[NCC] NAQP CW One Week from Today!
tleek8az
tleek8az at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 13:31:31 EDT 2015
K8AZ: Multi-Two (with K8NZ, W8CAR, W3YQ and possibly others.)
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Hal Offutt <hal at japancorporateresearch.com
> wrote:
>
> Greetings Warriors,
>
> The NAQP CW contest will be held exactly one week from today on August 1.
> The contest runs from 1800Z Saturday through 0600Z Sunday (2 PM to 2 AM
> EDST). This is a fun, high rate event where you work everyone on each band
> and mults (50 states, 13 Canadian provinces/territories and NA countries)
> count again on each band. The exchange is name and state so CW speeds tend
> to be pretty high, especially later in the day when your logging program
> spits out the exchange info after you enter the call. Participants are
> limited to operating 10 of the 12 hours, so you can have a nice dinner with
> the family or mow the lawn.
>
> For the last couple of years, NCC and MRRC have put together teams to
> compete in the team competition. Teams consist of five members and there
> are usually around 70 or 80 teams competing. In the August 2013 event, two
> of our five teams made it into the top ten (fifth and tenth). We also
> fielded five teams in 2014 but our two best teams came in 12th and 13th due
> to the fact that some ops could not put in full efforts. Still a solid
> performance. As you know, the NAQPs are held twice a year, in January and
> August. West Coast and Texas stations generally have the advantage in both
> events, but in our part of the country we are less disadvantaged in the
> summer.
>
> I'll be putting teams together again so please let me know of your
> interest and whether you will be full-time or part-time. I will register
> the teams at noon, Saturday August 1.
>
> Let's see how well we can do!
>
> 73, Hal W1NN
> NAQP CW Whip
>
>
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