The third radiosport weekend in August offers up a mixed bag of events spread from Friday afternoon (west coast time) thru Sunday afternoon. Over the years, different events have come and gone over that weekend, while the NAQP Ssb GiG occurs right on schedule. The weekend schedule included:
- [X] - International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend
- [X] - SARTG RTTY Contest
- [X] - North American QSO Party (NAQP) Ssb
- [X] - CVA HF Dx Cw Contest
- [X] - ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY
Contest weekend three runs concurrent with a non-Contest event known as the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend (ILLW). In 2012, I made a lighthouse activation driving trip
along the Central California coast, making NAQP Ssb contacts along the way, using the same
"Ron in CA" exchange from all location stops.
along the Central California coast, making NAQP Ssb contacts along the way, using the same
"Ron in CA" exchange from all location stops.
On the way back, I made mobile contacts for the rest of the NAQP GiG. While technically, running mobile in NAQP is a violation of the fixed station rule, a checklog was submitted anyway, and the score counted as an event-point on WQ6X's 3830 event list for 2012.
For this year's NAQP Ssb GiG, NX6T was unable to find enough OPs for a Multi-2 Anza operation (@WA6TQT), so the station was offered up to K6JO who eventually took a 1st-place for single-OP. The WQ6X goal was to run QRP from Ramona (@KN6NBT) in the NAQP Ssb GiG.
Interspersed with the NAQP and ILLW GiGs is the 40-hour SARTG RTTY contest, with its unique
8-hours on, 8-hours off, 8-hours on, 8-hours off and 8-hours on. With the 8-hour breaks, it gives everyone the opportunity to sleep or engage in other activities outside of the SARTG contest.
8-hours on, 8-hours off, 8-hours on, 8-hours off and 8-hours on. With the 8-hour breaks, it gives everyone the opportunity to sleep or engage in other activities outside of the SARTG contest.
Being that the Ramona station possesses no inherent (onsite) RTTY capability, a hybrid approach
has been devised to generate/decode RTTY tones on my end thru the internet to the radio, which
is controlled on the remote end by software on my end (instead of using the software on the remote end).
At the last minute I discovered the Brazilian CVA Dx Cw contest. The yagi was pointed to South America (SA) and a few QSOs were logged in that event - enough to say I wuz there.
When it was all over, it would seem that WQ6X was the only Single-OP Assisted QRP entry
in the NAQP GiG, resulting in a 1st-place for that category by default.
in the NAQP GiG, resulting in a 1st-place for that category by default.
On Sunday, there was a 6-hour ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY event, which encouraged more
RTTY activity to round out this weird contest weekend.
RTTY activity to round out this weird contest weekend.
Did YOU work the NAQP and/or SARTG RTTY contests?
Is WQ6X in YOUR Log?
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