Country Uncle DX Club

NAQP January 16th/17th 2010

The North American QSO Party - SSB was held on January 16th 2010 starting at 1800Z and running till 0600Z January 17th 2010. A single operator could operate 10 out of the 12 contest hours and was limited in power to 100 watts. One of the Country Uncles noted for his contest participation in past was on the air and worked the contest - Dennis K4NV.

With new video technology in his shack broadcasting his every "Q" it did not take long for even the casual observer to recognize the skill it takes to contest these days. Computer logging of course makes it a bit easier than the old paper logs - assuming you can type. However, listening via the video/audio Dennis was sending out it became clear quickly that one constant has not changed over the years. The lack of ability and skill from some of the OTHER contest participants. Their inability to give their name phonetically, misspell their own name phonetically, or even give their call wrong phonetically when asked for a repeat was just astounding. Dennis displayed an unusually high level of patients in dealing with the callers. It was amazing to watch. One other thing was very clear - there are some parents out there that just hated their children - that fact solely based on the names that they gave them. I think the best one that was heard was one old fellow from TX his name was "HOT" yes that is Hotel - Oscar - Tango. Oh well, another contest in the books. Here is the results for Dennis' station.

K4NV Contest Results
1180 Contacts over the 10 hour period Dennis worked the contest
179 Multipliers
For a total of 211,800 Points

Very nice job!
 

This past weekend the CQ World Wide SSB contest was held. The Country Uncles in true CU style decided to rework the contest and participate in their own manner. With Dennis K4NV off to the NQ4I Super Contest station to participate the remaining contesting CU's decided to have their own contest with in a contest. The rules were simple - work as many countries as you can during the normal contest hours. Assisted or non assisted, high power or QRP, any Ham band it made no difference - just work as many countries as you could during the hours of the contest. Of course trying not to log any dummy contacts paced on spotting services as checkers by CQ (as some notable Hams have been accused of recently).
The speed that the CU contest committe move is nothing short of miraculous in determining a winner - in fact the winner was determined at the close of the contest Sunday Night. Not months later as with the case by some other governing authorities.

And the Winner is:

Van piled up an impressive 139 countries during the contest period. Congratulations to Van for the very hard work. Others, Milton N4DA, Joe W4JSM, Gary WB4CSW and Tony KE4PK all participated but fell short of the mark set by Van. Congratulation again to Van for an outstanding performance in this years contest with in a contest. 

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The results of the Country Uncle Fall Contest are posted - Click on the sub Tab (Fall Contest Results) under Contest tab for all the files and a list of the winners. Congratulations to all the winners!

The Country Uncle Fall Contest is over and the logs are due to K4JAN@countryuncledx.com
The official results will be published here the first week in February

• Objective  To work as many DX countries of the world on Amateur Bands; 160, 80, 40, and 20 meters
  
• Contest Period  0000 UTC October 1st thru 2400 UTC December 31st 2008
  
• Eligibility  All licensed Amateurs Radio Operators World Wide
  
• Modes of Operation SSB, CW, and Digital Modes (RTTY, PSK31)
  
• Entry and Power Categories  Single operator, FCC maximum allowed power output
  
• Contest Exchange
  
• Send  Call-sign and Signal Report
  
• Receive   Call-sign and Signal Report 
  

Early Sign Up

1.    While not a contest requirement, to be able to communicate with contest participants we would like for you to register for the contest. You can either do this or not. However, stations that register for the contest by October 10^th will receive 10,000 bonus points on their total score.
2.    Resister - simply send an email from the email account we should send contest communications to address it to contest@countryuncledx.com  with CONTEST in the subject.
3.    You will receive and auto responder that indicates you have registered - print that email out and included it with your Log for your 10,000 point bonus. Inclusion of the printed email is the sole responsibility of the station claiming the bonus.

Scoring

• Contacts between US Amateurs are not a valid contacts and do not count as a point
  
• For US Stations, all DX contacts outside of the USA count 1 point. For DX stations outside the US participating in the contest, all DX contacts ouside their own country count as 1 point
  
• DX station can be worked on each mode for a single band for award purposes
  
• Multiplier list is the ARRL DXCC Country listing (once per mode and once per band)
  
• Same DX stations may be worked once per mode and once per band
  
• Miscellaneous - All participants must be aware of and comply with current Band Plans and power limitations
  

• Logs are required if you are competing for one of the 4 Award Plaques and/or certificates.
  
• All logs must be submitted electronically in Cabrillo format. 
  
• We suggest using N1MM logger (free download) under log type select DX Log. This will properly score your contacts for this event.
  
• Other Electronic Log programs may be also used. At the end of the contest period export all contacts into the N1MM log using an ADIF file format. The N1MM log program will then properly score the contest. Submit N1MM logs in Camrillo format to sid@countryuncledx.com
  
• All logs must be submitted no later than January 30, 2009.
  
• Email all logs to by deadline to sid@countryuncledx.com
  

• Plaques will be awarded to;
  
• Top Overall Score for a stations located inside the USA
  
• Top Overall Score for a station located outside the USA
  
• Individual modes SSB, CW, Digital (RTTY & PSK31) - stations located inside the USA
  
•  Individual modes SSB, CW, Digital (RTTY & PSK31) - stations located outside the USA
  
• Certificates will be awarded to
  
• Top Overall Scores for individual bands; 160, 80, 40 and 20 meters - Stations located inside the USA
  
• Top Overall Scores for individual bands; 160, 80, 40 and 20 meters - Stations located outside the USA
  

• N4DA, W4JSM, K4NV, W4ASE and K4SX are plaque sponsors
  
• Plaque sponsor's call-sign will be imprinted on the plaque
  

• All results will be posted at http://www.countryuncledx.com
  
• Contest info can be found at the website above