Author: shedberg

2 QSOs tonight

I had two QSOs tonight on 40M. The first was Evan, K2QBN and the second was Robert, KI9N.

Evan was operating from Tampa, FL and after the initial exchange, he disappeared. Not sure if he got tired of my slow speed or was eaten up by the QRN monster.

Robert was from Hickory Hills, Illinois (he spelled out the state – “Illinois”), gave me a nice weather report and we had a nice QSO. QRN was starting to come in (made some QSB too).

Both are getting my new QSL cards which I received in the mail today!

CW QSO

I jumped on the radio real quick last night before bed. After jumping around from 30M to 40M to 80M, I got an answer to my CQ from Tim, WD4GXD. Tim lives in Ruffin, a small town in the hills of western North Carolina, that I actually visited back in June of this year. We had a nice QSO, only wish it could have been longer. Tim was telling me that he had just picked up an IC-706 for mobile operations. He QRS’d so I was able to get almost 100% I hope to catch him again later for a longer ragchew.

I tried looking for a quick lunch time QSO, but had no luck. I think I might try and take the ARSIB out here to Fort Monroe and try to work a lunchtime QSO using a portable antenna. Might be fun.

FISTS Coast to Coast Contest: 1800Z, Sep 30 to 1800Z, Oct 1

Mode: CW
Bands: 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m
Classes: QRP, QRO
Max power: QRO: >5 watts, QRP: 5 watts
Exchange: FISTS: RST + Name + (state/province/country) + FISTS No.
non-FISTS: RST + Name + (state/province/country) + Power (include W)
Work stations: Once per band
QSO Points: 1 point per QSO with FISTS Club
Multipliers: Each FISTS Club once
Score Calculation: Total score = total QSO points x total mults
Submit logs by: October 31, 2006
E-mail log summary to: fistsc2c[at]yahoo[dot]com
Mail logs to: Paul Beringer NG7Z
4702 200th St SE
Bothell, WA 98012
USA
Find rules at: http://www.tomochka.com/k7fff/fnw_c2c06.html

Fall QRP Homebrewer Sprint

— CW/PSK31, sponsored by New Jersey QRP Club from 0000Z-0400Z Sep 25. Frequencies: QRP CW and PSK31 frequencies on 80-10 meters. CW and PSK31 are considered separate bands. Exchange: RST + S/P/C + output power. QSO points: commercial equipment — 2 pts, homebrew xmtr or rcvr — 3 pts, homebrew xmtr and rcvr or xcvr — 4 pts. Kits okay as homebrew. Power multiplier: 0>250 mW = ×15, 250 mW>1 W = ×10, 1-5 W = ×7, >5 W = ×1. Score: QSO points × S/P/C (counted once per band) × power multiplier. For more information: www.njqrp.org. Logs due 30 days from the contest to n2cq@arrl.net (text format, please) or Ken Newman, N2CQ, 81 Holly Dr, Woodbury, NJ 08096.

Need WY for WAS

…. why, yes I do! From the Second Class Operator’s Club… because so few really are First Class

Dale WC7S who is a member of the NAQCC is this week’s “bear” in the NAQCC Bear Hunt. The Bear Hunt is an operating event to help folks obtain their WAS awards.

Dale will be on the air for the next few days; and you can find his schedule at:
http://www.arm-tek.net/~yoel/wasproject.html

9/24
1300-1400 3.560$
1800-1900 7.030
1900-2300 14.060*

$ – 80m if open, else 7.030
* – 20m if open, else 10.116

In the following few weeks, we will be putting Connecticut and Washington State on the air. Not rare enough for you? Well, all 50 are needed sooner or later to complete WAS. It’s our goal at the NAQCC to get all 50 on the air in the upcoming weeks.

Keep checking the schedule!

—
Larry W2LJ
NAQCC #35

Unfinished QSO

Was having a nice 30M CW QSO with John, KA9DVX after a small non-radio related emergency. John was going just a little bit too fast, but I was mostly keeping up. Sorry about leaving you without an explanation John!

There’s a RTTY contest going on – seems to have taken up the traditional part of the 40M CW band.

I made two 40M SSB contacts in for the TX QSO party.