Solar CDX

Two contests, one rock

Camping

I could say that we selected Rocky Gap State Park (78.65061 W, 39.71315 N) for Memorial Day camping because I knew I would be running a rock-bound transceiver in a QRP contest, but the truth is that as usual we waited until the last minute to make camping reservations, and there weren’t many [...]

Upstairs with NAQCC

We interrupt coverage of Operation Sizzling Pork for this brief mention of last night’s NAQCC sprint, which turned out much better than I would have had any reason to expect. This is a monthly two-hour QRP sprint in which I have participated a half dozen times, usually netting only a few contacts. When I got [...]

Operation Sizzling Pork: Analysis

We went into Operation Sizzling Pork with the intention of having a good time (as we did, see Ben’s photos), rather than as an all out contest. This was something of a shake down cruise with a lot of firsts — it was the first time Ben had worked a contest larger than a sprint, [...]

Operation Sizzling Pork: The Log

There will be more more posts on Operation Sizzling Pork, but I intend to draw it out. Later in the week: the travelogue, a how-to guide for using Macs during mutlirig contests, and some strategic analysis. Right now, however, my priority is to share the results of the contest with other teams members. I am [...]

Operation Sizzling Pork

Several months ago, I bounced an idea off Ben (NN9S) and Tymme (K9TYM) — why not get together for some sort of radio operating event? I reviewed the contest calendar and suggested the Indiana QSO Party, a laid back twelve hour contest on May 7th. Tymme has a technician license, but has not had much [...]