How was your experience with the North American QSO Party contest? This was my first official contest. I did it for the experience. I got 12 contacts. By no means am I going to win LOL. Just doing it for the experience. Was fun I was also able to get a Cayman Island contact. Which I was excited about. How was your experience? What was your most memorable exp?
I made a few contacts on 20m with my new Elecraft K3s and Acom 1000 amp, it was the very first time I've used the K3s in a non-digital mode. It was fun and oh my goodness, the K3s is amazing!
I only worked it for 10m SSB to garner states on my ancient semi-Homebrew 10m 3.5-watt QRP rig - got a new one - Indiana - so that brings me to only needing 10 more for W.A.S. with this neat old rig. I did work anouther 20 or so with it just for fun - got GREAT signal reports from a number who "broke their stride" when I said I was QRP and they wanted to know more about the rig... always makes it fun for me. Sadly, even though 10m stayed open almost to dark (based on 10m CW beacons being heard), everyone pretty much bailed for lower bands at 3:00 local time - so I only had a few hours of activity. Too bad all the naysayers about "there's no sunspots" would just USE the band instead of looking at the little web graphic that says the band is closed - I copied CW beacons (1 watt typically) until dark - all from the East Coast and South America. Dave W7UUU
NAQP CW (January 9): Made some Qs but couldn't put in much seat time. 15m paid off the best. Had a blast running a frequency... made lots of Qs in a short time. NAQP SSB (January 16): Made some Qs. It was slow going; lots of very slow & bad ops. I ran a frequency on 15m for a while until I milked it dry. Every time I checked, 10m was D-E-A-D. If you want to see LOTS of comments, visit 3830Scores.
I have quick question: Did you guys do it for fun or competition? I did it for fun. There is no way I can compete with top dawgs right now, LOL. I enjoyed it for the exp. get some new contacts and radio time.
For the fun of the competition of course. Competition with myself . Made about 510 (minus some dupes) contacts during NAQP CW. If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong. 73 Mike K5TRI
Yep. Only QRP (5W Max) and LP (100W Max). Rules: http://www.ncjweb.com/NAQP-Rules.pdf vy 73, Bryan WA7PRC
That only matters if you're submitting a log for individual or team competition. If you're in it just to have fun, there's no harm in submitting a checklog and playing the way you want to play.
I wasn't saying that it was a problem (both you and me read the same reflector, so you know as well there are some who feel otherwise ). 73 Mike
I missed it I had company this weekend. I turned on the radio to show her what a contest was like and it was over.
Got on for about an hour on 40m. Made some 16 contacts, just for the fun. Picked up some nice prefixes good toward WPX award though.
Looking for states. Got OK & ME. Also AL confirmed in LOTW. Happily, WAS still accepts paper cards unlike DXCC Swine.
