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Simply amazing what a wire in the sky and 900 Mw will do!!! The NAQCC holds milliwatt sprints a couple times a year. Last night was the first time I participated. I ran the K3 at 900 mW to my OCF dipole and was amazed at what happened. Above is the reverse beacon report when I called cq in the contest. The best contact I had was MS the closest was my neighbor in NH...pretty cool..my little 900mW signal really got out there..but I wasn't the only one!!!!<br />
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Take a look at the other results...wow!!!<br />
<a href="http://www.naqcc.info/sprint201306mw.html">NAQCC Results mW Contest June 2013</a><br />
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I was on the air for about an hour and a half and ended up with 15
contacts in the USA...7 on 20M, 7 on 40M and 1 on 80M...pretty cool for
under one watt. I missed several others due to not being more skilled
with zero beating the station...something I'll have to work on. <br />
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Here is my 900 mW log for the sprint (copied from my Cabrillo file):<br />
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QSO: 14061 CW 2013-06-20 0038 K1QO 559 NH 1143 N1IX 559 NH 1130 <br />
QSO: 14061 CW 2013-06-20 0042 K1QO 559 NH 1143 K4ORD 559 VA 904 <br />
QSO: 14061 CW 2013-06-20 0044 K1QO 559 NH 1143 WG8Y 559 NC 4405 <br />
QSO: 14061 CW 2013-06-20 0045 K1QO 559 NH 1143 AC8LJ 449 WV 6261 <br />
QSO: 14061 CW 2013-06-20 0046 K1QO 559 NH 1143 N5GW 559 MS 5353 <br />
QSO: 14059 CW 2013-06-20 0055 K1QO 559 NH 1143 KB4QQJ 559 NC 2086 <br />
QSO: 7040 CW 2013-06-20 0111 K1QO 559 NH 1143 KD2MX 559 NJ 1091 <br />
QSO: 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0111 K1QO 559 NH 1143 N1IX 559 NH 1130 <br />
QSO: 14060 CW 2013-06-20 0120 K1QO 559 NH 1143 K4BAI 589 GA 644 <br />
QSO: 3562 CW 2013-06-20 0130 K1QO 559 NH 1143 N1IX 559 NH 1130 <br />
QSO: 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0138 K1QO 559 NH 1143 NW2K 559 NY 5407 <br />
QSO: 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0141 K1QO 559 NH 1143 K4ORD 579 VA 904 <br />
QSO: 7044 CW 2013-06-20 0149 K1QO 559 NH 1143 VE3KI 589 ON 3945 <br />
QSO: 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0152 K1QO 559 NH 1143 KB3AAG 559 PA 1016 <br />
QSO: 7043 CW 2013-06-20 0200 K1QO 559 NH 1143 KB9ILT 559 IL 5588 <br />
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<br />Cq Cq De K1QOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867253216112430532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318687522137000114.post-2653792760808363542013-05-29T13:49:00.001-07:002013-05-29T13:53:50.803-07:00WPX, ARCI Hoot Owl Sprint and MI QRP Memorial Day Sprint<span style="font-size: large;">Thumbs up to MI QRP Club....</span><br />
<a href="http://www.qsl.net/miqrpclub/contest.html">MI QRP Club</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What a nice friendly contest!!! I will put this club's contests on my list for 4th of July, and Labor Day...nice group!!! Nice way to end Memorial Day weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ARCI Hoot Owl Sprint was a disaster for me....with the WPX going on and taking up the entire real estate spectrum of the QRP band I couldn't find anyone calling for the contest..wish there was a way qrp frequencies could be accepted and respected. I will continue to refuse to call a station who is obviously running qro in the qrp calling frequency..why can't qrp'ers have their tiny space???</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Memorial Day in New England turned out to be really bad, rain and seasonally cold so I did put in a small effort in the WPX contest. My initial plan was to do the ARCI Hoot Owl Sprint on Saturday evening and the MI QRP Memorial Day Sprint on Monday evening but with the bad weather family plans changed and I had a bit more free time than expected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Conditions were really good on Friday night for the WPX but I was really tired and just couldn't stay up...by about 9:00 I was starting to fade...wow I'm really getting to be an old fart :( When I woke up Saturday morning, I did the family thing, made bacon and eggs for hubby, called my 94 year old dad and had my usual 1 hour daily chat then took care of some household chores and made it back on the radio by early afternoon..yikes conditions had changed. (This seems to be a reoccurring lesson I fail to learn...and I'll bang it in my head again, "take advantage of conditions when they are good..that's what coffee is for").</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday the weather started to get better so I wasn't on the radio for a good part of the day and conditions seemed a lot better than Saturday, 5W into EU was working better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was really pleasantly surprised with the amount of participation in the MI QRP Memorial Day Sprint. I was only able to put in about an hour and a half but it was fun.</span>Cq Cq De K1QOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867253216112430532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318687522137000114.post-62848540738965716102013-05-22T11:59:00.001-07:002013-05-22T12:03:15.642-07:00Radio, Memorial Day Weekend, and Family Harmony<span style="font-size: large;">After doing the ARCI Spring QSO Party, then trying to support a few friends in the GA QP, FL QP and doing QRP TTF in April I promised the family I'd ease off weekends and spend more time with family so my plan is to skip WPX Memorial Day Weekend. (I kind of broke my promise when I continued to spend a lot of time in May with the New England QSO party and Day of the YL's...eeks...so I need to lighten up a bit.)</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.neqp.org/">NE QSO Party</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.qrparci.org/contests/spring-qso-party-2013">ARCI Spring QSO Party</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.zianet.com/qrp/qrpttf/2013/ttf.htm">QRP TTF</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However I do plan on the spending some time on the radio in the evening, less of an impact to family and I'll be able to keep some kind of balance and family harmony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following contests look like they should be a lot of fun this weekend:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(By the way the MI QRP info says Labor Day Sprint but K8NWD posted this to the QRP-L:)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">MI QRP Memorial Day CW Sprint--CW, from May 27, 2300Z to May 28, 0300Z. Bands
<br />(MHz): 1.8-28. Exchange: RST, S/P/C, MI QRP number or power. Logs due: 30
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<br />Cq Cq De K1QOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867253216112430532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318687522137000114.post-44143856562347862022013-05-15T06:38:00.001-07:002013-05-17T14:29:20.425-07:00QRP Foxhunt Lull: Winter/SummerYI really like the QRP Foxhunts on 40 and 80 Meters during the winter and 20M during the summer months:<br>
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They are really fun and have been great experience for me in a number of ways. I've learned to work split, the hunts continue to help me improve my listening skills and copying weak signals...the fox hunts have some world class ops who work as fox and send to the pack of hounds...sometimes you might be in a pile up 1-2 deep with about 50 or more hounds!!!!<br>
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The Facebook QRP Foxhunt group with N9AW as group admin has been really neat!!! It take the fox hunts to a new level by creating a group that is has bonded together like a band of brothers...I love the camaradaire....what a great group. I typically don't do the 20M summer hunts since there is so much going on during the summer but I've been smiten with the radio bug after about a 2 year layoff and I'm sure I'll do the summer hunts this season. In the mean time I downloaded GEN LOG and will start participating in the NAQCC sprints between fox hunt seasons.<div><br>
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<br></div>Cq Cq De K1QOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867253216112430532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318687522137000114.post-34660209204668063002013-05-12T16:45:00.000-07:002013-05-13T10:35:30.450-07:00Quick QRP Antenna Set-UP ideas<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">One of my goals this year is to do some fun QRP events outside. QRP TTF was fun in April and I'm looking forward to more. One thing I found from doing the event in April is a need for a faster and easier QRP antenna setup. In my search I came across some cool ideas from our own NEQRP founder, W1FMR, if you google his call with the words "end-fed antenna" a wealth of info comes up. Jim has written for 72 and various yahoo-groups, plus he USES them, so why reinvent the wheel when I can learn from the best on this type of setup...how cool is that!!! (Jim is a major QRP 160 force...look for his position in #1 call area when the scores are finally tabulated in the CQ 160 2013 contest:) Tons of info on great, quick and easy to setup endfed antennas from W1FMR on the web!!!!! The link provided below is from the NJ QRP with several configurations:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jim Fitton, W1FMR, NEQRP founder (left) and at his side, his childhood ham friend, NY1Z (and still his good buddy) at a recent NEQRP Luncheon celebrating Jim's 74 birthday....good going Jim you've added so much to my enjoyment of the hobby...thanks OM!!!!! Wow these guys send spectacular clean beautiful code on Vibroplex bugs!!!</span><br />
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Cq Cq De K1QOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867253216112430532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318687522137000114.post-13829922579567255662013-05-12T08:55:00.001-07:002013-05-12T12:26:02.651-07:00Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<span style="font-size: large;">Wow...I am blown away. When I got home from the NEQRP Luncheon and Birthday bash for #1 (W1FMR) I received an large envelope from ARRL and in it was an A1 Operator certificate...yikes!!!</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am honored, thrilled, shocked and flooded with emotion...I wish I knew the people who nominated and seconded me!!! It's the biggest honor in ham radio I can possibly imagine that two of my peers would nominate me for this club..wow!!!!!!! I remember when I read W2LJ's blog in 2006 when he received his...I was in awe, Larry...his words still ring true and his thoughts are how I feel...I'm overwhelmed!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes...I need to repeat the words of my fox hunting buddy, I agree Larry I am "Flabbergasted, surprised, shocked and humbled" too...I felt the same way when I opened my envelope too.</span></div>
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QRP To the Field, <a href="http://www.zianet.com/qrp/qrpttf/2013/ttf.htm"></a> was held last Saturday, April 27, 2013.
Ever since I've entered the hobby I've wanted to be able to have the confidence to operate in an outdoor setting and this was the day!!!! I was a bit shaky with the paddle attached to the KX3 I'm making more mistakes than I'd like, THEN I freeze up and more mistakes beget more mistakes..oh my...but I do keep trying to send. And, this was my first time hand logging and I need to keep neater logs but here goes:<br />
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W8ZPF 15:54 55N OH Fred<br />
KB5FC 16:37 55N OK Joel<br />
WD8RIF 17:07 55N OH Eric<br />
KI4KG 17:10 449 GA Bill 4W<br />
W2KJ 17:21 55N NC Joe<br />
W4ZV 17:28 55N SOTA NC EM<br />
AB4SA 17:31 579 GA John<br />
K4UWH 1739 55N NC Charles<br />
WA9H 17:41 55N IN Rod<br />
KG8YT 17:43 55N MI Bruce<br />
DL2WHI 18:21 55N DL Diet<br />
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AB1AV 18:34 55n SOTA W1/HAV203<br />
W2M 18:40 55N NY<br />
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Lots of fun!!!Cq Cq De K1QOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867253216112430532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318687522137000114.post-90069467560106583592010-05-07T06:34:00.000-07:002013-05-09T07:24:31.589-07:00Goin' Mobile!!!!Had a blast in the New England Qso Party running CW as a multi-single rover. We were only out for about 5.5 hours but it was wild!!!<br /><br /><br />Here is the link for our 3830 post:<br /><br /><a href="http://lists.contesting.com/_3830/2010-05/msg00272.html">http://lists.contesting.com/_3830/2010-05/msg00272.html<br /></a>Cq Cq De K1QOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867253216112430532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318687522137000114.post-31951783646219327442010-02-17T05:10:00.001-08:002010-03-17T06:07:58.406-07:0080M Fox HuntThe 80M QRP Fox hunt was last night.<br /><br />I should have two more pelts to add to my collection this year. I started back on the hunts on New Years Eve, December 31, 2009 so I'm a little behind the rest of the hounds in numbers but I'm having a good time.<br /><br />N0SM and N0AR were the foxii last night.<br />I had trouble getting N0AR. I heard N9NE get him as soon as he started calling at 9pm and I thought I'd be the second one to get him but no dice. I swapped off to try for the lower fox once Dave got N0SM so he'd have clear sailing for N0AR...since we are less than a mile apart we can cancel out our signals sometimes when we send on the air at the same time. There was a lot of noise when I first went to N0SM's sending frequency so I wasn't able to hear him so I didn't transmit. Luckily Dave got N0AR so I headed back. He was tuning around and getting hounds on different frequencies with no pattern but I kept trying. I finally got him after hearing N1TP from FL get him.<br /><br />Wow...I saw N0SM's log this morning and realized N9NE got N0AR and N0SM both within a minute!!!!!!!!! Although N0AR hasn't posted his log yet I heard Todd get him right away.<br /><br />So...two more for me .....Yippie!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />Cq Cq De K1QOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867253216112430532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318687522137000114.post-51912443943354145652010-02-15T08:39:00.000-08:002013-05-14T10:45:20.630-07:00NH QSO Party at W1WQM Club StationLots of fun this weekend.<br><br>Here are some of the high points.<br><br><br>N1<font id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">YX</font> and W1<font id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">GEK</font> are really funny guys but then <font id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">thow</font> in N1<font id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">YI</font> and it's even funnier. I had a blast Friday night watching W1<font id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">GEK</font> operate <font id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">SSB</font> while the "peanut gallery" commented, and gave him the business, Mike is a good guy, he takes the razzing all in stride.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ntEUt3lcRA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ntEUt3lcRA</a><br><br>The above link is a piece of the action with W1<font id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">GEK</font> getting razzed by the entire group. The head of N1AA operating CW on 80M is barely viable in the corner.<br><br>The next clip is N1<font id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">YI</font> with N1<font id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">YX</font> 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.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFyw3fv-jVY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFyw3fv-jVY</a><br><br>N1<font id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">YX</font> is helping in the background. Igor is a very, strong all around <font id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">ssb</font> and cw <font id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">contester</font> and team player.<br><br>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. <br><br>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!!<br><br>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!!!!!!!!!!<br><br>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.<br><br>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!!!!!!!!!!!Cq Cq De K1QOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867253216112430532noreply@blogger.com0