One of our (AARC Jr.) top four radio events will take place this weekend - The Maryland QSO Party.
It's a pretty civilized event in that it takes a mandated 12-hour break. The contest starts at Noon on Saturday and stops at Midnight. The contest resumes on Sunday at Noon and stops at 8:00pm on Sunday.
In 2004 AARC Jr. took First Place in the Club Category. Since then the "professional" contesters decided jump in and they've won the category the last three years and we've placed 2nd twice and third once during that stretch.
On Saturday morning (around 10am) we'll be putting up some temporary HF antennas since there are none currently available at the clubhouse to the best of my knowledge. You're cordially invited to see how and what we'll be doing and using.
We'll start operating at Noon in a shelter adjacent to the club house and remain outside until the scheduled exam session is completed. Then we'll move inside and bring up some additional stations.
The suggested Phone freqs are: 3.920, 7.230, 14.270, 21.370, 28.370, 52.525, 144.150, 146.550, 146.580, 432.150, and 446.000 MHz.
The suggested CW freqs are: 3.643, 7.060, 14.060, 21.060, 28.035, and 50.150 MHz
We'll probably tinker with PSk-31 on 20m (14.070 MHz)
We will operate on the primary HF bands (Phone, CW and PSK31) as well as 2m, 6m, and 70cm.
Please stop by and visit on either day. We can use your mobile contact. We can also let you make some contacts for us or help you make your first HF contact and introduce you to "casual contesting". We'll even drive down the road and let you make some HF mobile contacts with KI3DS.
It's going to be tough but we can beat the "pros" with your help. We'll leave the light on for you.
73
KI3DS
MD QSO Party - from ARRL Letter of 8/8/08
MDC QSO PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT - AUG 9 & 10 UTC
Thanks to the Antietam Radio Association for another year of sponsoring the MDC QSO Party, a fun event that puts our ARRL Section Maryland-DC on the air on UHF, VHF and HF. Why not invite some new hams and newly upgraded hams who don't have HF capability yet to operate on HF from your shack or your club's shack? If you have HF capability, give it a workout.
The rules are posted below with a link to the official rules.
Amateur Radio is a contact sport, so get on the air and make a contact!
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2008 Maryland-DC QSO Party Announcement
Contest Date/Times:
- August 9 1600 UTC through August 10 0400 UTC and
- August 10 1600 through 2359 UTC.
Exchange:
QTH:
- MDC Stations send your Maryland County/Baltimore City or DC.
- Outside MDC send your State, Country, or Canadian Province.
Category:
- Club, Mobile, QRP, Standard (Multi-op stations are considered to be clubs).
QSO Points:
- 10 points per club station,
- 5 points per mobile station,
- 4 points per QRP station
- 3 points for each CW/digital station and
- 1 point for all other QSOs.
Multipliers:
- For stations outside MDC - 1 per MD county/DC/Baltimore City (25 possible).
- For MDC Stations ONLY - the basic 25 + each of the other 49 states + each new DX country.
Scoring:
- Add up your QSO Points and multiply by the sum of the multipliers.
- Multipliers may be claimed only once. (Multipliers do *not* repeat from band to band.)
- Decisions about the acceptance of any log and summary sheet are at the discretion of the contest judges and are *not* disputable.
Log Submission and Cut off Date:
- All entries must be received by September 15, 2008.
- Send Logs, Scoring summary and SASE to Antietam Radio Association, P.O. Box 52, Hagerstown, MD 21741-0052 or e-mail in plain (ASCII) text, MSWord or MSExcel format
to: .
- A contest summary *must* be included!
Rules:
- For official rules, click on:
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