NH QSO Party at W1WQM Club Station

Lots of fun this weekend.

Here are some of the high points.


N1YX and W1GEK are really funny guys but then thow in N1YI and it's even funnier. I had a blast Friday night watching W1GEK operate SSB while the "peanut gallery" commented, and gave him the business, Mike is a good guy, he takes the razzing all in stride.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ntEUt3lcRA

The above link is a piece of the action with W1GEK getting razzed by the entire group. The head of N1AA operating CW on 80M is barely viable in the corner.

The next clip is N1YI with N1YX in the background. Deuce really blew me away with all the 2M contacts. I never would have considered 2M a possibility but he made ten or more contacts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFyw3fv-jVY

N1YX is helping in the background. Igor is a very, strong all around ssb and cw contester and team player.

Quite a few people showed up on Friday night including N1AA, KB1EOF, K1QI, N1IX, N1YI, N1YX, W1GEK, N1UE, and K1QO...and I know I'm missing a few people who also came to cheer the club on!!!! I do remember it was standing room only in the little club station.

On Saturday I arrived to see KB1LXX, on the radio with Hamish at his side, (A K9DOG). It was shortly after he left that KB1EOF arrived followed by N1UE and KB1QIH. KB1QIH got on the air making his first contact with our own big gun, K1RX...and then proceeded to head down the band, find a spot to call cq and made an additional 6 more q's within about 5 minutes before he headed off to work...WOW!!!! Pretty cool for a first time contester!!

KB1OVA ended up making approximately 100 q's..he did an incredible job and even mopped up some of the more exotic USA stations including WY, ND, SD and NV. I had trouble keeping up the pace logging for him!!! Before he left to go to work his q rate was over 110 an hour!!!!!!!!!!

KA1GJU brought pizza and salad...Kriss is truly da' man...he totally "gets it"...food makes everything more fun!!!! WOW did that salad and pepperoni pizza hit the spot.

I left the club around 11:15 but it would have been nice to be able to stay later. We had one station set up for SSB and one for CW. From the log it looks like we had op's until around 2am!!!!!!!!!!!