Christmas Eve and Day of 2007 marks the 28th N1CC celebration of the holiday season. 2007 Operation details in "real time" will be published starting December 23 through the end of the period. Goodwill and Peace are still the messages conveyed by this operation coincident with the Christian Christmas period and near to special holidays for most of mankind's other religious belief's. My operation once again offers confirmation of the contact with a standard size special QSL Card. I would appreciate any U.S. station's S.A.S.E. and all non-USA contacts will be confirmed via the QSL bureau system. If you are a DX station, want a QSL and do not belong to the QSL bureau organization in your country please send me your card direct and I will return to you in the same fashion. I don't require DX or deployed military stations to send return postage of any kind.
Christmas Eve and Day of 2006 marks the 27th N1CC celebration of the holiday season. Goodwill and peace are the messages conveyed by this operation coincident with the Christian Christmas period and near to special holidays for most of mankind's other religious belief's. My operation once again offers confirmation of the contact with a standard size special QSL Card. I would appreciate any U.S. station's S.A.S.E. and all non-USA contacts will be confirmed via the QSL bureau system. If you are a DX station, want a QSL and do not belong to the QSL bureau organization in your country please send me your card direct and I will return to you in the same fashion. I don't require DX stations to send return postage of any kind. Note - Cards started being mailed on January 155, 2007. Two job changes and getting "settled" into the new location slowed this process, so some 2006 cards are still going out in December 2007.
Christmas Eve and Day of 2005 marked the 26th N1CC celebration of the holiday season. Goodwill and peace are the messages conveyed by this operation coincident with the Christian Christmas period and near to special holidays for most of mankind's other religious belief's. My operation once again offered confirmation of the contact with a standard size special QSL Card.
Christmas Eve and Day of 2004 marked the 25th N1CC celebration of the holiday season. Goodwill and peace are the messages conveyed by this operation coincident with the Christian Christmas period and near to special holidays for most of mankind's other religious belief's. My operation once again offered confirmation of the contact with a standard size special QSL Card. I would appreciate any U.S. station's S.A.S.E. and all non-USA contacts will be confirmed via the QSL bureau system. If you are a DX station, want a QSL and do not belong to the QSL bureau organization in your country please send me your card direct and I will return to you in the same fashion. I don't require DX stations to send return postage of any kind.
2003 Thumbnail Christmas Eve and Day of 2003 marked the 24th celebration of the holiday season. Goodwill and peace are the messages conveyed by this operation coincident with the Christian Christmas period and near to special holidays for most of mankind's other religious belief's. The 2003 operation once again offered confirmation of the contact with a standard size special QSL Card. Note: Santa Claus operated N1CC Christmas Eve 0000-0400Z on 3.870 Mhz! See the 2003 results here.
2003 Operation appeared in QST, December 2003 Special Events 2002 Thumbnail Christmas Eve and Day of 2002 marked the 23rd celebration of the holiday season. See the 2002 results here.
2002 Operation appears in QST, December 2002 Special Events, Page 92 and in December CQ.
Christmas Carol operation mirrors
the Sunspot Cycle. You can see the propagaion that Cycle 22 provided
over the period. We are, no doubt at the beginning of Cycle 23.
Propagation for 1996 made 10 Meters an essential wasteland, while
in 1989 all 2,111 QSOs were on 28 Mhz! That '89 DXCC and WAS in
a two-day non weekend non-contest activity was a lot of fun ...
yet exhausting. So, in 1990 we enlisted several others to help
from the AARA. Conditions were already declining, so only half
as many contacts were made... again all on 10 Meters. By 1991
the decline 'forced' us to use the other bands. In 1994 200 QSO's
were on 14 Mhz, and in 1995 only 211, with seven QSOs on 10 Meters.
If you observe the Special Event from '80 to '90 it has been a
10 Meter event ... following the Cycle 22 curve. 1998's Christmas
Eve marked the twentieth running of this Special Event. See Details
below and links on the History Table
| Year | QSO | DXCC Ctys | VEProvs | U.S. States | Link to Year Pages |
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| 80 | 79 | 7 | 2 | 23 |
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| 81 | 200 | 18 | 5 | 34 |
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| 82 | 132 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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| 83 | 47 | 4 | 4 | 18 |
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| 84 | 118 | 5 | 4 | 21 |
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| 85 | 311 | 6 | 4 | 40 |
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| 86 | 500 | 5 | 3 | 41 |
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| 87 | 582 | 5 | 5 | 50 |
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| 88 | 495 | 31 | 3 | 40 |
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| 89 | 2111 | 105 | 8 | 50 |
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| 90 | 1124 | 66 | 4 | 48 |
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| 91 | 654 | 36 | 2 | 46 |
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| 92 | 1083 | 56 | 3 | 50 |
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| 93 | 324 | 15 | 3 | 45 |
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| 94 | 301 | 27 | 4 | 41 |
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| 95 | 258 | 20 | 4 | 43 |
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| 96 | 200 | 26 | 3 | 43 |
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| 97 | 587 | 48 | 7 | 45 |
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| 98 | 150 | 12 | 4 | 33 |
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| 99 | 36 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
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| 2000 | 300 | 20 | 2 | 27 |
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| 2001 | 230 | 2 | 4 | 33 |
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2002. Operation plan was successful. New Antenna and operating times to enhance expected contacts.
2001. Operation was with OUTREACH and OUTRUNNER primarily on 28.474.5 MHz with secondary operations on 21.392.5, 14.282 and 7.238 MHz. Frombe from our new location in Hickory Creek, Texas. On Thursday before Christmas Eve a Solar Storm erupted. Peak SFI was 275 with K-Index at 19. 6 Meters was great - by the way the spots were flying, everything else became disrupted. For example, the East and West coast were working EU and ZL at the same time, never heard outside of US or Canada until late Sunday when KH6 was logged.
2000. Operation was from a rental residence in the greater Lake Dallas area. FT-990 at 100W to and OUTREACH and OUTRUNNER antenna system allowed 300 contacts. There was limited time on the air and propagation was fair to normal only. Rates were about 50% of operation from Albany NY, however, better than South Carolina opertions.
1999: This was the first time that I have gone back to Texas for Christmas. Operation was with a Radio Shack HTX100 at 25W with a dipole in a hotel room in Lewisville. I think that the hotel must have had a metal frame, because when I tested the setup from home it worked well. It was very hard to make contacts, and conditions seemed to be very good. Next year, if I go back to Texas again I will have a more practical location.
1998: This was the first year in South Carolina - and I operated seven (7) hours. Conditions were good, however, signals were down in general. That coupled with my indoor antenna system limited the number of QSO's markedly. I know that with reasonable conditions I get out pretty well, as the contest scores show for October and November events. I think we would have had better totals given a lower "K" index. Just two days before EU stations were everywhere on 10 and 15 - and you can see from the 1998 detail page that they just were not on over Christmas this year. With only 150 contacts completed the 21 QPH rate reflects this conditions. The most worked state was PA, with FL and NY following closely. Only 33 states were worked, and of the "hard" ones missed last year from NY only DE was not in the mix .... 20 was again the workhorse band with almost all of the contacts on that crowded band. Solar Flux at 140 and K index of 5 wasn't good enough this year.
1997: With only 9 hours of operation we averaged 65.2 QPH and had a peak hour of 118 QSO's ... I know I missed a lot of folks, the pileups were MASSIVE! This is encouraging. For example, we only missed ME, VT, DE, and MD for back-scatter QSO's and WY was just not there. All continents were on the air with notables 5A1, OD5, 9K2, SV8, TA, GU and CN - usually "rare" ones by the average Ham's standards. 20 Meters opened early and closed early, for that reason California - which often is the most worked US State, was down remarkably. Quick succession contacts that were a surprise were such as N0UVP, VE7QCR, JO1WKO, KH6DFW, WL7CFA and WA5VMY in a five-minute window on 20 Meters. The workhorse band was 20 with 551 Q's 40-12, 15-17 and 80-7 rounding out the operation. We used 14.262, 260, 258; 21.360, 7.258 and 3.960 MHz...we will change the 20M frequency as I conflicted with an IOTA operation unexpectedly.
If you contacted N1CC this year, or before, a special QSL card commemorating the operation is available for an SASE with your QSL to the callbook address.
| For 1994's Christmas
Carol QSL, the black and white photo below was used. Picture shows N1CC and the assistant chief operator (SK)! |
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