[SECC] NAQP CW Team Registrations

[John Laney]

  I have aregistered the teams for today.  I am having trouble with my 
e-mail program and lost the second copy of the registration for team 
SECC#1.  The registration for SECC#2 is shown below.  The SECC#1 team is 
K4BAI, KU8E, N4IQ, N4EEV, and NN4K.  Please review the contest rules 
before it starts.  Power is limited to 100W. You must use the call you 
are registered under.  I hae added AA4LR to team two to fill out five, 
but Bill may not be able to be QRV. You may not operate more than 10 of 
the 12 hours of the contest. Off times must be a minimum of 30 minutes 
(meaning that if your last QSO is at 0030Z for example, your next QSO 
can't before 0101Z if you are operating full time).  If you are not 
operating full time, you don't need to worry about your off times.  Show 
your team in your Cabrillo log header, but the actual team members will 
come from the pre registrations, not from your log header.  It runs 
1800Z today until 0559Z Sunday on 160-10M CW.  Multipliers (North
American countries, states, and provinces) count per band, so you may be 
asked to QSY to another band and it may be to your advantage to try.

I usually listen for a few minutes before the start and start on 
whatever band it seems I might be able to run on.  If there is any 
signal on ten meters, I'd start there since most QSOs will be mults for 
that band and openings may be few and far between.  We might get some 
spotty sporatic E and it is worthwhile to check that band often.  For 
the afternoon hours, I move between 20 and 15 trying to work all mults 
on both bands and trying to run as much as possible.  If you don't try 
running, you will never work the other guys who are just doing S&P.  In 
the afternoon, I try to be on 15 on the half hour and 20 on the hour 
just to keep a rhythm going and not to shortchange any band.  Openings 
may be rare on 15 too, but keep checking 10 and 15.  You may want to go 
to 40 early (say 2200Z) to work the closer in mults in case it goes long 
later.  If 15 is completely dead, you may want to switch between 40 and 
20 in the afternoon.  Eventually, 20 will be dead or almost dead and for 
the rest of the period you will switch between 40 and 80, with 160M 
whenever you can find activity there.  I try to be sure to be on 160M on 
the half hour from 0330Z on to the end.  If you are planning to be full 
time, the conventional wisdom is to take 30 minutes off here and there 
in the afternoon when the rates begin to decline.  I usually don't do 
that.  I usually take off 30 to 45 minutes for supper with my wife 
around 0000Z.  Then I are not on the air for the last part of the 
contest.  That way, I don't stay up too late and I miss the last few 
hours where QSO rates drop as the participants drop.  It makes sense to 
take your off times except for 30 minutes and come back for the last 
thirty minutes to pick up western mults on the low bands, but that is 
more important in the summer contests than in the winter ones since we 
should have good conditions to most of the country on 80 (and 160 except 
perhaps for the west coast) much earlier in the evening.

The most important thing, of course, is to have fun.  So good luck and 
much fun.

If you haven't signed up for a team, get on and have fun too and give the team members a lot of QSO points.

73, John, K4BAI.

Thanks for registering your NAQP CW team.

Team Name: SECC#2

Team Members:
AD8J
K2SX
K4HR
N4TOL
AA4LR

Registration recorded at: 2018-01-13 13:56:36Z

Your team registration info has been saved to the NCJ team database. If you wish to update your team membership, please use the team registration form to resubmit your team members. Please be sure to use exactly the same team name, unless you are purposely wanting to change the name.

You can easily update your team registration by clicking on the following link:

http://www.ncjweb.com/cwnaqpteamreg/?ncjarg=c47e85662b018f961ed215745be7356b

73 de Chris Hurlbut, KL9A (cwnaqpmgr at ncjweb.com)


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