[QCWA] QCWA QSO PARTY September 17-1800Z

[George Roach]

I hope you can all find time this weekend to make a few on-air
contacts with your fellow members. The success of the QSO Party
is determined by the number of logs that are received . Please take
time to send a log of your contacts to Bob Buus.Some of our regular
participants will not be on the air due to Hurricane Katrina's damage.
Try and make a few contacts for them.
I look forward to contacting you  on Saturday or sunday.
Regards
George-VE3BNO


FALL QCWA QSO Party
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The 49th Annual QCWA QSO Party

17 September 2005 at 1800 Hrs UTC
and will run for a period of 24 hours.

Categories are CW\Digital,Phone and mixed.

Frequencies:
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     The following 15 Bands may be used:
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     1.8: 1.800 - 2.000    14.0: 14.000 - 14.150    28.3:  28.3 -  29.7
     3.5: 3.500 - 3.750    14.2: 14.150 - 14.350      50:  50.0 -  54.0
     3.9: 3.750 - 4.000    21.0: 21.000 - 21.200     144: 144.0 - 148.0
     7.0: 7.000 - 7.150    21.2: 21.200 - 21.450     220: 220.0 - 225.0
     7.2: 7.150 - 7.300    28.0: 28.000 - 28.300     UHF: above 420 Mhz
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   Any station may be contacted on any or all of the 15 bands for a
   maximum of 15 QSO's per station, with no more than one QSO per band.

   Any station in your home QCWA chapter may be counted only once, for a
   maximum of one QSO per station.

   No contacts on WARC bands are permitted (10, 18 and 24 Mhz bands).

   No Cross Band or Repeater Contacts are allowed.

Suggested Starting Frequencies:

      CW: 1.810, 3.540, 7.035, 14.040, 21.050, 28.050.

      Phone: 1.845, 3.890, 7.244, 14.262, 21.365, 28.325.

Calling (CW, Phone or Digital):
   CQ QCWA.

Information Exchange:
   Fill Columns on the Log Form.

Date/Time/Band/Mode/Call(wkd)/Year/Name/Chapter,State,Prov,Ctry
QSO Pts/Multiplier Pts

   For the "year" column, indicate the last 2 digits of the year the
   station operator was first licenced.

   If the contacted station does not belong to a QCWA chapter, show only
   the State, Province or Country of its location. The latter would
   apply to Non QCWA members as well as to QCWA members who are not
   affiliated with a local chapter. Do Not mention the term "At Large"
   (AL) as was done several years ago, as this can be confused with AL
   for Alabama.

   For Band info, simply indicate one of the above 15 Bands in the
   "band" column.

Scoring:
   Each Phone QSO is worth one (1) contact point.

   Each CW QSO or other Digital Mode QSO such as RTTY, PSK31, MFSK etc.
   is worth 2 contact points (show 2 points in the QSO Points Column on
   the Log).

   A Multiplier of one (1) point is given for each QCWA Chapter worked
   and for each State, Province or Country reported from stations not
   belonging to a QCWA Chapter. A total of only one multiplier point
   will be given for each State, Province or Country.

   A Multiplier of 3 points will be given on each of the 15 Bands for
   working our Special Events Station W2MM. It is hoped to have this
   station active throughout the two parties. Stations within 50 miles
   (80 Kms) of W2MM, may work W2MM only once for a total multiplier of
   3 points. For the year 2002, the station will operate in the
   vicinity of Chapter 45 Headquarters in Orlando FL, site of the
   2002 Convention.

   Sample logs and a summary sheet may be requested from
   QCWA Headquarters with an SASE.

   Address is P O Box 3247, Farmingham, MA 01705-3247 USA or on the
   website at www.qcwa.org    .

   Contacts with QCWA Memorial Station W2MM count as three multipliers
   on each of the 15 bands.

   Note: W2MM will be operated by one of our local chapters. Members of
   that chapter, and non chapter Members within 50 miles (80 kms) will
   be permitted to work W2MM only once for a total of 3 Multiplier
   points. Chapter 162 in Southeast Wisconsin is the 2005 operator.

Awards:
   Certificates will be issued for the top 3 World Scores.

   A certificate will be issued for the top score in each participating
   Country.

Logs:
   Send logs within one month to:
     Robert Buus-W2OD     or by e-mail attachment to: w2od at aol.com
     8 Donner Street
     Holmdel, NJ  07733-2004
     USA


Log Forms /Summaries/Rules at    www.qcwa.org/2004-qso-party-rules.htm

MORE INFO:
     QCWA Web Site: http://www.qcwa.org/