[CQ-Contest] HamCation QSO Party

[Hans Brakob]

This whole thing sounds like the old Minnesota QP which was called the “Frostbite Falls Beach Party”.  The exchange was your local temperature.  Extra points for working Boris and Natasha, IIRC.

73, de Hans, KØHB
“Just a Boy and his Radio”™
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Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 5:15:50 AM
To: Jim Stahl <jimk8mr at aol.com>
Cc: ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>; cq-contest at contesting.com <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] HamCation QSO Party

No space between the N and the negative temp. Some loggers will interpret
the space as a tab to the next field. Use N10. You can follow the temp with
a C for Celcius. if you wish. Otherwise, people will just assume it's
Celcius based on your QTH/call. The temp is only for informational
purposes. No logs are sent in, so there is no log checking.
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Stan, K4SBZ





On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:09 PM K8MR via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> We'll have FAQs out covering lots of these questions.
> But meanwhile, we don't really care if you use C or F. If you're Canadian,
> we'll guess C.
> I don't know morse for "-" ,  but I'd suggest using "N" for negative
> temperatures, i.e.  " N 10" . We have a N1MM+ UDC module that will accept
> "-" in the temperature field. And since we aren't taking logs, it won't
> matter what you log.
> Just please don't confuse us by combining negative temperatures with cut
> numbers. We won't know for sure if  "N N" means 16 F or a record
> (Fahrenheit) heat wave in Canada   ;-)
>
> 73  -  Jim   K8MR/4
> One of the crazy FCG folks helping out with this contest.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Tue, Jan 19, 2021 8:56 pm
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] HamCation QSO Party
>
> Chris,
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> Temps in F or C?
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>
> What about negative temps?
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> Mike, VE9AA..working with Celsius since the late 70's and it'll def be in
> the negative temps in Feb here and elsewhere in the world.
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>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>
> Keswick Ridge, NB
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