A last-minute reminder of our NAQCC sprint coming up tonight. This email is
also a quick reference guide to our sprints in general. You might want to
save it or print it out.
Here is the date and time for our current sprint:
Tuesday April 10 from 8:30 to 10:30 PM EDT (Wednesday April 11 from 0030Z to
0230Z)
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
the newcomer 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
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 150-200 participants in each sprint, of
whom 100-130 will submit logs for cross-checking. Our record is 135 logs in
August 2010. Our sprints make a powerful statement about the popularity of
CW and QRP to the ham radio world.
General Sprint Rules 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 if activity warrants, spread out up and down from
there to avoid congestion.
Rules specific to this month's sprint are available via:
http://naqcc.info/contests.html
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 via the General Sprint Rules link
above.
The latest data file (naqcc.dat) for GenLog is available in the NAQCC.zip
file here:
http://naqcc.info/naqcc.zip
There is a thorough tutorial on using GenLog that includes many screen
captures at:
http://naqcc.info/sprint_genlog_tutorial.html
NEW: How to check your log before submitting to have the best chance at
getting a GOLDEN LOG:
http://naqcc.info/GLCheckList.txt
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:
http://naqcc.info/sprint_submit_log.html
Tips for successful sprinting can be found at:
http://naqcc.info/sprint_tips.html
Curious about how you did in each of our past sprints, want to check up on
how your 'rivals' did, or want to see the results of a specific sprint? You
can now do all of that at:
http://naqcc.info/contests.html
We award a maximum of 14 certificates for each sprint. One to the winner in
each of the 10 USA call areas, one to the Canadian winner, and one to the DX
winner. The 13th one goes to the first-time entrant with the highest score.
If there are any entrants in our GAIN category, the winner there gets the
14th certificate. When our NAQCC Chapters get organized, we hope to have
competition among them for a 15th certificate for the top aggregate chapter
score.
We also often award a prize of some sort donated by the club or one of our
members to the winner of a random drawing among all who participate and send
in a report.
* John K3WWP - 100% CW / QRP - Proudly promoting Morse Code:
*
* As NAQCC VP - # 0002 FC # 1 - http://naqcc.info/
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* As FISTS Keynote QRP Columnist - # 2002 - http://www.fists.org/
*
* With my CW-QRP site - http://home.windstream.net/johnshan/
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