2004 NEQP Results

County Activity

It took a lot of coordination and a little luck, but all 67 counties were available in the 2004 NEQP. Only two stations were on in 12 counties, while the hardest appear to be Coos NH, Essex VT and Franklin MA, Middlesex CT, Nantucket MA and Orleans VT with only one station in each. Middlesex MA took the honors for the highest activity with 933 QSOs from 28 stations.

County	State	QSOs	Stations (min 2 logs)
Addison	VT	43	3
Androscoggin	ME	48	2
Aroostook	ME	166	3
Barnstable	MA	240	10
Belknap	NH	32	3
Bennington	VT	255	4
Berkshire	MA	368	3
Bristol	MA	300	12
Bristol	RI	241	5
Caledonia	VT	43	3
Carroll	NH	171	2
Cheshire	NH	60	3
Chittenden	VT	146	4
Coos	NH	21	1
Cumberland	ME	78	8
Dukes	MA	195	2
Essex	MA	460	12
Essex	VT	17	1
Fairfield	CT	224	9
Franklin	MA	11	1
Franklin	ME	46	3
Franklin	VT	30	2
Grafton	NH	118	7
Grand Isle	VT	51	2
Hancock	ME	254	6
Hartford	CT	392	8
Hillsborough	NH	522	18
Hampden	MA	212	10
Hampshire	MA	32	2
Kennebec	ME	54	2
Kent	RI	469	6
Knox	ME	27	3
Lamoille	VT	30	2
Lincoln	ME	57	5
Litchfield	CT	28	3
Merrimack	NH	208	5
Middlesex	CT	29	1
Middlesex	MA	933	28
Nantucket	MA	94	1
Newport	RI	109	3
New Haven	CT	751	21
New London	CT	298	7
Norfolk	MA	196	5
Orange	VT	375	4
Orleans	VT	14	1
Oxford	ME	29	2
Penobscot	ME	249	6
Piscataquis	ME	51	3
Plymouth	MA	161	7
Providence	RI	316	10
Rochester	NH	855	17
Rutland	VT	137	2
Sagadahoc	ME	88	4
Somerset	ME	28	2
Strafford	NH	88	5
Suffolk	MA	53	3
Sullivan	NH	69	4
Tolland	CT	147	3
Waldo	ME	93	4
Washington	ME	275	6
Washington	RI	374	8
Washington	VT	26	2
Windham	CT	563	8
WIndsor	VT	184	6
Windham	VT	18	3
Worcester	MA	725	16
York	ME	29	4

Certificates!

We're sending out participation certificates to everyone with 25 QSOs or more, and printed results to everyone who sent in a log. Thanks to Scott/N1AIA for doing the certificate design work, and to Bill/K1GQ for turning out the many certificates this year. Bill also deserves credit for finding some nice quality paper to print them on.

2004 New England QSO Party
Plaques and Special Awards

Certificates were awarded to the top scorers (25 QSO minimum) in each
New England county, U.S. state, Canadian Province and DXCC country.

Special plaques have been awarded to these top scorers:

Category	Donor	Winner

USA - single operator	Southborough Rod & Gun Club (W1SRG)	Paul Newberry, N4PN
USA - single operator low power	Laci Radnay, W1PL	Charles Wooten, NF4A
USA - single operator QRP	Joe Zdrojowy, NY1S	Bill O'Kain, K4LTA
USA - single opr(W5-W6-W7-W0)	Huckleberry Mtn Contest Club	Rex Maner, K7QQ
USA - single opr(W2-W3-W8-W9)	Jim Monahan, K1PX	Keith Pederson, WA3HAE
USA - any category (California/Nevada)	Calif QSO Party - Northern California Contest Club	Rob Brownstein, K6RB
USA - multi operator - single transmitter	Dave Robbins, K1TTT	Dan Norman, N0HF(+ Bruce Herrick, WW1M)
Canada - single operator	Chris Terkla, N1XS	Doug Ferris, VA3DF
DX - single operator	Yankee Clipper Contest Club	Gedas Lucinskas, LY3BA
DX - Russia - any category (min 50 multipliers/200 QSOs)	Dmitri Y Jikharev, N2OW/RA9USU	(no winner this time)
Clean Sweep - Not First, but Furthest	Dennis Egan, NB1B	Paul Newberry, N4PN

New England - single operator	Yankee Clipper Contest Club	Rick Davenport, KI1G
New England - single operator - low power	Southborough Rod & Gun Club (W1SRG)	Pete Chamalian, W1RM
New England - single operator - QRP	Blackstone Valley Amateur Radio Club	Bill Birtcher, K1EV
New England - mobile	Boston Amateur Radio Club	Charles Morrison, N1RR/m
New England - multi operator mobile	Brian Szewczyk, NJ1F, in memory of James Szewczyk, WB1EYM	John Lindholm, W1XX/m (+ Bob Halprin, K1XA)
New England - multi-single	Wellesley ARS	Dave Robbins, K1TTT (+ Tom Homewood, W1TO, Brian Szewczyk, NJ1F, Mike Perry, WM1K)
New England - school club	Chris Terkla, N1XS	Worcester Polytechnical Institute Wireless Association/W1YK (Isaac Waldron, KI1W + Jeff Rosenberger, N3SX)
New England - CW only	Andy Bodony, K2LE	Dennis Egan, NB1B

Connecticut - single operator	Candlewood ARA	Ken Bolin, W1NG
Maine - single operator	Merrymeeting ARA, Androscoggin ARC, Yankee ARC, Portland Amateur Wireless Assn, Piscataquis ARC	Joe Zdrojowy, NY1S
Massachusetts - single operator	Framingham Amateur Radio Association	Dennis Egan, NB1B
New Hampshire - single operator	NH-ARRL	Ann Santos, WA1S
Rhode Island - single operator	CT/RI Contest Group	Rick Davenport, KI1G
Vermont - single operator	Bob Raymond, WA1Z	Bill Hein, NT1Y

Maine - single operator high power	Augusta Amateur Radio Assn	Dave Bowker, K1FK

MA - Hampden County - single operator	Hampden County Radio Assn	Jim Mullen, KK1W

New England Club	Yankee Clipper Contest Club	CT-RI Contest Group - WA1RR

If you'd like to sponsor a plaque for 2005, please contact us at info@neqp.org

Special Awards

The top USA (non-New England) single operator winner:

The Framingham Amateur Radio Association has donated a Lobster dinner for two from Legal Seafood of Boston to the USA single operator (non-New England) winner.

For 2004 the winner is Paul Newberry, N4PN!

The top Florida score:

One gallon of Paul Tibbetts (K1PT), somewhat world famous, chowdah. He will "personally prepare, deliver, and participate in the consumption of said chowdah at the time and place of the winner's choosing."

For 2004 the winner is Jim Dunbar, K4PV!

Other top USA (non-New England) scorers:

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream - 250+ QSOs

N2CU WA3HAE K4BAI K4PV NF4A

Maple Syrup - 150+ QSOs

K1GU/4 K4BEV N4CW N4IG K6RB K7QQ K9EN W9YQ K0JPL

Log checking

Thanks to everyone who sent in electronic logs, it made the log checking process go much easier. There were 295 logs overall, with 242 in electronic format (82%) and 53 on paper. We took the time to convert all of the paper logs to electronic format for log checking.

For non-New England stations, cross checking was possible on 11,372 of the 13,627 QSOs reported (83.5%). Of the 621 QSOs not allowed (4.6%), the break down is as follows:

QSOs	Reason not allowed
147	Callsign incorrect
196	QTH incorrect
4	Mode incorrect
9	Band incorrect
156	Not in log
108	Duplicate
1	Time was outside of contest period
621	Total of QSOs disallowed

For New England stations, cross checking was possible on 15,637 of the 36,092 QSOs reported (43.3%). Of the 1801 QSOs not allowed (5.0%), the break down is as follows:

QSOs	Reason not allowed
614	Callsign incorrect
552	QTH incorrect
11	Mode incorrect
22	Band incorrect
166	Not in log
430	Duplicate
6	Time was outside of contest period
1,801	Total of QSOs disallowed

There are no penalty for duplicates - we encourage you to leave them in the log.

So, who did well in the log checking? For those outside of New England, the top ten scorers (all categories) had an average loss of 2.1%. WA3HAE at 1.1% and K4BAI at 1.3% were the best. N4DW had the biggest total (118 QSOs) with no errors (Golden Log). The overall average was a loss of 3.9%.

In New England, the top ten scorers averaged a 2.3% loss - with NT1Y and W1NG only losing 1.1%. NW1E (K1JN, opr) had 393 QSOs and no errors were detected - very FB! The overall average was a loss of 5.3%.

Logging Software

Thanks to the various software authors for supporting the New England QSO Party! Writelog continues to dominate the software chosen by NEQP participants, with CT, then N3FJP, and TR Log as the others with a significant following.

Software	Users
Writelog	67
CT	35
N3FJP	31
TR Log	24
N1MM Logger	16
Genlog	10
NA	8
Win-EQF	4
MS Excel	3
CQPWin	3
SD	2
ADIF2CAB	1
DXKeeper	1
JL	1
jLog	1
Log-EQF	1
MS Word	1
N3FJP Contact Log	1
NEQP2ALL	1
xlog	1

Soapbox

You'll find a lot of very interesting comments from NEQP participants in the many pages of soapbox comments --> soapbox

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who helped to make the 2004 NEQP successful. We hope you'll be back for the 2005 NEQP!

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	80m	40m	20m	15m	10m
QSOs made by W1s	3,141	10,222	19,578	1,193	157
Different stations worked	408	1,695	3,750	302	58

Worked all Connecticut counties (8)
Call	QTH	Category
LY3BA	Lithuania	SOHP
N0HF	Colorado	MS
N4IG	Florida	SOLP
N4PN	Georgia	SOHP
NF4A	Florida	SOLP

Worked all Massachusetts counties (14)
Call	QTH	Category
K4PV	Florida	SOHP
N2CU	New York	SOLP
N4PN	Georgia	SOHP

Worked all Maine counties (16)
Call	QTH	Category
N4CW	North Carolina	SOHP
N4PN	Georgia	SOLP

Worked all New Hampshire counties (10)
Call	QTH	Category
K4BAI	George	SOHP
K4PV	Florida	SOHP
N2CU	New York	SOLP
N4IG	Florida	SOLP
N4BP	Florida	SOLP
N4PN	Florida	SOHP
WA3HAE	Pennsylvania	SOLP

Worked all Rhode Island counties (5)
Call	QTH	Category
AB7RW	Washington	SOLP
AF5P	Louisiana	SOHP
DL5AWI	Germany	SOHP
DL5MC	Germany	SOLP
HB9ARF	Switzerland	SOLP
K0AD	Minnesota	SOHP
K0JPL	Missouri	SOHP
K1GU/4	Tennessee	SOLP
K3EGE	Pennsylvania	SOLP
K3MD	Pennsylvania	SOLP
K4AMC	Tennessee	SOLP
K4BAI	George	SOHP
K4BEV	Tennessee	SOLP
K4LTA	Tennessee	SOQRP
K4PIC	Georgia	MS
K4PV	Florida	SOHP
K5KG	Florida	SOHP
K5WAF	Texas	SOLP
K6DGW	California	SOLP
K6RB	California	SOHP
K7QQ	Washington	SOHP
K8IR	Michigan	SOLP
K8ZT	Ohio	SOQRP
K9EN	Wisconsin	SOLP
KH2D	Florida	SOLP
KJ9C/m	Indiana	SOLP-m
LY3BA	Lithuania	SOHP
N0HF	Colorado	MS
N0YO	Kansas	SOHP
N2CU	New York	SOLP
N4BP	Florida	SOLP
N4CW	North Carolina	SOHP
N4GM	Florida	SOLP
N4IG	Florida	SOLP
N4LR	Georgia	SOLP
N4MM	Virginia	SOHP
N4PN	Florida	SOHP
N6NF	Texas	SOQRP
N6ZFO	California	SOLP
N9KO	Illinois	SOHP
NF4A	Florida	SOLP
NN6DX	California	SOLP
NW7MT	Montana	MS
PA3ARM	Netherlands	SOLP
VA3DF	Ontario	SOQRP
W4ARM	Florida	SOLP
W4STB	Florida	SOHP
W9YQ	Wisconsin	SOLP
WA3HAE	Pennsylvania	SOLP
WB9CIF	Indiana	SOHP
WC4E	Florida	SOLP
WD0BMS	South Dakota	SOHP

Worked all Vermont counties (14)
Call	QTH	Category
LY3BA	Lithuania	SOHP
N4PN	Georgia	SOHP

Worked all US States (50)
Call	QTH	Category
AF1T	MER NH	SOHP
K1TTT	BER MA	MS
KI1G	KEN RI	SOHP

Worked at least 20 DX countries
Call	QTH	Category
AF1T	MER NH	SOHP
AK1W	WOR MA	SOLP
K1FK	ARO ME	SOHP
K1KI/m	23 counties	SOLP-m
K1TTT	BER MA	MS
K2LE	BEN VT	SOHP
KA1ZEX	WOR MA	SOLP
KB1H	WIN CT	MS
KG1E	ESS MA	SOHP
KI1G	KEN RI	SOHP
N1API	NHV CT	MS
N1RR/m	13 counties	SOLP-m
NB1B	BRI MA	SOHP
NT1Y	ORA VT	SOHP
W1ACT	DUK MA	MS
W1KT	WOR MA	SOLP
W1NG	NHV CT	SOHP
W1RM	HAR CT	SOLP
W1RZF	WOR MA	SOHP
W1UF	NAN MA	SOHP
WA1S	HIL NH	SOLP
WA1Z	ROC NH	SOLP

Club	Count	Score
Yankee Clipper Contest Club	41	2,197,614

CT RI Contest Group	8	418,603
Contoocook Valley RC	3	110,231
Nashua Area Radio Club	1	54,473
Framingham Amateur Radio Association	1	39,156
Hampden County Radio Assn	1	37,240
Candlewood ARA	2	35,523
Meriden Amateur Radio Club	5	31,874
Hampden County Radio Assn.	2	23,913
Green Mountain Wireless Society	1	22,000
Fall River ARC	1	16,182
Capeway RC	2	10,179
Narraguagus Bay ARC	1	5,544
Old Men	1	4,653
Falmouth Amateur Radio Association	3	3,617
Waterbury ARC	1	3,120
Cheshire County DX ARC	1	3,078
Ellsworth Amateur Wireless Association	1	1,770
Newport County RC	1	1,170
Southern Vermont ARC	1	946
NE QRP	1	156

N4PN	May 1st				May 2nd
Band/UTC	20	21	22	23	00	01	02	03	04	1st day	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	2nd day	Total
10 CW										0						3						3	3
10 SSB										0						3	1					4	4
15 CW										0	3	3		2								8	8
15 SSB										0					3	1	7	1				12	12
20 CW	24	1	7	7	1	3	1			44	14	7	9	6	7	3		7	6	3	1	63	107
20 SSB	43	34	10	23	19	3	1			133	6	21	15	18	11	14	13	8	5	1		112	245
40 CW			9	6	1	7	5	10	2	40			2				1	4	1	8	10	26	66
40 SSB			4	2	3	6	5	8		28	1							2				3	31
80 CW						4	14	6	3	27											1	1	28
80 SSB							1	1	1	3												0	3
Total CW	24	1	16	13	2	14	20	16	5	111	17	10	11	8	7	6	1	11	7	11	12	101	212
Total SSB	43	34	14	25	22	9	7	9	1	164	7	21	15	18	14	18	21	11	5	1		133	295
Total	67	35	30	38	24	23	27	25	6	275	24	31	26	26	21	24	22	22	12	12	12	231	507

KI1G	May 1st				May 2nd
Band/UTC	20	21	22	23	00	01	02	03	04	1st day	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	2nd day	Total
10 CW										0			4		4	4			1			13	13
10 SSB										0					4	6	1		1			12	12
15 CW			3	1						4		44	10	8	13	2	4		1	3		85	89
15 SSB		4								4		5	15	1	1	4	1		2			29	33
20 CW/rtty	102	4	17	16	1	12				152	42	18	11	32	10	25	13		36	4	9	200	352
20 SSB		103	67	60	15	39				284	22	4	16	24	5		8	110	46	69	34	338	622
40 CW					88	5	28	14	21	156					8	2				11	3	23	180
40 SSB						44		27	2	73										1	1	2	75
80 CW						2	67	18	19	106											9	9	115
80 SSB								10	1	11						2					28	30	41
Total CW	102	4	20	17	89	19	95	32	40	418	42	62	25	40	35	33	17		38	18	21	331	749
Total SSB		107	67	60	15	83		37	3	372	22	9	31	25	10	12	10	110	49	70	63	411	783
Total	102	111	87	77	104	102	95	69	43	790	64	71	56	65	45	45	27	110	87	88	84	742	1532