The NCJ North American QSO Party CW contest is scheduled for this coming
weekend. Unfortunately, the rules for the NAQP and Sprint contests were
accidentally omitted from the January/February 2013 issue of NCJ. You
can now find the official rules for the 2013 NAQP contests at the
following link:
http://naqp.contesting.com/naqprules.pdf
All rules for NCJ NAQP and Sprint contests will be published in the
March/April 2013 issue of NCJ. The rules at ncjweb.com are currently out
of date, but will be revised soon.
There are a couple of rule changes for the NAQP starting in 2013. First,
we are requiring that all stations use the same name throughout the
contest, whether single-op or multi-op. This rule primarily concerns
multi-ops, who would sometimes change names when changing operators.
Using one name throughout the contest will make life easier for both the
participants and the log checkers.
The second rule change is that the log deadline is now 7 days, shortened
from 14 days as it was previously. All six NCJ-sponsored contests (CW,
SSB and RTTY Sprint and NAQP contests) now have a consistent 7-day log
submission deadline.
Since the rules were not printed in the magazine on time, we are waiving
the one-week deadline for the January NAQP contests. *For the January
2013 NAQP contests only, the log submission deadline will remain at two
weeks.* Starting with the August 2013 NAQP contests, the log submission
deadline will be one week.
Please help to spread the word among your clubs. Team registration for
the NAQP contests will be open soon. Don't forget to check out the new
scores and records database at http://naqp.contesting.com .
Please refer any questions directly to me at k4ro at k4ro.net. Thanks for
your help spreading the word.
73, Kirk K4RO
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