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

Mon May 8 11:18:01 EDT 2023

Thanks for getting on. 

SSB can be a real drag for low power/low antenna situations, this is why I did 100% CW. The RBN

Network picks up your call instantaneously and spots you across the world.

Drop me a note if you need help with submitting or anything.

73, Ken – WO1N

              NEWE QSOPARTY Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2023-05-06

    CallSign Used : WO1N

      Operator(s) : WO1N

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP

             Band : ALL

            Power : LOW

             Mode : CW

Default Exchange : MIDMA

       Gridsquare : FN42IO

     ARRL Section : EMA

        Club/Team : Billerica Amateur Radio Society

         Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.9875.0

        Band     QSOs     Pts  Mul  Pt/Q

         3.5     115     230    6   2.0

           7     198     396   17   2.0

          14     110     220   26   2.0

          21      40      80    4   2.0

       Total     463     926   53   2.0

Score : 49,078

Station: FTdx5000, C3-SS at 38', 40MDi at 50', 80M-K2KQ, N1MM+ 

Soapbox : 

Wow conditions were pretty punk for the entire event. Watching crazy K

indices and long duration flares all weekend.

Crappy weather all week so I didn't get the yard work done that I

had planned. When Saturday dawned beautiful and bright I knew

I was in for a challenge to balance contesting and the other stuff.

N1MM+ says 8 hours, which is about right. One session right after

I came in from moving some heavy trash barrels of compacted,

wet leaves resulted in the fingers not going to where they are supposed

to on the keyboard. It was typo after typo, fixup after fixup. I am

a good touch typist so I'm like WTF? Eventually the fine motor skills

returned.

About 99% running. All CW. Best hour was 88 Qs. I need to figure out

what I'm not doing right in the multiplier department. 

Score attributed to my local Ham club after spending some cycles in

the prior week motivating members to get on the air and make some Qs.

All in all, not a super serious effort but fun none-the-less.

73,

Ken - WO1N

From: bars <bars-bounces at w1hh.org> On Behalf Of Tim KC1RET
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2023 8:39 AM
To: Robert Montgomery <rob.montgomery69 at outlook.com>; Jim Idelson <jim at k1ir.com>
Cc: BARS Reflector <bars at w1hh.org>
Subject: Re: [bars] New England QSO Party this weekend...

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

Hey, you kept trying and eventually had 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

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

Samsung Galaxy S23+

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From: bars  <mailto:bars-bounces at w1hh.org> <bars-bounces at w1hh.org> on behalf of Jim Idelson  <mailto:jim at k1ir.com> <jim at k1ir.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2023 11:42:06 PM
To: Tim KC1RET  <mailto:kc1ret.radio at gmail.com> <kc1ret.radio at gmail.com>
Cc: BARS Reflector  <mailto:bars at w1hh.org> <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 <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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