Wouldn't you know it, the day I post the message about the NEQP, our website
went down. Things are back on-line now (though on a temporary site). Check
out --> http://www.neqp.org
-- Tom
>To: cq-contest@contesting.com
>From: Tom Frenaye <frenaye@pcnet.com>
>Subject: [CQ-Contest] 2003 New England QSO Party this weekend
>
>
>Just one announcement this year:
>
>The New England QSO Party is this upcoming weekend - May 3/4.
>
>Work stations in New England (W1) states of Connecticut(CT), Maine(ME),
>Massachusetts(MA), New Hampshire(NH), Rhode Island(RI) and Vermont(VT). We
>expect all 67 counties to be QRV! (NE stations work anyone)
>
>Software support - CT/K1EA, TR/N6TR, NA/K8CC, Writelog/W5XD, GenLog/W3KM,
>Logger/N1MM, CQPWin/AE6Y, NEQP/N3FJP, SD/EI5DI, and Win-EQF/N3EQF. Paper
>logs OK also!
>
>Rules summary:
>
> Contest period - 2000z May 3 (Saturday) until 0500z May 4 (Sunday), and
> 1300z-2400z May 4 (Sunday). 20 hours total.
> Bands - 80-40-20-15-10m CW: 3540-7040-14040-21040-28040 SSB:
> 3880-7280-14280-21380-28380
> Categories - Single Operator High/Low/QRP, Multi-Single, mobile
> QSO points - two for CW/digital, one for phone QSOs
> Multipliers - 67 New England counties (mult for NE stations is
> states/provinces/countries)
> Awards - Certificate for 25+ QSOs, also more than 20 plaques will be
> award, and some special awards
>
>What are the "special awards"?
>
> Top USA single operator - lobster dinner for two
> Other top USA scores (outside New England) - Maple Syrup or Ben & Jerry's
> Ice Cream (last year's minimum was 150 QSOs)
> Top score from Florida - one gallon of "chowdah" delivered by K1PT
>
>See the New England QSO Party web site for full details -->
>http://www.neqp.org/ (or May QST)
>
>Not convinced yet? Check out K1DG's Top Ten Reasons to Operate the NEQP -->
>http://users.rcn.com/leegart/topten.html
>
>Still not convinced? Try multi-contesting. There are several other
>contests the same weekend, you'll never run out of stations to work. We even
>have some hints on the web site on how to try out
>Single-Operator-Five-Contests (SO5C). http://users.rcn.com/leegart/so5c.html
>
> 73 -- Tom/K1KI and Bob/W1RH
>
>
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>New England QSO Party - May 3-4, 2003 http://www.neqp.org
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