[BCVHFA] Ohio QSO Party

[Carl Morgan]

Copied from the  Miami Valley Amateur Radio Bulletin Board

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Dear Ohio Clubs,

We are sending this email to all, hoping you 
would spread the news and excitement of the 
upcoming Ohio QSO Party on August 22, 2009. This 
is the ARRL’s “Year of the State QSO Party”, and 
we’re hoping to generate the largest Ohio turnout ever!

The Ohio QSO Party is a popular state QSO party, 
where Ohio hams become the hunted stations. The 
event is casual and fun, yet you can really rack 
up the QSOs with modest stations. It’s fun trying 
to work all 88 Ohio counties as well as all the states and Canadian provinces.

Load up anything you have on 10-80m and you will 
make lots of QSOs! In fact, the best antennas for 
40 & 80m are low dipoles. At this time of the 
solar cycle, most of the QSOs are on 20, 40 & 
80m, though keep an eye out on 10 & 15m too. Skip 
on 10-40m is often “long”, so if you are looking 
for other Ohioans, the best place to look is on 
80m, even at the start of the contest in broad daylight.

Each year all 88 Ohio counties see some activity, 
though many of the lesser populated counties are 
activated by mobile stations which only make 
10-30 QSOs per county. CQ stations in rare 
counties! Were especially trying to get hams in 
lesser populated counties to get on the air and 
make some contacts this year. A few hours on the 
air will make a big difference in generating activity in all 88 counties.

There are numerous awards (certificates and 
plaques) available -- including a club 
competition. These are the plaques and their 
sponsors, available to the top scorers in each category.

- Ohio Single Operator High Power - sponsored by Findlay Radio Club
- Ohio Single Operator Low Power - sponsored by Cincinnati Buckeye Netters
- Ohio Single Operator QRP - sponsored by Kanga US
- Out of State Single Operator - sponsored by Muskingum Ham Radio Club
- Out of State Single Operator, Mountain/Pacific 
Time Zone -sponsored by Canton Amateur Radio Club
- Out of State Single Operator QRP - sponsored by Ohio Independent Contesters
- Single Operator DX - sponsored by Northern Ohio DX Association
- Ohio Multi Operator - sponsored by Wayne Amateur Radio Club
- Ohio Mobile - sponsored by Lake County Amateur R. A.
- Ohio Rover - sponsored by Joe Matt, W3AG
- Ohio Club - sponsored by Mad River Radio Club
- Ohio YL - sponsored by Buckeye Belles
- Ohio SSB - sponsored by Muskingum Ham Radio Club
- Ohio CW - sponsored by Fourty Over Club (K8FOC) 
of Cincinnati **New for 2009**

With 100w and low wires or verticals, it’s pretty 
easy to rack up many of the states for your WAS 
award including Alaska and Hawaii. Operate the 
full 12 hours, and you might find 300-500 QSOs in 
your log and might complete your WAS.

One of the best ways to rack up the QSOs is to 
balance CQing with S&Ping.  Since everyone is 
looking for Ohio stations, they will be tuning 
the bands  for Ohio stations who  are CQing. For 
working your fellow Ohioans, a combination of S&P 
and CQing is effective. An example CQ would be: 
“CQ CQ this is KB8ABC KB8ABC Ohio QSO Party”. You 
will be surprised that modest stations can work 40-100 QSOs per
hour by calling CQ ­  and you might have a few pileups on you too.

Please join us for the Ohio QSO Party on Saturday 
August 22, 2009. The OQP starts at noon local 
time and goes to midnight local. Ohio stations 
work anyone, and the exchange is a sequential 
serial number plus your county.  Work SSB and CW 
only on 10-80m. For full rules and official 
county abbreviations visit 
www.ohqp.org<http://www.ohqp.org/> . Submit logs to: logs at ohqp.org

We apologize for some confusing emails regarding 
the rules of the OQP. The rules have not been 
changed as one individual has suggested. The Ohio 
QSO Party is sponsored by the Mad River Radio Club and not by any individuals.
The official OQP website has been moved to 
www.ohqp.org <http://www.ohqp.org/> . For 
up-to-date OQP news, there is a new OQP email 
reflector which may be subscribed to from the web 
site, or by sending an email to: 
ohqp-mail-request at ohqp.org with “subscribe” in 
both the subject line and body of the message.

73 & CU on the Air!

Jim, K8MR. President, Mad River Radio Club



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