Hello all:
This report is a day late this week due to a circuit trip to Thomasville
Tuesday and Wednesday.
This past weekend must take the cake for the lowest contest activity for
the year on weekends not splitting months and not being a fifth weekend
in the month.
1. NAQCC May Sprint.
K4BAI 33 x 19 forgot the score 1:57 hrs. SO2R 5W Hand Key
2. May Flying Pigs QRP Club Run for the Bacon
K4BAI 47 x 37 4,403 2:00 SO2R 5W
This coming weekend will be the CQ WPX CW Contest 24 hours of Sat and
Sun. Send RST + serial no.
Also, there are two QRP contests on CW. The Michigan QRP Club has its
Memorial Day CW Sprint 23Z Sun to 03Z Mon. It overlaps one hour with CQ
WPX and there has been very little participation in Mi QRP contests
lately. I talked to them at their booth in Dayton last weekend and it
appears that one reason is that the results haven't been published
lately. Exchange is RST, SPC, and MiQRP # or power out. The other one
is QRP ARCI Hoot Owl. It runs Sunday night local 2000 to 2400. That
means 00 to 04Z for those of us on Eastern time. I talked to VA3JFF
about this last year and he seemed to agree with me that the time needed
to be standardized in universal time, but he didn't change the rule for
this year. Seems to me that you can't work much DX in this contest.
Outside this hemisphere, the time they could work the contest would be
so different from when we could work the contest that we couldnt' work
each other in the contest. Anyway, the exchange is RST + SPC + QRPARCI
member # or power out. So, for three of the four hours, QSOs would
count for either or both of the QRP contests. The exchanges would be
almost the same.
Hope everyone has a nice week and a lot of QSOs this weekend. I will be
part-time in CQ WPX CW with my own call and probably will work some, if
not all, of the QRPARCI contest.
73,
John, K4BAI.
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