CQ CQ CQ de N4B
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
Please visit https://www.qrz.com/lookup/n4b for QSL info and more.