[bars] New England QSO Party this weekend...

[Robert Montgomery]

Add my name to the list of failures.
I called CQ for an hour Saturday at the start and only got two contacts.
Tried again later at night and the bands were not cooperating.
Same results Sunday morning.
Did finally make some progress last night on 40M.
Hopefully learned many lessons for future contests!!


KC1QKU-Rob


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From: bars <bars-bounces at w1hh.org> on behalf of Jim Idelson <jim at k1ir.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2023 11:42:06 PM
To: Tim KC1RET <kc1ret.radio at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [bars] New England QSO Party this weekend...

Yes Tim. Conditions were pretty punk on the high bands today. Hope you managed to have some fun on 40m, though.

73 Jim K1IR

On Sun, May 7, 2023, 11:36 PM Tim KC1RET <kc1ret.radio at gmail.com<mailto:kc1ret.radio at gmail.com>> wrote:
Well, I did participate most of the contest hours today but the Sun had other ideas.  I heard basically nothing on 10 & 15 SSB and really struggled to get a handful of contacts on 20 & 40.  40 did open up for me late in the day and I finished with around ~110 QSOs in the log.  Pretty disappointing overall.  I think I had two good runs of 5-10 Qs in a row, that was fun. ;-)

I'll submit my log tomorrow.

Anyone else?

73, Tim - KC1RET

On 5/3/2023 20:33, wo1n wrote:

Hi all,



As I discussed in the meeting tonight, the New England QSO Party is this weekend. See https://neqp.org/ for the exact details.



It turns out there is a New England Club Competition category. The plaque is awarded to any New England club with the highest combined score.



The plaque is sponsored by the Yankee Clipper Contest Club, so they are not eligible to receive it. The CTRI club won the plaque last year with only 6 entries and around 250,000 points.



This is a really fun contest (and good practice for Field Day). You can enter SSB only, CW only or Mixed mode. You are the focus of the rest of the world, so if you get on and call CQ you will make lots of contacts!



All you need to remember is to call out the “Billerica Amateur Radio Society” (spell it out) on your entry form.



If any of you need help setting up your favorite contest logging program, send me a direct message and I will do what I can to help you.



Post a note here after the event to let us know you participated.



73,



Ken – WO1N



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