Claimed Scores, Last Week's Contests:
1. NCCC NS Sprint Practice, 4/1/11
W4NZ 43 37 1,591 SOLP 0.5 TN TCG SO2R
K4BAI 44 36 1,584 SOLP 0.5 GA SECC
2. EA RTTY Contest
W4UK 312 134 92,192 SOABHP 14 SC SECC
K4HAL 51 37 4,292 SOABHP 1.5 AL ACG
3. SP DX Contest
Call CW Q Ph Q Mul Score Category Time St Club
N4NO 105 0 40 12,600 SOABCWHP 7.0 AL ACG
K4JRB 0 14 10 420 SOSB/40HP 2.0 GA SECC
4. Missouri QSO Party
N4PN 56 84 61 11,995 SOABHP 12.5 GA SECC
N4JF 21 18 18 1,180 SOABLP 2 AL ACG
5. QRPARCI Spring Sprint
K4BAI 111 63 224,028 SOABQRP5W 5:48 GA SECC
6. April ARS Spartan Sprint
K4BAI 38 38 SOQRP5W(Tubby) 2.0 GA SECC
I also made 20 QSOs in the SP DX Contest, at least a dozen in the QCWA
Spring QSO Party and maybe 8 or 10 in the MO QSO Party. I haven't had
time to figure those scores due to being busy planning for the GA QSO
Party this weekend.
This Week's Contests:
The Really Big Contest this weekend is the 50th Year GA QSO Party. All
sorts of awards are available, including for the high score in each
adjoining state. Try to spell out G-E-O-R-G-I-A with the suffixes of
the special event one-by-one calls that will be QRV. Try to work every
one of GA's 159 counties. Join in the fun. For full details, see
http://gqp.contesting.com.
1. 50th Year Georgia QSO Party. 18Z Sat to 0359Z Sun; 14Z Sun to 2359Z
Sun. 160-6M, CW/Digital, Phone. Exchange: RS(T) + GA County or S/P or
"DX."
2. Tonight, Wednesday local, 0100-0230Z Thursday. Fox Extravaganza.
This marks the end of the Fall/Winter/Spring QRP Fox Hunts. 40 and 80M.
7030 to 7050 and 3550 to 3570 kHz. All the Foxes from this season
will call "CQ Fox" and all the hounds (whether or not you made any of
the Fox Hunts this season--just turn your rig down to 5W or less and
call) may work the foxes. Once per band, so you may work me (and all
the other foxes) on 40 and 80 meters. Exchange: RST + SPC + Name +
Power. Run 5W or less. Activity will probably be mostly on 40 at the
start and then switch to mostly on 80 toward the end. Foxes will likely
be listening on their own frequencies rather than the usual "split." No
log required, but you may submit your numerical results to the qfox
reflector.
3. NCCC NS Practices. Thursday night local. Friday UTC time. SNS
slow speed. 0200-0220+ UTC Friday. 100W maximum. 20, 40, 80M. Keep
speeds under 26 WPM. One kHz QSY rule. Exchange: both calls, #, name,
SPC. NS with no speed limit. 0230-0259Z. Same rules except no speed
limit and add 160M band.
4. Japan International DX Contest, CW. 07Z Sat to 13Z Sun. 160-10M
CW. Exchange: RST + CQ Zone or JA Prefecture #.
5. PODXS Club PSK31 Flavors Contest. 12-18 local time Sat 20M only.
(In my opinion, it is stupid to have a contest on HF that is dependent
on local time--by definition many stations may not work each other
during the contest period because it is not the same for everyone.) 20M
BPSK31, QPSK31, BPSK64, QPSK63, BPSK125. Maximum power: 100W.
Exchange: SPC + PODXS member # or name. Work each station once per
"flavor" of PSK.
6. New Mexico QSO Party. 14Z Sat to 02Z Sun. 160-6M. CW, Ph, Dig.
Exchange: Name + SPC or NM County.
7. EU Spring Sprint. 16-1959Z Sat 80-20M CW. Exchange: both calls,
#, Name. 2 kHz QSY rule. Activity usually starts on 20M and moves down
the bands so that we will hear little activity in this one during the GQP.
8. Montana QSO Party. 48 hours of Sat & Sun UTC. 160M-70cm. CW, Dig,
Ph. Exchange: Serial # + MT county or SPC. The rules do not give
suggested frequencies at all. This is a bad mistake for most QSO
parties since out of state stations may listen around for a while and
not know where to concentrate on and give up any interest they may have had.
9. Yuri Gagarin International DX Contest. 21Z Sat to 21Z Sun. 160-10M
+ Satellite CW only. Exchange: RST + ITU Zone. There will be a lot of
European activity in this one.
10. Straight Key Century Club Week End Sprint (WES). 24 hours of
Sunday UTC. 160-10M CW. Exchange: RST + Name + SPC + SKCC# or "None."
Use mechanical key.
11. 144 mHz Spring Sprint. 1900-2300 local time Monday. Exchange: 4
character grid square (6 character optional). You can probably get your
grid square off the "detail" listing on QRZ.COM under your own call sign.
12. North American QRP CW Club Straight Key/Bug Sprint. 0030-0230Z Wed
of next week (Tuesday night local). Use mechanical key. 5W maximum
power. 80, 40, 20M CW. Exchange: RST + SPC + NAQCC# or power.
13. Next Wednesday (local time) will be the usual CW Ops one hour
contests for this month. 11Z, 19Z, and 04Z. 80, 40, 20M CW. Exchange:
name + CWOps # or name + SPC for non members. Look around 027 kHz on
each band.
Hint: If you are going to be QRV in GA for the GA QSO Party, you might
want to make a copy of this summary and have it with you. If someone in
one of the other contests calls you, you can give them the info they
need and hope you can get RST + QTH from them. If you call someone in
one of the other contests, you will know what they need from you and you
will know what to ask for from them. Obviously, any station outside the
US and Canada will send "DX" instead of state or province. You may have
to call MT and NM stations in order to get those multipliers.
Hope everyone has a great and a safe weekend and a lot of QSOs,
particularly in GQP. Hope to work most of you in many GA counties from
W4R/M.
73, John, K4BAI.
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