North American QSO Party

1. Eligibility	Any licensed radio amateur may enter.
2. Object	To work as many North American stations (and/or other stations if you are in North America) as possible during the contest period.
3. Entry Classification	1) Single Operator and 2) Multi-Operator Two-Transmitter. Multi Operator stations shall keep a separate log for each transmitter. Multi Operator stations must have at least 10 minutes between band changes. Use of helpers or spotting nets by Single Operator entries is not permitted. Single Operator entrants may only have one transmitted signal at a time. Output power must be limited to 150 watts for eligible entries.
4. Contest Periods	January Contests: CW: 1800 UTC January 8 to 0600 UTC January 9, 2000 SSB: 1800 UTC January 15 to 0600 UTC January 16, 2000 August Contests: CW: 1800 UTC August 5 to 0600 UTC August 6, 2000 SSB: 1800 UTC August 18 to 0600 UTC August 20, 2000 Multi Operator stations may operate for the entire 12 hour period. Single Operator stations may operate 10 out of 12 hours. Off times must be at least 30 minutes in length and must be clearly marked in the log.
5. Mode	CW only in CW parties. Phone only in Phone parties.
6. Bands	160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters only. You may work a station once per band. Suggested frequencies are 1815, 3535, 7035, 14035, 21035 and 28035 KHz (35 KHz up from band edge for Novice/Tech) on CW; and 1865, 3850, 7225, 14250, 21300 and 28500 KHz (28450 for Novice/Tech) on SSB. Try 10M at 1900Z and 2000Z 15M at 1930Z and 2030Z and 160M at 0430Z and 0530Z.
7. Exchange	Operator name and station location (State, Province or Country). If the name sent is changed during the contest, as sometimes happens with Multi-Operator stations, the name sent for each QSO must be entered in the log.
8. Valid Contact	A valid contact consists of a complete, correctly copied and legibly logged two-way exchange between a North American station and any another station. Proper logging requires including the time of each contact. Regardless of the number of licensed call signs issued to a given operator, one and only one call sign shall be utilized during the contest by that operator.
9. North American Station	Defined by the rules of the CQWW DX Contests with the addition of KH6.
10. Scoring	Multiply total valid contacts by the sum of the number of multipliers worked on each band. Multipliers are US States (including KH6 and KL7), Canadian Provinces/Territories (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Labrador, Yukon, and NWT) and other North American Countries (Note: do not also count USA, Canada, KH6, or KL7 as Countries). Non-North American Countries do not count as multipliers, but may be worked for QSO credit.
11. Standard Reporting	Send North American QSO Party CW logs to Bob Selbrede K6ZZ, 6200 Natoma Ave, Mojave, CA. 93501. Send SSB logs to Bruce Horn WA7BNM, 4225 Farmdale Ave, Studio City, CA. 91604. Entries must be postmarked not later than 30 days after the contest to be eligible for awards. A proper entry consists of: (1) a Summary Sheet showing the number of valid contacts and multipliers by band, total contacts and multipliers, total score, team name (if any), power output, name, callsign, and address of the operator, station callsign and station location; (2) a complete legible log of all contacts (including dupes marked as such) with indication of all multipliers claimed; (3) a separate Dupe Sheet for each band; and (4) a list of all claimed multipliers worked on each band. Logs may be submitted on 3.5" disk in the form of files generated by a computer logging program as long as they are MS-DOS compatible ASCII files consisting of all information in (1)-(4) above. All entries should include a written, signed statement of "Fair and Ethical Operation". All logs containing over 200 QSO's, which were generated with a computer logging program, must also include a disk copy of the ASCII Text log as defined above. Complete rules, sample Log Sheets and a Summary Sheet may be obtained with an SASE to K6ZZ or WA7BNM.
12. Electronic Reporting	Logs submitted via E-Mail are also acceptable. E-Mail log submissions MUST BE in ASCII Text Format and include your Summary Sheet and complete Log. Name your files with your callsign (ie, yourcall.SUM and yourcall.LOG). Please do not send any Binary Format logs (ie, yourcall.BIN or yourcall.QDF). NAQP CW logs should be sent to [email protected] and NAQP SSB logs to [email protected]. E-Mail addresses can and do change so if these addresses fail to work, contact the NCJ for assistance.
13. Team Competition	You may wish to form a team with fellow NAQP participants. If so, your team shall consist of 2 to 5 Single Operator stations as a single entry unit. Clubs or other groups having more than 5 members may submit multiple team entries. PRE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT: To qualify as a team entry, the team organizer should ensure that the name, callsign of each operator, and call sign of the station operated should the operator be a guest at a station other than his own, (e.g. K6ZZ op by K6RO) must be registered with K6ZZ for CW and WA7BNM for SSB. The team registration information must be in written or telegraphic form and must be received before the start of the contest. There are neither distance nor meeting requirements for a team entry. The only requirement is pre-registration of the team.
14. Penalties and Disqualification's	For each unmarked duplicate QSO, you lose that contact plus an additional three contacts; for each QSO for which you are not in the other stations log, you lose that QSO plus an additional one contact; and for each QSO for which the log data is incorrectly copied in any respect, you lose that contact. Entries with score reductions greater than 5 % will be disqualified. Any entry may be disqualified for illegibility, illegal or non-ethical operation. Such qualification is at the discretion of the NCJ Contest Review Committee.
15. Awards	A total of five plaques will be awarded for the high score in each of the following categories: - Single Operator CW - Single Operator Phone - Multi Operator CW - Multi Operator Phone - Single Operator Combined High Score Certificates of merit will be awarded to the highest scoring entrant with at least 200 QSO's from each State, Province, and North American Country.