2008 Annual Northern New York Section QSO Party

Sponsored this year by: Black River Valley Amateur Radio Club
www.brvarc.org

 

Date/Time:

Start: Saturday, 9 February, 2008 at 0000z (Fri, 7:00 PM EST)
End: Sunday, 10 February, 2008 at 2359z (Sun, 6:59 PM EST)
Modes: Any mode allowed by license class. Open to ALL license classes.
Bands: As per license class. 80 meters thru 70 cm (except WARC). Terrestrial repeaters are allowed if okayed by the Trustee, but courtesy to other users is primary. Repeater contacts during a net operation are NOT allowed. Suggested Frequencies: CW- 40 kHz up from the bottom of the 80 through 10 meter bands, and 20 kHz up from the bottom of the Novice bands. SSB - 80 through 15 meters, the first 25kHz of the General portion of each band; 10 meters, entire Novice SSB portion. VHF - 50.200MHz, 144.200MHz, 146.49MHz, other simplex and repeater frequencies as warranted.
Exchange: Stations will send signal report and State/Province, Country. NNY stations also give county and any bonus point information.
Categories: new for 2008
A: All contacts made with <=150W
B: At least one contact made with >150W
Goal:

To work as many stations as possible, and as many NNY stations in as many NNY section counties as possible. Work a station once per band and mode. Stations may be worked again if in a different NNY county. ADDED 1/15/08: NOTE: This also means that if you move to a different NNY county, you can work other stations (in or out of NNY) again.

The ten NNY Counties are:

Clinton CLI
Essex ESX
Franklin FRK
Fulton FUL
Hamilton HAM
Jefferson JEF
Lewis LEW
Montgomery MGY
St Lawrence STL
Schoharie SHH

Scoring: One point per non- NNY QSO, two points per NNY station QSO. (Non-NNY stations may only work NNY stations.)

Multiplier: x1 per county, maximum multiplier is 10.
Bonus Points:

Work NNY Section Manager 10 point bonus

For each NNY Section Level Appointee 5 point bonus for each ASM, ACC, BM, OOC, PlC, SEC, STM, TC

10 points for logs submitted by email  <--new for 2008
   

Logs: Submit logs in the following format:

Your call     Your QTH   NNY QSO Party   Feb 2008   page____ of _____

Date
Time
Callsign
State/
Prov
NNY
County
Band
MHz
QSO#
NNY
Position
 Points Bonus
Cnty
Numb
12 Feb
12 Feb
12 Feb
13 Feb
13 Feb
 0123
1234
2345
0321
0245
 KB2KVN
KF2GC
WB2KLD
NT2W
WA2MZF
 NY
NY
NY
NY
FL
SHH
ESX
SHH
STL
 146
28
14
50
3.5
 1
2
3
4
5


SM
ASM

2
2
2
2
1

10
5 		1
2

3
Total Score would be 9 QSO Points X 3 counties = 27 plus 15 bonus points = 42 points

ELECTRONIC LOG SUBMISSION PREFERRED!!

Email log submissions to: may be in standard ARRL ASCII (Cabrillo) format with summary sheet or a simple ASCII text file with data in columns. Anything I can easily read and import into a spredsheet for analysis if need be.

Certificates will be sent by return email.

Paper logs must be clear and easy to read.

If you would like a paper certificate, send a business size SASE.

Submissions must be made no later than 10 March 2008.

Mail to: Peter Newell KC2WI, PO Box 161, Glenfield, NY 13343-0161