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

[Tim KC1RET]

“/Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of 
enthusiasm/.” —/Winston Churchill

/Hey, you kept trying and eventuallyhad some success!//  I took a few 
breaks during the day when nothing seemed to be working and then came 
back and tried a different band, or calling CQ rather than doing S&P.  
It was def. a tough slog early in the day but when 40 opened up WOOHOO!

73 - Tim KC1RET
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On 5/8/2023 7:00, Robert Montgomery wrote:
> 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>
> *Cc:* BARS Reflector <bars at w1hh.org>
> *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> 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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