Contester's Rate Sheet for March 5, 2008
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CONTESTER'S RATE SHEET
5 March 2008
Edited by Ward Silver N0AX
Published by the American Radio Relay League
Free to ARRL members - tell your friends!
(Subscription info at the end of newsletter)
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SUMMARY
o QSL? Da! - Russian DX Contest
o ID, VA, OK, WI QSO Parties
o ARRL Homebrew Contest Winners
o Peter Dahl and ICE Sales
o WXSpots and WorkedGrids Software
o Lots of Science Stuff
o HF Propagation Links
o Photography Color Temperature
o Inverse Beacons
NEW HF OPERATORS - THINGS TO DO
o The Russian DX Contest on March 15 & 16 is one of the fastest
growing international competitions in radiosport. It's well-run,
attracts top operators, and the sponsors do an excellent job of
reporting on the results.
BULLETINS
o No bulletins in this issue.
BUSTED QSOS
o Two "busted" calls to report from your ever-fallible editor:
Friends and family of Silent Key Lanny Priddy K5LP suffered the
indignity of seeing his call misreported. (Apologies also to the
External Communications Group, K5WP, for abusing their call.) My
source reported Paul W1GHZ's call incorrectly and your editor
obligingly promulgated that error - sorry, OM! Hopefully, I
exhibited somewhat better probity with call signs in the ARRL DX CW.
CONTEST SUMMARY (Rules follow Commentary section)
March 8-9
- AGCW QRP Contest
- RSGB Commonwealth Contest, CW
- Idaho QSO Party
- EA PSK31 Contest
- Oklahoma QSO Party
- North American RTTY Sprint
- Wisconsin QSO Party
- CLARA and Family HF Contest
March 15-16
- 10-10 Mobile QSO Party
- Russian DX Contest
- Virginia QSO Party
- EU EME Contest
- QRP ARCI HF Grid Square Sprint, CW
- 9KCC Contest
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NEWS, PRESS RELEASES, AND GENERAL INTEREST
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Congratulations to the winners of the first ARRL Homebrew Contest
<http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/02/22/100/?nc=1>, Jim WA2EUJ
and Steve KD1JV. To meet the challenge they had to deliver a working
CW/SSB 40 meter transceiver, full QRP power output, meeting all the
FCC rules (tested in the ARRL lab), and buildable for $50 or less.
That's a pretty stiff set of constraints to meet - good job,
gentlemen!
From the ARRL Contest Branch Manager, Sean KX9X, "We've received over
1,700 logs via email for the DX CW contest, and it's only been a week
since the event. Most impressive!" Even in times of languid
propagation, we are a garrulous lot.
CQ WPX Manager, Steve K6AW, apologizes for a glitch in the assembly
of results for the 2007 WPX CW contest that resulted in the Assisted
category not being included in March CQ's write-up. The
pre-publication version of the Assisted results is posted
<http://www.cqwpx.com/results_2007_wpx_cw_assisted.htm> and the
Assisted results will also be printed after the appropriate issue of
CQ magazine is printed.
Carl N4AA, editor of "QRZ DX" <http://www.dxpub.com/> notes that the
saga of the Peter Dahl Co. has a happy ending. "Jeff Weinberg, W8CQ
of Harbach Electronics, has purchased the rights to the name, the
original transformer and choke specifications and designs, and the
design equipment. The transformers will be built by MagCap
Engineering using the original PWD specs, and sold through Harbach
Electronics under the Peter Dahl name. The transformer and chokes
will be FOB Canton, MA and shipped directly to the customer from
MagCap." Positively transforming news, isn't it?
Another well-known name is changing hands, too: I.C.E. (Industrial
Communication Engineers), maker of lightning arrestors, bandpass
filters and other contest station fixtures, is up for sale. See
<http://tinyurl.com/2apdne> for more details. (Thanks, Dave W9ZRX)
Elecraft has added K3 receiver performance data to their comparison
table at <http://elecraft.com/> - click on "Rig Comparisons" to find
the information. The K3 turns in some fairly recherche performance
in the strong-signal departments.
Lots of contesters travel - on business and to multi-op or
expeditions - and boy, they lug a lot of stuff! A good discussion
ensued on Slashdot <http://tinyurl.com/27s774> when a reader asked a
question about slimming down travel electronics yet still having
acceptable performance. Lots of tips and suggestions in this story
might be useful to our portable brethren and sistern.
Succumbing to the apparently irresistible self-promotion urge, your
editor's work "Circuitbuilding for Dummies"
<http://tinyurl.com/2hk8kk> is now available at your favorite book
vendor. The book is an introduction to budding electronic-ers as to
how to actually construct the stuff they see in the magazines and on
Web site. Perhaps you know a deserving youngster that might benefit
from a little guidance in this department.
Jeff KE9V is impressed with the new Issuu publication Web site that
converts PDF documents into stunning Web presentations. And so is
your editor. Take a look at the manual for assembling a Rock-Mite QRP
transceiver at <http://tinyurl.com/ytjsrv>. If you have project
documentation or other material you'd like to publish on-line, this
site is worth checking out.
From the AMSAT News Service, Bert VE2ZAZ released WorkedGrids, ham
log grid square mapping software this week. It is freeware
<http://ve2zaz.net/> that runs under Windows. The program displays a
map showing the amateur radio grid squares contacted and logged using
third-party logging software.
Jim AD1C has been maintaining a Web site <http://www.dxcluster.info/>
with a wealth of information on DX cluster nodes. He updates it at
least monthly. If you know of information that is missing or find
some that is incorrect, please let him know via the email address on
the Web site.
And are the radio amateurs on a planet circling tau Bootis
celebrating? <http://www.physorg.com/news123256103.html> Astronomer's
now have a second star on record as flipping its magnetic field!
And you think YOU have nettlesome noise problems! To show the lengths
to which some folks will go in the quest for quiet receiving
conditions, MIT astrophysicists and space scientists are proposing a
radio telescope on the far side of the Moon!
<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/moonscope-0215.html> The article
mentions "low frequencies", but the photo shows antennas that look
more like 2 meter omnidirectional antennas. Perhaps "low" is
relative? (Thanks, Brent W5WW)
WXSpots is a free, new, Internet based system designed to collect and
quickly disseminate observed reports of severe weather to all
connected users. It provides the means to help monitor and warn of
local severe weather. It also retains a historical record of
observations. In short, another way to keep tabs on the local
weather if you're not near a radio. To download the software and
learn more, point your browser at <http://www.wxspots.com/> (From the
ARRL E-Letter, 22 Feb 2008)
Just thought you'd like to know - to remember the names of the eleven
(yes, eleven) recognized planets, try "My Very Exciting Magic Carpet
Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants." Not bad! Submitted by
winning 4th-grade student Maryn Smith, the mnemonic announced last
this week by National Geographic corresponds to Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Eris.
(Ceres, Pluto, and Eris are considered dwarf planets.) There is no
truth to the rumor that Maryn's lissome intellect is hard at work on
a new color mnemonic for the resistor color code.
Ever wondered about what it takes to get a ham license in Canada?
Bill W4ZV posted a few informative links on the process:
<http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/smt-gst.nsf/en/sf01862e.html#servicecentre>
- Overview
<http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/smt-gst.nsf/en/sf01008e.html> -
Detailed information
<http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/smt-gst.nsf/en/h_sf05378e.html>
- An actual exam
All this will look familiar to US hams.
Contest wisdom adapted from some military and aviation truisms sent
by Tim K3HX:
If something hasn't broken in your station, it's about to.
Never trade luck for skill.
An operator without fear probably isn't low enough in the band.
Antenna analyzers are metal containers used to store dead batteries.
Propagation forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
Power, antennas and brains - two are needed to win a contest.
Never tell the station manager you have nothing to do.
No contest-ready station has ever passed inspection.
If the contest is going too well, a solar storm is about to occur.
URL of the Week - This is a bit of a pre-emptive listing, but keep an
eye on the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope project
<http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/> that should be on-line "soon". If
it lives up to the online review at Scobleizer
<http://tinyurl.com/yw2e7v> it will be one of my frequently-visited
sites. (Thanks, Tad K7RA)
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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
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A few select photos from Randy K5ZD's visit to OE4A for ARRL DX CW
are online at <http://tinyurl.com/yspxej> The video of the auto-tune
amplifier is worth a visit all by itself! As Randy says, "One of the
great things about ham radio is you can send an email to someone you
have never met saying you will be near their town the weekend of a
contest and if they know of a station. Nine days later they welcome
you in, hand you the keys, and let you have all the fun."
Joe KC2TN has posted a photo series of the grounding system at his
station. <http://tinyurl.com/2geyou> This is not a cookbook for
others, but an example of how one ham approached the problem.
Like your science with a sense of humor? Check out the Physics
Chanteuse at <http://scientainment.com/pchant.html> or read all about
her in the 24 February issue of the Seattle Times at
<http://tinyurl.com/yv2kxy>
Here's some Real Science - Wired Science's Top Ten Chemistry videos:
<http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/top-10-amazing.html>. I
particularly enjoyed...well, I enjoyed them all. Warning - this will
not boost your productivity.
For the sheer strangeness of the advertisement, have a look at this
surprising irruption of ham radio in a soft-drink ad:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MieEfkwICB8> Remember, the only
thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. And
stay inside during storms! (Thanks, Bob N6TV and Dorothy Parker)
And don't we all need Anti-Robot Fluid and Barbarian Repellant?
<http://tinyurl.com/28yhu9>
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RESULTS AND RECORDS
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More from ARRL Contest Branch Manager, Sean KX9X: "The Contest Branch
is starting to step up enforcement of contest rules; we recently
disqualified three entrants from the 2007 IARU results and we are now
starting to send out notices of potential rules violations via email
while the contest is still going on. The contesting community has
taken notice of these efforts, with mixed results. You can read about
the community's reaction to these events at
<http://www.radio-sport.net/> I've noticed several minor issues with
some of the data in the IARU results; zones reported incorrectly, for
example. I'm working on correcting those in the online results. No
major scores were affected. Thanks to Dan Henderson for the help in
this endeavor. I will begin the processing 2007 June VHF awards
certificates early next week."
Steve W4SHG reports that results for the Spring Sprints for 2007 are
available at <http://www.sysadnet.com/Spring%VHF%Scores%All.htm>. All
certificates have been mailed out to the winners and plaques will
follow shortly.
The claimed scores list for the 2007 Croatian CW Contest 2007 and
available at <http://www.9acw.org/>. Please notify the sponsors in
case of an error. (Thanks, Hrle (9A6XX)
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OPERATING TIP
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When the bands are in bad shape, just remember that they're bad for
your competition, too. Many a certificate has been claimed by the
plugger that stays in the chair, overtaking the hare that abandons
the race.
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TECHNICAL TIPS AND INFORMATION
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Here's a good set of propagation URL's to bookmark for reading while
you look for band openings:
KN4LF Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast
<http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf6.htm>
KN4LF Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive
<http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf5.htm>
KN4LF Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast &
Archive
<http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf6.htm>
KN4LF 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes:
<http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf8.htm>
LF/MF/HF/VHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector:
<http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/kn4lf> (Thanks,
Thomas KN4LF)
Steve K7LXC reminds the Rate Sheet's readership that soldered or
brazed joints are not appropriate for lightning protection systems.
The only NEC approved grounding connections are compression or
exothermic (e.g. CadWeld). Why? Because soldered or brazed
connections will vaporize from the high current of a strike. If you
are trying to protect feedlines, grounding blocks and clamps designed
for that use are available at electrical supply houses. Gene AD3F
notes that the Polyphaser Web site
<http://www.polyphaser.com/technical_notes.aspx> contains thirty
white papers on grounding and lightning protections, all of which are
good reads.
A portable lap table for equipment would come in handy in a lot of
portable or rover situations. This laptop stand project from the
Instructables Web site <http://tinyurl.com/236omu> will no doubt get
the design juices flowing. The comments regarding the adjustable,
but locking, joint have some very good ideas.
Electronic Design Magazine's 14 Feb 2008 issue included an excellent
tutorial on piezoelectric materials, including quartz and quartz
crystals. Browse over to <http://electronicdesign.com/> and enter
18095 in the Online ID window at the upper right of the page.
If you have some piezoelectrics you'd like to exercise, Chris N7ZWY
designed a nice crystal test set circuit during a design project to
build some narrow-band crystal filters. A full description of this
crystal test set is on-line at <http://tinyurl.com/2xoh6m>.
Steve W3HF spotted some printing errors in equations from the RF
Design quadrature modulation tutorial. The first equation should be:
Cos(x)cos(y) = (1/2)cos(x+y) + (1/2)cos(x-y)
In the second equation, the letter 'p' is used instead of the symbol
for pi and in the third equation (second page of the article) the
terms in the second bracket should be subtracted, not added. For
those of you that were following along at home, these corrections
should help.
Dean N6BV wrote with a caution about using a change in reactance with
frequency to determine its inductive or capacitive nature. If a
transmission line of any electrically significant length is connected
between the analyzer and unknown reactance, it can greatly affect the
reactance presented to the analyzer. In extreme cases, such as
one-eighth or quarter-wavelength lines, the reactance can vanish or
be inverted! The old trick of using lines that are multiples of
one-half wavelength long can be put to use here, since those
replicate the terminating impedance.
If you've tried taking photographs of your latest contesting gadget
for the club newsletter and wondered why the colors came out so odd,
Dave AA3UR posted this interesting guide to color temperature. "The
color temperature of a light source refers to the temperature that a
black body (such as black metal) must be raised in order to emit the
same color of light as the light source. This temperature is reported
in Kelvins (the Celsius scale starting at absolute zero, -273 degrees
C). Some common color temperatures are:
2856 K - Ordinary tungsten light bulb
3000 K - Tungsten Halogen bulbs
3200 K - Blue tungsten photo floods or tungsten photo flood bulbs
3500 K - "Bright White" CFL
5000 K - The standard for the printing industry roughly the same
amount of red as green as blue.
6500 K - Standard Daylight, blue sky and yellow sun
7500 K - North-facing blue skylight without yellow sun
The 5000 K lamps are a good idea for photography because of the high
output in blue, increasing the signal to noise ratio for the blue
channel of the CCD over most sources and slightly reducing noise in
the
picture.
Here's a good resource to have stashed away for those times when you
just need a specific, goofy cable: <http://www.oddcables.com/>
(Thanks, Dennis N6KI)
TECHNICAL URL OF THE WEEK -- The Winter 2008 issue of the Pacific
Northwest VHF Society's "The Noise Floor"
<http://www.pnwvhfs.org/articles/noisefloor/NF_02-2008.pdf> includes
the start of a multi-part series on assembling N-type connectors by
Jim W7DHC. The series begins with a description of the various types
of connectors that are available. Yes, Jim realizes that by accident,
some of the photos show a C-type connector.
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CONVERSATION
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Inverse Beacons
Much has been made of VE3NEA's "CW Skimmer" software
<http://www.dxatlas.com/CwSkimmer>, an automated amanuensis that
listens to a swath of band and picks out CW, reporting it via
computer screen or data pipe. Clearly in its infancy, it doesn't do
nearly as well as the human ear in a crowd, but version
one-point-uh-oh of anything tends to evolve rapidly. Soon -
surprisingly soon - skimmer-like band-bots will be tuning for call
signs, validating them against databases, and building their lists.
CW today, digital modes tomorrow, and that bugbear of recognition -
voice - next week.
Pete N4ZR has scooped me a little bit with his Reverse Beacon
project, coupling a CW Skimmer to a DX Cluster interface. Telnet to
24.126.38.27 7300 or use your logging software's DX Cluster interface
and log in just as for the spotting network. 20 meter spots are
popping up on the screen as I type. And why wait for Pete's skimmer?
I could put my own skimmer on duty, give it a private IP address on
my network, and write merrily away while my maneuvering minion does
the hard work of tuning and decoding.
The Northern California DX Foundation <http://www.ncdxf.org/> has
operated a network beacon for years, one of the best ham radio DXing
tools ever! No doubt, the skimmers will pick up the ID's from these
far-flung stations, as well.
Why not turn this concept inside out? Instead of sending out signals
on various frequencies from various locations, record them instead!
Use the software-defined SoftRock radios (or something similar) to
digitize and record the ham bands.
Now compress the data, and dump it to disk with a query interface.
Maybe next December I'd like to listen to 20 meters from Senegal
starting at, say, 0000Z on Nov 29th -, for example. Add a skimmer to
the package, and integrate its output into the record. Why not?
Hard drive space is getting cheaper by the minute. Spool it onto
optical media for long-term storage.
Voila! Your - our - history. Can a search engine interface be far
behind? Type in a call and find where they've been. And who they've
contacted. At any time. One click and the sounds fill your
headphones while the list of stations on the bands (or any band, for
that matter) scrolls by. One definite improvement - no more
listening to the old-timers waxing sentimental about how good it was
when THEY got into ham radio. You can go there yourself!
What's really, really strange is that it might be possible for
someone to couple propagation prediction software with the recorded
band data and call CQ in the past. What if you were at work while
the expedition to the Islets of Langerhan was on 17 meters? No
problem, fire up the Way-back Machine and have at it. A completely
factitious expedition could be mounted to the rarest of the rare at
any time in the past!
Farfetched, you say? Yes, a bit temerarious even for me, but if I can
imagine it, somebody with the necessary time and implementation
skills can, too. Somebody like Kelly SM7NHC with his new project
<http://www.hamsphere.com/> perhaps? Just unbolt this pipe here and
connect it to that pipe over there and...
What does radiosport and DXing and even casual operating mean in an
environment where everyone's presence is known for all times and
frequencies? I dunno. Regardless, the onrushing future is here -
whoops - it's the past. But I recorded it!
73, Ward N0AX
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CONTESTS -- 5 MARCH THROUGH 18 MARCH 2008
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Note that the following abbreviations are used to condense the
contest rules summaries: SO - Single-Op; M2 - Multi-Op - 2
Transmitters; MO - Multi-Op; MS - Multi-Op, Single Transmitter; MM -
Multi-Op, Multiple Transmitters; AB - All Band; SB - Single Band;
S/P/C - State/Province/DXCC Entity; HP - High Power (>100 W); LP -
Low Power; QRP (5W or less)
An expanded, downloadable version of QST's Contest Corral in PDF
format is available at <http://www.arrl.org/contest>.
HF CONTESTS
AGCW QRP Contest, CW, 1400Z Mar 8 - 2000Z Mar 8, Frequencies (MHz):
3.5-28. Exchange: RST, serial, class, AGCW number or NM, Logs due:
15-Apr, Web site: http://www.agcw.org/
RSGB Commonwealth Contest, CW, 1000Z Mar 8 - 1000Z Mar 9, Frequencies
(MHz): 3.5-28. Exchange: RST and serial (Commonwealth only), Logs
due: 7-Apr, Web site: http://www.rsgbhfcc.org/
Idaho QSO Party, Phone, CW, Digital, 1900Z Mar 8 - 1900Z Mar 9,
Frequencies (MHz): 1.8-28 and 50-440, CW 35 kHz above band edge;
Phone 7.260, 14.260, 21.335, 28.470. Exchange: RS(T) and S/P/C, Logs
due: 30 days, Web site: http://www.nt4tt.com/
EA PSK31 Contest, Digital, 1600Z Mar 8 - 1600Z Mar 9, Frequencies
(MHz): 3.5-28MHz. Exchange: RST + serial or EA province, Logs due:
31-Mar, Web site: http://www.ure.es/
Oklahoma QSO Party, Phone, CW, Digital, 1400Z Mar 8 - 0200Z Mar 9 and
1400Z - 2000Z Mar 12, Frequencies (MHz): 3.5-28, CW 3.545, 7.045,
14.045, 21.045, 28.045; Phone 3.860, 7.260, 14.260, 21.360, 28.360.
Exchange: RS(T) and OK county or S/P/"DX", Logs due: 30-Apr, Web
site: http://www.okdxa.org/
North American RTTY Sprint, Digital, 0000Z Mar 9 - 0400Z Mar 9,
Frequencies (MHz): 3.5-14MHz. Exchange: Both call signs, serial,
name, and S/P/C, Logs due: 7 days, Web site: http://www.ncjweb.com/
Wisconsin QSO Party, Phone, CW, Digital, 1800Z Mar 8 to 0100Z Mar 9,
Frequencies (MHz): 3.5-28, 50 and up, CW 3.550 ,7.050, 14.050, and 21
- 440; Phone 3.890, 7.230, 14.290, 21.350, 28.400, 50 - 440.
Exchange: S/P/C or WI county, Logs due: 9-Apr, Web site:
http://www.warac.org/
CLARA and Family HF Contest, Phone, CW, 1700Z Mar 11 - 1700Z Mar 12 &
1700 Z Mar 15 - 1700Z Mar 16, Frequencies (MHz): 3.5-21, CW 3.688,
7.033, 14.033, 21.033; Phone 3.750, 3.900, 7.200, 14.120, 14.285,
21.255, 28.300. Exchange: RS(T), name, QTH, and CLARA , Logs due:
30-Apr, Web site: http://www.clara.comm.sfu.ca/contest.html
10-10 Mobile QSO Party, Phone, CW, Digital, 0001Z Mar 15 - 2359Z Mar
15, Frequencies (MHz): 28. Exchange: Call, Name, county & S/P/C,
10-10 number, Logs due: 31-Mar, Web site: http://www.ten-ten.org/
Russian DX Contest, 1200Z Mar 15 - 1200Z Mar 16, Frequencies (MHz):
1.8-28. Exchange: RS(T), serial or oblast abbr, Logs due: 45 days,
Web site: http://www.rdxc.org/
Virginia QSO Party, Phone, CW, Digital, 0800Z Mar 15 - 0200Z Mar 17,
Frequencies (MHz): 1.8-28, 50-440, CW 1.805, 50 kHz+ band edge; Phone
1.845,3.86,7.26,14.27,21.37,28.37; 50.130, clg freq 144/220/440.
Exchange: Serial and VA county/city or S/P/C, Logs due: 15-Apr, Web
site: http://www.qsl.net/sterling/VA_QSO_Party/
QRP ARCI HF Grid Square Sprint, CW, 1500Z Mar 16 - 1800Z Mar 16,
Frequencies (MHz): 3.5-28, QRP calling frequencies. Exchange: RST,
4-digit grid square, QRP ARCI number, Logs due: 1-Apr, Web site:
http://www.qrparci.org/
9KCC Contest, Phone, CW, 1200Z Mar 16 - 1600Z Mar 16, Frequencies
(MHz): 21. Exchange: RS(T) and serial, Logs due: 30 days, Web site:
http://www.9k2hn.com/9kcc
VHF+ CONTESTS
EU EME Contest, Phone, CW, 0000Z Mar 15 - 2400Z Mar 16, Frequencies
(MHz): 432, 5.7+ GHz. Exchange: TMO/RS(T) and "R", Logs due: 12 days,
Web site: http://www.dubus.org/
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LOG DUE DATES - 5 MARCH THROUGH 18 MARCH 2008
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March 6 - YLRL YL-OM Contest, CW, email logs to:
annettewood@oh.rr.com, paper logs and diskettes to: Annette Wood,
KC8SQM, 6167 Oakwood Circle, North Ridgeville, OH 44039, USA. Find
rules at: http://www.ylrl.org/ylcontests.html
March 7 - CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest, email logs to: wpxrtty@kkn.net,
paper logs and diskettes to: CQ RTTY WPX Contest, 25 Newbridge Road,
Hicksville, NY 11801, USA. Find rules at:
http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/RTTY_WPX_Rules_Jan08.pdf
March 7 - Delaware QSO Party, email logs to: QSOparty@fsarc.org,
paper logs and diskettes to: Contest Chairman, FSARC, PO Box 1050,
Newark, DE 19715, USA. Find rules at: http://www.fsarc.org/DEQSO.html
March 7 - PODXS 070 Club Valentine Sprint, email logs to:
k8ij@arrl.net, paper logs and diskettes to: Charlie Trice, K8IJ, 26
Maple Valley Lane, Alexandria, KY 41001, USA. Find rules at:
http://home.insightbb.com/%7Ectrice/070_ValentineSprint.htm
March 8 - North American QSO Party, RTTY, email logs to: (see rules,
web upload preferred), upload log at:
http://www.ncjweb.com/naqplogsubmit.php, paper logs and diskettes to:
Shelby Summerville, K4WW, 6506 Lantana Ct., Louisville, KY
40229-1544, USA. Find rules at: http://www.ncjweb.com/naqprules.php
March 8 - Wake-Up! QRP Sprint, email logs to: ru2fm@rambler.ru, paper
logs and diskettes to: Valentin Kovalchuk, Internatsionalnaya str 29
kv 39, Kaliningrad, 236011, Russia. Find rules at:
http://qrp.ru/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=7&page=1
March 10 - FISTS Winter Sprint, email logs to: W8PIG@yahoo.com, paper
logs and diskettes to: Dan Shepherd, N8IE, 1900 Pittsfield St,
Kettering, OH 45420, USA. Find rules at:
http://www.fists.org/sprints.html
March 11 - YLRL YL-OM Contest, SSB, email logs to:
annettewood@oh.rr.com, paper logs and diskettes to: Annette Wood,
KC8SQM, 6167 Oakwood Circle, North Ridgeville, OH 44039, USA. Find
rules at: http://www.ylrl.org/ylcontests.html
March 11 - KCJ Topband Contest, email logs to: kcjlog@kcj-cw.com,
paper logs and diskettes to: M. Namba, 1420-55 Kibara, Sammu-city,
Chiba 289-1212, Japan. Find rules at:
http://www.kcj-cw.com/contest/08_toptest_rules_e.pdf
March 15 - AGCW Semi-Automatic Key Evening, email logs to:
semiautomatic@agcw.de, paper logs and diskettes to: Manager:,
Ulf-Dietmar Ernst, DK9KR, Elbstrasse 60, D-28199 Bremen, Germany.
Find rules at: http://www.agcw.org/agcw-con/2006/Englisch/sake_e.htm
March 15 - Louisiana QSO Party, email logs to: laqso@bellsouth.net,
paper logs and diskettes to: LAQSO Party, 508 Hache St, Houma, LA
70364, USA. Find rules at:
http://www.qsl.net/kd5wdy/LAQSO_/LAQSO_Rules/laqso_rules.html
March 15 - Minnesota QSO Party, email logs to: MNQP@ISD.NET, paper
logs and diskettes to: MNQP, 4745-170th Lane NE, Ham Lake, MN
55304-5233, USA. Find rules at:
http://www.w0aa.org/mnqp_2007_rules.htm
March 15 - OMISS QSO Party, email logs to: (none), paper logs and
diskettes to: OMISS QSO Party, c/o Keon Hayes, KE3HAY, 100 Brookebury
Dr. Apt. 2D, Reisterstown, MD 21136-2780, USA. Find rules at:
http://www.omiss.net/qsoparty.html
March 17 - ARRL Inter. DX Contest, CW, email logs to: DXCW@arrl.org,
paper logs and diskettes to: ARRL Intl DX Contest, CW, ARRL, 225 Main
St, Newington, CT 06111, USA. Find rules at:
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2008/intldx.html
March 17 - ARRL School Club Roundup, email logs to: (none), paper
logs and diskettes to: School Club Roundup, c/o Lew Malchick, N2RQ,
Brooklyn Technical HS, 29 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA.
Find rules at: http://www.arrl.org/SCR/rules/
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