The fifth running of the New England QSO Party is this next weekend - May 6-7.
We consolidated a few smaller QSO parties into one that covers all 67 counties
in the six New England states and have had a lot of fun in the last four years.
A brief summary -
The contest has two periods - 2000Z Saturday May 6 until 0500Z Sunday May 7
(4pm ET Saturday until 1am ET Sunday) and 1300Z Sunday May 7 until 2400Z Sunday
May 7 (9am ET Sunday until 8pm ET Sunday). Operate on 80-40-20-15-10m, CW and
SSB (digital modes count as CW). Non-New England stations count two points
for CW/digital QSOs, one for SSB QSOs. Multiply by the number of counties
worked for total score.
Categories for QRP/low power/high power/mobile/multi-op. All 67 counties will
be active - watch for bunch of mobiles!
We have good support from a wide variety of logging programs - CT, CQPWin,
GenLog, JL, N1MMLogger, NA, N3FJP, SD, TR, Win-EQF, Writelog.
Electronic logs in Cabrillo format are preferred but we're happy to get paper
logs as well.
The full rules are at http://www.neqp.org/
Certificates and printed results are sent to all participants who send in a
log. Thirty really nice looking plaques are available thanks to a lot of club
and individual sponsors. US stations outside of New England making more than
150 (or 250) QSOs also will receive a sample from New England - maple syrup or
Ben&Jerry's ice cream... The top single operator entrant will receive a
lobster dinner for two (thanks Framingham ARA). See the web site for full
details and results from previous contests.
New England stations planning to be active, even for a short while, are asked
to let us know what county you'll be on from so we can update our "Reserve Your
County" listings (tnx CQP). Send a note to info@neqp.org
We also hope the new 7QP will be successful this weekend! I hope everyone will
make this a multiple contest effort!
-- Tom/K1KI
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New England QSO Party - May 6-7, 2006 http://www.neqp.org
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