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The ARRL Contest Update
Published by the American Radio Relay League
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October 10, 2012
Editor: Ward Silver, N0AX
==> IN THIS ISSUE
- A Baker's Half-Dozen Sprints
- Battleground States - AZ, PA, IA, NY, IL QSO Parties
- K5ZD Named CQ WW Director
- New CW Trainer by Alex VE3NEA
- One H of a Frame
- August NAQP SSB Prelims Are Out
- Differences for the Discerning
- Amazing NASA Sensors
- Between You and Me
NEW HF OPERATORS - THINGS TO DO
Wow - LOTS of things to do on HF in October. This month is one of the
busiest contest months - why? Because early fall conditions on HF are
generally quite good compared to summer and winter. No matter what your
tastes - phone, code, or digital - there are multiple contests going on
for the next couple of weeks, followed the Big Fall Four: CQ WW SSB,
ARRL Sweepstakes (CW then Phone), and CQ WW CW.
BULLETINS
The 5-day log submittal deadline for all CQ Contests was announced
after the 2012 CQ WW RTTY Contest Rules were published in the July 2012
issue of CQ magazine. Those published rules gave 15 October 2012 as the
log deadline. Accordingly, logs will not be considered late for this
event until after 15 October. (Thanks, CQ WW RTTY Director, Ed W0YK)
Take some time out of your days for students and scouts getting a taste
of radio. The ARRL School Club Roundup
(Oct 15-19) and the annual
Jamboree On the Air
(Oct 20-21) are coming up - make a few QSOs and meet some future hams!
BUSTED QSOS
Egregious errors were avoided in the previous issue.
CONTEST SUMMARY
Complete information for all contests follows the Conversation section
October 13-14
- School Club Roundup (Oct 15-19)
- North American RTTY Sprint
- 10-10 Sprint (Oct 10)
- NAQCC Monthly QRP Sprint--CW (Oct 10)
- CWops Monthly Mini-CWT Test (Oct 10)
- Great Pumpkin Sprint--Digital
- Makrothen RTTY Contest
- Oceania DX CW Contest
- Scandinavian Activity Contest--Phone
- QRP ARCI Fall QSO Party--CW
- Arizona Centennial QSO Party
- EU Autumn Sprint--CW
- Pennsylvania QSO Party
- FISTS Fall Sprint--CW
- SKCC Weekend Sprintathon--CW
Oct 20-21
- Arucaria VHF Contest
- JARTS WW RTTY Contest
- 10-10 Fall CW QSO Party
- Scandinavian YLRA Contest
- Iowa QSO Party
- New York QSO Party
- Worked All Germany
- Stew Perry Warmup Contest--CW
- W/VE Islands QSO Party
- Telephone Pioneer QSO Party
- Spooky Feld-Hell Sprint
- Asia-Pacific Sprint--CW
- Illinois QSO Party
- Run For the Bacon--CW (Oct 22)
==> NEWS, PRESS RELEASES, AND GENERAL INTEREST
With the CQ Worldwide SSB contest looming (Oct 27-28), CQ Magazine
publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA wasted no
time, naming Randy Thompson, K5ZD as the new Director of the CQ World
Wide DX Contests (RTTY, SSB, and CW), succeeding Bob
Cox, K3EST who stepped down after 35 years. Your editor is greatly
pleased to see such a wise choice - thank you, Randy! Since 2008, he
has been Director of the CQ WPX Contest program, making many necessary
updates to that contest program's log checking and administration. As
other top contesters know, Randy is an excellent operator and member of
the CQ Contest Hall of Fame, holding a number of records and
representing the United States four times in the World Radiosport Team
Championship. Randy is also a co-chair of WRTC-2014
- a busy guy! In the CQ press release, Randy
is quoted, "The CQ WW is the biggest event on the contest calendar
(and) I am honored to be involved and follow in the giant footsteps of
K3EST. With the great conditions we are seeing on the bands, this year
should be the biggest CQ WW ever! The first order of business is to
have the team ready for the new 5-day log deadline and faster results
reporting." His appointment to the directorship of the CQ WW creates a
vacancy for Director of the CQ WPX Contests. Anyone interested in
taking on the challenge of leading a major contest should contact Randy
at k5zd@cqwpx.com.
The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF)
is sponsoring a free webinar
on Oct 21 at 1900 Z;
"CQ WW Update 2012", hosted by - who else? - but its new Director,
K5ZD. The webinar will provide an update on the status of the contest
including new rules for 2012, log entry tips, fair play, and various
other topics of interest. Questions will be taken following the
presentation. (Thanks, Ken K4ZW)
The Young Amateur Contest Ham Team
featured in the latest
Youth@HamRadio.Fun
column by Sterling, N0SSC looks like fun for new hams. The group has
nearly 80 members from around the world and more than 20 mentors
assisting them. They have a weekly Echolink net so everyone can
participate and membership is free, so encourage your young contester
to get on-board!
Bob K0RC has posted an updated CQWW RTTY Log Analyzer
for download. The new version will import
up to 3,000 QSOs. If your log is larger, send Bob an email to request a
High Capacity version.
More software tools! - Jim W7EJ/CN2R has added new features and updated
his Log QSO contest log analyzer web application.
All CQ WW contest results from 1991 through 2011 can be viewed - the
logs are the public logs posted by the CQ WW committee. There are
several videos that describe how to use the tool - for example, you can
compare the scores of up to three different stations on an hour-by-hour
basis (as well as other time scales). This is a web-based application
and runs on the most common Internet browsers. (Thanks, Steve N2IC)
The EU Sprint committee reports problems getting the web site updated
with recent results but wants to confirm that the Autumn EU Sprint
contests will take place as usual, starting
with the phone contest this coming Saturday. The committee (G4BUO and
RW3FO) are looking for another European contester to help manage and
promote the contest - please contact G4BUO directly.
CQ WW RTTY Contest Director, Ed W0YK notes
that, "It is apparent that many people do not read the robot email
reply they receive. At the bottom of that email, the robot lists the
format errors in the log. If you don't understand what the robot is
telling you, then simply compare that specific QSO line with the format
specified on the Logs webpage. The problem should be obvious." Be sure
to configure your logging software to output your information in the
right order as shown on the contest's "Logs" web page. (There is a
known problem with MixW omitting the QTH field from the output Cabrillo
file - see the Logs webpage for a workaround.) Ed reminds everyone that
"you can easily edit your Cabrillo file with a text editor. Since is it
common to add, change or move the same parameter field in every QSO
line, a column editor is invaluable. I recommend the freeware Crimson
Editor."
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's FITSAT-1
- what's it saying up there? One of the recently launched CubeSats from
Japan is covered in high-power LEDs and will be blinking out the
message "HI THIS IS NIWAKA JAPAN" in Morse code as it orbits the Earth.
No word was available at press time on whether the message changes to
"HERE I COME NIWAKA JAPAN" as it de-orbits. (Thanks, Ken K6LA and Paul
WB2ABD)
The popular AO-27 FM satellite
is currently off-line. The end-of-transmit cycle AFSK packet telemetry
beacon was reported to have become stuck on a single tone. The control
team now has the satellite running in a maintenance mode and is trying
to determine what happened. The latest AO-27 news is posted on its
webpage. (Thanks, AMSAT Bulletin ANS-281)
Bernie W3UR asks that anyone who is doing a contest expedition and
wants to announce it to please send the details to The Daily DX
. Please include dates, the contest name,
operator(s), bands, modes, and QSL instructions along with any other
details. It should also be noted that Bill NG3K also runs an online
website for contest operation announcements
for some of the larger contests.
Web Site of the Week - The creator of CW Skimmer, Alex VE3NEA, has come
out with a new and interesting freeware CW practice tool. Pileup Runner
is a simulator of DX pileups.
Currently at the beta-testing stage, it is intended for the DXpedition
operators and those who are curious how the pileup looks and sounds at
the DX side. Compared to his popular contest simulator, Morse Runner,
Pileup Runner has an extra dimension: frequency. In this program just
working the callers is not enough. To be successful, you also have to
tune your receiver through the pileup in a smart way. (Thanks, Ed AI6O
and Dennis N6KI)
WORD TO THE WISE
90 minutes - this is the length of a typical human sleep cycle from the
first loss of consciousness, through rapid-eye-movement (REM) deep
sleep, and back to shallow sleep. Timing your contest naps to last for
about 90 minutes avoids the grogginess of being awakened mid-cycle.
This eham.net article by K5ZD
goes in to some detail about how to manage those all-important
mid-contest Zs - and we're not talking about South Africa!
==> SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Here's something that is both a sight AND a sound - Tonno ES5TV has
finally completed his 5-year project of building a double H-frame 15
meter antenna array . The antenna system
has 8 pairs of 5-element Optibeam OB5-15 monoband Yagis, separated by
12 meters horizontally and 14 meters vertically, with the highest at 64
meters above the ground. Are there any bigger 15 meter arrays out
there? Tonno is now trying 15 meter EME (no kidding!) but will have to
wait when the MUF is low enough for the ionosphere to pass 21 MHz
signals.
The photo at right is of five CubeSats launched on July 21st from
the ISS by the J-SSOD small satellite deployer on the Japanese
Experiment Module, also known as Kibo. It looks like Kibo has rolled
some lucky numbers! SpaceRef has posted an article
online including
several more photographs. CubeSats often use Amateur Radio telemetry
links - check with the satellite teams if your reception reports might
be useful! (From AMSAT Bulletin ANS-281)
Here is just the thing for the living room wall - an FCC map of ground
conductivity
around the United States. A guaranteed conversation starter!
Although it is true that while in space, no one can hear you scream
(from the movie Alien), you can translate the various fields and
phenomena into tones as the Sounds of Earthsong
does for the radio emissions coming from Earth. I wonder what it sounds
like after a big DX contest starts at 0000 UTC? (Thanks, Gary N0GL)
Those readers who have been around technical endeavors for "a while"
will enjoy this online slide show presenting the slide rule collection
of Mort Hans from EDN magazine. There are a few electronic-themed
gadgets in there for you to find! Any problem that can be broken down
or transformed into a series of additions and subtractions can be made
into a slide rule as these widely varied "linear calculators"
illustrate.
==> RESULTS AND RECORDS
The preliminary August NAQP SSB results
are now posted on the NCJ
website. Questions about the results or the North American QSO Party
SSB contest can be directed to that contest's manager, Bill AC0W
.
Certificates for the 2011 ARRL Phone Sweepstakes went out the door
today and the 2011 Sweepstakes plaques are being processed later this
week. (Thanks, ARRL Contest Branch Manager, Sean KX9X)
Outgoing CQ WPX Director K5ZD announces that Log
Check Reports for all entrants to the 2012 WPX CW Contest are now
available. An email with a link to the Log Check Report has been sent
to everyone who submitted a log. The emails include a private link to
the report file. If you submitted a log and did not receive an email,
you might want to check your junk mail folder. You may also request
your report directly. A deeper level of log checking than ever before
was performed this year. There were 22,107 QSOs with unique callsigns
among the 2,835,110 QSOs. 83.8% of those unique QSOs were determined to
be incorrect. The median score reduction was 9.4%. WPX is usually a
little higher than other contests since many busted calls create prefix
multipliers. The official results will appear in the March 2013 issue
of CQ Magazine and on the CQ WPX
Contest website.
The DX results of the 2012 ARI International DX Contest
are now available as a PDF file on the ARI contest
website. (Thanks, ARI HF Contest Manager, Bob I2WIJ)
Results for the 16th annual Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge
are now posted as well as those for the
"Summer Stew". Look for a "fun story" in the results this year and
don't forget about the upcoming opportunity to "warm up your stew" on
October 20-21. (Thanks, Tree N6TR)
New Jersey QRP Club Skeeter Hunt Results for
2012 are now online along with all of the soapbox comments. (Thanks,
Larry W2LJ)
Dink N7WA is busily compiling the Soapbox comments
from this season's contest
scores submitted via the 3830 website. He's starting out with the CQ WW
RTTY and Texas QSO Parties - don't miss 'em!
OPERATING TIP
When you configure your logging software, pay particular attention to
your category - any connection to the Internet for spotting information
requires you to enter as Assisted or Unlimited. Don't be embarrassed by
mistakenly entering the wrong category! Recognizing that most casual
participants do enter in the Assisted and Unlimited categories, the
popular N1MM contest logging software
now uses Single-Op Assisted as
its default category.
==> TECHNICAL TOPICS AND INFORMATION
Here is a very interesting article
by Dave AB7E about minimum
discernable signal differences. He has also generated audio files with
different levels, combinations of CW tones, and sending speeds that can
be downloaded and played back for you to test your own listening
ability.
How high is that tower? Here are two methods. K1TO's looks down and
N2NL/KH2's looks up:
Looking down on a sunny day:
Measure the shadow of the tower, D1. Stick a straight rod or tube with
a height H2 into the ground. Find the length of its shadow, D2. Tower
height, H1 = (H2/D2) * D1. The longer H2 is, the more accurate the
method will be.
The Boy Scout method, looking up:
Back away from the tower with your arm held straight out until you can
stick up your thumb and place its tip at the top and base at the
bottom. Turn your thumb sideways so that the base is still at the
bottom and the tip is on the ground. From the spot on the ground just
covered by the tip of your thumb, measure to the tower base to find the
tower height.
For complete directions about transient protection with good
explanations, Jim W6RMK recommends Ronald Standler's book Transient
Protection of Electronic Circuits from Dover Publishing. The book
includes both theory and cookbook "what do you do in situation X"
instructions. As Jim points out, doing the "right thing" is no more
difficult than the "wrong thing" (and he has lots of examples of poor
design from a transient damage standpoint). Dover Publishing has
reprinted lots of old technical books that still contain much valuable
information at a much lower cost than a brand-new text.
The October 2012 issue of "Cheesebits
", the Packrat VHF Society's
newsletter, has a nice article on 6 meter propagation by Chris W3CMF.
It features several interesting maps of contacts from the popular DX
Maps website run by ON4KST. The
article illustrates some surprising September auroral propagation as
well as Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP) that is quite rare here in
North America.
The Koolau Amateur Radio Club's Field Day team needed an antenna tuner
design aimed at high-impedance, end-fed half-wave vertical dipoles.
After some study, they came up with this L network design
and a
detailed set of building instructions including a detailed bill of
materials and parts sources.
Brad AA1IP shows us where tube design lives on in QRP homebrewer
Kazuhiro JA1OZL's inspired website collection of tube circuits
. There is everything from audio
amplifiers, to linear amplifiers, to complete radio receivers and
transmitters. He also includes some solid-state designs along with the
"hollow state". By the way, Brad just managed to span the Atlantic with
a QRPP radio modeled on the 10 mW Vanguard satellite beacon from 1958,
using an original PNP transistor from that era! (Thanks, Brad AA1IP)
Here's thought-provoking article with parallels to radiosport - "A
Study of the Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks Operating with
Smart Antennas" by Skiani, Mitillineos, and Thomopoulos in IEEE
Antennas and Propagtation Magazine
, June 2012. If you replace
"wireless sensor networks" with "radio contest stations" and "smart
antennas" with "directional antennas" the discussion reminds me very
much of how we use directional antennas to minimize interference and
maximize rate. The cognitive radio folks might want to listen to the
ham bands during the current contest season!
This Electronic Design article on A/D converters
is a very good overview of available types, how they work, and for what
applications they are the most suited. With so much of radio depending
on these ICs, it's important to understand their basic operation.
Technical Web Site of the Week - Nothing NASA measures is done "up
close" as shown by this EDN collection that describes many of NASA's
amazing sensors
.
There is certainly more to NASA spinoffs than "Tang" and the ball-point
pen! Remote sensing is important for the ham and non-ham alike.
==> CONVERSATION
Between You and Me
The definition of ethics is sometimes stated as "what you do when you
think no one is watching." Given that most of what contesters do is
done in our shacks with the door closed, ethics is mighty important to
radiosport. I can think of no other sporting event in which all of the
competitors do their work in private (or as private teams) then submit
the results as a written log of activity for adjudication. This
effectively doubles down on the ethical requirements for each and every
contester.
That's also why it is so maddening when a few people - by all accounts
a very small fraction of us - toss ethics aside in pursuit of a
certificate or plaque or just their call sign printed in a magazine or
web article. That's also why the selection of K5ZD is such a good
choice for CQ WW Contest Director. Randy's contesting history, his CQ
Hall of Fame selection, his world records, his tenure as CQ WPX
Director, his continuous leadership in the area of contest ethics - all
make it clear that ethics in radiosport will be at the top of his CQ WW
agenda.
Not to say that ethics did not have a place at the table in prior years
- not at all! Under K3EST, major advances in log checking and
adjudication - completely invisible to most contesters - were
implemented and applied. The game was changed forever as higher and
higher fractions of the claimed QSOs were submitted to rigorous
cross-checking. No more could someone sloppily run through a pileup or
"work the callbook" and expect to get away with it. Order-of-finish has
never been of higher quality and as I said in the previous issue, we
owe K3EST a debt of gratitude for taking numerous arrows on our behalf.
Not to say, either, that the Contest Police will suddenly be dispatched
to ride forth from their barracks, knocking on those closed shack doors
in the middle of the night, armed with power meters and web cams,
taking loads of color glossy 8x10 photographs with circles and arrows
for the judges. No, contesting will probably take place much as it has
for the past fifty years...except...
Except in the shacks of some of the more obnoxious cheaters who think
they may be fooling the contest sponsors. They aren't. It won't take a
great deal more enforcement to help the folks having a hard time
staying on the right side of the ethics fence make good decisions and
for the bad eggs to find another outlet for their competitive energies.
Shorter log deadlines are just one of the ways to improve contest
results quality. The continuous development of better and more
intelligent software tools is another.
Contest committees and sponsors have more ways of inspecting logs, too.
Given the ubiquity of cheap storage and bandwidth, why, anybody - not
just a log-checker - can soon expect to be able to listen to any
contact at any time during a past contest. What now has to be inferred
with a certain degree of uncertainty will then be directly observable.
Won't that be interesting? Yes, by golly, it will!
This is a perfect example of how contesting furthers the advancement of
the radio and communications arts, isn't it? Contesting is also unique
in sport that competitors are also partners in each other's success. To
score, we have to give each other points. I have to hand off the baton
to you so that you can hand it back off to me. I like that aspect of
contesting and I like the renewed emphasis on contesting ethics, the
story of what happens between you and me.
73, Ward N0AX
==> CONTESTS
10 Oct through 23 Oct 2012
An expanded, downloadable version of QST's Contest Corral in PDF format
is available. Check the
sponsor's Web site for information on operating time restrictions and
other instructions.
HF CONTESTS
School Club Roundup--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 15, 1300Z to Oct 19,
2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50+. Exchange: RST, class and S/P/C. Logs
due: 30 days. Rules
North American RTTY Sprint--Digital, from Oct 14, 0000Z to Oct 14,
0400Z. Bands (MHz): 3.5-14. Exchange: Both call signs, serial, QTH,
name. Logs due: 7 days. Rules
10-10 Sprint--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 10, 0001Z to Oct 10, 2359Z.
Bands (MHz): 28. Exchange: Call, name, 10-10 number, S/P/C. Logs due:
Oct 25. Rules
NAQCC Monthly QRP Sprint--CW, from Oct 10, 0030Z to Oct 10, 0230Z.
Bands (MHz): 3.5-14. Monthly on 2nd Tuesday or 3rd Wednesday local time
(alternating). Exchange: RST, S/P/C, and NAQCC mbr nr or power. Logs
due: 4 days. Rules
CWops Monthly Mini-CWT Test--CW, from Oct 10, 1300Z - See website,
multiple operating periods, twice monthly on 2nd and 4th Wed. Bands
(MHz): 1.8-28. Frequencies (MHz): 18 to 28 kHz above band edge.
Exchange: Name and member number or S/P/C. Logs due: 2 days. Rules
Great Pumpkin Sprint--Digital, from Oct 13, 8 PM to Oct 13, 2 AM. Bands
(MHz): 1.8. Exchange: RST and S/P/C. Logs due: 2 weeks. Rules
Makrothen RTTY Contest--Digital, from Oct 13, 0000Z to Oct 14, 1600Z.
Multiple operating periods. Bands (MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: 4-character
grid square. Logs due: Nov 15. Rules
Oceania DX CW Contest--CW, from Oct 13, 0800Z to Oct 14, 0800Z. Bands
(MHz): 1.8-28. Exchange: RST and serial. Logs due: Nov 12. Rules
Scandinavian Activity Contest--Phone, from Oct 13, 1200Z to Oct 14,
1200Z. Bands (MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RS and serial. Logs due: 2 weeks.
Rules
QRP ARCI Fall QSO Party--CW, from Oct 13, 1200Z to Oct 14, 2359Z. Bands
(MHz): 1.8-28. Exchange: RS(T), S/P/C, QRP ARCI number or pwr. Logs
due: 14 days. Rules
Arizona Centennial QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 13, 1600Z -
see website, multiple operating periods. Bands (MHz): 3.5-28, 50, 144,
Frequencies (MHz): CW-1.812, 3.548, 7.048, 14.048, 21.048, 28.048,
50.048; SSB-1.848, 3.848, 7.189, 14.248, 21.348, 28.448, 50.148,
146.48. Exchange: Name and S/P/C or Year and AZ county. Logs due: Oct
31. Rules
EU Autumn Sprint--CW, from Oct 13, 1600Z to Oct 13, 2000Z. Bands (MHz):
3.5-14. Exchange: Both call signs, serial, name. Logs due: 15 days.
Rules
Pennsylvania QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 13, 1600Z - see
website. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50,144, Frequencies (MHz): CW--40 kHz
above band edge and 1.810; SSB--1.850, 3.825, 7.200, 14.280, 21.380,
28.480. Exchange: Serial and ARRL/RAC section. Logs due: Nov 14. Rules
FISTS Fall Sprint--CW, from Oct 13, 1700Z to Oct 13, 2100Z. Bands
(MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RST, S/P/C, name, FISTS number or pwr. Logs
due: 30 days. Rules
SKCC Weekend Sprintathon--CW, from Oct 14, 0000Z to Oct 14, 2359Z.
Monthly on the second Saturday local time. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50.
Exchange: RST, QTH, name, SKCC nr or "none". Logs due: 5 days. Rules
JARTS WW RTTY Contest--Digital, from Oct 20, 0000Z to Oct 21, 2400Z.
Bands (MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RST and age (YL may send '00'). Logs
due: Nov 22. Rules
10-10 Fall CW QSO Party--CW, from Oct 20, 0001Z to Oct 21, 2359Z. Bands
(MHz): 28. Exchange: Call, name, 10-10 number, S/P/C. Logs due: Nov 5.
Rules
Scandinavian YLRA Contest--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 20, 1000Z to Oct
21, 1000Z. Bands (MHz): 3.5-28. Frequencies (MHz): See website.
Exchange: RS(T) and "88" (YLs) or "73" (OMs). Logs due: Nov 30. Rules
Iowa QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 20, 1400Z to Oct 20, 2300Z.
Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50+. Exchange: RS(T) and IA county, state/prov, or
"DX". Logs due: Nov 20. Rules
New York QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 20, 1400Z to Oct 21,
0200Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50+, Frequencies (MHz): CW--1.820, 3.550,
7.050, 14.050, 21.050, 28.050; Phone--1.870, 3.825, 7.200, 14.290,
21.350, 28.400. Exchange: RS(T), NY county, state/prov, or "DX". Logs
due: 14 days. Rules
Worked All Germany--Phone,CW, from Oct 20, 1500Z to Oct 21, 1459Z.
Bands (MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RS(T) and serial or DOK code. Logs due:
2 weeks. Rules
Stew Perry Warmup Contest--CW, from Oct 20, 1500Z to Oct 21, 1500Z.
Bands (MHz): 1.8. Exchange: 4-char grid square. Logs due: 30 days.
Rules
W/VE Islands QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 20, 1600Z to Oct 21,
2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50. Exchange: RS(T) and S/P/C or island
designator. Logs due: Nov 30. Rules
Telephone Pioneer QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 20, 1900Z - see
website, multiple operating periods. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50-432.
Exchange: Year of membership and chapter. Logs due: Dec 10. Rules
Spooky Feld-Hell Sprint--Digital, from Oct 20, 2000Z to Oct 20, 2200Z.
Bands (MHz): 3.5-7,21-28. Exchange: RST, S/P/C, Feld-Hell member nr.
Logs due: 2 weeks. Rules
Asia-Pacific Sprint--CW, from Oct 21, 0000Z to Oct 21, 0200Z. Bands
(MHz): 14-21. Exchange: RST and serial. Logs due: 7 days. Rules
Illinois QSO Party--Phone,CW, from Oct 21, 1700Z to Oct 22, 0100Z.
Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50,144. Exchange: RS(T) and IL county or S/P/C.
Logs due: Nov 17. Rules
Run For the Bacon--CW, from Oct 22, 0200Z to Oct 22, 0400Z. Monthly on
3rd Sunday night (local). Bands (MHz): 1.8-28. Exchange: RST, S/P/C,
Flying Pig nr or power. Rules
VHF+ CONTESTS
School Club Roundup--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 15, 1300Z to Oct 19,
2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50+. Exchange: RST, class and S/P/C. Logs
due: 30 days. Rules
Arizona Centennial QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Oct 13, 1600Z -
see website, multiple operating periods. Bands (MHz): 3.5-28, 50, 144,
Frequencies (MHz): CW-1.812, 3.548, 7.048, 14.048, 21.048, 28.048,
50.048; SSB-1.848, 3.848, 7.189, 14.248, 21.348, 28.448, 50.148,
146.48. Exchange: Name and S/P/C or Year and AZ county. Logs due: Oct
31. Rules
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