[QCWA] 2008 Fall QSO Party-----in a few minutes

[George/Frances]

All Aboard...........

The QCWA Fall QSO Party is upon us.

Try and get on the air and have a chat with fellow members.

And send in your logs even if you have only a few contacts.

Cheers

George-VE3BNO

The rules below are a bit garbled by my e-mail program

so have a look at www.qcwa.org/2008-qso-party


Rules for the 52nd Annual Spring & Fall QCWA QSO Parties

 All licenced Radio Amateurs world wide are invited  to participate in the
QCWA QSO Parties .
 Time/Dates:The Spring QSO party commences on April 5, 2008 and the Fall
Party on September 20..
 They start at 1800 Z  and run  for a period of 24 Hours. CW, Phone, and
digital modes may be used.

Frequencies: The following 10 Bands may be used:
 160:  1.800 - 2.000         20:   14.000 – 14.350          6:      
50.000 – 54.000            UHF: Above 420 Mhz.
 80:    3.500 - 4.000         15:   21.000 – 21.450        144:       
144.0 – 148.0
 40:    7.000 - 7.300.        10:   28.000 – 29.700        220:       
220.0 – 224.0

No contacts are permitted on the 10, 18 and 24 Mhz. bands, nor are
Crossband or Repeater Contacts allowed
.
                                                                                                    --Summary
paragraph-Please
include
with
log.
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CONTACT
POINTS
Suggested Starting Frequencies:                                           
 CW (Digital)           X 2    ...................
CW:     1.810:   3.540:   7.035:   14.040:   21.050:   28.050      Phone
Contacts       X 1    ...................
Phone: 1.845:   3.810:   7.244:   14.262:   21.365:   28.325      Total
Contact Points        ...................(A)
                                                                                                    Multipliers





















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B
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Calling (CW or Phone):  CQ  QCWA                                     
Total Score  (A x B) =    





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                                                                                                    Category

CW/Digital
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Phone
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Mixed
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)

Information Exchange:  Call / Year / Name / Chapter, State, Prov. or 
Country /.   Fill all Columns on the
 the Log  Form. For the “year” column, indicate the  last 2 digits of the
year the contacted operator was  first
 licensed.  If that 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 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 10 Bands in the “band”
 column. Digitally produced logs should  supply the same information as is
in the published log.

Categories: You may choose to work all modes (MIXED ) or only (PHONE) or 
only  (CW/DIGITAL).
Certificates will be issued for each Category of "Cw/digital", "Phone", or
"Mixed" .

Scoring: Each Phone  QSO is worth one contact point.  Each CW QSO or a 
Digital Mode QSO such as
RTTY, PSK31, MFSK etc. is worth 2 contact points (show 2 points in the QSO
"Pts" Column on the Log).
Any station may be contacted once per mode per band. CW is considered a
digital mode so a station contacted
both on cw and a digital mode on the same band can only be scored once
.Any station in your home QCWA
chapter  may be counted only once for a maximum of one QSO per station.
Regardless of band or mode a multiplier of only one point  per contest is
allowed for each QCWA chapter
worked and for each state, Province or Country reported from stations not
belonging to a QCWA Chapter.
A Multiplier  of 3 points will be given on each band 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.  The address is  P O Box
3247 Framingham,MA 01705-3247
USA. They are also on the internet at www.qcwa.org . (In 2008 W2MM will be
in Virginia Beach, VA.)

Awards: Certificates will be issued for the top 3 World Scores in each
category.
A certificate will also be  issued for  the top score in each category in
each participating Country.

Send Logs to: W2OD,  Robert Buus, 8 Donner Street,  HOLMDEL N.J.
07733-2004, U.S.A.
                          or as an e-mail attachment to :  w2od at aol.com   
  (within 30 days of contest)

Rules/logsheets/summary form  are available at website
www.qcwa.org/qso-party.htm