[QCWA] Fwd: QCWA 50TH QSO PARTY

[George Roach]

>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:34:34 -0500
>To: qcwa at mailman.qth.net
>From: George Roach <groach at igs.net>
>Subject: QCWA 50TH QSO PARTY
>
>April First is almost here..... April Fools Day ?
>
>QSO Party Time again......I look forward to working some of you,
>
>and  your activities committee would sure like to see your logs,
>
>even if you only work a few statons........ Cheers
>
>George-VE3BNO    See what Chapter 73 (Toronto) is doing....
>                                Look below the QSO Party Rules
>
>
>QCWA QSO Party
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>
>The 50th Annual QCWA QSO Parties
>
>QCWA cordially invites all
>to participate in the 2006 QSO Parties.
>All licenced Radio Amateurs world wide are invited.
>
>
>Time/Dates:
>   Two parties will be held in 2006.
>
>   The first one shall commence on:
>
>     1 April 2006 at 1800 Hrs UTC
>
>   and the second one shall commence on:
>
>     16 September 2006 at 1800 Hrs UTC
>
>   Each will run for a period of 24 hours.
>
>   Categories are CW/Digital,Phone and Mixed.
>
>
>Frequencies:
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------
>     The following 15 Bands may be used:
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------
>     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
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   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.
>
>   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.
>
>   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.
>
>
>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
>
>
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>
>
>Date of info: 27 March 2006
>      Source- George Roach, VE3BNO  Activities Manager QCWA
>              also www.qcwa.org/qso-party.htm
>
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>
>
>HEY THERE GUYS AND GIRLS!
>This weekend (APRIL 1) is the QCWA QSO party,  VE3HC (Hammond memorial 
>station) will be active and looking for your contact!!!
>
>Fire up your rig, throw a wire out the window, look for us on or near the 
>TPN net frequency of 7055 and the Ontars net freq of 3755. We will also be 
>up in the higher U.S. bands and 20/15/10 if open.
>
>We are planning to operate much of the time of the contest which is 1300 
>Sat to 1300 Sunday LOCAL TIME.
>
>We must make this a real effort of chapters 70 and 73.
>
>VE3HC will be running a KW... and looking for your contact.
>
>I hope to see many or all of you on the bands. CW is in use by many of the 
>stations and centered around 35 khz from the bottom edge (upwards please).
>
>See you on the weekend.  Ernie Crump, VE3OU



Have  a great week.