[CQ-Contest] Atlantic QSO Party Reposting

[mjirvine]

Hi All

I have had several requests to repost the rules for the Atlantic QSO
Party because the original was not readable, (my fault I sent it in MS Word)
so here it is in DOS ASCII
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                                         ANNOUNCING 
           "THE FIRST ANNUAL ATLANTIC QSO             PARTY"
The Loyalist City Amateur Radio Club Inc. would like to 
announce the first annual Atlantic QSO Party.
24 hours starting Sept 21, 1997 00:00 UTC - Sept 22, 1997 00:00 UTC 

FREQUENCIES: (Phone only) All HF bands 160-10 meters 
             CONTACTS ON WARC BANDS WILL NOT BE  ALLOWED
 
CATEGORIES:  Single Operator Low Power (under 100 watts ), Single Operator
                                                  
High Power (over 100 watts ).  

EXCHANGE:  Atlantic Province stations send signal report and county.
           Other stations send signal report and Canadian
province/territory,                                                       
U.S. state or DXCC country.

SCORING:  Atlantic Province stations work everyone.  Stations outside
          Atlantic Province only work Atlantic Province  stations. Score 1
                                                
point for every station worked per band.

MULTIPLIERS:  Atlantic Province  stations earn 1 multiplier point for each
                                                      
Atlantic Province county , Canadian province/territory, U.S.
                                        
state or DXCC country worked. Stations outside Atlantic Province
                                                           
earn 1 multiplier point for each Atlantic Province  county.

TOTAL SCORE:  Total QSO points X multiplier points.

AWARDS:    Certificates to top 3 in each Atlantic Province, Certificates to


                         

                                                
 top scorer in each Canadian Province, U.S. state, and DXCC Country.

Send your logs to: ATLANTIC QSO PARTY c/o The Loyalist City ARC 
                   P.O. Box  6552 Stn B Saint John, New Brunswick
                   Canada E2L 4R9
  Logs to be postmarked no later than 30 days after contest.

The following is a list of counties etc. for Atlantic Canada

New Brunswick:    Nova Scotia:             P.E.I.                 NFLD/Lab:
Albert (ALB)         Annapolis (ANN)    Kings (KNP)    Bonavista-Trinity
Carleton (CTN)     Antigonish (ANT)   Prince (PRI)      Concepion (BTC)
Charlotte (CHT)    Cape Breton (CBN)  Queens (QUP) Burin-St.Georges


                                       (BSG)
Gloucester (GLO)  Colechester (COL)                   Gander-Grand Falls (GGF)
Kent (KNT)            Cumberland (CLD)                  Humber-St.Barbe
Kings (KNB)          Digby (DIG)                              Baie Verte
     (HBB)
Madawaska (MAD)       Guysborough (GUY)           Labrador         (LAB)
Northumberland (NOR)  Halifax (HAL)                  St. John's East    (SJE)
Queens (QUB)          Hants (HAN)                          St. John's West
  (SJW)
Restigouche (RES)     Inverness (INV)
St. John (STJ)             Kings (KNS)
Sunbury  (SUN)         Lunenburg (LUN)
Victoria (VIB)              Pictou (PIC)
Westmorland (WES)     Queens (QUS)
York (YOR)                  Richmond (RIC)
                                      Shelburne (SHL)
                                     Victoria (VIS)
                                     Yarmouth (YAR)
total-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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    15                                           18                      3
                            7
Total Multipliers  43

Since Newfoundland does not have counties we have decided to use the 7
Electoral Districts


Jim & Trish Irvine
Saint John, N.B.

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