New England QSO Party Annual on-the-air Event!

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I will be roving again with limited effort this year. We covered ~1300 miles and 29 counties through the event last year and earned the plaque above.

You are the desirable contact if you are in New England- The exchange is your County/State.

Get on HF and call CQ NEQP next weekend. Rules attached-

Rules
Object: To contact as many New England stations (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) in as many New England counties as possible on 80-40-20-15-10m. (New England stations work anyone)

Date: First full weekend of May (May 4-5, 2019)

Contest Period: 2000Z Saturday until 0500Z Sunday (4pm EDT Saturday until 1am EDT Sunday) and 1300Z Sunday until 2400Z Sunday (9am EDT Sunday until 8pm EDT Sunday).

Categories: Single-operator high power, low power(150w or less) and QRP(5w or less) categories, plus multi-operator, single transmitter. Same four categories for mobiles.

Contest Exchange: Send signal report and state/province (DX stations send signal report and "DX"). New England stations send signal report, county and state.

Valid Contact: Work New England stations once per band/mode. New England stations work anyone(and must copy the county for New England stations worked. CW contacts must not be made in the phone band segments. Mobiles that change counties are considered to be new stations, and can be worked for both multiplier and QSO Point credit. County line QSOs should be logged as two separate QSOs. Crossmode, crossband and repeater QSOs are not permitted.

QSO Points: Count one point per phone QSO, two points per CW (includes digital modes)QSO.

Multiplier: Stations outside of New England use counties as multipliers for a total of 67 (CT/8 MA/14 ME/16 NH/10 RI/5 VT/14). New England stations use states(50)(Count DC as MD), Canadian provinces(14) and DXCC countries as multipliers.

Scoring: Total score is QSO points times the multiplier. Mobiles count QSO points per county and multipliers from all counties (counted once).

Suggested frequencies: CW - 3540 7035 14040 21040 28040, SSB - 3850 7180 7280 14280 21380 28380.

Reporting: Logs should indicate times in UTC, bands, modes, calls and required contest exchange. All stations include your club's name in the log header or summary. Entries must be submitted within 30 days and sent to NEQP, P.O.Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 or via e-mail to [email protected] (Cabrillo format preferred).

Awards: Certificates will be awarded to the top scorers (25 QSO minimum) in each New England county, U.S. state, Canadian province and DXCC country. A number of special plaques will also be awarded to top scorers (check the Web site for a current list).

More information: The New England QSO Party Web site is at http://www.neqp.org. Check there for information on planned fixed-station and mobile activity from New England counties, contest software information, county abbreviations, plaques to be awarded and information on New England state county awards. NEQP results will be posted on the web site when they are complete. Questions can be addressed to [email protected].

Last updated 5/7/18
 
Make sure to get on the air!

Here is the proposed path we are taking this year; Staying South on Saturday and covering VT on Sunday.
If you are from New England, and have HF get on and hand out your county. Spot all New England stations you hear on the packet clusters!

NZ1U/m


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Blue was planned and red is actual path traveled.

Around 1000 contacts from 28 counties. Was a great weekend, Weather was super up north. As we closed in on Rutland on day 2, the fog was thick and a bit of rain happened.
Only hold-up was traffic north of Rutland where a horrific looking multi-motorcycle accident closed the road for about 30 mins.

About 3 tanks of fuel. Fuel was same prices, high, everywhere.

UJ
 
Bump!

This weekend, guys!


Since the travel restrictions are in effect, we are not going to participate with a mobile effort, but we are going to have something a little bit different; NZ1U 'Virtual Virus Rover' where we will be passing around the use of the callsign for guys to work from their own county.

Good Luck!

Jay W1UJ / NZ1U
 
Bump! This weekend! 2021


Here is our route for rovering this weekend, staying in Bangor Saturday night;

Get on and give your county! It is very active, especially on Sunday. Good luck!

2021 NZ1U/m (N1WK/W1UJ)

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Saturday
WORMA - MIDMA - ESSMA - ROCNH - STRNH - CARNH - COONH - OXFME - FRAME - SOMME - PISME - PENME

Sunday
PENME - HANME - WASME - HANME - WALME - KNOME - LINME - KENME - SAGME - ANDME - CUMME - YORME - ROCNH - ESSMA - SUFMA - MIDMA - WORMA

Using a borrowed Icom IC-7300 with the K3 as a backup.... What a neat little rig;
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Forgive my ignorance, but are people within New England participants in the contest or just handing out points for people outside New England? I don't know why I'm such a dumb ass with understanding contest rules.
 
Sounds like NE folks can get points, just not for the NE counties ... we get points for states and DX countries and Canadian provinces. I need to fix an antenna Saturday.
 
NE folks can get NE states but not NE counties I think. I probably won't play long enough to rack up real points but I'll give it a go. I spend time in VT on the weekends so maybe I'll do some work from there too.

Valid Contact: Work New England stations once per band/mode. New England stations work anyone (and must copy the county for New England stations worked). CW contacts must not be made in the phone band segments. Mobiles that change counties are considered to be new stations, and can be worked for both multiplier and QSO Point credit. County line QSOs should be logged as two separate QSOs. Crossmode, crossband, and repeater QSOs are not permitted.
 
yes yes! Make contacts anywhere you can. The difference is that you are 'the hunted'- and people within the contest will be very pleased to work you.
Since New England is too close, you may be way better off just working anyone and not focus on New Englanders.....
Or find a clear frequency and call CQ New Eng QSO Party on phone.....

10 meters has been opening up.

All QSOs count... no duplicates!

We'll be within New England likely CW only. 40-50khz off of the bottom of the band & traversing Maine.....
Last Year example....
View: https://youtu.be/j12m31BtFjs


UJay
 
I can't make any promises, but it might try my hand at CW for this. At least for a little while. I'd probably run 15-17 wpm which would give newbs like me a better chance of getting through. It would certainly give me a lot of practice sending call signs, which I never do other than my own.
 
Well ... I was happy to see that the driver was not the one copying and sending CW in UJay's video :eek:

Even doing it as a passenger is impressive!
 
@UJay was that person copying and then letting the SW do the sending? I use N3FJP software and I think it'll do that. I could use the practice, but it'd be good to know for the future.
 
Yeah that's me operating. I pump the audio from the rig into the car audio input.
The driver really doesn't copy CW, but we shoot the breeze while driving along.

N3FJP will send the macros. I do have a set of paddles screwed into the lapdesk for sending quick fills, but the laptop sends >95%.

I use N1MM+ Logger with either an Elecraft K3 or a Icom IC7300... Not sure what we are going with this year.

UJay
 
Yeah that's me operating. I pump the audio from the rig into the car audio input.
The driver really doesn't copy CW, but we shoot the breeze while driving along.

N3FJP will send the macros. I do have a set of paddles screwed into the lapdesk for sending quick fills, but the laptop sends >95%.

I use N1MM+ Logger with either an Elecraft K3 or a Icom IC7300... Not sure what we are going with this year.

UJay
That sounds absolutely horrible for the driver who doesn't copy CW. He probably hears 5nn 5nn in his nightmares.
 
I played for a few hours today from 4 til just about dark. I had a couple nice runs, but it was slow going a lot of the day. I'll jump on again from home tomorrow and pick up a few more.
 
Contest: NEWE QSOPARTY
Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul Pt/Q
3.5 CW 19 38 0 2.0
7 CW 327 654 29 2.0
14 CW 384 768 21 2.0
Total Both 730 1460 50 2.0
Score: 73,000
1 Mult = 14.6 Q's

Radio conditions seemed to suck, ~ 870 miles total.
Northern ME was beautiful and the WX was perfect for driving. After doing this for a dozen years or more, this was the first time we went out on the coast and came back 'inland', counter-clockwise.... Was a very low stress, no traffic, easy route for sure. We did hit > 10 miles of unpaved roads.... was pretty bouncy in the F-150

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You beat the hell out of me. I was only on for a few hours on Saturday, then it was work around the house all day Sunday.
 
Logged 278 just playing an hour here and hour there.

Speaking of hours I long ago thought they should eliminate the peculiar Sunday break in operating hours, 0500 till 1300 UTC.

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