, 2017. Once I made my first HF contact, I was hooked, and then upgraded to Extra in June, 2018.

I'm active on most bands 40 Meters through 432 MHz. I'm not on the air from the home QTH often, as I moved recently and not yet set up any permanent antennas. I do portable operations using an Icom 7000 with a Bioenno Power 20ah battery, usually during VHF contests and VHF/UHF activity nights. Currently operating during most Major VHF/UHF contests on 6 meters through 432 MHz. UPDATE: The Icom 7000 is currently out of service. I'm hoping to get it repaired to be back on the air for the ARRL June VHF Contest. I love building antennas, and am always tweaking for the best performance (aren't we all?) I was able to get my mixed, phone and digital DXCC and WAS awards as of November, 2022. I'm amazed what "100 Watts and a Wire" will do!

I do enjoy the occasional ragchew and working DX, and love collecting paper QSL cards, as well as confirming QSO's on QRZ and Logbook of the world. I upload contacts to LOTW daily. If you send me a card, I will reply 100%! If you send a card from within the US- no need for a SASE- I will send one back. I generally upload my logs to LOTW and QRZ on a daily basis, and update Clublog a couple of times a month.

I'm occasionally active on the local FM repeaters- see the list below for the VHF/UHF repeaters that I can often be found on. I've also recently acquired DMR Mobile and Handheld radios, as well as a Pi-Star hotspot for the house. I mostly can be found on the Brandmeister CDMA talkgroup (31094), on the W1IXU repeater in Bristol, CT. I'm looking into adding the TGIF network to the Pi-Star so that I have access to that network as well from the house.

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Repeaters I normally can be found on:

CityFrequencyOffsetPLCall
Vernon*147.345
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151.4KB1AEV
Vernon*442.600
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151.4KB1AEV
Meriden*444.200
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151.4KB1AEV
East Hampton %147.135
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88.5KB1CDI
Terryville %147.315
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88.5KB1CDI
"%"= KB1CDI Donkey Dusters Repeater System
"*"= KB1AEV Linked Repeater System

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