Hi Tom,

I plan to be on tomorrow.  There is a funeral for a church member 
tomorrow, but I should be home by 2 o'clock and hope to get in a good 
effort.  My CW skills are still fair to poor, but  I want to  really hit 
the PA QP hard in October, and more CW QSO's equals higher score, so I 
want  to get some practice in this weekend.

BTW, I just reinstalled a program I hadn't used in quite a while called 
Rufz XP.   Once you set your initial speed (it uses CPM instead of WPM) 
it sends a group  of 50 call signs.  If you get a call right, the next 
one comes a little faster, and if you get it wrong, the next one is a 
bit slower.   Get a bunch right in a row, and the speed  really cranks up.

http://www.rufzxp.net/

73, maybe catch you tomorrow, Steve KW3A

On 8/3/2012 6:46 AM, Tom Behler wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> The North American QSO Party CW Contest is this week-end.  It runs from 1800
> Z tomorrow afternoon, until 0600 Z Sunday morning.  If you are in the
> Eastern time zone, that translates to 2 p.m. tomorrow, until 2 a.m. Sunday
> morning.  Those in Other time zones can do the appropriate time conversions
> from there.
>
> The contest exchange is very simple--just your name and state/province.
> Everyone is limited to a maximum power of 100 watts, which is nice because
> it levels the playing field for those who do not have and use amplifiers.
>
> In my view, this is one of the most fun CW contests on the contest calendar.
>
> And, the SSB contest is two weeks from this week-end!
>
> As rare as it seems, I'm actually going to be at the home QTH this week-end,
> and plan to put in a good contest effort.  The only thing that might stop me
> is the fact that there is going to be a major cold front coming through our
> area tomorrow night, which will certainly create its share of thunderstorms
> and associated QRN, but hopefully, I'll be able to work around that.
>
> Hope to see at least some of you in the contest.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI
>
>
>