NAQCC Special Event Station N3A

N3A was operated during the entire month of October 2007 in honor of the 3rd anniversary of the founding of the NAQCC around October 15, 2004. The operation was a complete success with over 1,128 QSO's made by the 16 hams who operated N3A. Here is a summary of our operation preceded by certificate and QSL info.

CERTIFICATE & QSL:

Tom WY3H took care of the certificates and QSL's for N3A. The deadline for getting a certificate and QSL is now past, and all those who applied should have received them by now. If not, contact Tom via

SUMMARY:

We can't thank the following 16 ops enough for contributing their skills to the operation of N3A. Some were not able to operate as many hours as others due to various reasons, but we feel that ALL contributed equally to the effort. We had 7 call areas involved for the whole month, and 3 other areas came on board for the October sprint and continued for the rest of the month. Each operator used a portable designation after the call to avoid confusion. Hopefully all 16 ops will be back again next year for the 4th anniversary running of our special event call along with some additional ops as well.

N3A/1 - N1EAV, N1LU*
N3A/2 - KD2MX, AB2WH
N3A/3 - WY3H, K3WWP, K3OQ
N3A/4 - AA4W, N3ZL
N3A/5 - AE5BH
N3A/6 - K6BBQ
N3A/7 - NU7T, WY7N
N3A/8 - WB8LZG*
N3A/9 - W9ILF*
N3A/0 - NO2D*
* - These ops joined the effort at the time of the sprint.

We also thank VA3RJ who was one of the first to volunteer to operate the station as N3A/VE3, but after checking we found that special event calls, unlike regular calls, cannot be operated outside the USA.

We have not received a detailed breakdown from a couple of our ops, but here are the partial overall totals we have received:

QSO's - 1,128
QSO's in contests - 710
Other QSO's - 322
2-way N3A/# QSO's - 38
DX (non-W/VE) QSO's - 23
QSO's by Band:
160: 14
80: 283
40: 423
30: 31
20: 225
17: 3
15: 13
12: 0
10: 1
States worked - (45) ALL but AK, HI, MT, ND, RI
DX entities worked including W/VE - (16) CO DL EI FM GM HA HP J3 KP4 OH0 OM UR VE V3 W ZF

OP COMMENTS

K3WWP - One of the thrills I got from the operation was seeing how hesitatingly some ops volunteered, saying they were afraid they weren't good enough to operate the station. Then those same ops turned in some very good results. I'm delighted these ops learned that they were indeed good enough to be ops of a special event station, and gained confidence in themselves as a result.

NU7T - Being a part of N3A was fun. I tried to email each noncontest contact with club information. Sharing days with Bruce, WY7N, was interesting. Two of my days were wiped out with thunderstorms.

AA4W - I had a ball operating N3A/4. I had many FB QSO's, meet a lot of nice folks and made a couple new friends along the way. I worked a number of members but I had expected to work more. I'm already looking forward to next year.