Country Uncle DX Club

Congratulations to Milton N4DA and Dennis K4NV for a strong CU
performance in the 2011 Georgia QSO Party held this past April 9th
and 10th 2011. It appears that Dennis has won the Phone Award, 
his closest competitor has less than half his score. Results are
not official yet.

Georgia QSO Party

The Country Uncles are going to participate in the Georgia QSO Party April 9th and 10th. See http://gqp.contesting.com/ for complete details. Join in the fun if you can.

K4NV Takes 6th in NAQP

Dennis K4NV is once again a stand out in the NAQP. With over 1200 QSO's in a 10 hour low power effort Dennis once again brings positive attention to himself and the Country Uncles. Congratulations to Dennis for a job well done.

Call               QSOs Mults   hr      Score Club/Team
All Single Op LP
K7RL              1435   212    10    304,220 WWDXC
N8OO              1216   214 9hour    260,224
K0DU              1259   200    10    255,577 Grand Mesa #1
W9RE              1181   211    10    247,925 SMC Alley Cats
K4AB              1222   192    10    234,624 WX4TM Memorial ACG #
K4NV              1211   193    10    233,723 MDCC Team 1
W6YI              1153   196    10    225,988 SCCC #1
N5DO              1142   189    10    215,838 Texas Thunder
N4PN              1136   186    10    211,296 SECC #1
K6LL              1108   186    10    206,088 AOCC Bad Boys

K4NV Dennis participate in the ARRL 10 Meter SSB contest from NQ4I as a single operator operating with high power. Dennis is 3rd in score in North America, and number 1 in the 4th call district in this category. While K4NV is number 3 in the program he is number one in our hearts. Congratulations to Dennis for a job well done in representing the Country Uncles.

NA SO SSB HP
Call      QSOs      Mults      hr       Score Club
AB5K     1389       98        27         272,244 CTDXCC
W6YI       1042       56        24        160,468 San Diego Contest Cl
NQ4I(K4NV) 818  95       18         155,420 SECC
W8ZN       828        77       27.5     127,358 PVRC
WA5ZUP 625         72                      90,000
W3LL       424         61        12         51,728 PVRC
VO1KVT  395         58          6        45,820 ECCCC
K7LY        349         65        11        45,370 Arizona Outlaws Cont
AD4L        232        52                     24,128 PVRC
N4JOW     201       41        9.5       16,482 PVRC

K4NV and N4DA put the NQ4I Contest Station on the air in the 160 SSB contest.

As 5PM Friday approached, the Live stream video have been put on the air, the automatic ID's had been recorded, transceivers, antennas  and amps checked out. All was ready for the next 48 hors as the venerable team of Milton N4DA and Dennis K4NV were ready to CONTEST. At exactly 5PM there was a flurry of activity as a number of Country Uncles logged contacts with the station. When the dust settled and the numbers were posted - the team of K4NV and N4DA had placed 3 in the US using the NQ4I contest station. See scores below and a few photos from the contest. No you do not need to change you eyeglass prescription... The were taken through the blurry eyes on the participants.  

USA Multi-Op HP     
Call        QSOs StPrv DX   hr   Score Club
K1LZ       1275     58    71    34   720,981 YCCC
N2CW     1147     58    64    40  489,342 South Jersey DX Assn
NQ4I        1224     57    60    28  436,410 SECC
ND8DX   1321     58    45           364,826
NF8J       1138     58    34    29   257,784 MRRC
W4WS      935     57    42    29   250,569 PVRC
WD5R     1030     57    33           233,730
NI5T           755     55    18    29  129,283 Arizona Outlaws Cont
N6WM       581     53    20    23  104,755 NCCC
N4HB        430      54   13    19     69,412
NK7U        300     48    11      6     42,775 WVDXC
N5AA        180     50    25      6     42,000 CTDXCC
AB5CC      270   41      5     13     32,383
K2OAK     162    40      7      22    18,424 YCCC
NX5M       100    41     14      4     15,180 CTDXCC
KU5B       100     41    14      4      15,180 CTDXCC

Three Country Uncles (K4NV Dennis, N4DA Milton, and K4SX Ron) participated in the NAQP SSB contest in August 2010. This is a team score as well as an individual score event. The contest is a 12 hours sprint with a limit of 10 operation hours, low power (100 Watts or less) and teams can have up to five people. Our THREE man team took 5th place in the nation. Individually, all three CU's did very well. Dennis K4NV had the highest individual score in the 4th call area. Your CU roving report reached Dennis K4NV for Comment, "We did a great job with only 3 team members out of a possible 5 and hope to fill out the team next year with a full 5 members." It is always amazing to see what can be done with great operators, great antenna systems and one CU chicken out...

K4NV and N4DA
take the 3rd Spot

While number one in our hearts, they will be number 3 in your program, this venerable team of Country Uncles looks to be in line to take 3rd place in the CQ World Wide 160 meter SSB contest held this past February 2010. A serious accomplishment for them. Milton and Dennis teamed up again this year at Dennis' QTH to participate in the 160 meters SSB contest. Despite blown Amp fuses, and voice keyer challenges they were able to post a very respectable score and most importantly make the rest of the Country Uncles feel good. A number of Country Uncles did all they could to help them by working the duo on 160 meters - some went above and beyond - seems Milton and Dennis worked every Ham in Trion GA. - some several times! While it is not 100% official it is about as close to official as you can get - see chart below. In addition to taking 3rd in the US, it appears they will rank 13th world wide. This is a serious accomplishment we can all be proud of - Congratulations to both Dennis and Milton for a job well done.

USA Multi-Op HP

Call                                QSOs   StPrv    DX   hr       Score       Club

K1LZ                              1188      57       64    35       498,520    YCCC

N2CW                            1173      57       55    40       412,272    South Jersey DX Assoc

K4NV(K4NV.N4DA)   1263      58       37   31 hr   296,100

NF8J(@N8CC)            1201      56       31    25        253,170

W0AIH                           1120      57       27  28.5       220,752     MWA

K1TTT                             877      55        31    20       196,768     YCCC

WD5R                             983      58       18                173,128

NK7C                              671      55       14  24:43     107,226      Arizona Outlaws Cont

NI5T(@N5BG)               609      55       14    28         100,188     Arizona Outlaws Cont

NX5M                             250      49       24     5            53,874      CTDXCC

W6DF                            245      43         8       6           30,243

NAQP January 16th/17th 2010

The North American QSO Party - SSB was held on January 16th 2010 starting at 1800Z and running till 0600Z January 17th 2010. A single operator could operate 10 out of the 12 contest hours and was limited in power to 100 watts. One of the Country Uncles noted for his contest participation in past was on the air and worked the contest - Dennis K4NV.

With new video technology in his shack broadcasting his every "Q" it did not take long for even the casual observer to recognize the skill it takes to contest these days. Computer logging of course makes it a bit easier than the old paper logs - assuming you can type. However, listening via the video/audio Dennis was sending out it became clear quickly that one constant has not changed over the years. The lack of ability and skill from some of the OTHER contest participants. Their inability to give their name phonetically, misspell their own name phonetically, or even give their call wrong phonetically when asked for a repeat was just astounding. Dennis displayed an unusually high level of patients in dealing with the callers. It was amazing to watch. One other thing was very clear - there are some parents out there that just hated their children - that fact solely based on the names that they gave them. I think the best one that was heard was one old fellow from TX his name was "HOT" yes that is Hotel - Oscar - Tango. Oh well, another contest in the books. Here is the results for Dennis' station.

K4NV Contest Results
1180 Contacts over the 10 hour period Dennis worked the contest
179 Multipliers
For a total of 211,800 Points

Very nice job!
 

This past weekend the CQ World Wide SSB contest was held. The Country Uncles in true CU style decided to rework the contest and participate in their own manner. With Dennis K4NV off to the NQ4I Super Contest station to participate the remaining contesting CU's decided to have their own contest with in a contest. The rules were simple - work as many countries as you can during the normal contest hours. Assisted or non assisted, high power or QRP, any Ham band it made no difference - just work as many countries as you could during the hours of the contest. Of course trying not to log any dummy contacts paced on spotting services as checkers by CQ (as some notable Hams have been accused of recently).
The speed that the CU contest committe move is nothing short of miraculous in determining a winner - in fact the winner was determined at the close of the contest Sunday Night. Not months later as with the case by some other governing authorities.

And the Winner is:

Van piled up an impressive 139 countries during the contest period. Congratulations to Van for the very hard work. Others, Milton N4DA, Joe W4JSM, Gary WB4CSW and Tony KE4PK all participated but fell short of the mark set by Van. Congratulation again to Van for an outstanding performance in this years contest with in a contest. 

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The results of the Country Uncle Fall Contest are posted - Click on the sub Tab (Fall Contest Results) under Contest tab for all the files and a list of the winners. Congratulations to all the winners!

The Country Uncle Fall Contest is over and the logs are due to K4JAN@countryuncledx.com
The official results will be published here the first week in February

• Objective  To work as many DX countries of the world on Amateur Bands; 160, 80, 40, and 20 meters
  
• Contest Period  0000 UTC October 1st thru 2400 UTC December 31st 2008
  
• Eligibility  All licensed Amateurs Radio Operators World Wide
  
• Modes of Operation SSB, CW, and Digital Modes (RTTY, PSK31)
  
• Entry and Power Categories  Single operator, FCC maximum allowed power output
  
• Contest Exchange
  
• Send  Call-sign and Signal Report
  
• Receive   Call-sign and Signal Report 
  

Early Sign Up

1.    While not a contest requirement, to be able to communicate with contest participants we would like for you to register for the contest. You can either do this or not. However, stations that register for the contest by October 10^th will receive 10,000 bonus points on their total score.
2.    Resister - simply send an email from the email account we should send contest communications to address it to contest@countryuncledx.com  with CONTEST in the subject.
3.    You will receive and auto responder that indicates you have registered - print that email out and included it with your Log for your 10,000 point bonus. Inclusion of the printed email is the sole responsibility of the station claiming the bonus.

Scoring

• Contacts between US Amateurs are not a valid contacts and do not count as a point
  
• For US Stations, all DX contacts outside of the USA count 1 point. For DX stations outside the US participating in the contest, all DX contacts ouside their own country count as 1 point
  
• DX station can be worked on each mode for a single band for award purposes
  
• Multiplier list is the ARRL DXCC Country listing (once per mode and once per band)
  
• Same DX stations may be worked once per mode and once per band
  
• Miscellaneous - All participants must be aware of and comply with current Band Plans and power limitations
  

• Logs are required if you are competing for one of the 4 Award Plaques and/or certificates.
  
• All logs must be submitted electronically in Cabrillo format. 
  
• We suggest using N1MM logger (free download) under log type select DX Log. This will properly score your contacts for this event.
  
• Other Electronic Log programs may be also used. At the end of the contest period export all contacts into the N1MM log using an ADIF file format. The N1MM log program will then properly score the contest. Submit N1MM logs in Camrillo format to sid@countryuncledx.com
  
• All logs must be submitted no later than January 30, 2009.
  
• Email all logs to by deadline to sid@countryuncledx.com
  

• Plaques will be awarded to;
  
• Top Overall Score for a stations located inside the USA
  
• Top Overall Score for a station located outside the USA
  
• Individual modes SSB, CW, Digital (RTTY & PSK31) - stations located inside the USA
  
•  Individual modes SSB, CW, Digital (RTTY & PSK31) - stations located outside the USA
  
• Certificates will be awarded to
  
• Top Overall Scores for individual bands; 160, 80, 40 and 20 meters - Stations located inside the USA
  
• Top Overall Scores for individual bands; 160, 80, 40 and 20 meters - Stations located outside the USA
  

• N4DA, W4JSM, K4NV, W4ASE and K4SX are plaque sponsors
  
• Plaque sponsor's call-sign will be imprinted on the plaque
  

• All results will be posted at http://www.countryuncledx.com
  
• Contest info can be found at the website above