[RVRC] Fwd: US Islands QSO Party Participation - general

[E Drew Moore]

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From: "nm5rc at msn.com" <nm5rc at msn.com>
Date: July 16, 2015 at 11:01:50 AM EDT
To: w2qw at arrl.net
Subject: US Islands QSO Party Participation  -  general
Reply-To: nm5rc at msn.com


Hi to the Raritan Valley Radio Club ( W2QW ) and its Members: 

This is to invite the Raritan Valley Radio Club ( W2QW )and its members to participate in the 2015 US Islands QSO Party on August 29-30  (1200-0300 UTC). Nearly 3000 islands have been listed by the 21 year old US Islands Award Program and a little more than 2000 of these have been activated. There are many more islands in the USA and its territories that qualify for listing since an Island only need to be surrounded by water, at least 100 feet long and at least 50 feet from the main shoreline. 

A mini-expedition to activate an island can be a fun club or individual Ham experience. This is especially true during USI’s Spring One-Day Getaway and the August QSO Party. Being on the receiving end of relaxed pile-ups along with QSOs with other island stations and an expanding band of island collectors can be a rewarding activity for W2QW. Some QSO Party island expeditions will be to previously activated Islands while others will be activating listed but not yet activated islands or new islands they have had added to the list. 

The first reported activators of an island have their callsign shown on the list of US Islands. Initial activations require at least 25 QSOs and contacts with at least two DX entities (usually the US and one other), but subsequent activations can be as few or many QSOs as you want to make.

Participating non-island stations are an important part of the USI QSO Party, so if Raritan Valley Radio Club will not be operating from an island please consider having W2QW contact the island stations during the USI QSO Party. 

Information about the US Islands, the QSO Party and a calendar to post your planned operations can be found at: http://www.usislands.org/ It would be appreciated if this information were mentioned at your club meetings and in your newsletters with the hope some members would want to participate as a club or individual effort. 
73, 
Ralph, NM5RC 
US Islands Award Program Committee Member 


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