[nrv-hams] Work the world this weekend!

[Kenneth Walker]

Kay,

These are very helpful. I'm going to try to get a few.

Ken


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Kay Craigie <n3kn at verizon.net> wrote:

> This weekend is the CQ World Wide WPX contest, SSB edition. The fun starts
> at 0000 UTC Saturday (8 pm Friday night local time) and ends at 2359 UTC
> Sunday (7:59 PM Sunday night local time).
>
> WPX stands for "Worked All Prefixes." The prefix, in case you were
> wondering, is the first part of the callsign including the number. My
> prefix
> is N3. Len Sutphin's prefix is KC5. Ben Hastings's prefix is KV4. Serious
> competitors try to work as many different call sign prefixes as possible.
> We
> will hear some really unusual prefixes from other countries. Don't worry
> about what country they're in. "Work First, Worry Later." I'll be happy to
> help you after the contest to figure out what you've got, if a call sign
> doesn't come up on QRZ.com.
>
> The neat thing about this contest is that everybody works everybody. We
> don't have to remember what countries are out of bounds.
>
> The next neat thing is that you could be very popular in this contest. N3
> is
> as common as rocks among hams who take part in contests. Nobody ever tells
> me, "Hey, thanks for the new one." When my call sign was WT3P, I was
> extremely popular, because there were only 26 call signs with WT3 prefixes
> in the world, and only 2 of us used our home calls in contests. There are
> vastly more KK4 and KJ4 call signs (for example) in the world than N3's,
> but
> very few hams with these prefixes take part in contests. So a number of
> NRVARC members with prefixes that are either altogether rare (like AI4) or
> rare among contesters could make some people very happy in this contest.
>
> To make a contact in the contest, you will need to send the other station a
> signal report (always 59) and a serial number. That's a sequential contact
> number starting with 1. Keep a note in your log of the numbers you send so
> you won't accidentally send duplicate serial numbers. The other ops will
> send the same kind of info back to you.
>
> You can work states and countries and make great progress towards operating
> awards.
>
> As always, contesting is not done on the 12, 17, 30, and 60 meter bands.
>
> As always, avoid cute phonetics that will just confuse people from other
> countries.
>
> As always, have fun on the ham bands! 73 - Kay N3KN
>
>
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