The 2010 running of the NEQP is now in the books (or logs to be technical).

Your author had a fine time with this popular QSO party from home this year.

Here is the results from Middlesex County Connecticut ...

Phone QSO’s - 26
CW QSO’s - 314
Multipliers - 64
Claimed score - 41856

Bands on Saturday where OK, 15 meters was productive with many W7’s worked, and 80 & 40 meters provided the late night QSO runs.
20 meters was in good shape to the west and Europe to snag valuable multipliers from stations the Italian contest.
Sunday the high bands need a little more solar flux.
QSO’s where there to be made, but the rate was slow.
Around 4 PM local things got better along with QSO rates until the end at 8PM local.
I was having such a good time on CW I almost forgot to grab the microphone for some phone QSO’s.
Good thing I did as I got a few needed multipliers on Phone to help out the score.

I would like to mention the efforts of my “competitor” in Middlesex County (CT), Dan W1DMM.
Dan had his best score ever (9984 points) and a significant contribution to the aggregate club score (Meriden ARC www.w1nrg.com).

Update from the 2009 contest, K1PU was the 1st place low power winner in Vermont.
I got a nice plaque sponsored by the West River Radio Club in southern Vermont.
Many thanks to the West River crew for donating this award and it will hang proudly in my shack.
I have updated the photo section with a picture.

I hope to be back in Vermont in 2011 operating portable from Orleans County.

73, K1PU