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New England QSO Party May 3rd and 4th - N1API - 04-14-2014 The New England QSO Party - NEQP is scheduled for May 3rd and 4th. Full information, times and rules available at: http://www.neqp.org/ Work the QSO Party and credit your scores the aggregate for the Meriden ARC. This is the QSO Party where the club tries to get as may of our members to operate and add their scores to the aggregate as possible to compete with other local New England Clubs and show our support for the club and section. See you there. RE: New England QSO Party May 3rd and 4th - K1PU - 04-16-2014 16-APRIL-2014 .... 2013 NEQP scores are now posted at http://www.neqp.org/2013/2013-scores-ne.html Yours truly will again be defending his CT low power crown K1PU RE: New England QSO Party May 3rd and 4th - N1API - 04-18-2014 I looked at the scores but did not see the results for the clubs. Hope that comes soon. I may try some digital in the contest this year. I see it is allowed and also 2 points a contact like CW, I think that I can get some extra contacts on the county hunter's digital frequencies. Al N1API (04-16-2014, 07:28 PM)K1PU Wrote: 16-APRIL-2014 .... RE: New England QSO Party May 3rd and 4th - N1ZN - 05-04-2014 Only worked a couple of hours Sat and Sun evenings. Had a big run on 40 meters Sat night. Band---QSOs--Pts--Mul 3.5------3-----3----0 7-----176---176---25 14-----37----37---16 Total---216---216---41 Score: 8,856 RE: New England QSO Party May 3rd and 4th - W1DMM - 05-04-2014 Besieged with problems; most antennas down, RF in shack, loose connectors, grounding probs - related to RF in shack, bad/erratic mike, etc but was on a few hours. Sat was better than Sun by far. Total Contacts = 34 Total Points = 768 Mutipliers = 16 (13 States, 2 Prov, 1 DX) Operating Period: 2014/05/03 20:25 - 2014/05/04 23:55 Total Contacts by Band and Mode: Band CW Phone Dig Total % ---- -- ----- --- ----- --- 80........5.......2.......0.......7......21 40........8.......3.......0......11......32 20........0.......7.......0.......7......21 15........1.......8.......0.......9......26 -- ----- --- ----- --- Total...14......20.......0......34.....100 Better than last year but a long way to improve. Had interesting Q with a guy from Baffin Isl, NU. Who the hell would ever live there? Todays temp -9ÂșC ~ and this is spring!! N1API NEQP Scores - N1API - 05-04-2014 Here are the results of my efforts this weekend. Comments at the end. START-OF-LOG: 3.0 LOCATION: CT CALLSIGN: N1API CLUB: Meriden ARC CONTEST: NEWE-QSO-PARTY CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED CATEGORY-BAND: ALL CATEGORY-MODE: MIXED CATEGORY-POWER: LOW CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE CLAIMED-SCORE: 19234 OPERATORS: N1API NAME: Al ADDRESS: ADDRESS-CITY: Meriden ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: ADDRESS-COUNTRY: United States CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.3.1 Results by band Band --- Mode QSOs Multi 14 ---- CW ------ 58 ---- 17 14 ---- RTTY ----- 7 ----- 1 14 ---- SSB ---- 120 ---- 28 21 ---- CW ----- 33 ------ 7 21 ---- RTTY ---- 2 ------ 1 21 ---- SSB ------ 4 ------ 3 28 ---- CW -------4 ------ 1 28 ---- USB ------2 ------ 1 Totals ----------220 ----- 59 Conditions were definitely worse than last year as you can see by the band scores. I think that participation from Non New England stations was considerable less, especially on Sunday. I did have a couple of good runs on 20 SSB Sunday and I spent much of the time "working DX" by calling the DX stations for new multipliers. If it wasn't for the 7QP stations Saturday I would be "down" maybe 50 or 60 contacts. I've suggested to Tom that the start time for the NEQP be moved back to Noon, (1600 UTC) on Saturday. There was a TON of 7 call area stations on. I worked a few before the contest that were new counties for me. I was holding my breath that they would still be around when OUR QSO party started and they would not tell me I was dupe. I spent more time twisting the dial looking for stations than anything else. 10 meters disappointed, even the 10-10 CW QSO stations were missing, 15 never really opened, and 20 was fair at best. -73- Al RE: New England QSO Party May 3rd and 4th - N1API - 05-05-2014 Tom answered me on this saying that the reason that it was 4 PM was because of "pushback" from people who go to Dearfield and want to do both events. Looks like starting times won't be changing soon. Al (05-04-2014, 11:50 PM)N1API Wrote: RE: New England QSO Party May 3rd and 4th - K1PU - 05-07-2014 Well, was not a record year for me. Since I was recovering from surgery on Thursday (yes to my detractors, I will live!), the contest stamina wasn't up to par. I also discovered that Percocet and CW where a bad combination! My apologies to those subject to reply delays and poor keying at times. Just had a small ear to brain to fingers issue while under the influence! Here is the summary .... START-OF-LOG: 3.0 LOCATION: CT CALLSIGN: K1PU CLUB: Meriden ARC CONTEST: NEWE-QSO-PARTY CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED CATEGORY-BAND: ALL CATEGORY-MODE: MIXED CATEGORY-POWER: LOW CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE CLAIMED-SCORE: 37092 OPERATORS: K1PU NAME: Mark Mokoski Band break down.... Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul 3.5 CW 20 40 2 3.5 LSB 70 70 14 7 CW 104 208 9 14 CW 89 178 24 14 USB 4 4 0 21 CW 24 48 13 21 USB 2 2 1 28 CW 6 12 3 Total Both 319 562 66 Score: 37,092 I strayed and did some SSB for a change, mostly to overcome the Percocet's effect on CW. Anyway, another NEQP over and another entry for the club. RE: New England QSO Party May 3rd and 4th - N1API - 05-08-2014 Hell you beat me. Perhaps I need some of those drugs! Al N1API (05-07-2014, 07:23 PM)K1PU Wrote: Well, was not a record year for me. |