A last-minute reminder of our NAQCC mW 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.
Before we talk about the sprint, a plea from Dean NW2K. He would like
someone to help him process the sprint results pages. He thinks the best way
to do it would be to alternate months. If you know HTML and can spend
perhaps 4-8 hours every other month, please contactnaqcc33 at windstream.net
and let us know. Now to tonight's sprint.
Here is the date and time for our current sprint:
Wednesday June 20 from 8:30 to 10:30 PM EDT (Thursday June 21 from 0030Z to
0230Z)
The mW sprint is the same as our regular sprints with one big exception. To
be considered for any awards or prizes, you must run less than 1 watt output
power. That includes the 25 dollar gift certificate donated by Uncle Cy, The
LED Guy. See the rules page or the prizes page on the web site for more info
on that.
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.
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 150-200 participants in each sprint, of
whom 100-130 will submit logs for cross-checking. Our record is 137 logs in
April 2012. 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
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
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
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 or want to see the
results of a specific sprint? You can now do all of that at:
http://naqcc.info/contests.html
For those who do emphasize making high scores, we award a maximum of 14
certificates for each sprint. One to the high scorer in each of the 10 USA
call areas, one to the Canadian high scorer, and one to the DX high scorer.
The 13th one goes to the first-time entrant with the highest score. If there
are any entrants in our GAIN category, the high scorer 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 in a random drawing among all members 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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