Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:51:48 -0500
Hello all: Thanks for the NAQP reports. For team members, I still need reports from: W4SVO, KT4MM, WF4W, NM2L. Please post your scores to 3830 or send me the info ASAP. Thanks. 73, John, K4BAI.
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:47:22 -0500
Keep your fingers crossed. So, far our SECC#1 team score of 753,963 is top claimed. However, are several other teams that don't have a full five members reporting yet that could overtake our team sco
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:17:40 -0500
I've been working Kay (and her husband Carter, N3AO) in contests for years. Not our first contester as ARRL president, but glad the new ARRL president is a contester. 73, John, K4BAI. ARRL Board of D
For those participating in this year?s LQP (Locust QSO Party) on Wednesday Night/USA time, please avoid the 7045 EMCOMM frequency!!! The 40m frequency related info in the LQP rules has been modified
Saw this on QRZ.com today: CQ Columnist Dave Ingram, K4TWJ, SK It is with great sadness that we report that our friend and longtime colleague, Dave Ingram, K4TWJ, became a Silent Key this morning (Ja
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:30:58 -0500
Remember to avoid 7045. Please keep your speed to a max of 18 WPM. Announcing the NCCC's (Northern California Contest Club) weekly Thursday night running of the SNS. The Slow Speed NS practice is fro
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:47:51 -0500
Result for the first four weeks of the current NS Ladder competition are posted at: http://www.ncccsprint.com/2010nswl.html <http://www.ncccsprint.com/2010nswl.html> Competition in the East of Ms. Ri
SECC#1 is still top team claimed score as of today. There are two teams with only 4 members reporting that could exceed our score if there is a large unreported member from one or both of those teams
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:00:35 -0500
Was set up with separate antennas for each of the four bands. Good for quick QSY. 20M was dead. 40M was OK, but worked a lot of CA and MN and missed a lot of mults. 80 was pretty good, but I missed a
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:43:21 -0500
Dear Contest Friends Next weekend it is the SSB leg of the UBA DX Contest 2010. Please note the minor changes in the rules regarding the logsubmission.. http://www.uba.be/sites/default/files/uploads/
John, I wonder if I might prevail on you to forward the note below to the SECC membership. I've emailed CQ-Contest at contesting.com and the FCG lists, but would like to share it with the SECC direct
See the message below about a NAQCC 2-hour QRP sprint on 160M tonight (Wed), 0130-0330Z. Activity centers around 1810 kHz. This would be a good time to check out your station before the big CQ 160CW
Here are the details. I forgot the Paste part of Cut N Paste. 73, John. Our annual 160M sprint held each year just before the CQWW 160M contest is this evening (Jan 27 at 8:30PM EST = Jan 28 at 0130Z
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:10:17 -0500
Disregard the reference to avoiding 7045. It has been released for general use. 73, John. Remember to avoid 7045. Please keep your speed to a max of 18 WPM. Announcing the NCCC's (Northern California
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:19:28 -0500
With the NCJ CW Sprint rapidly approaching consider some early practice by participating in NCCC Thursday Night Contesting. NOTE: Now ok to use 7040-7046 on CW with release of Haiti emergency freq's
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:42:44 -0500
Mark, W4UCZ, pointed out a typo I made in the summary of the CQ 160 CW rules. The contest runs from FRIDAY at 22Z to Sunday 22Z, 48 hours. Otherwise the 40 and 30 hour limits wouldn't make sense. But
Author: k4bai atworldnet.att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:01:52 -0500
Got home from the theatre with 8 minutes to go in NS. Surprised to find K2XA still workable on 40. Then reduced power to 5 watts and worked K9JWV in UT, one of the 40M QRP Fox Hunt foxes. Moved to 80