[CQ-Contest] NAQP Rules for 2013

[K4RO Kirk Pickering]

The NCJ North American QSO Party CW contest is scheduled for this coming 
weekend. Unfortunately, the rules for the NAQP and Sprint contests were 
accidentally omitted from the January/February 2013 issue of NCJ. You 
can now find the official rules for the 2013 NAQP contests at the 
following link:

http://naqp.contesting.com/naqprules.pdf

All rules for NCJ NAQP and Sprint contests will be published in the 
March/April 2013 issue of NCJ. The rules at ncjweb.com are currently out 
of date, but will be revised soon.

There are a couple of rule changes for the NAQP starting in 2013. First, 
we are requiring that all stations use the same name throughout the 
contest, whether single-op or multi-op. This rule primarily concerns 
multi-ops, who would sometimes change names when changing operators. 
Using one name throughout the contest will make life easier for both the 
participants and the log checkers.

The second rule change is that the log deadline is now 7 days, shortened 
from 14 days as it was previously. All six NCJ-sponsored contests (CW, 
SSB and RTTY Sprint and NAQP contests) now have a consistent 7-day log 
submission deadline.

Since the rules were not printed in the magazine on time, we are waiving 
the one-week deadline for the January NAQP contests. *For the January 
2013 NAQP contests only, the log submission deadline will remain at two 
weeks.* Starting with the August 2013 NAQP contests, the log submission 
deadline will be one week.

Please help to spread the word among your clubs. Team registration for 
the NAQP contests will be open soon. Don't forget to check out the new 
scores and records database at http://naqp.contesting.com .

Please refer any questions directly to me at k4ro at k4ro.net. Thanks for 
your help spreading the word.

73, Kirk K4RO