[SFDXA] The ARRL Contest Update for January 29, 2014
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January 29, 2014Editor: Ward Silver,
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IN THIS
ISSUE
* Is That A Real
Call? - CQ WPX RTTY
* A Wintry Mix - VT, MN, BC,
DE, NH QSO Parties
* New Team in Place at ARRL
Contest Branch
* Roving Reporter K1RA on ARRL Jan
VHF Contest
* Big Dogs at Woofferton
* IARU HF Results Online
* RF &
Microwave Toolbox App
* Fretting about the
Workshop
* Chewing Through the Straps
NEW HF OPERATORS - THINGS TO DO
There are
two great activities coming up - one outside and one inside. Outdoors, of
course, is the Freeze Your Butt Off contest in which temperature at the
operating position is part of the exchange! To warm up from that, come inside and
tune for student teams operating in the weekday, Monday-to-Friday School
Club Roundup. February is full of contesting fun!
BULLETINS
There are 30 contests using at least 7 modes over
the next two weeks, one major DXpedition, and the W1AW operations will first
move to Minnesota and Texas, then Georgia and Hawaii. Let us all brush up
on our inter-personal skills and receiver operating abilities.
BUSTED QSOS
The inspectors found no violations
in the Contest Update Café's previous issue.
CONTEST SUMMARY
Complete
information for all contests follows the Conversation section
February 1-2
* North American
Sprint--CW
* Triathlon DX Contest
* EPC WW PSK
Contest
* Vermont QSO Party
* Ten-Ten Winter Phone QSO Party
* Black Sea Cup
International
* FYBO Winter QRP Field Day
* Minnesota QSO Party
* Straight Key
Party
* British Columbia QSO Party
* Delaware QSO Party
* XE
International RTTY Contest
* OK1WC Memorial Contest (Feb 3)
* ARS Spartan Sprint--CW
(Feb 4)
February 8-9
* School
Club Roundup (Feb 10-14)
* NS Weekly Sprint--CW (Feb 7)
* YL-OM
Contest (Feb 7)
* YLISSB QSO Party--CW
* CQ WW RTTY WPX
* Worldwide EME
Contest
* Asia-Pacific Sprint--CW
* Dutch PACC Contest
* Straight Key
Weekend Sprintathon
* OMISS QSO Party--Phone
* New Hampshire QSO
Party
* FISTS CW Winter Sprint
* RSGB - First 1.8 MHz Contest
* AM QSO Party
* Classic Exchange--Phone (Feb 9)
* Milwaukee FM Simplex Contest (Feb
9)
NEWS, PRESS RELEASES, AND
GENERAL INTEREST
Big changes around the ARRL Contest Branch Manager (CBM) as Mike
DeChristopher, N1TA has resigned from the position. Picking up the reins
temporarily are a quartet of familiar call signs led by Membership and Volunteer
Programs Manager, Dave Patton, NN1N. Dave will be coordinating work by
previous CBMs KX9X and N1ND, assisted (or at least entertained) by your editor,
to produce the many writeups, results, and awards of the 19-contest
program.
In other ARRL Contest news:
* ARRL EME Contest
weekends have been selected. The weekend of October 11-12 is allocated to
the 2.3+ GHz bands while 50-1296 MHz activity will occur on November 8-9 and
December 6-7. (Thanks, Rick K1DS and Joe K1JT)
* As in previous years, the
Field Day Packet containing rules, forms, and various other bits of
information will be available on February 1st from the ARRL Field Day web page.
* The
ordering period for 2013 ARRL Sweepstakes Clean Sweep mugs and 100-QSO
Participation Pins has been extended! Mugs and pins may be ordered in the regular
way described on the ARRL November Sweepstakes web page (URL) through February 14th. If
you've been putting it off - now's the time to get your order in!
The Daily
DX reports that Brazil's ham organization, LABRE, is marking its 80 years from February 1 at
0300Z until February 3 at 0259Z. Stations all over the country will have
special call signs starting with ZZ80. This may complicate some of this
weekend's contests unless your prefix-to-country lookup list (CTY file) is up to
date!
If you had problems uploading your log for the recent CW North American QSO
Party (NAQP CW), please check the logs received page on the new National Contest Journal website
to verify it was accepted. All logs emailed directly to Chris KL9A, the contest manager,
should be listed. If you don't see your log listed, please resubmit via
the webpage upload.
Here is the
breakdown of W1AW/7 QSOs during the week of operation from Utah. It looks like
a lot of people of chasing W1AW lately! Watch for Minnesota and
Texas to take the stage today. (Graphic from K7CO)
This New York Times article offers some interesting new thoughts about long term sleep
deprivation. More accurately, what happens during sleep and how to recover from
periods when you don't get enough sleep - such as during our favorite on the
air activities. Managing the operator's need for sleep is a critical part
of contesting success. (Thanks, Randy K5ZD)
There have
been rumors of another "Polar Vortex" hitting Minnesota during the state's
QSO party this weekend, but Mark WAØMHJ has heard that mobile
operations will go on, as long as the temperature stays above minus 35 F. Isn't
that the temperature at which HF signals change to MF?
There is an extensive review of the intriguing new Array Solutions Shared-Apex Loop
Array (SAL-30) by Brian N3OC in the February issue of the Potomac Valley Radio
Club newsletter.
Rules for both of the "North American"
contests sponsored by the National Contest Journal - the NAQP QSO Party and the NA Sprint are lots easier to find on the new NCJ website. In addition, you can click
on a link in the rules PDF and be taken directly to the appropriate web
form, making that document the "final authority" complete with live links. You
can still follow the menu links on the NCJ web site of course. (Thanks, NCJ
Editor, Kirk K4RO)
You know what would be good would
be a compass-like smartphone app that would automatically determine your
current location and show you the bearing to any other six-character grid
locator. I'd call it TharTiz.
Valery RG5A has been
working from the CQ World Wide public log database and has developed a set
of top rates achieved by the various stations.
This interesting history behind the development and adoption of
the analog NTSC color television
signal standard turned up on the TV Technology website. Has it really been 60
years of living color? For those readers who decry today's endless legal
battles over technology rights, you may be somewhat comforted to know that
the situation is "the same as it ever was." (Thanks, Eric W3DQ)
Bob WA1Z reports that he will "be releasing a new version of the Super Check
Partial database files on Wednesday, February 5. I am requesting your
logs for input to the database files. If there is a new contesting call sign
you want added to the database for activity in the next few months, let me
know before the February update." Bob's next update of the SCP file will be
in early May. You can send him Cabrillo-formatted logs by email.
If keeping track of all the bands and modes is keeping you up nights
during the ARRL Centennial QSO Party, Anthony K8ZT has created a Google Docs spreadsheet for tracking contacts with all of those W1AW-portable stations. It is a
beta-test version so he would appreciate any feedback or error reports you
might find.
In the ANS-026 issue of the AMSAT News
Bulletins, John K8YSE gives a tip of the cap "to Mark Spencer, WA8SME at the ARRL
for his excellent paper describing Funcube, its experiments
and how to receive it and make sense of the data." Since there is a lot of
interest in antennas to work or receive the signals from the satellites,
"Mark seeks to quantify the performance of some common antennas like the M2
circularly-polarized beam, Arrow (antennas) fixed or on rotators, with or
without preamps, and the 5/8-wave and ¼-wave ground planes. He does that
by comparing the number of packets received on each antenna during a pass.
The results are quite interesting."
Jose CT1BOH reports
that, "Anacom which regulates and supervises the electronic and postal
communications sector in Portugal has authorized the use of 1850-2000
kHz for several international contests in 2014, with the same conditions
that exist for the 1830-1850 segment." Contests allowed include the CQ WW
and CQ WW 160, ARRL DX, CQ WPX, S.M El Rey de España, the IARU HF
Championship, and ARRL 160 Meter contests. Note that digital operation is not
listed.
If you need some ham radio artwork for the shack,
this poster by Jeff K1NSS would look good even in the living
room!
Aggregator 3.0 is now
available for download on the Reverse Beacon Net (RBN) web site. It adds the ability to
selectively combine up to eight Telnet streams from various combinations of CW
and DL4RCK RTTY/PSK skimmers without having to use WintelnetX or a
cluster server to perform the actual merger. (Thanks, Pete N4ZR)
As the newsletter is being assembled, January 28th, it
would be the 128th birthday of Hidetsugu Yagi, co-inventor of the Yagi-Uda
beam antenna much in evidence throughout ham radio-dom. Happy birthday to
Dr. Yagi! And thanks to co-inventor, Dr. Uda, too. (Thanks, Kate K6HTN)
Web Site of
the Week - Andy K1RA spent the last week pulling together a log, media
files such as photos and a slide show, and some
software tools to write a lengthy article covering
preparation and the ARRL January VHF Contest weekend experience as the
K1RA-K8GP Rover. He says, "It seems I spent more time doing this than operating,
but I really enjoy the Radiosport and hope to share some of the experience
and excitement with newcomers and old timers alike. I'm celebrating 35 yrs
on V/UHF this year after making my first VHF SSB/CW contest QSOs back in
1979 as a young WB1ALW and KA1GD." He's also published information on his log visualization tool and encourages your feedback.
WORD TO THE WISE
"A multiplier isn't much of one until you have something to
multiply it by," opines Dan K1TO. His point? You need QSOs in the log,
multipliers or not. Pay attention to the "QSOs per multiplier" number your logging
software might provide. If you give up more QSOs than that number to chase
a multiplier - no matter how juicy - then your score suffers.
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Here's a nine-part
mini-series of videos about firing up one of the Marconi BD272
250 kW short-wave transmitters used for the BBC's World
Service at Woofferton. It uses HUGE tubes. The camera gets right inside
and the Chief Engineer walksyou through the components and signal path; very
interesting. (Thanks, Kirk K4RO)
Photographer
WØCG/PJ2T captured DF9LJ (wearing the ball cap) and KB7Q clearing felled
trees that were threatening the European Beverage antenna at PJ2T. This is
very far from the station - way out in the stickers.
Geoff WØCG/PJ2T has published an online album of photos from the 2013 CQ World Wide CW contest. There
is a lot of work involved in putting on such a big operation!
What eating utensil should you use to get stations into your log?
How about a fork, suggests Jim K2MIJ? "Yes that's right a fork! Well, two of
them to be precise...sitting down at breakfast this morning staring at the
fork in my hand I wondered if it would be possible to radiate a signal on a
"Fork Dipole"....of course I had to try it...would my amazing LDG Z11
autotuner be able to find a match and actually load this tiny tenna? Fired up
the FT-817 @ 5 watts and tuning 12 meters I heard W1AW/5 (K5CM) calling and
working a pile...I shouted and shouted a good 15 times and you could have
knocked me over with a SPOON when he came back and asked "K2MIJ, do I have
the call correct?" WooHoo!" You can check out the setup in Jim's YouTube video! Perhaps
it was knife-edge propagation?
The popular "Factors of
10" animation has been updated in a new "Scale of the Universe" animation by
Cary Huang which is hosted on the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day web
site. Have fun trying to grasp the sheer range of it all!
RESULTS AND RECORDS
The IARU HF Championship extended
results article by Nate N4YDU has been published on the ARRL Contest
Branch website. Sean KX9X has made a comprehensive update of the Contest
Branch's plaques and certificates processing status page, as well.
The CQ WW team is looking for pictures or videos of your
experience in the 2013 CQ WW SSB and CW contests. Please send them directly to CQ
WW Director Randy
K5ZD. Pictures can be sent as attachments while he requests that you send
links to videos.
OPERATING TIP
As noted
at the beginning of this issue, February is packed with contests,
DXpeditions, special stations, and so forth. Keep your cool on the air when some
other activity collides with your contest or vice versa.
TECHNICAL TOPICS AND INFORMATION
After
mentioning the iPhone RF calculator app last time, Chip N3IW contributed news of
the Elektor RF & Microwave Toolbox from Android-Design.nl. "It is really
full-featured. I've used it a good bit in my day-day work as an electrical
engineer. It does OK on a phone, but a tablet would be recommended for some of
the more detailed calculations that use graphs. The free version includes
eight tools like VSWR and mismatch calculators and Pi/T attenuators. For
$9.99, you get a total of 55 tools that has the 8 free tools plus tools like a
PCB trace calculator, image rejection, mixer harmonics, many converters,
and filter design."
Those SMD components sure are small
- here's an Instructables how-to that shows simple steps to snag some SMD soldering savvy.
Don't let your amp "tee" you off - try Ian GM3SEK's designs that combine dc with RF up to 1 kW of power all the way to 6 meters!
Tom W8JI notes that using bias tees with sensitive RF instrumentation such as
the MFJ-259 series of analyzers can lead to damage of the detector diodes.
"You can damage the 259 unless you use a smaller series cap and a shunt
choke to protect the 259. The most important point I am trying to make is to never connect a bias tee without a shunt choke, especially
one with a large series coupling cap, to the 259 input port. The 259 uses
10-volt microwave diodes, and the charging current of the cap can cause that
much or more voltage to appear across the diodes." Tom also cautions us to
watch out for relays on the line since the transient caused by turning a
relay coil off can also damage the diodes.
Check out the spectrum display to John N2NC's left as he uses Andy
N2NT's new VHF+ gear during the January VHF Contest - it's not like CQ WW!
(Photo by N2NT)
Here's an
interesting design article in EDN magazine that discusses how to reduce and control EMI caused
by high-speed digital interfaces. With signal components that run into the
hundreds of MHz, this can be quite a problem!
Seen in a
recent issue of Wired magazine, littleBits - tiny electronic modules that snap together
magnetically. You can add your own household "stuff" to create projects.
Great fun for kids and others just learning about electronics.
Wow - here's quite the antenna switch! It's a
2-radio/6-antenna design with high isolation from KK1L. David K1TTT also
posted a link to his receive antenna switching
unit. (Thanks, Larry W6NWS)
Stew K3ND sends a link
to pictures of his tilt-over mount for a 60-foot 80/160 vertical. It uses
two aluminum plates joined by a heavy duty gate hinge. A small winch and gin
pole tilt the vertical over for any maintenance or repairs by using the
falling derrick method. Another hinged design for a 160-40 meter vertical comes from
Dan K3ZX.
Here's a QSL that is sure to strike a chord
with everybody - from the nephew of Leo Fender, courtesy of Bruce AA5B.
Peter DJ7WW posted a link and a
recommendation to the SWR bridge descriptions and design information
from Dominique F1FRV. If you want some design detail - this is the place!
It's common to use an oscilloscope to view the relative
timing of the relays in a QSK system. How can you sample the RF as simply as
possible when absolute amplitude isn't important, but timing is? Paul W9AC
responds that "For quick QSK timing measurements, I often inductively
couple the sample point to the scope. You can use a short coaxial jumper with
BNC connectors on both ends and connect one end to the scope, the other end
to a BNC-to-banana adapter. Then, take an alligator clip test lead and wrap
it in close proximity to the sample point. The lead ends are connected
across the adapter. Unless you're sampling low power, there's often enough
coaxial leakage to just wrap the lead around the coaxial jumper. Then, adjust
the scope's vertical amplifier to fill the display. Generally, I can get
good display quality without much noise. You may need to experiment with more
or less turns around the line."
Technical Web Site of the Week - Two pages on
the Frets magazine website dealing with instrument repair and
construction are definitely of interest to every home builder - radio hams,
included! The first is a large collection of Shop Tips and the
second is a long list of "how to's" with common shop tools. Great
reading! And while you're in the mood, how about some new tools? Makezine runs
an annual "Our Favorite New Tools" article that
will certainly get your workshop juices flowing.
CONVERSATION
Chewing Through the Straps
As I've noted elsewhere in this issue, we have some very busy times
coming up - not just this weekend (30 contests plus all the other goings-on)
but for the rest of 2014 as the W1AW-portable stations continue to rack up
big QSO totals all week, every week. The Nebraska total for W1AW/Ø
was more than 23,000 - and there were still plenty of stations calling when
the clock rolled over at 0000 UTC on Wednesday! As this material is written,
the FT5ZM expedition is attracting huge pileups, as well. I'd say this
calls some reflection and planning.
While hams should
strive to be flexible in their on-air habits, many act as if we are still
operating with crystal control and S-38 receivers. While I understand the
tradition of CW-goes-here and digital-goes-there and this is the calling
frequency for those stations and this is the calling frequency for these stations, there is a point at which that approach to spectrum
management breaks down. Like now, for instance.
We have amazing
transceivers with computer interfaces, spectrum displays that rival
anything coming out of an instrumentation lab, automata listening and spotting
every station that signs a call within a few seconds, and worldwide computer
networks operating at mega-bit speeds. Yet we cannot seem to adjust our
operating frequency without it becoming a total calamity.
Perhaps this dolorimeter pain meter might help us assess the aggravation
potential from all of the on-the-air activities! (Photo by VE7ZZ)
You mean if the NCS has to call the net to
order a few kHz away from the regular frequency, the operators won't be
able to find it? Really? You mean if the DXpedition pileup starts crowding
onto your run frequency, you can't find another one? Really? And with the
shoe on the other foot, you mean that if the DXpedition starts calling on a
different frequency than the one they published weeks ago, you won't be able
to find them? Really? Apparently, yes, really. Gosh, what would happen
during a wide-spread disaster in which we actually had to choose operating
frequencies on the fly? There is a point at which tradition becomes a jailer!
We have a tremendous amount of latitude in how we
choose to operate and a fair amount of spectrum in which to do it. Where does it
say that all CW operation just simply has to be in the low end of the
band? And that digital has to be below 100 kHz from the band edge? These
customs were established decades ago! Sure, the band plan says where conventional
operating takes place but band plans are for normal band loading
and they're not regulations. All it takes is a couple of posts on the
Internet or spots on the international spotting networks and a new center of
activity can be established, just like we do under those emergency conditions.
Let's think ahead - have a Plan B (and C and D...)
whether it is for our nets, our contests, our every-night ragchews, even our
DXpeditions. And let's recalibrate our expectations in light of both knowing
there will be crowding and of having all manner of calendars and websites to
inform us about what's happening. There is no reason to be surprised.
The amateur service is fortunate to have the most flexible
operating rules of any civilian telecommunication service in the world, bar
none. Frequency agility is one of our most precious characteristics. So
maybe we should chew through our self-imposed straps every once in a while
and make use of it!
73, Ward NØAX
CONTESTS
29 January through 11
February
An expanded, downloadable version of QST's Contest
Corral in PDF format is available. Check the sponsor's Web site for
information on operating time restrictions and other instructions.
HF CONTESTS
North American
Sprint--CW, from Feb 2, 0000Z to Feb 2, 0359Z. Bands (MHz): 3.5-14. Exchange:
Both call signs, serial, name, and S/P/C. Logs due: 7 days. Rules
School Club Roundup--Phone,CW,Digital, from Feb 10, 1300Z to Feb 14,
2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50+. Exchange: RS(T), Class, S/P/C. Logs due:
30 days. Rules
Triathlon DX Contest--Phone,CW,Digital,
from Feb 1, 0000Z to Feb 1, 2359Z. Bands (MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RS(T) and
serial. Logs due: 28 Feb. Rules
EPC WW PSK Contest--Digital,
from Feb 1, 0000Z to Feb 2, 2400Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28. Exchange: RST and
serial. Logs due: 30 days. Rules
Vermont QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Feb 1, 0000Z to Feb 2, 2400Z. Bands
(MHz): 1.8-28, 50,144. Exchange: RS(T) and VT county or S/P/C. Logs due: 30
days. Rules
Ten-Ten Winter Phone QSO Party--Phone, from Feb 1, 0001Z to Feb
2, 2359Z. Bands (MHz): 28. Exchange: Call sign, name, QTH, 10-10 number.
Logs due: 15 days. Rules
Black Sea Cup International--Phone,CW, from Feb
1, 1200Z to Feb 2, 1159Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28. Exchange: RS(T) and HQ ID,
member nr or ITU zone. Logs due: 30 days. Rules
FYBO Winter QRP Field
Day--Phone,CW, from Feb 1, 1400Z to Feb 1, 2400Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28.
Exchange: RS(T), S/P/C, name, power, temp in deg F. Logs due: 30 days. Rules http://www.azscqrpions.com
Minnesota QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Feb 1, 1400Z to Feb
1, 2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28. CW 1.850, 3.550, 7.050, 14.050, 21.050,
28.050; SSB 1.870, 3.850, 7.250, 14.270, 21.350, 28.450 MHz. Exchange: Name and
MN county or S/P/C. Logs due: Mar 15. Rules
Straight Key Party--CW, from
Feb 1, 1600Z to Feb 1, 1900Z. Bands (MHz): 3.5. Exchange: RST, serial,
category, name, age. Logs due: Feb 28. Rules
British Columbia QSO
Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Feb 1, 1600Z to Feb 2, 0400Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28. CW 1.815,
3.535, 7.035, 14.035, 21.035, 28.305; SSB 1.845, 3.85, 7.23, 14.25, 21.3,
28.4 MHz; Digital per band plan. Exchange: RST and BC district or
S/P/Territory or DX. Logs due: Mar 31. Rules
Delaware QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital,
from Feb 1, 1700Z to Feb 2, 2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50+, CW 1.825, 3.55,
7.05, 14.05, 21.05, 28.05, 50.95; SSB 1.86, 3.96, 7.26, 14.26, 21.36,
28.36, 50.135 MHz; Digital per band plan. Exchange: RS(T) and DE county or
S/P/C. Logs due: 30 days. Rules
XE Int'l RTTY Contest--Digital, from Feb 1,
1800Z to Feb 2, 1759Z. Bands (MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RST and XE state or
serial. Logs due: 30 days. Rules
OK1WC Memorial Contest--Phone,CW, from Feb
3, 1600Z - See website. Multiple time periods. Bands (MHz): 3.5, 7. See
website for bands. Exchange: RS(T) and serial. Logs due: 5 days. Rules
ARS Spartan Sprint--CW, from Feb 4, 0200Z to Feb 4, 0400Z. Bands (MHz):
3.5-28. Monthly on the first Monday evening local time. Exchange: RST,
S/P/C, and power. Logs due: 2 days. Rules
NS Weekly Sprint--CW, from
Feb 7, 0230Z to Feb 7, 0300Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-14. Weekly on Thursday
evenings local time. Exchange: Serial, name, and S/P/C. Logs due: 2 days. Rules
YL-OM Contest--Phone,CW,Digital, from Feb 7, 1400Z to Feb
9, 0200Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28. Exchange: Call sign, RST, serial and S/P/C.
Logs due: 30 days. Rules
YLISSB QSO Party--CW, from Feb 8, 0000Z to Feb 9,
2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28. Exchange: Call sign, RS(T), ISSB number. Logs
due: Mar 21. Rules
CQ WW RTTY WPX--Digital, from Feb 8, 0000Z to Feb 9,
2400Z. Bands (MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RST and serial. Logs due: Feb 14. Rules
Asia-Pacific Sprint--CW, from Feb 8, 1100Z to Feb 8, 1300Z. Bands
(MHz): 7,14. Exchange: RST and serial. Logs due: 7 days. Rules
Dutch PACC Contest--Phone,CW, from Feb 8, 1200Z to Feb 9, 1200Z. Bands
(MHz): 1.8-28. Exchange: RS(T) and Dutch province or serial. Logs due: Mar 9. Rules
Straight Key Weekend Sprintathon--CW, from Feb 8, 1200Z to
Feb 9, 2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50. Exchange: RST, QTH, name, member nr if
member. Logs due: 5 days. Rules
OMISS QSO Party--Phone, from Feb 8,
1500Z to Feb 9, 1500Z. Bands (MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RS, S/P/C and OMISS nr
or "DX". Logs due: Mar 30. Rules
New Hampshire QSO
Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Feb 8, 1600Z to Feb 9, 0400Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28. CW - 1.815 and
band edge + 45kHz; Phone - 1.875, 3.935, 3.950, 7.235, 14.280, 21.380,
28.390 MHz. Exchange: RS(T) and NH county or S/P or "DX". Logs due: Mar 31. Rules
FISTS CW Winter Sprint--CW, from Feb 8, 1700Z to Feb 8, 2100Z. Bands
(MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RST, S/P/C, first name, FISTS nr or power. Logs due:
30 days. Rules
RSGB - First 1.8 MHz
Contest--Phone,CW, from Feb 8, 2100Z to Feb 9, 0100Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8. Exchange: RST,
serial, UK district. Logs due: 16 days. Rules
AM QSO Party--Phone, from Feb
8, 2300Z to Feb 9, 2300Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-14. Exchange: RS, name, and
S/P/C. Logs due: 4 weeks. Rules
Classic Exchange--Phone, from Feb 9,
1400Z to Feb 10, 0800Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50,144, AM--1.890, 3.880,
7.160, 7.290,1 4.286, 21.420, 29.000, 50.400, 144.300; SSB--1.885, 3.870,
7.280, 14.270, 21.370, 28.390, 50.125, 144.200 MHz. Exchange: RST, QTH, model
of rcvr and xmtr. Logs due: 30 days. Rules
Milwaukee FM Simplex
Contest--Phone, from Feb 9, 1900Z to Feb 9, 2130Z. Bands (MHz): 50-440.
Exchange: Call sign and grid square. Logs due: Mar 10. Rules
VHF+
CONTESTS
School Club Roundup--Phone,CW,Digital,
from Feb 10, 1300Z to Feb 14, 2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50+. Exchange:
RS(T), Class, S/P/C. Logs due: 30 days. Rules
Vermont QSO
Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Feb 1, 0000Z to Feb 2, 2400Z. Bands (MHz):
1.8-28, 50,144. Exchange: RS(T) and VT county or S/P/C. Logs due: 30 days. Rules
Delaware QSO Party--Phone,CW,Digital, from Feb 1, 1700Z to Feb 2,
2359Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50+, CW 1.825, 3.55, 7.05, 14.05, 21.05, 28.05,
50.95; SSB 1.86, 3.96, 7.26, 14.26, 21.36, 28.36, 50.135 MHz; Digital per band
plan. Exchange: RS(T) and DE county or S/P/C. Logs due: 30 days. Rules
Worldwide EME Contest--Phone,CW, from Feb 8, 0000Z to Feb 9, 2400Z. Bands
(MHz): 144, 432. Exchange: TMO/RS(T) and "R". Logs due: Jun 15. Rules
Straight Key Weekend Sprintathon--CW, from Feb 8, 1200Z to Feb 9, 2359Z. Bands
(MHz): 1.8-28, 50. Exchange: RST, QTH, name, member nr if member. Logs due: 5
days. Rules
Classic Exchange--Phone, from Feb 9, 1400Z to Feb 10,
0800Z. Bands (MHz): 1.8-28, 50,144, AM--1.890, 3.880, 7.160, 7.290,1 4.286,
21.420, 29.000, 50.400, 144.300; SSB--1.885, 3.870, 7.280, 14.270, 21.370,
28.390, 50.125, 144.200 MHz. Exchange: RST, QTH, model of rcvr and xmtr. Logs
due: 30 days. Rules
Milwaukee FM Simplex Contest--Phone, from
Feb 9, 1900Z to Feb 9, 2130Z. Bands (MHz): 50-440. Exchange: Call sign and
grid square. Logs due: Mar 10. Rules
LOG DUE
DATES
29 January through 11
February
* January 30 - QRP Fox Hunt
* January 31 - Original QRP Contest
* January
31 - International Naval Contest
* January 31 - RAC
Winter Contest
* January 31 - Lighthouse Christmas Lights QSO Party
* January 31 - AGCW Happy New Year Contest
* January 31
- SARTG New Year RTTY Contest
* January 31 - CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
* February 1
- QRP Fox Hunt
* February 1 - Locust QSO Party
* February 2 - NCCC Sprint
Ladder
* February 4 - Kid's Day Contest
* February 5 - WW PMC Contest
* February 6 - ARS Spartan
Sprint
* February 6 - ARRL RTTY Roundup
* February 7 - EPC WW DX
Contest
* February 8 - EUCW 160m Contest
* February 9 - ON 10-Meter
Contest
* February 9 - QRP ARCI Fireside SSB Sprint
* February 9 - North
American Sprint, CW
* February 9 - UBA DX Contest,
SSB
* February 10 - REF Contest, CW
* February 10 - RSGB 80m Club Championship, SSB
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