Just a reminder as you make your NEQP 2012 preps (10 days left & counting down!) that some great contest tips and advice from last year’s “1 Million or bust!” effort exists right here on this club website. Just click on the “Index to Posts” icon, then the letter “N” and you’ll find some very helpful info, under titles beginning with “NEQP…”, provided by John W1XX and Ken K3IU, such as:
NEQP Strategy – How to Maximize Your Score
NEQP: Utilizing the other Contests
NEQP: Phone vs. CW
and…NEQP: New England Mobiles
Additional contributors for *this* year are always welcome!
A significant change for this year is that the Italian ARI International Contest has changed its endtime to 1200Z on 6 May and thus will *not* overlap with NEQP on Day 2 (Sunday) as NEQP restarts at 1300Z. Thus, you’ll need to capitalize on the DX mults that will be available in the ARI event (an everybody works everybody contest) on Saturday only. Last year, with 100 watts and a wire doublet at around 45 ft, I worked 45 plus ARI contest participants adding many unique DX mults to the log. We are worth 10 pts to Italian stations and 3 pts to non-North American ARI ops so they’ll be happy to have us in their logs!
ARI Contesters will need a serial number exchange from you…just send them a sequential serial # starting with 001 as well as your NEQP exch too (which they won’t care about but should still be sent). I kept a prepared “tick” sheet handy (with the last sequential ARI # I provided to an ARI participant) right at the operating position and checked the next number off as I went along…low tech but it worked.
Good luck and I hope you find the past NEQP articles to be informative and helpful — happy reading. Additional comments and questions re: NEQP 2012, as members make final plans, can be posted right here.
73, Bill W1WBB
One note on DX multipliers……
You may have heard this previously or not.
Stations do not need to be in the contest to help out. A lot of easy SA multipliers are there for the taking on 10 meters during the contest. You may find them running pileups or not, just send them your exchange and tell them all you need back is signal report and ” DX”.
Go to all and hope to hear lots of CTRI this weekend.
73′
Rick KI1G/K1G