[SESprint] Registration of SECC teams SECC#1 and SECC#2 for NAQP CW Tomorrow

[John Laney]

Thanks for registering your NAQP CW team.

Team Name: SECC#1

Team Members:
K4BAI
N4GG
N4IQ
NJ8J
N4EEV

Registration recorded at: 2018-08-03 20:36:04Z

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=2922b5f910d565d3e2779899ea5a34ba

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




Thanks for registering your NAQP CW team.

Team Name: SECC#2

Team Members:
WF4W
AA4LR
NN4K
AE4Y
KI4MZC

Registration recorded at: 2018-08-03 20:37:38Z

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=485340d202ec316bf040f5fd306c55a3

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


What follows is some more or less random thoughts about operating in 
NAQP CW.  Remember the power limit is 100W and you must use the call as 
registered (shown above).  Others are encouraged to operate as much as 
possible even though not on a team.  The more stations that are active, 
the more fun for all.

The contest runs from 1800Z (2 PM EDT) until 0559Z (1:59 AM Sunday). 
Single op stations may operate only 10 hours of the 12.  If you are 
going to be close to the limit, be sure to count your off times 
correctly.  If you take a break at 0000Z, your next contact cannot be at 
0030Z.  It must be at 0031Z, or it will not count as an off period and 
you may run nearly a half hour over your limit.  No harm in doing that 
if you want to, but only the first 10 hours will count, determining 
operating time as indicated above.

Exchange is Name + State, such as JOHN GA.  The same for any North 
American station with the location being state, Canadian area, or North 
American country.  I believe KH6 counts as a multiplier in this contest 
even though it is not in North America.

You will want to be on the high bands during the day and on the low 
bands at night, generally.  I usually start out (if the band is open at 
all) on ten meters.  When I have worked out whoever is on 10, I will go 
to 15 and do the same thing.  If I run out of stations on 10 and 15, I 
will try to run on 20M.  I try to check the bands for stations and 
multipliers approximately this way:  10M on the hour.  15M onthe half 
hour.  20M whenever possible between half hour checks.  When it seems 
that 10M is dead, I will do 20M on the hour and 15 on the half hour as 
long as those two bands are open. Eventually, I will substitute 40M for 
15M and 80M for 20M as night time comes on.  And then 160M for 40M.

Even after a band seems to be dead or worked out, I will check it on the 
hour and half hour as indicated above just to make sure that I don't 
miss a workable multiplier.

If you are running, don't hesitate to ask a station who calls you whose 
mult you need on another band to QSY to that band if it might possibly 
result in a new mult.  If you are doing S&P, you would obviously try a 
QSY requested by the run station if it would be a new mult.  I usually 
try to accommodate such requests even if it won't result in  a new mult 
for me to help out the other guy and it will be another QSO point if 
successful.  You may be surprised that you can move stations back to the 
high bands at night after you think the bands are dead.  During this 
week, the week night contest practices have had a lot of activity on 15M 
at 0230 and 0300Z.  If you are running, think of a good run frequency on 
the other bands and be prepared to ask others to QSY to those 
frequencies.  Of course, when you do that, you should send QRL? and move 
a bit if the frequency is in use.  Usually choosing frequencies higher 
and/or lower than most of the activity works well.
It is probably a waste of time to ask a run station to QSY to another 
band for a mult as most won't want to do that.  Some SO2R stations will 
give you the frequency they are monitoring or calling CQ on on the other 
band.  Of course, if the other guy is a close friend or member of your 
team or club, you might get results if you ask.

Don't forget to check 40M around 2130 to 2200Z to try to pick up the 
close in multipliers that may not be workable after the skip goes out on 
40M.

Send at a speed that is comfortable for you.  If you are not getting 
replies to your CQs, you may want to speed up or slow down and see if 
that helps.  Of course, if you have a beam, you probably know when to 
turn it which way, but remember when you are doing a QSY try for a mult, 
the higher band may not have direct skip, but may work backscatter. 
Turn your beam to the west or south west, usually following the sun.

Operate as much as you can keeping in mind higher priorities of family, 
job, church etc.  And, of course, make it fun.

After the contest, post your claimed scores to the 3830scores contest 
reflector and send your Cabrillo file to the sponsor in accordance with 
the rules on the NCJ websit.  You can find this by a link from the 
WA7BNM contest calendar.  If you list a club in the Cabrillo header, 
spell it exactly as "South East Contest Club."  There is no need to put 
your team in the Cabrillo header, although there is no harm in putting 
it in there by creating a new line:  "TEAM: SECC#1 or SECC#2."  But the 
team scores will be determined from the preregistrations, not from the 
Cabrillo headers.  Be sure to put your team in the 3830 posting.  There 
will be a prompt for Club and a prompt for Team.  You can put both on 
3830, but the summary will show only the team name if both are put 
there.  If you show only a club name, that will appear on the summary.

If you have any questions, drop me or the reflector a line.

73, John, K4BAI.