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July 2026 QRP/CW Sprint (#261)
N2CN Comments - Results are final
Final Results
SWA - STRAIGHT KEY CATEGORY
Call QSOs Mbrs Pts Mul Sco Bon Final 80-40-20 Antenna
W1 Division
NX1K 34 34 68 18 1224 x2 2448 Doublet @ 30 feet.
KN1H 16 15 31 11 341 x2 682 OCF Dipole up 30 feet
KA1YZC 5 5 10 4 40 x2 80 Inverted V G5RV
NA4O 4 4 8 4 32 x2 64 17' vertical on top of car
KK4ITX 3 3 6 3 18 x2 36 35ft EFRW @ about 10ft. (HOA) black telephone wire
W2 Division
KB2GKC 32 30 62 17 1054 x2 2108 40m 1/2 wave endfed up 30 ft
KA2KGP 34 34 68 14 952 x2 1904 G5RV up 20'
KN2G 17 17 34 12 408 x2 816 fan dipole @ 55'
W2SH 11 11 22 7 154 x2 308 72' wire vertical
KC3MIO 10 10 20 7 140 x2 280 133' EFHW; inverted L up 25-30'
AA2YK 5 5 10 5 50 x2 100 Dipole at 30,
W3 Division
K3JZD 28 25 53 18 954 x2 1908 40m Dipole @25'
AK3X 15 15 30 11 330 x2 660 102' inv vee. 300 Ohm feed@35'
W4 Division
KC5F 50 49 99 22 2178 x2 4356 80m EFHW up about 40'
WX4RM 14 14 28 9 252 x2 504 4BTV gnd mtd vert
WG8Y 10 8 18 9 162 x2 324 GRD MNTED 6BTV
KN4RQD 10 10 20 8 160 x2 320 EFHW at 25 feet
KA8VZB 6 6 12 6 72 x2 144 60 ft end fed wire up 20 ft
K4WY 4 4 8 3 24 x2 48 dipole
W5 Division
KE5YUM 0 0 0 0 0 x2 0 80 meter dipole @ 28 feet
W6 Division
K6GPB 0 0 0 0 0 x2 0 dipole
W7 Division
KJ7KDB 0 0 0 0 0 x2 0 Ultimax 100 24' vertical
W8 Division
W8GG 23 22 45 15 675 x2 1350 Modified 4BTV, gnd mnt, 20 radials
KA8FQS 6 6 12 6 72 x2 144 Off Center Fed Dipole @ 13 feet
NF8M 4 4 8 4 32 x2 64 6btv, efhw@ 30 ft
KB8PVQ 2 2 4 2 8 x2 16 Inverted vee up 30' at the peak
W9 Division
WB9HFK 30 30 60 19 1140 x2 2280 EFHW @ 30 Ft.
N8HWV 16 16 32 13 416 x2 832 80m EFHW at 15 ft agl
W9DWR 14 14 28 10 280 x2 560 Hustler 6BTV ground mounted vertical
N9JFZ 10 10 20 10 200 x2 400 Ground mount 4BTV & G5RV at about 25 feet.
K9QEW 10 10 20 8 160 x2 320 4BTV
W0 Division
NN0SS 8 8 16 8 128 x2 256 inverted V @ 30 ft
AA0W 4 4 8 4 32 x2 64 80-40-20 Dipole @ 30 Ft
Canada Division
VA3NU 15 15 30 10 300 x2 600 40M efhw @25'
DX Division
SWA - BUG CATEGORY
Call QSOs Mbrs Pts Mul Sco Bon Final 80-40-20 Antenna
W1 Division
W1TER 15 15 30 11 330 x1.5 495 40 mtr EFHW
W2 Division
N2TNN 30 30 60 17 1020 x1.5 1530 135ft wire up 35 ft NW to SE
W3 Division
KE3V 20 20 40 13 520 x1.5 780 Mystery Antenna with apex @ 25'
K3RLL 12 12 24 8 192 x1.5 288 G5RVjr @ 35'
NN3E 2 2 4 2 8 x1.5 12 40-80 Trap Dipole inverted vee @ 50 '
W4 Division
W4NLT 25 25 50 13 650 x1.5 975 84ft end fed @ 30ft
W5 Division
W6 Division
W7 Division
W8 Division
W9 Division
W0 Division
Canada Division
DX Division
SWA - KEYER/KEYBOARD CATEGORY
Call QSOs Mbrs Pts Mul Sco Bon Final 80-40-20 Antenna
W1 Division
N2CN 32 31 63 18 1134 1134 40m dipole at 35 feet
WY7N 16 16 32 11 352 352 Off-center-fed dipole @ 100'
KB1M 10 10 20 7 140 140 20 ,40 M Dipoles
W2 Division
N2ESE 13 13 26 9 234 234 ZS6BKW@25FT
WA1GWH 8 8 16 8 128 128 40m quarter wave inverted L over ground radials
WA2FBN 3 3 6 3 18 18 EFHW sloper @ 25ft
W3 Division
W4 Division
K4KBL 25 24 49 17 833 833 endfed @ 35'
WB0CJB 21 21 42 14 588 588 6BTV gnd mtd vert
N4MJ 20 19 39 14 546 546 80 - 6 EFHW 30'
NI4U 15 15 30 9 270 270 OCF up 35'
K4KRW 7 7 14 6 84 84 Iverted V @ 65'
WA4AAK 5 5 10 5 50 50 EFHW 10/20/40 @ 25 ft.
W5 Division
N5GW 3 3 6 2 12 12 doublet @ 25'
W6 Division
W7 Division
W8 Division
WA8SAN 10 10 20 8 160 160 End fed wire @ 25ft
WI8J 10 10 20 7 140 140 130 ft EFHW at 20 ft
WB8ENE 5 5 10 4 40 40 41' end fed wire @ 10'
W9 Division
WD9EGW 3 3 6 3 18 18 MC-750 Vertical sitting on back deck
AB9BZ 2 2 4 2 8 8 EFHW @ 30'
W0 Division
NO2D 5 5 10 4 40 40 80 meter doublet @ 30 feet
KF0U 2 2 4 2 8 8 EFRW @ 30'
Canada Division
VE3DQN 12 12 24 10 240 240 40/80/160m fan dipoles @40ft
VE3IIM 11 11 22 9 198 198 fan dipole...160-10 metres at 30 feet
DX Division
DK1VD 1 1 2 1 2 2 GRND MTD Verti
GAIN ANTENNA CATEGORY
Call QSOs Mbrs Pts Mul Sco Bon Final 80-40-20 Antenna
Straight Key
Bug
Keyer/Keyboard
Not eligible for certificate or prize for the following reason(s):
@ Non-member
$ QRO power
| CERTIFICATES |
| SWA - STRAIGHT KEY CATEGORY |
| Division | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| W1 | NX1K | KN1H | KA1YZC |
| W2 | KB2GKC | KA2KGP | KN2G |
| W3 | K3JZD | AK3X | - |
| W4 | KC5F | WX4RM | WG8Y |
| W5 | KE5YUM | - | - |
| W6 | K6GPB | - | - |
| W7 | KJ7KDB | - | - |
| W8 | W8GG | KA8FQS | NF8M |
| W9 | WB9HFK | N8HWV | W9DWR |
| W0 | NN0SS | AA0W | - |
| Canada | VA3NU | - | - |
| DX | - | - | - |
| SWA - BUG CATEGORY |
| Division | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| W1 | W1TER | - | - |
| W2 | N2TNN | - | - |
| W3 | KE3V | K3RLL | NN3E |
| W4 | W4NLT | - | - |
| W5 | - | - | - |
| W6 | - | - | - |
| W7 | - | - | - |
| W8 | - | - | - |
| W9 | - | - | - |
| W0 | - | - | - |
| Canada | - | - | - |
| DX | - | - | - |
| SWA - KEYER/KEYBOARD CATEGORY |
| Division | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| W1 | N2CN | WY7N | KB1M |
| W2 | N2ESE | WA1GWH | WA2FBN |
| W3 | - | - | - |
| W4 | K4KBL | WB0CJB | N4MJ |
| W5 | N5GW | - | - |
| W6 | - | - | - |
| W7 | - | - | - |
| W8 | WA8SAN | WI8J | WB8ENE |
| W9 | WD9EGW | AB9BZ | - |
| W0 | NO2D | KF0U | - |
| Canada | VE3DQN | VE3IIM | - |
| DX | DK1VD | - | - |
| GAIN ANTENNA CATEGORY |
| Key Type | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| SK | - | - | - |
|---|
| BUG | - | - | - |
|---|
| K/K | - | - | - |
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| FIRST TIME ENTRANT HIGH SCORE |
| Key Type | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| SK | - | - | - |
| BUG | - | - | - |
| K/K | - | - | - |
| PRIZE DRAWING WINNER |
| Prizes | - |
STATS:
Logs submitted: 63
Total participants: 93
Total QSOs: 793
States + Provinces represented: 33 + ON + DX
SOAPBOX:
AB9BZ - Had the QMX+ on the air. Bands were rough tonight, thanks for the contacts. 72 ab9bz
K4KBL - Great time mostly on 20 meters. worked Jim, ND9M in SD and Bruce, WY7N in UT along with some familiar friends.
Even 40 meters wasn't too noisy for a change !
K4WY - Tough night on 20 and 40 I heard many stations but only was able to contact a few. Time to check the antennas!
72
KE3V - It was a nice night for a sprint. Most activity was on 40m. Didn't hear anyone on 80m.
WA4AAK - Four contacts on the noisy 40m band, and 1 contact on 20. Thank you WB0CJB, K0HNL, K3JZD, WB9HFK, and KC5F! 72 from Alabama.
NO2D - Enjoyed the sprint. Thanks to all who make these sprints possilbe.
Pete, NO2D
N2CN - 40m was noisy but fruitful.
KN1H - Rediscovered an OCF dipole running through the trees that I hadn't used in years. Seems to work OK on 80, 40 and 20 with no tuner, although I got a lot of 539 reports! Fun to make some combo QSOs with both NA and FP numbers.
N8HWV - 40 m was the only game in town. Condx were pretty good compared to the static lately. Thanks, 73.
N2TNN - The bands improved as we went along. Good hearing the familiar calls and 40 meters was full. 72, Dean
K9QEW - 20 meters was a little rough with deep QSB. 40 meters seemed
much better with good activity. QRT early. 72 Daryl
WY7N - I haven't done one of these for a while. Glad to be back!
NF8M - Only able to get on for the last 10 min or so after son's birthday dinner and visit. Gud condx on 40m, strong sigs from all. 72 until next time.
VA3NU - Been awhile since I was on so had great fun tonight working familiar OPS and also new ones to me.
Great to stay inside and make contacts while avoiding the smoke from all the wildfires.
72 to all.
Larry
K3JZD - All 40m. Strange conditions. In addition to QSB something was affecting the tone of all but the strongest signals. Maybe the sun was playing games with us again. Had to give up a few. Sorry. K4 at 5 watts and 40m Dipole. 72, Jody - K3JZD
KF0U - After being a NAQCC member for years and helping out with the scoring before it was automated, I finally took the plunge and actually participated in my first Sprint. Had fun trying to pick out stations, but still not good at hearing them just above the noise level. I'll work on it:)
N4MJ - Some new Ops. Tnx for the fun. 72/73 de n4mj
KC5F - Nice signals on all three bands, other than some QSB, but not many takers on 80. One was new member KB8PVQ. Another new member worked was KA1YZC, on 40. Nice to meet you both! NI4U was the only station I worked on all three bands, although there were many I worked on 20 and 40. And always nice to work Fred, DK1VD, on 40m. All-in-all, a nice night. Thanks, all! - Steve
KB8PVQ - This was my first Sprint as an NAQCC member and I didn't get started until 16 minutes until the end! Thanks to Rusty, N9JFZ, and Steve, KC5F, for my first NAQCC QSOs! 72 from west central Ohio de Jason.
K4KRW - I got a late start. Thanks everyone! It was nice to hear some familiar signals tonight. I only tried 40 meters and it was working well. 73, Richard
K6GPB - Rough night. Didn't hear any members and of course could not make any contacts. Hopefully better conditions next month. Look forward to it. 72
N9JFZ - Contacts on 20, 40 & 80 meters this evening.
72 All
NI4U - Had a great time tonight. 40m came alive with lots of stations! Happy to catch KC5F on 20, 40, and 80m.
NX1K - Only a few on 20m, rest on 40m. The latter was very noisy here and I may have missed a few callers.
I was disappointed to not hear anyone on 80m.
All that said, I had a good time working some familiar and some new (to me) folks.
KN4RQD - Managed one contact on 20 with KN1H - all of the rest were on 40. Not many signal reports above 559. Always a fun time, thanks for organizing!
WG8Y - Hi all, Nice nite here so played backyard patio portable. Started with a Xiegu X6100 at 5W. on internal power.After 6/7 Q's I switched to my QMX 80-20 Rig.I have it in a combo case from KF4VE that has a slot for a talentcell 3000 battery.Nice. Bounced around tonite from 40m to 20m. 6 Q's on each band. Had fun. Thanks for the contacts .
72 from N.C. Mark WG8Y
W9DWR - Had a great time! I missed a couple near the beginning on 20 meters due to QSB. Only 1 contact on 20 and nothing on 80 tonight. 40 was the winner. 73!
KN2G - An excellent night just wandering around and getting some new to me calls. Finished off the night with Dave, WA3SCM in a nice slow qso... I was feeling so uncompetitive after breathing the Canadian smoke all afternoon... Sad that so much tundra must burn. I keep working on my keying... thanks for the patience everyone!
VE3DQN - Good signals tonight. Fun to make 20m contacts for the first half hour.
W4NLT - Another fun night. A few call I haven't worked before along with the QRP faithful. TNX for the QSOs 72 Andy
KK4ITX - Not the best of nights but much better than it has been. 40m worked best, EFRW antenna, 35.5 ft telephone black hook up wire sloping from 11ft to 4ft. Rig was as shown in this month's newsletter. Had several that I could hear clearly but they couldn't hear me good enough to complete. Good time!!
KA8FQS - This was my first sprint. I used my Western Electric "Lewis" key.
KE5YUM - The propagation gods did not favor me last night--no contacts. Perhaps I will have better luck next month.
K3RLL - Really good evening with lots of participation and good signals on 20m. So nice to have an outside antenna here in PA. 72, ... Don
W8GG - Hello Fellow Sprinters! Wonderful eve fer a sprint! I fired up the FTdx 1200 at 5w to modified 4BTV vertical wid 20 radials. 20m was in fine shape at the start, albeit the skip was very short. Not a peep heard from the west coast. Nothing from Fla es only 1 TX stn. However I did grab 3 ON stns from Canada. Nice to work old friends Don K3RLL es Charles W2SH, back to back. After 12 QSOs on 20m I jumped to 40m. Lot's of signals on 40 es some true 599. Some also right at the noise es that "wicked QSB" was trying to steal several QSOs away from me. Went to 20 agn at 0930 to check fer westies but no joy. 80 ,nada, just noise. Finished up wid a few more on 40 before gg QRT. Had a super fun time this evening, tns to all. 73 Gregg W8GG
KB2GKC - GE everyone. Great band conditions this evening. 20m was going strong past 0100 hrs here in NY....followed by a pretty quiet 40 meters. Good to here all the NAQ activity. See you next time ...72
KA2KGP - Another good NA Sprint. 40m. had the only good band conditions here in WNY. Rig: IC-7000 at 5w. into a G5RV up 20 ft. w/an old WWII German Junkers straight key. 73 & keep cool !
WB8ENE - 20 is usually better than 40, but not this time. Thanks for the contacts. 73, Art
KJ7KDB - Called CQ on both 40 & 20 meters with no luck. Will continue to keep trying. Still fun to get on the air. 72 de KJ7KDB Tim
WX4RM - Only 1 contact on 20M tonight, my little signal just was not heard. But 40M produced loud signals, and that is where most of my contacts were made.
WB0CJB - Band conditions were really noisy. I stated out with the 7300 but ended up using my K2. Several stations were in the noise and fortunately came up enough to get the QSO. I almost stopped before 0200 but right after I got 5 QSOs so I stuck it out. Thanks to everyone who hung in there with me.
72 WB0CJB
KC3MIO - Move to NJ completed. After spending most of the day at DMV getting NJ licenses and registrations, needed comic relief. Too tired to work entire sprint, worked till just after 0100, using new 133' EFHW in inverted L configuration with MTR-4B running 5 watts. Only contacts on 20; brief tests of 40 and 80 yielded no contacts. 73/72 and looking forward to next month. Rich
WA2FBN - Only able to operate last half hour of sprint; 40m was still open. 72 Ken
AK3X - All on 40 meters. For extra fun I used my 3 watt Small Wonder Labs DSW40 that I built about 25 years ago. It still works fine as do my DSW20 and DSW30. 40 meter was in good shape here.
WD9EGW - Enjoyed the Sprint. Thank you to the organizers.
72, Chuck
VE3IIM - Sorry to the weak ones calling me. Guessing I need to do some antenna work! Fun, as usual. Some new calls too..
W2SH - The skip zone on 20m was fairly short. Activity level on 40m was high. I didn't sample 80m.
N5GW - I did not have much time for the sprint. The summer doldrums make for poor propagation, so I am hanging on till fall!
NA4O - Portable from the car in Cape Cod for a short time. Great to be able to join in this sprint. 17' vertical on top of car with one counterpoise, KX2 @ 5W.
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