[SECC] Fwd: [NAQCC-News] NAQCC Sprint Coming Up Wednesday evening

Wed Jul 19 08:06:27 EDT 2017

Left this off the contest list.  Must have been left off the WA7BNM 
page.  73, John.

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Subject: 	[NAQCC-News] NAQCC Sprint Coming Up Wednesday evening
Date: 	Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:01:57 -0400
From: 	NAQCC <naqcc33 at windstream.net>
To: 	NAQCC Mail List <naqcc-news at mailman.qth.net>

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questions or comments, email Paul N8XMS

IMPORTANT 1: If you operate the sprint away from home in a different
state, PLEASE notify us in a separate email to naqcc33 at windstream.net and
tell us the state you operated from. That prevents a lot of confusion in
cross-checking logs. Thank you.

IMPORTANT 2: To keep accurate sprint participation records, we need to
know when you enter a sprint using a call that is different from the one
you used in previous sprints - N#A calls excepted. PLEASE notify us in a
separate email to naqcc33 at windstream.net. Include both your OLD and NEW
(or different) call in the body of the email. Thank you.

A last-minute reminder of our NAQCC monthly sprint. This email
is also a quick reference guide to our sprints in general. You might want
to save it or print it out. (Revised monthly)

HERE IS THE DATE AND TIME FOR OUR CURRENT SPRINT IN BOTH UTC (Z) AND LOCAL
FORMATS:

UTC DATE/TIME
Thursday July 20, 2017:
0030Z to 0230Z (March-October)

LOCAL (USA/CANADA) DATE/TIME
Wednesday July 19, 2017:
Eastern 8:30PM to 10:30PM
Central 7:30PM to 9:30PM
Mountain 6:30PM to 8:30PM
Pacific 5:30PM to 7:30PM
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OVERVIEW:

If you've been hesitant to join in our sprints because you hear other
sprints running at breakneck speeds, have no fear. Our sprints are geared
to help newcomers to CW and/or contesting. Virtually everyone including
the many veteran contesters who regularly enter our sprints will slow down
to YOUR speed to help you make your contacts. Please QRS to the speed of
the station you are working.

The MAIN object of our sprints is not to 'win' anything, but simply to
enter, have fun, and contact your fellow members. That, and not making
high scores is much more important. EVERYONE who enters is a WINNER
because participating helps to preserve the use of CW on the ham bands
whether you make 1 QSO or 100 QSOs. Not everyone has the great location
and big antenna farm to make the high scores, so keep that in mind and
simply do the best with the setup you have. Try to better your score from
the previous month. That way you're only competing against someone with an
equal setup - yourself.

In part due to that, we believe our NAQCC monthly sprints have become the
most successful 2-hour sprints in ham radio today. You can help us to
continue our growth, and help to promote CW and QRP as well. Just get in
the sprint, make QSO's, and send in a report via our autologger. That's
all there is to it. We regularly get well over 150 (record 269)
participants in each sprint, of whom well over 100 (record 194) will
submit logs for cross-checking. Our sprints make a powerful statement
about the popularity of CW and QRP to the ham radio world.

Remember when the sprint is over, you have another chore that will only
take you a couple minutes. Don't forget to send in your log. That
reinforces your statement that you love and use CW. When folks see the
large number of logs submitted, they think there must be something to this
CW mode after all, and they give it a try. They like it, and you've helped
gain another CW user on the ham bands to help in the mission of preserving
and protecting this wonderful mode of communications. That's another
aspect of our sprints that is more important than 'winning'.
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INFORMATION AND LINKS TO HELP ANYONE WHO MAY NEED IT:

1. General Sprint Rules including bands/frequencies that apply to all our
sprints are at:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_rules.html

Keep in mind listed frequencies are only suggested frequencies, not
written in stone. Start there and spread out up and down to avoid
congestion.
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2. Rules specific to this month's sprint are available via a link on this
page:

http://naqcc.info/contests.html
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3. Because we emphasize participation and not scoring, there is an HONOR
ROLL listing those who have participated in at least 50 of our sprints
since the first one in 2004 here:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_dates.html

A nice prize is awarded to each ham when they participate in their 100th
sprint.
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4. We hope you use the GenLog logging program for our sprints. It makes
logging very simple for you and log cross-checking simple for us. You can
get the program and instructions on how to use it here:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_rules.html
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5. There is a thorough tutorial on using GenLog that includes many screen
captures here:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_genlog_tutorial.html
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6. The latest data file (naqcc.dat) for GenLog is available in the
NAQCC.zip file here. Check the enclosed readme file to be sure it is the
latest. If not, try a little later in the day of the sprint:

http://naqcc.info/naqcc.zip
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7. Need help with zip files? There is an illustrated tutorial here:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_zip_tutorial.html
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8. How to check your log before submitting to have the best chance at
getting a SILVER LOG which is a log requiring no changes for the
cross-checking process:

http://naqcc.info/GLCheckList.txt

One thing that immediately eliminates a log as SILVER is not having the
correct point value in the last column of a QSO. If someone gives you a
number, the last column should be a 2. If they give you a power, the last
column should be a 1. If you use an old GenLog data file, you may have to
correct this manually after the sprint. It doesn't matter if the member
number is correct or not as far as a SILVER LOG is concerned. If the
station sends A NUMBER, the last column should be 2.

A prize is awarded for the most SILVER LOGS in a year as described in the
General Rules.
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9. After the sprint, use our Autologger to make submitting your report and
log as easy as possible. Be sure to use the correct GenLog output file in
the log field of the autologger, i.e. (your call).log - for example
k3wwp.log in my case. Be sure that noreply at mailwebserver.net is on your
email program's accepted list so you will receive the autologger
acknowledgement that your submission has been received. If it is not, the
acknowledgement may be filtered into your spam folder.

http://naqcc.info/sprint_submit_log.html
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10. Tips for successful sprinting can be found here:

http://naqcc.info/sprint_tips.html
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11. Curious about how you did in each of our past sprints or want to see
the results of a specific sprint? You can now do all of that here:

http://naqcc.info/contests.html
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12. For those who do emphasize making high scores, we award certificates
for each sprint as described in the General Rules. To determine if your
antenna puts you in the GAIN or Simple Wire Antenna (SWA) section of the
results, see the FAQ page on the web site for the NAQCC definition of gain
and simple wire antennas here:

http://naqcc.info/faqsinfo.html
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13. We also award a prize of some sort donated by the club or one of our
members in a random drawing among all members who participate and send in
a report. Check the prizes page here:

http://naqcc.info/main_giveaways.html
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14. Alternative logging programs can be found here:

http://cwfun.org/zip

For MAC computers: http://naqcc.info/sprint_macs.html

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* John K3WWP - 100% CW / QRP - Proudly promoting Morse Code:
*
* On the air with my KX3 #2325, K2 #6418, KX-1 #02101
*
* With my CW-QRP site - http://k3wwp.com/ &
http://home.windstream.net/johnshan/
*
* As retired NAQCC VP - # 0002 FC # 1 - http://naqcc.info/
*
* As retired FISTS Keynote QRP Columnist - # 2002 -
http://www.fistsna.org/

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