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First sprint in years. Remembered why I don't like my Alinco HF. It's power settings are 100/10/1-W and for all the bells and whistles my TenTec is just a nicer radio with 4-W out and a smooth full break in.

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KN0WCW

FISTS USA 413 MARTIN COURT Leonardo, NJ 07737 USA

                         1st Annual - Nancy Kott Memorial Event

The last weekend in September, we will celebrate Nancy Kott's (WZ8C - SK) long service to FISTS CW Club and the Ham Radio Community.

                        0001 UTC Saturday 30 September to 0600 UTC Monday October 2

This is the USA call sign for the FISTS CW Club,for more information about  FISTS go to http://fists.org .

This call sign is operated by active FISTS members all over the United States.

The easiest way to get a  QSL card from KN0WCW is to send your QSL directly to the KN0WCW adress above.

DX stations can use the their own QSL Bureau or direct.

As information ,KN0WCW QSL's 100% all QSO's.

If you are an active FISTS member and would like to operate KN0WCW from your home station or special event, please contact Cody, at KC2LSD@FISTSNA.ORG

73!

FISTS #10,000

C.C.    #1380

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I copied today's #Morsle at 40 WPM! https://morsle.fun

June milliwatt sprint..

RULES specific to this month's sprint:

Operate at 1 watt or less to be eligible for any awards or prizes. Others running higher power are welcome to participate and submit logs, but will be considered QRO.

Date and time:

Wednesday, June 19, 2024, 0030-0230 Z

[n2qfd]

Been 15 years since I was a Net Control Station… and I don’t ever think I ran a CW net.

There’s some fear out there of being an NCS and I get it. It’s not like there aren’t nerves here too when I’m in the hot seat. But don’t ever think it’s an extraordinary thing you can’t do. If you’ve been checking into a net for a while you know the routines. It’s not hard to fill in and call the net now and again. Take the leap, your fellows will help you along and you’ll find there is even more to our hobby than you thought.

When you look around waiting for the thing you want to happen, don’t ask who’s gonna do it, ask for check ins (QNI,) take it slow, but do it.

[n2qfd]

Feel free to stop by the NAQCC sanctioned Slow Code Net, East Coast Net. It’s Thursday evenings 1930 Eastern time. 7.030+ as needed (often 7.030.8) 10wpm is the NCS set speed. You don’t need to be QRP to do the net.

KE4CR will call CQ ECN QNI and he’s looking for your call and name. Then we’ll run through the check ins in order. He’ll call you and ask for QRU that’s your turn to say hi to Craig the Net Control and the Net. Give him a signal report, send a one liner like how the day went or the weather. Nothing special just a sentence and then K, KN, or AR to let us know your thru and he’ll thank you send 73 and QRX to say your free to leave if you like.

It’s friendly, there’s no mistakes just CW heads getting used to doing a net and looking forward to hearing old calls from the weeks before or welcoming new calls to the roster. It runs about a half hour then he’ll ask again Last call QNI and if no more he’ll close the net QNF and when he signs we all (who stayed around to copy) send dit dit

[n2qfd]

I’ve had better sprints than last nights milliwatt sprint.

I copied today's #Morsle at 35 WPM! https://morsle.fun

[n2qfd]

I copied today's #Morsle at 35 WPM! https://morsle.fun

NAQCC mw sprint tonite 00:30z 20:30EDT

[n2qfd]

There goes the NAQCC East Coast Net. Thanks to KE4CR for trying! There’s such a fun flutter on signals in the aurora. Got about 1/3 of the shortwave radiogram though. @swradiogram

[n2qfd]

@swradiogram got in late from my NCS duty at NAQCC East Coast Net. Signals faded awful after the Swamp hen!

9256AM 14NOV24 Thursday... I'll get the text Saturday out of Florida!

The "Cathedral" on the Christmas light trail returns for its 12th year, in Kew Gardens, London, November 12. https://tinyurl.com/2yhsk7el

A lynx in the rain, in southern Sweden. https://tinyurl.com/2d2bzfc5

A six-blade homemade wind turbine near Grand Island, Nebraska, circa 1897. https://tinyurl.com/27lcogo4

A light-show projection at Salisbury Cathedral in England, November 5. https://tinyurl.com/2aabqzna

Colorful trees stand in the Hongze Lake wetland scenic spot, Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, November 3. https://tinyurl.com/2aabqzna

A western swamphen feeding in the meadows of the Kizilirmak Delta, which is home to 300 different bird species, in Samsun, Turkey, November 4. https://tinyurl.com/2aabqzna

An autumn scene at Loch Ard in Scotland. https://tinyurl.com/26t685ly

Our painting of the week is "Fallen Leaves Dancing in the Wind" (1997) by Higashiyama Kaii. https://tinyurl.com/2c8e7w6t .

[n2qfd]

Well, looks like a try again later sort of radio conditions today again. Mom did see the Northern Lights in Southern NY and that’s pretty neat.

So, looking ahead the RandomGram group is doing event #20 this Friday so send and email and get a code group to swap.

NAQCC has a spring this Wednesday.

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The dulcet tones of yours truly. Thanks to host Bruce Pea N9WKE!

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North American QRP CW Club

North American QRP CW Club

April 16, 2016 at 08:37AM

http://ift.tt/1W6CgYv Later this year, the North American QRP CW Club will celebrate its twelfth year of existence. Birthed during a prolific period when many small ham radio groups coalesced into online radio clubs, the NAQCC has become one of the most successful of the litter. There’s good reason why this club has continued to thrive where … Continue reading "North…

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NAQCC Anniversary Week

NAQCC 8th Anniversary

This coming week of October 7 through the 13th is a very special one for the North American QRP CW Club (NAQCC). That week we celebrate the 8th anniversary of the founding of the club by Tom KB3LFC (now WY3H) - President, and John K3WWP - Vice-President. We will have 10 special event stations on the air that week - one from each USA call area - with the calls N1A, N2A, N3A, N4A, N5A, N6A, N7A, N8A, N9A, N0A. The 40 operators of the calls will post their operating schedule at http://naqcc.info/n3a_complete_schedule.php so you will know when and where to look for them as you participate in our celebration. We are offering special QSL cards and Certificates for anyone who works one or more of our special event stations. To find out how you may obtain one and/or the other, check the information contained on the page at http://naqcc.info/main_n3a.html. You must follow the informatin there EXACTLY or your request may not be fulfilled. The operation commences at 0000Z October 7 and continues through 2359Z October 13. That is the week of our monthly sprint with which many of you reading this may already be familiar. However this month's sprint is something special as all 10 of our special event calls will be active for the full two hours. There may be some sort of award or prize to the one working the most different calls. This should make our already extremely popular sprints even more popular than usual when we normally get 175-200 participants, of whom 110-130 or so will submit logs. The sprint is Tuesday evening October 9 at 8:30-10:30 PM EDT which converts to the more familiar Wednesday October 10 from 0030-0230Z. Hope to see you there as well as at other times during anniversary week.

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How Low Can U Go?

See General Sprint Rules for rules common to every NAQCC sprint. RULES specific to this month's sprint: Date and time: Thursday, June 21, 2012 0030-0230Z Power: 999 mW or less to be eligible for any awards or prizes. Others welcome to participate and submit check logs. Prize: A $25.00 gift certificate donated by Uncle Cy - The LED guy. The certificate can be used for any parts on his web site. Postage is included so your certificate all goes to the cost of the parts. The prize will be awarded to the winner of a drawing among all sprint participants who use a straight key (and of course mW power if that isn't clear elsewhere). Note: We do not cross-check logs for our special milliwatt sprints. What you submit stands as your final score, so please check yourself for accuracy before submitting. Entry Deadline: All entries must be RECEIVED before 2400Z on the Sunday following the sprint. So submit as soon as possible, especially regular mail entries. Preferred method of submitting your log and report is our on-line autologger.