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<font face="Verdana">“<i>Success is stumbling from failure to
failure with no loss of enthusiasm</i>.” —<em style="font-style:
italic; font-weight: normal;">Winston Churchill<br>
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</em><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hey, you kept trying and
eventually</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span
style="font-weight: normal;"> had some success!</span><em
style="font-weight: normal;"></em></font><span
style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Verdana"> 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!<br>
<br>
73 - Tim KC1RET</font><br>
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italic; font-weight: normal;"></em><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/8/2023 7:00, Robert Montgomery
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Add my name to the list of failures.</div>
<div dir="auto">I called CQ for an hour Saturday at the start and
only got two contacts. </div>
<div dir="auto">Tried again later at night and the bands were not
cooperating. </div>
<div dir="auto">Same results Sunday morning. </div>
<div dir="auto">Did finally make some progress last night on 40M.</div>
<div dir="auto">Hopefully learned many lessons for future
contests!!</div>
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<div dir="auto">KC1QKU-Rob</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt"
face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> bars
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bars-bounces@w1hh.org"><bars-bounces@w1hh.org></a> on behalf of Jim Idelson
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jim@k1ir.com"><jim@k1ir.com></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 7, 2023 11:42:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Tim KC1RET <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kc1ret.radio@gmail.com"><kc1ret.radio@gmail.com></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> BARS Reflector <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bars@w1hh.org"><bars@w1hh.org></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [bars] New England QSO Party this
weekend...</font>
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<div dir="auto">Yes Tim. Conditions were pretty punk on the high
bands today. Hope you managed to have some fun on 40m, though.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Sun, May 7, 2023, 11:36
PM Tim KC1RET <<a href="mailto:kc1ret.radio@gmail.com"
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<div><font face="Verdana">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. ;-)<br>
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I'll submit my log tomorrow.<br>
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Anyone else?<br>
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73, Tim - KC1RET<br>
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<div>On 5/3/2023 20:33, wo1n wrote:<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Hi all,</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">As I discussed in the meeting
tonight, the New England QSO Party is this weekend.
See
<a href="https://neqp.org/" target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://neqp.org/</a>
for the exact details.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">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.
</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">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!</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">All you need to remember is to
call out the “Billerica Amateur Radio Society”
(spell it out) on your entry form.
</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Post a note here after the
event to let us know you participated.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">73,</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Ken – WO1N</p>
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