2nd place IOTA contest 2011

Opening post this morning ...

M1KTA active from W1AF

Just got back from a trip to Boston and I was QRV from the Harvard University W1AF shack.Was only on air for 40 mins or so and on 20m and 40m SSB and worked both DX and a couple qrp stations.

Thanks to all those that responded I was not able to respond to everyone, stations I did work include:
Paul WB9QAF
Jack W9JET
Charles AI4OT
Igor 6V7Z (Senegal)
Bill W4/G3ODO
Eric KB1VUN
ROSE CITY SENIORS ARC VA3RCO
Robby N4DXA
Jim WB4CTX
Jim VA3IQ
Stuart KG4SS (Guantanamo Bay)
Lennox 8R1Z  (Georgetown, Guyana)




The two guys that made it posible were (On left) William E. Collins  W1PL the W1AF station Manager and Phil Temples, K9HI, who is the ARRL Section Manger for Eastern Massachusetts.

W1AF is the  oldest amateur radio club in USA established 1909.

QRPp, the NorCal QRP Club Journal is now on line

Now here:


http://www.norcalqrp.org/qrpp.htm


...


A message from Doug...


"I would like to announce that the complete collection of QRPp, the NorCal 
QRP Club Journal that I did from 1993 to 2004 is now on line.  Chuck Adams 
has scanned in every page of every issue and has it on line at 
http://www.k7qo.net/NorCal_QRPp.html.  This is a temporary site, as we want 
to make sure that all of the bugs are out of it before we place it on the 
NorCal page where it will have a permanent home in about 3 weeks.  This 
material is for the education of QRPers, and it will always be free.  No 
one will ever have to pay anything to access it.  We ask that no one makes 
it available on CD for distribution in any way.  Everyone is granted 
permission to make an archival copy, but no one is granted permission to 
post any part or portion online.  We want there to be one site where it is 
available.  Some of the schematics will be redrawn and Chuck is 
coordinating that effort.  I have struggled for years on how to make the 
information available and decided that this is the way to do it.  Every 
article was donated, no one was paid anything for writing any article.  So, 
I wanted to make it available for free.  Enjoy.  Thank you to Chuck Adams 
for doing the work to make the pdf's, to Dean Davis for his future work in 
putting it on the NorCal web page, and especially to all of the 
contributors over the years.  72, Doug, KI6DS"


Enjoy.


BTW the link to volume 1 actually points you to volume 11 right now, sure it will be fixed soon, if it does don't worry. When the link to the pdf appears just above download it will say view folder... follow THAT link and you will find the volume 1 pdf.

BERU 2012

Nice selection of new DXCC on 15m and 10m.

My log:


START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CREATED-BY: Win-Test 4.7.0
CONTEST: RSGB-COMMONWEALTH
CALLSIGN: M1KTA
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL QRP CW
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: RESTRICTED
CLAIMED-SCORE: 725
OPERATORS: M1KTA
CLUB: GQRP
NAME: Dominic Baines
ADDRESS: 34 Bury Road
ADDRESS: Stapleford
ADDRESS: Cambridge CB22 5BP
SOAPBOX: Was hard work qrp. Please can some ops slow down a bit for the
SOAPBOX: exchanges not everyone in the contest is as experienced as some.
QSO: 14020 CW 2012-03-10 1013 M1KTA         599 0001   --   9H3ET         599 031    --
QSO: 14017 CW 2012-03-10 1056 M1KTA         599 0002   --   GB75CC        599 127    HQ
QSO: 21019 CW 2012-03-10 1120 M1KTA         599 0003   --   C4Z           599 143    --
QSO: 28009 CW 2012-03-10 1139 M1KTA         599 0004   --   9H3ET         599 141    --
QSO: 28024 CW 2012-03-10 1201 M1KTA         599 0005   --   GB75CC        599 236    HQ
QSO: 21007 CW 2012-03-10 1205 M1KTA         599 0006   --   ZB2EO         599 135    --
QSO: 28001 CW 2012-03-10 1210 M1KTA         599 0007   --   5N7M          599 153    --
QSO: 21002 CW 2012-03-10 1232 M1KTA         599 0008   --   VE3FU         599 058    --
QSO: 14004 CW 2012-03-10 1255 M1KTA         599 0009   --   C4Z           599 241    --
QSO: 21016 CW 2012-03-10 1441 M1KTA         599 0010   --   7Q7BP         599 277    --
QSO: 21018 CW 2012-03-10 1445 M1KTA         599 0011   --   XL3T          599 265    --
QSO: 21014 CW 2012-03-10 1454 M1KTA         599 0012   --   VE1OP         599 256    --
QSO: 21023 CW 2012-03-10 1455 M1KTA         599 0013   --   VE3EJ         599 275    --
QSO: 14009 CW 2012-03-10 1509 M1KTA         599 0014   --   ZB2EO         599 213    --
QSO:  7019 CW 2012-03-10 1625 M1KTA         599 0015   --   GB75CC        599 455    HQ
QSO:  3516 CW 2012-03-10 2204 M1KTA         599 0016   --   GB75CC        599 500    HQ
QSO:  7004 CW 2012-03-10 2221 M1KTA         599 0017   --   9H3ET         599 777    --
QSO:  3514 CW 2012-03-11 0444 M1KTA         599 0018   --   GB75CC        599 881    HQ
QSO:  7008 CW 2012-03-11 0510 M1KTA         599 0019   --   ZF1UM         599 911    --
QSO:  3517 CW 2012-03-11 0600 M1KTA         599 0020   --   XL3T          599 792    --
QSO: 14012 CW 2012-03-11 0640 M1KTA         599 0021   --   9H3C          599 638    --
QSO: 14003 CW 2012-03-11 0720 M1KTA         599 0022   --   ZD7XF         599 1016   --
QSO:  7010 CW 2012-03-11 0751 M1KTA         599 0023   --   VE3EJ         599 890    --
QSO:  7011 CW 2012-03-11 0753 M1KTA         599 0024   --   XL3T          599 903    --
QSO:  7013 CW 2012-03-11 0755 M1KTA         599 0025   --   VE3OI         599 560    --
QSO: 14003 CW 2012-03-11 0811 M1KTA         599 0026   --   VK2PN         599 288    --
QSO: 21005 CW 2012-03-11 0846 M1KTA         599 0027   --   9H3ET         599 1073   --
QSO: 21014 CW 2012-03-11 0853 M1KTA         599 0028   --   9J2BO         599 662    --
QSO: 21002 CW 2012-03-11 0934 M1KTA         599 0029   --   5N7M          599 377    --
QSO: 21012 CW 2012-03-11 0952 M1KTA         599 0030   --   C56XA         599 723    --
END-OF-LOG: