HI.............Only 5 days to the Quarter Century Wireless Association's
HALF CENTURY QSO PARTY.
I hope to work many of you on Saturday or Sunday. This is your chance to
actually participate in a QCWA activity, publicize the organization on
the air
and have some fun.
Our teller, Bob Buus, W2OD will take your log in any form, and even add up
your points for you....Just follow the rules below. We measure the
success of
activity by the number of logs we receive.
Cheers
George Roach- VE3BNO
Activities Manager.
FALL QCWA QSO Party
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The 50th Annual QCWA QSO Party
16 September 2006 at 1800 Hrs UTC
and will run for a period of 24 hours.
Categories are CW\Digital, Phone and Mixed.
Frequencies:
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The following 15 Bands may be used:
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1.8: 1.800 - 2.000 14.0: 14.000 - 14.150 28.3: 28.3 - 29.7
3.5: 3.500 - 3.750 14.2: 14.150 - 14.350 50: 50.0 - 54.0
3.9: 3.750 - 4.000 21.0: 21.000 - 21.200 144: 144.0 - 148.0
7.0: 7.000 - 7.150 21.2: 21.200 - 21.450 220: 220.0 - 225.0
7.2: 7.150 - 7.300 28.0: 28.000 - 28.300 UHF: above 420 Mhz
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Any station may be contacted on any or all of the 15 bands for a
maximum of 15 QSO's per station, with no more than one QSO per band.
Any station in your home QCWA chapter may be counted only once, for a
maximum of one QSO per station.
No contacts on WARC bands are permitted (10, 18 and 24 Mhz bands).
No Cross Band or Repeater Contacts are allowed.
Suggested Starting Frequencies:
CW: 1.810, 3.540, 7.035, 14.040, 21.050, 28.050.
Phone: 1.845, 3.890, 7.244, 14.262, 21.365, 28.325.
Calling (CW, Phone or Digital):
CQ QCWA.
Information Exchange:
Fill Columns on the Log Form.
Date/Time/Band/Mode/Call(wkd)/Year/Name/Chapter,State,Prov,Ctry
QSO Pts/Multiplier Pts
For the "year" column, indicate the last 2 digits of the year the
station operator was first licenced.
If the contacted station does not belong to a QCWA chapter, show only
the State, Province or Country of its location. The latter would
apply to Non QCWA members as well as to QCWA members who are not
affiliated with a local chapter. Do Not mention the term "At Large"
(AL) as was done several years ago, as this can be confused with AL
for Alabama.
For Band info, simply indicate one of the above 15 Bands in the
"band" column.
Scoring:
Each Phone QSO is worth one (1) contact point.
Each CW QSO or other Digital Mode QSO such as RTTY, PSK31, MFSK etc.
is worth 2 contact points (show 2 points in the QSO Points Column on
the Log).
A Multiplier of one (1) point is given for each QCWA Chapter worked
and for each State, Province or Country reported from stations not
belonging to a QCWA Chapter. A total of only one multiplier point
will be given for each State, Province or Country.
A Multiplier of 3 points will be given on each of the 15 Bands for
working our Special Events Station W2MM. It is hoped to have this
station active throughout the two parties. Stations within 50 miles
(80 Kms) of W2MM, may work W2MM only once for a total multiplier of
3 points.
Sample logs and a summary sheet may be requested from
QCWA Headquarters with an SASE or downloaded from the QCWA
website at www.qcwa.org/qso-party.htm
Address is P O Box 3247, Farmingham, MA 01705-3247 USA or on the
website at www.qcwa.org .
Contacts with QCWA Memorial Station W2MM count as three multipliers
on each of the 15 bands.
Note: W2MM will be operated by one of our local chapters. Members of
that chapter, and non chapter Members within 50 miles (80 kms) will
be permitted to work W2MM only once for a total of 3 Multiplier
points. Chapter 162 in Southeast Wisconsin is the 2005 operator.
Awards:
Certificates will be issued for the top 3 World Scores.
A certificate will be issued for the top score in each participating
Country.
Logs:
Send logs within one month to:
Robert Buus-W2OD or by e-mail attachment to: w2od at aol.com
8 Donner Street
Holmdel, NJ 07733-2004
USA
MORE INFO:
QCWA Web Site: http://www.qcwa.org/qso-party.htm
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