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NAQCC Prize Drawing

Our Ninth Anniversary Prize Drawing was a great success. We had over 3,000 hits on the "semi-live" webcast of the drawing. All of our nine winners should have received their prizes from MFJ and American Morse by now. If you haven't, contact Club Manager Paul N8XMS at pix_email_n8xms (1K).

Now some feedback from our winners:

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Evan, W5IQS in Horseshoe Bay, Texas with his third place prize digital local/UTC clock.

W5IQS: Thanks NAQCC, it is always pleasant to get a new Ham gadget and this one arrived very near my 80th birthday in November too. My first license was as KA2EA in Japan in 1954-55, I received W5IQS when I returned to the US. In trying to raise a family and complete my degree I dropped out of Ham Radio from 1968 until 2000 when my wife encouraged me to study and get my license. W5IQS is now a vanity call but it is my first US call and was still available. There is more to the story but that's for another time.
73 / 72 de Evan, W5IQS


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Ken N3FZX and his second place prize mini-paddle

N3FZX: Very cool. Thanks. :^). John, Here is my picture. I guess it is fitting that my prize was a paddle since mine got stuck while working K3WWP. I had a good time doing the sprint. It was fun getting back on the air with QRP CW. Less is more.


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Bill K6MGO (N6A) with his first place prize straight key

K6MGO: Thanks Guys! Hi John, Got my KK1 Kit yesterday and built it up today. Haven't attached it to the rig yet, but just playing with it, I am impressed with how nice it feels. Will be using it in the next Sprint for sure. Attached are a couple of pictures. Thank you and the club very much for this great prize. I don't usually win anything, so to win something that is not only usual for me, but to win something that I can use is really sweet. 72, Bill


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Bob, WB3T (N3A) with his third place prize digital local/UTC clock

WB3T: I just received my MFJ UTC clock, and I have to tell you, the QRP gods knew who to send this to. I am forever doing mental subtraction to figure UTC for my log. Now I have both local time and UTC at a glance. I really enjoyed the Sprint this month, and I can see from the entries that CW continues to grow. Being a 95% CW op for 38 years, I am happy to see all the CW activity associated with NAQCC, and QRP makes it even better. I started out in 1975 as a CW QRP op with an MFJ-40T 5-Watt transmitter primarily due to the budgetary constraints of a young dad and novice ham. But as the years go by and the hobby budget increases, I still am hooked on QRP. Kudos to NAQCC members and officers who pull together to keep CW and QRP very much visible in the ham radio community. And thanks to the club and MFJ for the clock! Bet I can make more contacts with the time I'll save scratching my head over, "Let's see... it's 2:17 PM EDT so that's 5 hours and change before 0000... so 24-6=18 so it's 1817 Z. Forget all that, from now on I'll be sending CW QRP instead! 72, Bob, WB3T.


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Here is a picture of me [N8BB] and my new KK1 straight key I just received in the mail.

N8BB: I want to thank everyone involved including the sponsors of the prizes. It is really a nice and rewarding feeling to be part of a group that encourages and helps so many new hams get into qrp hamming. I am truly blessed having so many old and new friends all over to chat with and brighten up my life. I know I will take this new key out in the field next summer and have a whole lot of good contacts. Thank you all again. Werner N8BB NAQCC 1692


KE3O: Thanks so much for the notification. Not only was I surprised to have won a prize, I was (and I am) equally happy to be part of the NAQCC fraternity. Although my code speed is not so fast anymore (see my QRZ.com page), I really enjoy the mode and the challenge of QRP operation. It has been many years since I sat for code tests at the Baltimore office of the FCC, but the years have not diminished the pleasure I still get from 'making a contact' in CW mode. Thanks and 72/73, Bill (KE3O)


AC5T: Thank you very much. What a surprise. I didn't know about any prizes. I was just listening that night on the radio and happen to see in the contest calendar the NAQCC sprint was starting in 10 minutes so I thought I would have a little fun for a while. I had a great time and this is just icing on the cake. Thanks again. 73 Lynn AC5T


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The drawing among all eligible members was a computer drawing supervised by NAQCC Vice-President John K3WWP and NAQCC Prize Manager Mike KC2EGL (L-R in above picture). It worked like this: All eligible participants were given a number from 1 through 153 (less QRO and non-member participants) according to the order in which they are listed on the October sprint results page. Then a random number generator in the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program generated a number from 1 to 153. The page with the generator was refreshed several times for each drawing to re-seed the random number generator to insure complete randomness.

Here's a screen dump showing a portion of the Excel spreadsheet. Note the random formula in cell A1 which while taking the screen dump showed #12 in this example. The dump is from the 100th sprint drawing in February which is why 187 shows in the formula and not the number from this sprint.

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The member whose number from 1 to 153 is chosen was declared the winner of that particular prize and posted here on this page, and later notified by email. It's as simple as that.

Now let's get to the first drawing after this bit of trivia.

DID YOU KNOW: In our 108 sprints, there have been 111,810 QSOs that were submitted and thoroughly cross-checked.


Fourth Place Drawing

Fourth place prize winner is: John N4A (K4BAI)

Our fourth place prize is:

Fourth place - book (35K)
From MFJ, one "Morse Code, Breaking the Barrier" book.


A little more trivia, then on with the next drawings.

DID YOU KNOW: In our 108 sprints, there have been 7,780 logs submitted for an average of 14.4 QSOs per log.


Third Place Drawings

First third place prize winner is: Bob N3A (WB3T)

Second third place prize winner is: Evan W5IQS

Third third place prize winner is: Bill KE3O

Our third place prizes are:

Third place - clock (173K)
From MFJ, three mfj-108b 24-hour digital clocks.


A little more trivia, then on with the next drawings.

DID YOU KNOW: In our 108 sprints, there have been 3,057 DIFFERENT hams participate.


Second Place Drawings

First second place prize winner is: Ken N3FZX

Second second place prize winner is: James N1RU

Third second place prize winner is: Lynn AC5T

Our second place prizes are:

Second place - minipaddle (15K)
From MFJ, three mfj-561 mini paddles.


A little more trivia, then on with the next drawings.

DID YOU KNOW: 20 members have participated in 50-108 of our sprints: K3WWP KA2KGP W2JEK W2SH KD2MX W9CC WY3H K4NVJ N4FI K4BAI WB8LZG K4JPN NU7T KB3AAG N8XMS NF8M KU4A K3RLL KD0V VE3FUJ


First Place Drawings

First first place winner is: Werner N8BB

Second first first place winner is: Bill N6A (K6MGO)

Our first place prize is:

First place - straightkey (18K)
From American Morse, two KK1 Straight key kits.