[SECC] Claimed Scores, Last Week's Contests; This Week's Contests

[John Laney]

Claimed Scores, Last Week's Contests:

1. ARRL DX Contest, Phone
PJ2T  8694  318  8,294,076  M/M HP      47     PJ2  Ops:  K1MMH, K4UEE,
W0CG, KI4GSO, KU4V, N4GRN, N4HH, N4LR, N4NX, ND4V, W4GKF, WA4ZXV, WZ8P.

TI8M  4705  274  3,859,290  M/2 HP      48     TI   Ops:  TI2KAC,
TI2LCO, K4UN, N4JO, W4BW, W4KTR, W4XO.

N4KG   721  341    737,583  SOAB(A)HP   27     AL
NF4A   750  288    648,000  SOAB(A)HP   20.4   FL
KT4ZB  788  237    555,291  SOAB(A)HP   21     GA
N4XL   616  239    437,370  SOABLP      25.4   SC
AA4NU  501  223    335,169  SOABHP      __     TN
AK4I   471  201    284,013  SOAB(A)HP   24     GA
KY5R   467  193    270,393  SOABHP      10.5   AL
W4IX   405  214    260,010  SOAB(A)LP   16     SC
KU8E   400  203    243,600  SOABHP      15     GA
KU8E   386  168    195,544  SOABHP      15:55  GA
WB4MAK 292  196    171,696  SOABHP      15     GA
W4PC   268  165    132,165  SOAB(A)HP   24     AL
K4OD   281  155    130,665  SOABLP      35.8   GA
K4JAF  231  144    100,792  SOAB(A)LP   __     FL
K4EA   381   87     99,441  SOSB/15HP   22     GA
WF4W   216  151     97,848  SOABHP       8     GA
K1ZZI  242  133     96,558  SOAB(A)LP    7     GA
KR4F   175  136     71,400  SOAB(A)HP    7     AL
N4PN   281   80     67,440  SOSB/15(A)HP 11    GA
K4AB   310   78     63,180  SOSB/40HP   18     AL
K4QO   190  107     60,990  SOABHP       8     SC
N4GG   159  118     56,286  SOAB(A)HP    4     GA
WB4SQ  180   98     52,920  SOABLP       5:30  GA
N4NM   150  103     46,350  SOAB(A)HP    4.75  AL
AA4V   196   70     41,160  SOSB/80HP    6     SC
K2SX   141   83     35,109  SOAB(A)HP    2.25  SC
WA1FCN  64   38      7,296  SOSB/20LP    2.5   AL
K4WI    46   15      2,070  SOSB/10LP   12     AL
N4HIX   31   18      1,674  SOAB(A)HP    1.1   AL

2.  NCCC NS Sprint Practice, 3/6/09
N4OGW  46  22  1,012  SOLP  MS  .5
K1ZZI  30  17    510  SOLP  GA  .5

3.  Straight Key Century Club Weekend Sprint
K4BAI  20  13  355  SOHP  0:46  GA

I heard a lot of other GA, AL, and SC stations being worked in the
contest, but they haven't reported their scores yet.

This week's contests:

1.  40M QRP Fox Hunt, Thursday night local.  0100-0230Z Friday.  Note
the time change after the change to Daylight time.  Two foxes will be
hiding between 7030 and 7050 kHz.  Exchange:  RST, SPC, Name, Power.
Run no more than 5 watts and work only the two foxes.

2.  NCCC Practices.  RTTY Sprint Practice 0130-0200Z Friday (Thursday
local).  Slow Speed SNS Practice 0200-0215Z Friday.  NS Practice
0230-0300Z Friday.  Exchange:  both calls, #, name, SPC.  One and five
kHz QSY rule.  In SNS and NS dupes are OK after one intervening QSO.
Don't think dupes are OK in the RTTY Sprint Practice.  Bands:  RTTY
20,40,80.  SNS: 40,80.  NS:  20,40,80,160.  100w maximum power for the
CW practices.  Legal power OK for RTTY practice.  Those planning to
operate the RTTY Sprint Saturday night might want to check everything
out on Thursday night in the practice.

3.  RSGB Commonwealth Contest (BERU).  This is a "closed" contest.  You 
may hear on 80-10M CW stations in UK and their Commonwealth working each 
other 10Z Sat to 10Z Sun.  A few may answer non-Commonwealth callers, 
but most will ignore us.  They say we forfeited our participation in 
this contest when we declared independence in 1776.

4.  AGCW QRP Contest.  14 to 20Z Sat.  80-10M CW.  Exchange:  RST + QSO 
# + Class + AGCE # or "NM."  Classes are:  VLP 1 watt or less.  QRP 5 
watts or less.  MP 25W or less.  QRO hiher than 25W.  Best bet to work 
them for us will be around 14060 kHz.

5.  QRP ARCI HF Grid Square Sprint.  15-18Z Sat.  Exchange:  RST + 4 
character grid square + ARCI # or power.

6.  Second Class Operators' Club (SOC) Marathon Sprint.  18-24Z 
Saturday.  160-10M CW.  Exchange:  RST + SPC + SOC# or power.  There 
seems to be little activity in this contest each year, but I always call 
and give a contact to any I hear.

7.  Elecraft QSO Party.  18Z Sat to 18Z Sun.  CW, SSB, Digital. 
160-10M.  Maximum power 100W.  Exchange:  RS(T) + SPC + Rig ID, if any. 
  The rig ID is the model # abbreviation plus serial #.  So, a K2 with a 
serial # of 3000 would send 23000.  See the rules for other examples.

8.  Idaho QSO Party.  160-440.  CW, Ph, Digital.  19Z Sat to 19Z Sun. 
Exchange:  RS(T) + SPC or Idaho county.  Not too much activity in this 
one, but I still need some ID counties all time, so I'll be listening 
for them.

9.  NCJ North American Sprint, RTTY.  00-04Z Sunday (Saturday night 
local).  Exchange:  both calls, #, name, SPC.  QSY rules.

10.  Wisconsin QSO Party.  18Z Sun to 01Z Mon.  CW/phone, all bands 
except WARC.  Exchange:  Just SPC or WI county.  This is a pretty 
popular contest that brings out a lot of WI fixed, portable, and mobile 
stations.

11.  Flying Pigs QRP Club, Run for the Bacon.  01-03Z Mon (Sun night 
local).  Exchange:  RST, SPC, FP# or power.  This can be a fun QRP 
sprint with pretty good activity around the QRP frequencies mainly on or 
about 14060, 7040, and 3560.

12.  80M QRP Fox Hunt, Tuesday night.  Same rules as the 40M QRP Fox 
Hunts except the frequencies are 3550-3570.

13.  The North American QRP CW Club will have their monthly two hour 
straight key/bug sprint next Wednesday night. I'll cover the detailed 
rules next week.

Hope everyone has a good week and a lot of QSOs.  73, John, K4BAI.

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