[ILQSO] IL Bicentennial Challenge

[Jim Funk]

The 2018 Illinois Bicentennial Challenge

Greetings!  

The Western IL ARC invites all amateurs to a special event to celebrate 2018 as the Bicentennial for the State of Illinois.

To showcase Illinois amateurs during 2018, WIARC, in addition to the ILQP, proposes:

http://www.w9awe.org/Challenge.html

WIARC will coordinate with other IL stations as "Activators" to put all 102 counties on the air multiple times during the period August 26, 2018 through December 3, 2018 (including October 21, the day of the ILQP).  

Both during ILQP and during the rest of this period, activations will be coordinated through the ILQP Reflector http://www.w9awe.org/ILQP%20Reflector.html. "Activators" are encouraged to post plans on the reflector, and a weekly update of "Planned Operations" will be maintained on the WIARC page (link to follow).  

 "Activators" will upload Cabrillo or Excel log files (with the required QSO information: template available at http://www.w9awe.org/ILQP.html.  Check the "Sample Log" tab at the bottom of the page.)  Outside of the ILQP period, "Activators" are encouraged to append their calls with "/IL200" to indicate they will be uploading their logs for the event.

 "Chasers" will attempt to contact all 102 counties during this period and will submit contact information on either the Excel template or .txt template provided on the ILQP website (link to follow). Both "Activator" and "Chaser" logs should be sent as attachments to n9jf at arrl.net no later than December 10, 2018.  

Chasers who successfully contact all 102 counties will receive a special Bicentennial Challenge certificate.

Reach out to your membership to see who would be willing, during the period August 26, 2018 through December 3, 2018, to be "Activator Stations" for the Bicentennial Challenge detailed in the above link.

While home station activations are welcomed, we are going to need operators willing to do portable or mobile activations in order to make less-populated counties available multiple times.  Activations at various times of the day and week and on various bands and modes will be needed. 

Only by involving a large number of amateurs from around the state can we make it reasonably possible for stations to achieve working all 102 counties!  Contacts during the 2018 ILQP (Oct 21) will automatically be registered from submitted logs.  If you have questions or comments, please contact the club through n9jf at arrl.net.

See https://illinois200.com/events/the-illinois-bicentennial-challange-award.  

73, Jim N9JF

Best regards, 

Jim Funk
Customer Service Engineer

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