[CQ-Contest] Big plans! NEQP 2006

[Tom Frenaye]

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 at 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