Signal to Noise - KQ2RP

Not a big fan of phone contests, but I jumped in for a few this past weekend to pad the QRP logbook.  Some of my contacts:  P33W, PW7T, KP2TM, D4A, 8P5A, TO5K, PJ4Z, CR6K, VC7R, CQ3L, RL3A, YT7Z, EI100T

My current confirm percentages for digi-QSL services eQSL and Logbook of the World:

eQSL 26%

LOTW 38%

2012 North Jersey Hamfest sponsored by

The Splitrock Amateur Radio Association

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Roxbury Senior Center

72 Eyland Ave
Succasuna, NJ 07876

Gates open for Vendors at 6:00 AM and  Buyers: 8:00 AM

Talk-In:

K2RF/R
146.985 out
146.385 in
PL 131.8

For more information go to: http://www.splitrockara.org
 click Hamfest in menu

or download flyer:

2012 North Jersey Hamfest Flyer
<http://www.splitrockara.org/hamfest/Hamfest%20Flyer%202012.pdf>

NAQCC sprint tonight:

Wednesday March 21 from 8:30 to 10:30 PM EDT (Thursday March 22 from 0030Z
to 0230Z) - Note the change in Z time due to Daylight Savings time. Your
local time stays the same.

If you’ve been hesitant to join in our sprints because you hear other
sprints running at breakneck speeds, have no fear. Our sprints are geared to
the newcomer to CW and/or contesting. Virtually everyone including the many
veteran contesters who regularly enter our sprints will slow down to YOUR
speed to help you make your contacts

In part due to that, we believe our NAQCC monthly sprints have become the
most successful 2-hour sprints in ham radio today. You can help us to
continue our growth, and help to promote CW and QRP as well. Just get in the
sprint, make QSO’s, and send in a report via our autologger. That’s all
there is to it. We regularly get 150-200 participants in each sprint, of
whom 100-120 will submit logs for cross-checking. Our record is 135 logs in
August 2010. Our sprints make a powerful statement about the popularity of
CW and QRP to the ham radio world.

General Sprint Rules that apply to all our sprints are at:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_rules.html

Rules specific to this month’s sprint are available via:

http://naqcc.info/contests.html

We hope you use the GenLog logging program for our sprints. It makes logging
very simple for you and log cross-checking simple for us. You can get the
program and instructions on how to use it via the General Sprint Rules link
above.

The latest data file (naqcc.dat) for GenLog is available in the NAQCC.zip
file here:

http://naqcc.info/naqcc.zip

There is a thorough tutorial on using GenLog that includes many screen
captures at:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_genlog_tutorial.html

After the sprint, use our Autologger to make submitting your report and log
as easy as possible:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_submit_log.html

Tips for successful sprinting can be found at:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_tips.html

Curious about how you did in each of our past sprints, want to check up on
how your ‘rivals’ did, or want to see the results of a specific sprint? You
can now do all of that at:

http://naqcc.info/contests.html

We award a maximum of 14 certificates for each sprint. One to the winner in
each of the 10 USA call areas, one to the Canadian winner, and one to the DX
winner. The 13th one goes to the first-time entrant with the highest score.
If there are any entrants in our GAIN category, the winner there gets the
14th certificate. When our NAQCC Chapters get organized, we hope to have
competition among them for a 15th certificate for the top aggregate chapter
score.

We also often award a prize of some sort donated by the club or one of our
members to the winner of a random drawing among all who participate and send
in a report.

~  John K3WWP
NAQCC VP - # 0002 FC # 1

http://naqcc.info/