On September 21st several NARS members worked the Montana CW QRP Field Contest. They paired up in several teams and operated at the QTH of Mike Hance KB5YVT. Recent postings on the packet contest reflector show the team of OJ Quarles WA1YIA and Bill Denton WA5DWX in the lead for points in this national contest. Most contacts were made on 20 meters and some important multipliers were obtained late in the day on 40 meters. Congratulations for a fine effort and well deserved result.

Bill Stietenroth K5ZTY has applied for a new club call sign in the Vanity Call Sign gate 2. He submitted a list of available call signs including several one by two's that are pretty neat. The FCC is using the lottery approach to issuing the se new calls; after all applications are received, a computer will do the random selections. Let's all hope we get a good one for club contesting. Whatever we end up with, we can all thank Bill for ridding us of the rather ineffective KC5OGI .