![]() | NAQCC News |
Dec 8, 2007 | NAQCC Web Site | Issue #060 |
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In this issue: 1. December Sprint. 2. November Challenge Results 3. General Club News 4. CW Cartoon of the Month 5. Member News |
1. SPRINT: Our sprint is this Tuesday evening, Dec. 11th at 8:30-10:30 PM EST (Wednesday 0130-0330Z). Who among our participants in this sprint has been licensed the longest time?...the shortest time? We hope to find out and award a certificate to both persons. That's our Special Award for this month's sprint. All you need do is tell us when you received your first ham license and we'll do all the figuring. If you use the autologger, and we hope you do, Select 'Yes' in the Special Award eligibility box and put the date of your first license in the Special Award data box. I'm looking forward to processing over 50 logs this time. We got 44 for our last sprint despite it being Thanksgiving eve. This month their is no such conflict. In fact there is not even a conflict with an SKCC sprint since they have finally re-scheduled their sprints to the 4th Wednesday of a month. So unless you have work or other commitments, there's no excuse for missing this one and having a ton of fun. There are the usual prizes and certificates topped off by our monthly giveaway of the CW books on CD donated by Chuck K7QO who also is including his wonderful CW learning/improvement course on CD. There are currently 12 books included in Chuck's offer valued over $100 normally but given free this month to a member drawn at random from among all who are qualified (no officers nor previous CD winners) and make and report at least 5 QSO's in the sprint. See the complete specifics in the December sprint rules. When the sprint is over, please submit your results and log via our autologger. We've got it working perfectly no matter what browser/operating system you use. Last sprint of the 44 reports received, 34 came via the autologger along with many comments how easy it is to submit a report that way. If you use paper logging during the sprints, there's our log and summary form with instructions for you to download and fill in with your text editor to email to us or you can transfer the info to our autologger mentioned above. If you use GenLog for the sprint, be sure to get the latest GenLog data file here. After the sprint, use the 'Log' menu - 'Write ASCII log [K3WWP.log]' selection to create your log, and submit the K3WWP.log file via the autologger, email, etc. Of course obviously your log will have your call in the menu choice and log file name, not K3WWP. If you're entering one of our sprints for the first time, we welcome you and hope you will be a regular participant from now on. Last month we had 6 hams who submitted a log for the first time ever: KB4QQJ,KU4GW,WB8ENE,W4ONC,N4NI,N8CX. Full Sprint info here. ![]() 2. NOVEMBER CHALLENGE RESULTS: It is so gratifying when you work on something so hard and finally see it become successful. I think that is true of our NAQCC challenges. For three years now, our challenges only seemed to interest a few members, mostly the same ones each month. However, I noticed a real change in our November challenge, both from the number of reports and the soapbox comments. For example please read N9AKF's comments about the challenge in the member news below. Perhaps that will make you re-think our challenges and lead you to participate if you haven't done so yet. I think our challenges are really starting to catch on now. I hope that continues. Although the deadline for submitting your November challenge report is still a couple days away, we've already received reports from 13 folks who made all the words and 3 others who made at least one of the words to qualify for a participation point. We'll have the final results in the end of December newsletter when we announce the January challenge. Of course our drawing for the bug/paddle handles donated by Gregg WB8LZG still has to be held also. We'll also announce the winner in the next newsletter. You can see examples of the handles on Gregg's web site. Full challenge info including my tutorial/work sheet for our alphabet style challenges here. ![]() 3. GENERAL CLUB NEWS: - Since it is only one week since our last newsletter, there is not much in the way of club news for this issue other than to remind you that we will be holding our annual 160M sprint on the 25th of January (UTC). Info on that special sprint has just been posted in the Contests/Sprints section of the web site. ![]() The winner of the QRP Transceiver Kit in our October sprint (Gregg WB8LZG) has decided that since he already has several QRP rigs for 40 meters, he is re-donating the kit to be given away again. He has also added a printout of the complete assembly instructions and an enclosure for the rig. To refresh memories, it's a Hendricks QRP transceiver kit, the DC40 for 40 meters. Thank you Gregg for your thoughtfulness. Here is how the giveaway works: 1) Email ![]() 2) Make a combined total of at least 5 QSO's in our Dec 2007 and Jan 2008 sprints. 3) If you currently don't have any kind of HF rig at all with which to satisfy step 2, send a statement to that effect to the email address in step 1, and the QSO requirement in step 2 will be waived in your case. All who thus qualify according to the three steps will be entered into a drawing near the end of January to select the winner. Full giveaway info here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A new cartoon will be appearing in each of our 'before the sprint' newsletters. Those are the ones with the even numbers, and this one qualifies so here we go. ![]() Now back to the news after you stop chuckling. ![]() 5. MEMBER NEWS: Thanks to your news submissions, this is becoming a very popular section of the newsletter. We hope you will continue telling us of your QRP/CW doings and including the wonderful pictures as well. Remember we only accept POSITIVE news here unlike the TV newscasts. There is so much that is wonderful going on in the world, it's a shame only the negative is emphasized in so many places. Send your news items to our news editor Paul KD2MX at ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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