Additional certificates are easily obtained. When making the new certifcate request, answer Yes when TQSLCert asks you if you want to sign the request. Then, choose the primary call (highlight that call with your mouse) from the certificate list, and finish up. LoTW will recognize the user and issue an additional certificate automatically. For more information read about Callsign Issues in the LoTW FAQ: https://p1k.arrl.org/lotw/faq#changedcall
| Make sure you participate in the CQ WW SSB this weekend! CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB: 0000ZOct 27 to 2400Z, Oct 28 | ||
| Mode: | SSB | |
| Bands: | 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m | |
| Classes: | Single Op All Band (QRP/Low/High) Single Op Single Band (QRP/Low/High) Single Op Assisted All Band Single Op Assisted Single Band Single Op Assisted Single Band Multi-Single Multi-Two Multi-Multi | |
| Max power: | HP: 1500 watts LP: 100 watts QRP: 5 watts | |
| Exchange: | RS + CQ Zone No. | |
| Work stations: | Once per band | |
| QSO Points: | 0 points per QSO with same country (counts as mult) 1 point per QSO with different country same continent 2 points per QSO with different country same continent (NA) 3 points per QSO with different continent | |
| Multipliers: | Each CQ zone once per band Each country once per band | |
| Score Calculation: | Total score = total QSO points x total mults | |
| Submit logs by: | December 1, 2007 | |
| E-mail logs to: | ssb[at]cqww[dot]com | |
| Mail logs to: | CQWW SSB CQ Magazine 25 Newbridge Road Hicksville, NY 11801 USA | |
| Find rules at: | http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/CQWWDXContestRules8407.pdf | |
Taken from the CQ-Contest reflector, what an
awesome job by Jim W7EJ
I recently finished my project to put all of
the CN2R contest QSO audio on my website.
The audio is from my 27 CN2R contest operations (2001 -2007)..
97,000 QSOs are archived on the website.
Go to the Web Logbook:
http://cn2r.net/cn2r/cn2log_interface/QSOs/Logbook.asp
Just enter your callsign in the 'Call/Prefix' field and
hit your enter key or click on the 'Search Log' button
If you have had any CN2R QSOs you will see
them all displayed as a row/column logbook snapshot.
Nearly all of the contest QSOs have a yellow highlighted
background in the first column.
If you click on your highlighted callsign, for one
of our QSOs, that QSO audio will play in a pop-up window.
You can select several of our QSOs to be active
at the same time for year to year signal comparison....
The audio is broken into 5 minute WAV file snippets.
Generally a few QSOs are played, prior to your QSO,
to hear how strong or weak you were.
You can navigate, with most players, to any point in the 5 minute audio
snippet.
On this same Logbook web page, you can use the
dialog options to look-up the times
it might be possible to work CN2R in the next contest.
Example: You are in VE3 land and you want to work CN2R
on 160M in the next CQWW
Select the 'Prefix / Partial call' circle button
Enter VE3 in the 'Call/Prefix' field
Select 160 Meters in the 'Band' field
Click on the 'Search Log' button
A logbook snapshot will appear that shows all of
the times I have worked VE3 on 160M
You can also use the 'Sort by' field to sort any displayed log by date,
time, contest ....
Give it a try. See you on 160M in CQWW 2007
The website home page is at http://cn2r.net ,
with video, photos, contest logs....
73 Jim W7EJ, CN2R
Elmo Bernabé Coll
P.O.Box 3097
03080 Alicante
Spain
QSLs received direct with SAE and USD/IRC -- send via direct
QSLs received direct with SAE and without USD/IRC - send via Bureau.
QSLs via bureau send via bureau.
Please do not send old IRC´s
And as always, dxpeditions are not cheap to put on. Donations are usually always welcome.Taken from the CQ-contest listserv:
Please participate in a new rttycontesting.com survey at:
http://www.rttycontesting.com/2007survey/survey_oct07.html
This survey will last 2 weeks and will be closed on November 2, 2007. Results
will be available some time in November. Thanks for
your participation!
73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com
RULES from http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.rules.txt
12th STEW PERRY TOPBAND DISTANCE CHALLENGE
1. Contest period: 1500Z December 29th to 1500Z December 30th, 2007.
Operate for a maximum of 14 hours. Off times are 30 minutes minimum
and a maximum of four off periods are permitted.
A separate warm-up even will be held on October 20th/21st with the
same time period and entry categories.
2. Bands and mode: 160 meters CW only.
3. Categories: Single operator or multi-operator. Remote or Cluster
spotting shall not be used. All transmitting and receiving antennas
used must be within 100 km of each other.
4. Exchange: Four character grid square (i.e. CN85).
5. QSO Points: The number of QSO points for each contact depends on the
distance between the two stations. This is computed by taking the
distance between the centers of the two grid squares. Count a minimum
of one point per QSO and an additional point for every 500 kilometers
distance. For example, a QSO with a station 1750 kilometers away will
count for 4 QSO points. No additional distance for long path is allowed.
QSO Points are multiplied by 2X if you work a low power station and 4X
for working a QRP station. This is done based upon received logs and
is computed automatically during the log checking process.
Do not worry if your logging software does not compute the QSO points.
Our automated log checking software does this.
6. Score: Final score equals the total number of QSO points. There is
no multiplier for different grids worked. Stations running 5 to 100
watts output multiply their score by 2. Stations running less
than 5 watts multiply their score by 4. Scores will be grouped by
category.
7. Reporting: Your log can be sent via the internet to TBDC@CONTESTING.COM
using the Cabrillo format before January 31st, 2007. Paper entries can
be mailed to BARC 15125 SE Bartell Rd; Boring, OR 97009. If possible,
please provide an electronic copy of your log. You can use the tool
INSTEW.EXE to generate a Cabrillo log from your paper log. It can be
found at http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html.
Logs for the warm-up event are due by November 20th.
8. Plaques will be awarded for categories we have sponsors for. To
volunteer to sponsor a plaque, contact Lew Sayre, W7EW at w7ew@arrl.net.
A list of the plaques sponsored can be found on the web at
http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html.
There are no plaques or other awards for the warm-up event.
9. Results are published on the web in September or October. Look for an
announcement on the topband and contest reflectors. Warm-up results willS
be published before the real event in December.
With the results of ten qualifying contests now in for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championship in Russia, some WRTC veterans and major players in the contest world are beginning to show their strength.
In qualifying region NA #2, WRTC vet Mike Wetzel has by far the most qualifying points of any United States operator, with 4,989. That was keyed by a pair of NA #2 victories in the 2006 CQ WW SSB and CW contests, giving him the full 950 points for each contest.
Wetzel also squeezed out some more points in the September NA Sprint CW contest, improving 46 points from his February performance. There are four NA Sprints each year - you are allowed to submit only one score from each mode in 2007 and 2008 under the WRTC rules.
As for leaders of the other US regions, they include Krassy Petkov K1LZ in NA #1, Charles Cullian K0RF in NA #3 and Mitch Mason K7RL in NA #4.
The 2010 rules give three team leader slots to NA #1 and two slots each in NA #2, #3 and #4.
Here are the top five operators from each US region (NA#1-NA#4) as found by radio-sport.net. A full spreadsheet link for each region is available.
NA #1 includes W1, W2, W3 and part of W4.
Check out the full results spreadsheet for NA #1
NA #2 has some of W4 along with W8 and W9.
Check out the full results spreadsheet for NA #2
NA #3 is W5 and W0.
Check out the full results spreadsheet for NA #3
NA #4 is W6, W7 and KL7.
Check out the full results spreadsheet for NA #4
The unofficial results produced by radio-sport.net include the final published results of the 2006 IARU, the 2006 WAE CW and WAE SSB, two NA Sprint CW contests from 2007, the February SSB Sprint and the 2007 ARRL DX SSB & CW contests and the 2006 the CQ WW CW and SSB contests.
(Radio-sport.net has tried to be as accurate as possible. If you find a mistake, or that your score line is missing a contest result, please send us an email and we will be happy to check and correct the numbers. Please remember that it is your responsiblity to track your progress and submit your score to the WRTC sponsors.)
You will note that some scores in the spreadsheets have been colored in. All multi-ops are noted with a yellow background. Scores from a contest operation outside of your home WRTC region are colored in blue.
A score that was both outside your home region and from a multi-op has a purple color.
The qualifying rules stipulate that no more than four of your eight best scores can come from a multi-operator effort - AND no more than four of your scores can be from outside your "home" region.
On the far right of the spreadsheet, some stations have a list of how many multi-op scores and how many are DX. It is mainly noted for those who are over the limit or close to it.
(One other item that skews the WRTC data is that the Russian rules only allow two operators to claim points from a multi-op score. )
US and Canadian operators have a busy October and November, with four different WRTC qualifying contests. They include both the SSB and CW versions of CQ WW DX and both modes of the November Sweepstakes.
Credit: http://wrtc.radio-sport.net/US_ranks.htm
