Success of N4B and The Ft. Bragg Centennial Celebration

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The Cape Fear Amateur Radio Society sponsored a Special Event Station in celebration of the 100thAnniversary of Fort Bragg, NC from 3 – 9 September 2018. This was a once in a lifetime event.

We had 9 CFARS operators and a few logging assistants who conducted digital, CW and SSB HF operations during this period accumulating 2411 total contacts. Band conditions were challenging to say the least, contacts were made as follows:

Band        CW     Phone      Dig      Total      

  80           11          95        117       223      

  40          92      1,356      175     1,623      

  30           10            0       139       149      

  20           28        331         39      398      

  17             0            0          14        14      

  15             0            0           3          3      

   6             0            0            1          1    

Total        141      1,782     488     2,411

A total of 48 US States were contacted with Ohio (219) followed by Pennsylvania (194) and Florida with 174being the top three.

The most contacted country was Canada (86) followed by Germany (18) and Italy with (13). A total of 33 countries were contacted.

There was a total of 17 CQ zones contacted during the event with 4 continents, 1845 unique grids and 888 individual US counties.

All contacts were uploaded to LotW and QRZ with many QSL cards expected to be received by mail. There were over 9700 look-ups on the N4B QRZ page, which will be still on line until the last week of October.

Respectfully submitted,

George KM4ODS

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