Hello Contesters
Mark the weekend of April 21/22. Contest Club Ontario invites all Amateurs to
work as many VE3/VA3's as possible in the 50 Counties, Cities and Districts
that subdivide the province of Ontario. This is the first year that CCO has
undertaken the sponsorship of this contest. We will have our approximately 300
members out in force along with many others for whom the ONQP is their major
contest of the year.
Certificates will be available to the top scores in each Province/Territory
outside Ontario, each state in th U.S.A. and each DX Country. This is in
addition to a large number of awards for those inside Ontario. We will have
three bonus stations on, VA3CCO, VA3RAC and VE3ODX, all providing 10 point
QSO's. Take a look at the revised rules on the web at
http://cco.ve3xd.com/oqp/index.htm , noting particularly the addition of two
more multipliers and the change in the time schedule. "Whose Going to be on"
will gradually fill up as the contest approaches.
CCO has had a lot of fun participating in other QSO Parties lately,
particularly the California, Florida and Pennsylvania QSO Parties. Bill, VE3CRU
has been our QSO Party guru recently and has entered virtually every QSO Party
in the past year. Bill is sponsoring a plaque for the high scoring U.S.A.
entry. A similar plaque will be awarded to the high scoring Canadian outside
Ontario.
It's CW and phone from 160m to 2m, 2 points for CW and 1 point for phone. On
80m SSB, it should be easier to nab us now that we can't hide below 3775! On
40m we will try to spend as much time as possible working above 7125 or
listening split. At the bottom of the cycle 40m is very long for inter-Ontario
QSO's and we really need those QSO's with W's, DX and other Canadians! 20m
should also be good for Ontario to "others". The other bands may tend to be
"QSY Specials".
Good luck and See you in one month!
73 Bob VE3KZ for CCO.
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