The New England QSO Party will be over in just under an hour. When everything gets sorted out, please post your results here by adding a comment/reply to this posting. Hope everyone had fun in this contest.
73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
G’morning:
It was a pretty good contest weekend except for that black hole in the middle of the day on Sunday. Guess it must have been a CME landing on earth, ‘cuz for about 2 hours I heard no intelligible CW signals on any band. When I checked again at about 1:45 PM, suddenly I could hear loud Europeans on 15 and with the beam still pointing west, for about a half hour I worked nothing except DL SM SP OK OM OK. It was very interesting… one minute they were barely readable and the next they were S9+.
The Logger says I spent 9 hours in the contest and I guess that seems about right. Hope everyone had fun!
Here are my results…
Band QSOs Pts Mul 3.5 10 20 1 7 145 290 8 14 275 550 49 21 101 202 18 28 3 6 1 Total 534 1068 77 Score: 82,23673, Ken K3IU
Call: W1XX
Operator(s): K1XA, W1XX
Class: Multi-single HP
QTH: WAS RI
Op Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
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PH Qs: 1053
CQ Qs: 844
Total: 1897
Mults (states): 50
VE (prov): 9
DX: 65
Total: 124
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Score: 339,884
Club: CTRI Contest Group
Comments:
As most of you know my station is a CLASSIC single-op station with an old school operator: no assisted internet, no point-n-shoot, no “shooting fish in a barrel.” Setting up s multi-single station to take advantage of the “multiplier” position resulted in a “kluge” setup. Used my normal VHF FT-847 radio at 100 watts HF set up separately using these antennas: my Field Day 20 meter vertical dipole on a fiberglass pole mounted on the ground; 10 meter Moxon recently described at 25 feet; 18/24 duo-bander on the tower that miraculously worked on 15 meters…and a laptop monitoring the cluster…certainly not in the K1TTT multi-operator station category. And of course, paper logging! Are you serious? Yes. But it worked!
The usual run station 1000-MP and KW to the tower antennas played well…even though the N3FJP logging program (or was it the computer?) slowed down for the last 5 aggravating hours.
Result? We beat the present NEQP multi-single record of K1TTT by a fair margin. Will it hold up to this year’s scores? We’ll see.
We had fun. Hope you did too. 73!
— John, W1XX
Op time was down this year. Only on about 3 -4 hours and that was Sunday. I had better luck with EU than some stateside. Signals were way down for a while.
QRN has made operating a not fun. Finding it has been a challenge. Here’s the score
Call Used : KS1J
Last County Ran : BRIRI
Callsign(s) of Operators(s) : KS1J
Entry Class : Single Op – Low Power
BAND CW PH MULTS
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80 0 0 0
40 100 0 9
20 126 0 30
15 15 0 5
10 0 0 0
Contact Points : 482
Total Mults : 56
Claimed Score : 26992
Tried QRP with decent success — almost exclusively CW. Even worked a handful of Eu on 40m CW w/ the doublet wire ant. Worked 20 stns in ARI ‘test, many in 7QP/INQP. Saturday seems the big activity day.
W1XX worked 3 bands on CW…no luck on 20m SSB thru the pileups John! Barely made it w/ K1SD on Phone. I see Ken K3IU adopted the /1 for his call in this event (a first time??). Good scores guys! Great job to the W1AW/1 crew @ W1AN as well!! Limited op time, esp. Sunday, due to my younger son’s youth baseball commitments (apparently the poorer day for band condx). Had a few short runs on 20m & 40m CW for those with good ears. I’m guessing NEWRI was pretty scarce on Phone this year. Fun mixing it up with CQ’s and S&P Saturday with all the contests occuring simultaneously.
New England QSO Party
Call: W1WBB
Operator(s): W1WBB
Station: W1WBB
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): 7.5
Summary:
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs
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80: 32
40: 113 8
20: 84
15:
10: 1
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Total: 230 8 Mults = 49 Total Score = 22,834
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
Modest effort this weekend running QRP — mix of CQ’n and S&P. About 5.5
hrs Sat/2+ hrs Sun. Worked 14 DX mults, many of those in ARI ‘test. Best DX:
JM7OLW Suke w/ usual gud sigs for lone 10m QSO. Unable to generate any
interest CQ’n on SSB w/ my 5 watts. Good action/band condx Day 1 w/ ARI &
7QP/INQP/NEQP all going on & lots of available mults. Missed lots of W0,
W5 and VE area mults this year. Thanks to all for the Q’s — nice to work many
familiar calls.
IC-706MKIIG @ 5 watts; Hexbeam up @ 32′ 10-20m; 88′ doublet @ 45′ for 40m; OCF
dipole @ 30’ on 80m. N1MM Logger.
Nice to work many familiar calls — thanks to all for the Q’s.
73, Bill W1WBB
Call: K1SD
Operator(s): K1SD
Station: K1SD
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Rhode Island
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Location: In State/Province
Summary: Compare Scores
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs
80: 16
40: 6 159
20: 53 311
15: 5 15
10:
Total: 64 501 Mults 565 Total Score 53,836
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
K3,Ten Tec Titan
SkyHawk @ 70′, A4S @ 42′, Inverted Vs
73 James K1SD
Let’s see if this formatting is better
New England QSO Party
Call: K1SD
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Rhode Island
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs
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80: 16
40: 6 159
20: 53 311
15: 5 15
10:
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Total: 64 501 Mults = 565 Total Score = 53,836
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
K3,Ten Tec Titan
SkyHawk @ 70′, A4S @ 42′, Inverted Vs
73 James K1SD
heard W1AW/1 VERY faint – either propagation was bad or they had an antenna with great F/B pointed to EU. K6NA was calling them from his big station and not getting an answer. I forget the time of day but may have been during the black hole of which you speak! In better condx we could have worked all the New England stations even if they were pointed to EU, but this year the propagation just didn’t seem to be there.
We operated 4 contests at once, ARI, NeQP, INQP, 7QP. Could not get RTTY going for some reason using someone’s home made box so we missed out on some Q’s with ARI, 7QP and NeQP. Oddly enough we may have done better in ARI than in previous years so propagation there was ok.
Call: NX6T
Operator(s): N6KI WA2OOB N6ERD WQ6X KB7V NN6X N6EEG W2PWS NW6O
Station: NX6T
Class: M/S HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs
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80: 3 0
40: 19 9
20: 69 57
15: 35 7
10: 4 2
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Total: 130 75 Mults = 46 Total Score = 15,410
Club: San Diego Contest Club
Comments:
Propagation to New England terrible both Saturday and Sunday. We heard
W1AW/1 S9 on 10 meter band just 45 minutes before NEQP started and thought we would
hear and work many stations in New England on the 10 meter band but to our dismay
there were NO New England stations that we could hear and only made 6 QSOs
on 10 mtrs band and only 42 QSOs on 15 meter band for the entire 20 hours. 20
meters was the pretty bad all weekend that yielded the most amount of QSOs. We
managed only 38 QSOs on 40 and 3 on 80. we have NEVER seen condx in NEQP this bad
over the past 7 years. We tried lowering our antennas as we had problems in past
where our 10 mtr Yagis were too high according to HFTA calcs. We thought we
would catch up on Sunday but the 11 hours on Sunday but the wind picked up
and local power line QRN kept us from working the weak stns. 73, Dennis N6KI