The Louisiana Qso Party (LaQP) was held on March 22, 2014. This year, for the first time, the Louisiana Contest Club (N5LCC.com) was the sponsor. When we took over sponsorship, we had four main goals: To provide a fun operating event; To give Louisiana contacts, particularly at the Parish level, to everyone who needed them; To provide results that are as accurate as possible; and To publish a list of ALL participants. To accomplish these goals, we advertised the event; we encouraged Louisiana stations to be on as much as possible, and provided a club station running 2 bands the entire event, as a bonus station. Lastly, we reached out to our friends in Texas who wrote the log scoring software for the Texas Qso Party, to insure that all logs were scored fairly and correctly.

     We were very pleased with the results. In addition to the club station, which operated as N5LCC, we had 88 additional participants, spanning 30 states and 10 DX countries. This was a nice increase over the last few years. All logs were cross-checked for dupes, NIL (not in log), and qth errors. Any invalid contact was removed with no additional penalty. The most common cause for a removed contact was mis-copied call and wrong qth, particularly on the rovers (don’t depend on pre-fill, because they ARE changing qth. Log what the operator says).

     A total of 6,508 contacts were made, 4472 on CW and 2036 on phone. 66 of the 88 participants worked the club station, N5LCC and got the 100-point bonus. In addition to the fixed stations, three rovers activated 64 parishes, earning a 50-point bonus for each. We thank these three, N5NA, W5WMU, and NO5W, for their efforts, and for giving out a large number of contacts with some rare parishes.

     The most active state, other then Louisiana, was Missouri. The most active DX country was Germany.

     The club station N5LCC was manned by LaQP committee members WM5H and K5ER. N5LCC worked the most multipliers, and earned the highest score - 580,356 points. Since its purpose was strictly to provide bonus points and increase activity,N5LCC is entered as a check-log and not in competition with other participants. The complete N5LCC log has been uploaded onto LoTW.

The "Top Ten" scoring stations for 2014 are:

1. N5NA – 547,560
2. W5WMU (+N8OO) – 388046
3. W5LA – 193,988
4. NO5W (+K1DW)  – 180,246
5. AC5O – 169,150
6. OM2VL – 32,660
7. AD5VC – 25,060
7. KE5IAK – 25,060
9. KG5VK – 24,808
10. WA6KHK – 23,104

     The rules listed a number of categories in which certificates could be won. A complete list of these winners is available @ Results.

     A list of all participants, ranked by score, is available @ rankings.

     Special thanks to Chuck, NO5W, author of CQ-X gps enabled rover logging software, for his help with log scoring software.

     We thank all participants for taking time to join our event. Please plan to join us again in 2015 –  once secured, dates and rules will be posted on the LAQP.org web site.

     On behalf of the LaQP contest committee, thanks for making this a great event.

73,
Bobby, WM5H; Jeff, AC5O; and Mark, K5ER

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