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W/VE Stations Outside New England
AA4TI – Always a lot of activity for the NEQP. There were a lot of mobiles also. Great QSO Party.
K2MN – Used two indoor fan dipoles and 80 Watts.
K3TW – Many thanks for another very enjoyable New England QSO Party. I was a member of W1MX in the 1970s, so this always brings back very pleasant memories!
K4NC – This contest always makes for lots of fun and a great weekend.
K5TY – Thank you very much for your all’s time putting on the contest.
K6KS – I always love participating in the New England QSO Party. Lots of fun.
K8LF – Great combined QSO party. Love the single log. Now If I could just submit in one place
K9CW – I am quite honored to have received the NEQP 2023 1st Place SO LP plaque that K1EO sponsored. It is quite a handsome plaque, and it was an unexpected surprise when FedEx delivered it.
NEQP 2024 was a fun event for me as it is every year. We were very fortunate that this year’s running missed the absolutely terrible conditions this past weekend! In Volta RTTY, I did not hear a single EU station on any band. My CPQP efforts resulted in only 8 contest QSOs. Very sad! Thank you for all you do regarding NEQP! I do look forward to operating in this contest every year.
KA0PQW – fun contest thanks for having it
KB0ARZ – It was slow going but had a great time working it!
KE4EA – My 1st New Eng QP
KJ9C – Too sick to mobile, casual effort to put some IN signals on the air
KN4HGI – Challenging solar and weather conditions made it a short two-part party for QSO’s, but every one was special and I hope they helped OPs reach their goals.
KR7D – Thank you for the QSOs.
KW4GF – I didn’t hear hardly anyone on Sunday. Where were the operators?
N7AME – Propagation was there and not so it was tough to work the East Coast
ND9M – Great to see such good activity!
NN6U – I’d almost given up on hearing New England on Saturday from home in California, when at 0330Z there was suddenly an opening on 20m and I was able to work 5 NewE stations. A couple of them mentioned that suddenly California was booming in for them. Half an hour later, it was gone. Sunday was similar – regardless of propagation, I have a high noise floor on 20m during the day – but in the last half hour of the contest I was able to just barely make out some New England stations and got 2 of them (I think – not 100% sure about the last one, but I logged it just in case so they wouldn’t get the NIL).
NO2D – A complex set of QSO Parties presents a challenge which just adds to the fun. Messed up power so not QRP this year.
VE7BGP – The QSO Parties were a lot of fun again this year.
WA6KHK – Only a few rovers but they put out a lot of contacts. Condx were generally poor here. 10 meters never opened up.
WB2NVR – Saturday was fun, Sunday not so much. Really had to search for Qs on Sunday. Didn’t hear anything on 10 or 15, and almost nothing on 20. I thought it might be my Vertical, but after the contest worked some nice DX. Am I the only one who is annoyed by people with non 1 area calls that are in NE not signing /1?
WB5RYB – I was not actually in the contest. I was just having fun working CW. I enjoy high speed CW and most contests give me that chance.
WF4V – Great contest, great ops. Beat my score by >50%.
WQ6X – This was another run of the annual CINCO de’ CONTEST. The main Goal for 2024 is to reprise last year’s QRP win. 7QP and NEQP is the main reason I operated this weekend. Space-WX made things VERY Funky all weekend – to Say the LEAST. Band noise Saturday evening made the last hour quite a challenge. There were not enough activated counties in Nevada and Arizona. You can read about this & other events at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com
WS4K – Really enjoyed NEQP. Appreciated lots of CW activity.
DX Stations
F6EPO – Bad condx low band, 80m dead on night , too qrn on very small signals
G3LHJ – Enjoyed the Party, nice to catch up with some of the FOC & CWOP’s gang, condx.s were fair, struggled with some of the weaker guys, Pete W1RM was a big sig also a few others. my first join in of a NEQP.
OM2VL – Unfortunately during the NE QP this year our clubstation took part in the VHF/UHF contest and I had very limited time on HF 😪 mostly on 15m. I worked mainly W7’s on 15m (band was open till 22Z, but unfortunately only to W7 and not to W1). I made 400 QSO, but only 127 in the NE QP (10k points)…. No plaque this year 😭
New England Stations
AF1T – All contacts were SSB, mostly 40 and 20 meters, 10m was poor and the salar flare didn’t help. A few of the CT stations couldn’t (or wouldn’t) use the new exchange, instead of their counties.
AK1W(K5ZD) – Conditions were ok. Bands sound quiet on Sunday without the 7QP crowd. I am glad we now follow the convention of State then county, but it did feel weird.
K1DC – Saturday was a beautiful early May day so I was doing yard work that caused a late start. A recent solar event caused conditions to be less than great. 10m was real disappointment; it was a dead zone for the entire event. 15m was not far behind with only a handful of contacts. I predominately ran for this event with very little S&P; I’m sure I missed some multipliers as a result. The one bright spot were several EU stations calling in for some tasty mults – I was able to switch between two tri-banders with one pointed towards Europe and the other stateside. The Qs seem to come it bunches. There would be several minutes with nothing and then suddenly 5 callers at the same time. I did check and it was not always related to being spotted – propagation was just weird. I overheard one op say “The band is just broken”. Quite right. pointed to EU at the time) and 3G0YA. I also appreciate the local support from fellow K1KP op Scott K1OA, and fellow BARS members Wayne KC1ONM and John KC1FTJ. There were likely others, and I apolgize for not recognizing you, but I was in contest mode and focused on getting the calls right. 😉 appreciate the format of this event with the nice sleep break built in. Thanks again to Tony, K1KP for the use of his station and to the event organizers!
K1IB/m – Eleven hours operating time. 196 mile loop. Six county line stops. Rig: Yaesu FT-897. Antenna: Hustler mobile vertical. Fortunately, after a Murphy-marred Vermont QSO Party mobile attempt, all went well in the NEQP.
K1JB/m – Operated from home Saturday and on the road Sunday. Results were OK, but the hoped-for pileups never materialized. Maybe due to poor conditions, but probably due to other, more serious mobile operations cleaning up the demand. Signals were pretty weak most of the time, but occasionally an S9 signal would pop up – even from Europe. 3.9 hrs on the air, 9.5 hrs overall (Maine is big!). Not the most efficient, but still fun. I am very glad I was able to operate INSIDE the car and not have to set up a table outside in the rain. See you next year!
K1JEB – Conditions were tough. But, I had a lot of fun.
K1SND – The bands got extremely noisy between S8 S9 levels making it very hard to copy CW signals. got a bit better late Sunday. Not sure if you are hearing about the noise levels. Anyway, I made the best of it and had fun..
K1VSJ – I think I was the only one operating from Dukes county ! I spoke to 2 others on the island but I don’t think they were on. I’m in the middle of re-doing my 2 antennas so all I had up was a temporary 20 meter dipole at about 25 ft. Unfortunately I had a busy weekend and was only on for a short time. I’m sure I made 51 stations happy !!
K1VWQ – Sadly, I only had a few hours to play NEQP this year. Between working and helping my wife with her post op surgery. But made a quick 50 Q’s or so. See everyone next year! Thanks to K1KI for his and the NEQP staff for getting this going this year. 73 de K1VWQ
K1WAS – Tougher going than last year, but perseverance paid off. Very fun contest. We will operate again next year. Thank you. WE1M
K1WDY – I had some antenna and power issues, so I did the best I could with what I had. At least I got few contacts in the logs. Hopefully next year will be better!
K1XM – I had several other things going on during the weekend and planned a part-time effort. I didn’t even have the station set up at the beginning of the contest. I ran people and didn’t care about multipliers. It was fun despite the poor conditions during the day Sunday.
K1ZE – NOT HAPPY WITH POLITICAL INGRESS IN NEQP. COUNTIES ARE PHYSICAL LOCATIONS
K1ZZ – 100% CW. Not the best conditions but mostly fun anyway! I had anticipated a lot of problems getting CTCAP across to casual participants but in fact there were very few. It probably helped that the change to putting the state first in the exchange was done at the same time. Working DX helps the multiplier but 91.2% of my QSOs were with North America. It’s hard to compete for attention in Europe with the ARI contest.
K2LE/1 – Had to be away for the measly 10 and 15 m openings.. BIC limited due to home issues.. Nice runs on 20 and 40 most of the time
K2LEK – I felt propagation was really poor this time.
K5ZD/m – Drove similar route to last year. Made a few more QSOs, but conditions were not good. Thanks to Mark KW1X for the mobile setup and driving.
KA1AMR – The contest itself was very confusing, especially with the CT section changes. Also, too many contests going on at the same time. I like the time split, Sat then on Sun. Got my 2 walks in both days, and a good nights sleep. Lost interest on Sunday, just wasn’t any fun then. What did I miss?
40 meters seemed to be the only band functioning up here in FN42 near Boston. I have several zip cord dipoles hung around the ‘farm’, I tried them all, silence. Am contacting a local tree service (with bucket truck) to help put the beam back up before field day.
KA1WPM – Family obligations limited my operating time to a few hours this year. Mostly limited to 40 meters. A lot of contesters were puzzled by the new government areas in Connecticut. Had to do a
little ” ‘splainin’ “
KB1AMG – SO this was my first waltz around the dance floor and I used a paper log and then copied the information into the Mac friendly software I found under Resources on yje NEQP site.
KB1REQ – This NEQP was my first time getting on the air from my new house. Despite my “Field Day” style operation getting moved inside due to rain and numerous AFCI nuisance trips it was a fun day on the air. Thanks to KM1NDY for hanging out and helping me put up antennas.
KB1W – With my A4 reflector gone it was a little tough but did have a bunch of fun…..
KC1QEM – Increased my Q’s from last year but was still a little disappointing. Conditions were just bad all around as most have previously noted. This contest and most others penalize those of us that use phone only. Points are skewed in favor of Cw & digital. Most see this as a form of encouragement for these modes but being on the other end it seems to be favoring the older operators that were licensed prior to the elimination of the code requirement and putting those of us that are more recently licensed in a second class category. Just my perception.
KC1RWR – First QSO Party worked under my own callsign. Also first time working two radios simultaneously in our shack (with my son, KC1SDD). Band Pass Filters did a great job until we tried 40m. Some antenna relocations coming in our future! This was a shakedown cruise. We have not used N1MM+ in our shack before. Little things like getting the CQ call mapped to F1, and going out over the air, took some figuring. Big performer for us, as always, was our W1ENR doublet (125′ at 50′ high). Sunday was frustrating. So much of this is new, it’s hard to be sure when it’s our equipment failing, or when propagation is poor. It takes experience to translate the Solar weather data into the expectation of, “Ok, a G2 storm or high Bz will feel like this on the bands”. Lots learned for next time. Thanks especially for K1RX for last minute tech support, and ongoing coaching!
KC1SDD – 125′ Doublet wire antenna running barefoot into a Yaesu FTDX-10. I learned a lot
from this contest as my father (KC1RWR) and I were setting up our hamshack in a new way. I had
help from Mr. Pride (K1RX) in setting up N1MM+, so many thanks to him. Turns out most of our
problems with connecting the radio to the computer were solved when we closed an air gap (:
KC1UEK – This is my first time entering a contest log. Just a trial run so see how everything works and to getting a better understanding of what these contests are all about. One problem I had was finding Linux compatible logging software that could export in Cabrillo format. I was only able to find one program, CQRLOG, but it wasn’t usable due to database connectivity issues… I whipped up a spreadsheet in Cabrillo format instead, and I’mattempting to use the ARRL online tool to convert it into an acceptable file/format.
KC1V – Couldn’t spend much time this year, but it’s always fun!
KD1MC (K1ESE) – Thanks to Paul W1IMD for the use of the great station! Chris W1ETI and I operated tag-team style covering the full 20 hours. Band conditions were fine on Saturday but poor on Sunday. Perseverance kept us going and we came close to last year’s totals in points and QSOs. We actually had more multipliers this year. Both of us spent most of our time running or at least we tried to. Often our only choice was to S&P the other runners who kept going. There was a lot to get used to this year. We used a new club callsign, KD1MC. The reversal of state and county in the exchange sounded wrong. We had 38 dupes. That seemed like a lot more than usual. Overall we had fun and the remote operation was trouble-free. Thanks to the organizers for all their efforts.
KI1U – Had a little time on Sunday to play in NEQP, no operating on Saturday. Nice runs on 20 and 40.
KU1U – Didn’t get to operate as much as we wanted, but it was still fun to get on with my son.
N1AIA/m – My first mobile effort in any contest was really a series of portable activations. So-so conditions, compromise antennas, and QRP made it a challenge, but it was fun and full of learning. Occasional light rain started just after noon. By the time I set up at my final stop it was steady. Glad I had a shelter, though it didn’t do much to block the chill breeze. Numb paddle fingers finally did me in.
N1DC – Thanks to the NEQP crew for another great event. This is one of my favorite events. 95% RUN and 5% S&P. I was going to try a mixed effort but decided to concentrate on 2pt CW QSO’s. My goal was 700 QSO’s and 100K points. I tested N1MM Logger + on Thursday before the contest using the CH file from VE2FK. I simulated USA, New England, Canadian and DX contacts. The N1MM crew did a great job getting this update completed. I only had 3 hours on Saturday. I was hoping for good conditions on Sunday but was disappointed. 20M was the money band for me but conditions on 10/15/20 were not great on Sunday. A lot of stations were barely visible on my 7610 bandscope. The rate tells it all: 306 QSO’s Saturday night in 3 hours, 464 Sunday in 11 hours! BIC time was crucial in this one. Calling CQ on apparently dead bands did produce many QSO’s if you were persistent. I had stations at S9+ many times that jumped out of the noise. The On-Line scoreboard was a real motivator. I spent a lot of time with the antenna at 50d but could not generate much EU activity on 15 or 20. I worked more EU stations with my antenna pointed west. 40 and 80 had a lot of activity, especially during the last 3 hours. I was trying hard for HI, AK and SD late Sunday afternoon. Nice to get called by KL7SB. Ending up missing the other two. For some strange reason I always seem to miss LB, NF, NT, NU, PE and YT in Canada. Thanks to all the mobile op’s. Lots of good signals. Thanks for all the QSO’s.
N1JI – Elecraft KX3 running 5 watts to an 88′ doublet up about 30 ft
N7DH – Having a “7” callsign kept me off the upper bands with 7QP same weekend
W1BHC – My transmitter shut-down with 20 minutes to go in contest! Guess it overheated—works OK now. Only two CW contacts…just ran out of time.
W1DYJ – My 15th attempt at this and a bit of a disappointment. The bands were very noisy, 15 and especially 10 were almost nonexistant, and CW was the mode as PH was hard to hear. Although I had more CW Qs than ever, and therefore more points than ever, mults were down. Almost had a personal
best: 2012 had double the mults and a higher score by 10%. (Back then I was PH only.) Special thanks go to K1KI for all five bands on CW, and NE1QP for nine Qs: I only missed 10 PH.
W1EQ – I think I was the only CTNOE in the contest. Lots of fun. Conditions not good. It was the first time using my Multi Mic paired to my hearing aids and the results were good. I haven’t been able to use SSB for years. Big improvement. I’m a 100% CW guy.
W1FJ – Great start 410 Q’s in the first 3 hrs, all downhill after that. My apologies to the weak guys that I missed, too much power line noise. Thanks all for the fun!
W1QK – Thanks for the contacts.
W1SEG – Once again, NEQP was a lot of fun! It definitely sharpens my operating skills. Thanks to all who make NEQP happen.
W1UMR (NF1O) – Mary (NE1F) and I got into it more than ever and had best score ever. I did CW and she did phone. CW was more productive. almost all were running. a few unproductive cluster clicking episodes. had fun.
WO1N – Burned a lot of Honey-Do credits on this one. 40M dipole was on the ground as I had to steal the coax for my SEQP portable operation. However, fresh ropes were in the trees, so 30 minutes before the start I raised the dipole and connected it up. First Q about 15 minutes after the start. Probably 99% running. N1MM says 11 hours operating. Sounds about right. 80 and 40 were in great shape. High bands were punk. This was a Single-Op Maximum Distraction effort. Call CQ, read email, watch F1 Qually, Sprint and Race (super entertaining race, BTW), check all W1 calls for YCCC membership and dues status (groan) against Club roster and make some contacts. Didn’t look at the online scoreboard until the end. Congrats to K1TR and K1VUT for super LP efforts. This was the most Qs I had ever made in this contest. See comment about Honey-Do credits 😉
WS1L – I was out of town all day Saturday taking the shack computer to Micro Center in Cambridge for repair. Since it would need to be left I picked up a cheap refurbished Dell to have as a backup. I spent Saturday evening getting the needed software loaded and configured. Sunday morning I spent a few hours in the NEQP. Signals were pretty weak mostly, although sometimes a strong signal would boom in. I kept checking 10 but it looked dead. Fifteen was barely any better. Later afternoon I settled in for the last few hours. I was pretty much fresh meat at that time, with maybe 100 Q’s in my log. That made the last few hours fun. Conditions had improved somewhat, though most signals were weaker than I expected. Rapid QSB/QRN would often cover a single character, leading to a few requests for repeats even on decent signals. Still, the “Last 10” rate meter went above 200 a few times. Twenty and Forty were the best bands and towards the end I found a few small runs on 80. Thanks to the organizers and everyone who came out to play!