[JMS] AWA 2012 AM QSO Party Rules - Event is this weekend

[Don Buska - The Radio Lab Works]

Hello JMS members,

Just a reminder that this weekend is the AWA AM QSO Party.  I hope all 
of you who have the capability to generate some "amplitude modulation" 
on the ham bands will try and get on and make a few contacts (or QSO's). 
  As I sent out earlier this month Dennis K0EOO will be putting the 
W1HRX call on-the-air from his QTH in Lakeville, MN. From my reading the 
other flagship station W2AN will be operated offsite this year as the 
original Millen 1930's transmitter has still not found its permanent 
home at the new AWA museum location.

I still have not been able to find the rules and summary sheets on the 
AWA website as of this writing.  Hopefully they will appear before all 
concludes.  If any JMS member needs a summary sheet just send me a 
private email and I can provide a MS Word version of the summary sheet 
that I have been using over the years.

Since only summary contact sheets get submitted I personally just log 
any contacts I make into my station logbook.  I would classify most of 
my contacts as QSO's since they often run much longer than a simple 
exchange of "required" information.  I recall a few years back having a 
very nice late night QSO's with a few guys up in W1-land who were 
running state-of-the-art Class E solid-state AM transmitters.  My little 
pip-squeak powered Millen stations was reported to be well over S9 
during the QSO that lasted well over an hour.  Thus the overall purpose 
of the QSO Party is to have fun vs rattling off contact after contact. 
You do not need to be an AWA member to participate in this event

Here are the rules from the latest issue of the AWA Journal that I 
copied verbatim.

AWA 2012 AM QSO Party Rules

Objective: Have fun and encourage the use of AM.  All Contacts with 
other AM Stations count in your score.

Date and Time:  2300 UTC Sat., Feb. 18 to 2300 UTC on Sun., Feb 19. 
That’s 6 p.m. EST Sat. to the same on Sun.  The Sunday 4:00 p.m. AM Net 
counts also!

Frequencies:  1.885, 3.837, 3.885, 7.295, 14.295, and anywhere else you 
hear AM signals.

Exchange:  Name and state and any details on the rig that you care to 
disclose.

Logs:  Summary sheets will be available on the AWA website.

Scoring:  Less than 100 watts carrier output, 2 points per contact. 
Over 100 watts carrier output, 1 point per contact.  All contacts on 20 
meters are worth 5 points.  Contacts with the Flagship Stations (W2AN or 
W1HRX) are 10 points for the first QSO and 1 point for any subsequent ones.

Please send log summary sheets (samples are available on the website) 
within four weeks of the contest to lbisha at rochester.rr.com or to the 
mail address below.  Except fot the Flagship stations it is not 
necessary to send in the detail sheets.  Lynn Bisha, W2BSN, 83 Parkwood 
Lane, Penfield, NY 14526