From ac5shfistop at gmail.com Thu Sep 4 09:12:26 2014 From: ac5shfistop at gmail.com (Tim O'Conner) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 08:12:26 -0500 Subject: [Fists] New members and award/ endorsement recipients Message-ID: Welcoming new members Samuel VK2AFA 14180, David W4DDM 16788, Paul WR1X 16789, Mike KC0SM 16790, James K4YZG 16791, Daniel 16792, Tom AD5QA 16793, Ken KB3LLA 16794, David KD0DK 16795, Ken KC8Y 16796, Wes AE6ZM 16797, Nick KL3OK 16798, Timothy-Allen KD0OIA 16799, Brian K5WLW 16800, James KI6ZSK 16801, Bill KM5VZ 16802, Dave WA6JSR 16803, Bob G0AGO 16917, Daphne G7ENA 16918, Mike G4GHT 16919, Laci HA7WI 16920, Pete M3KXZ 16921, Phil M0HIW 16922, Bob G4PVB 16923, Terry 2E0CWP 16924, Al I5SKK 16925, Tom KJ9P 16804, James NL7AA 16805, Jim NV5S 16806, Jim AG6EF 16807, Tom KC2THO 16808, Evans KF5DNI 16809, Lowell KA6LJT 16810, Justin K0JZS 16811, John VE1OU 16812, Tony KC1CHM 16813, Steven WD0HVS 16814, Bill WM3X 16815, Michael N0MH 16816, Dave W0VX 16817, Brian WB4IT 16818, Stephen GMSWL23 16926, Greg G4EBY 16927, Joao CU3AA 16928, Bob G8UED 16929, Tom EI9KJ 16930, John MI0AHI 16931, Clive G0KAL 16932, and Kai DL1AH 16933. And new awards/ endorsements to: Joe GW0WEE #3773: Gold Century and Millionaire 2 Million Endorsement, Chris MI0AHH #15984: Basic Century, and Pete G0PNM #16592: Spectrum 40m. Info provided by Graham, G3ZOD. 73 Tim, AC5SH From g3zodna at gmail.com Fri Sep 5 10:00:06 2014 From: g3zodna at gmail.com (Graham Smith) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 15:00:06 +0100 Subject: [Fists] FISTS North America G3ZQS Straight Key Contest 5 Sep 23:00 to 7 Sep 23:00 UTC Message-ID: <001401cfc911$b3197210$194c5630$@com> FISTS North America's G3ZQS Memorial Straight Key Contest http://fistsna.org/operating.html#straightkey starts on Friday 5th September 23:00 UTC and runs until Sunday 7th September 23:00 UTC. Bands are: 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, and 10m.? Call "CQ FS".? The exchange is: RST, U.S. state/Canadian province/DXCC country, first name, FISTS number (or power output for non-FISTS). Members worldwide are invited to participate. For N1MM contest logger users, there is a User Defined Contest (UDC) file G3ZQSmem.zip available at http://tinyurl.com/UDCFISTS and a FISTS Call History Text file http://fists.co.uk/docs/n1mm/fists_call_history.txt available.? Thanks to Les G4OGB for providing the UDC file. 73 de Graham G3ZOD FISTS #8385 FISTS Membership Secretary (Europe) http://fists.co.uk From va3rj at torfree.net Sun Sep 14 10:44:37 2014 From: va3rj at torfree.net (NAQCC) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:44:37 -0400 Subject: [Fists] NAQCC Sprint Announcement Message-ID: <20140914144438.2EF58400ED59B@sheppard.torfree.net> NAQCC Sprint Wednesday night.... Our September sprint is this coming Wednesday evening local time (September 17, EDT - 8:30-10:30PM, CDT - 7:30-9:30PM, MDT - 6:30-8:30PM, PDT - 5:30-7:30PM), which translates as Thursday September 18, 0030 to 0230Z in all cases. I will refer you to the proper URL: http://www.naqcc.info/sprint201409.html This is a monthly event that caters to the CW veteran, the CW newcomer, straight key and bug fans. All are welcome to participate (this includes QRO); but you must use QRP power levels to compete for awards. If you've been hesitant to join in our sprints because you hear other sprints running at breakneck speeds, have no fear. Our sprints are geared to the newcomer to CW and/or contesting. Virtually everyone including the many veteran contesters who regularly enter our sprints will slow down to YOUR speed to help you make your contacts. 72/73 de Dave VA3RJ NAQCC #0004 for NAQCC http://naqcc.info/ From ac5shfistop at gmail.com Thu Sep 18 16:14:36 2014 From: ac5shfistop at gmail.com (Tim O'Conner) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:14:36 -0500 Subject: [Fists] Twitter ID error in The Keynote! Message-ID: Hi Gang Twitter address error in The Keynote! Please note that an item I wrote for the latest Keynote (arriving in homes now) contains an error as printed. It states that we are on Twitter as "@Fistsna". That is not correct. Someone indeed has registered "Fistna"; this is @FistsnaSakura who I do not know. I am unaware of whether that person is a member or not, and that account appears inactive. Please accept our apologies for this error. WE ARE NOW ON TWITTER AS BELOW Fists North America @FistsnaCWClub Found at https://twitter.com/FistsnaCWClub Please come follow us 73 Tim, AC5SH/ Fists North America Director of Social Media From karl at fistsna.org Mon Sep 29 12:39:53 2014 From: karl at fistsna.org (Karl) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:39:53 -0500 Subject: [Fists] NAQCC/FISTS Nancy Memorial Prize Message-ID: <005901cfdc04$00f79840$02e6c8c0$@org> NAQCC/FISTS Nancy Memorial Prize We have recently received a donated HB1B QRP radio from YouKits and have decided to use it as a prize drawing for all of the people who have participated in our special memorial challenge and sprint. We had previously announced that there would be a prize for NAQCC member participants but we would like to open it up to FISTS members as well. Can you send out an announcement to your membership about this prize drawing (it will be held in early November) and to encourage them to send in their participation reports? The deadline for the sprint log is Oct 10 and the deadline for the challenge report is Oct 30. People will receive one drawing entry per participated event - in other words, if someone did both the challenge and the sprint they will be entered into the drawing twice. Paul - N8XMS NAQCC Club Manager Posted by Karl, KB1DSB