The Fun Contest "The 2000 Maryland / DC QSO Party"

August 12 1600-0400 UTC August 13 + 1600-2300 UTC August 13

Certificates are awarded to all stations with 50 or more QSO Points in their entry !

Plaques awarded to the high scoring single operator from Maryland and elsewhere, also to the high scoring MD Club and High Scoring Technician Class Entry!

Many other certificates awarded, including 10 Best MDC Single Ops, and Best score from Each: State, QRP per State, DX Country, MDC Mobile, MDC YL and Tech. Class per state.

Send Logs with SASE by September 1, 2000 to ANTIETAM RADIO ASSOCIATION

P.O. BOX 52, Hagerstown, MD 21740-0052 !

Other Rules worth mentioning:

Phone and CW in CW Sub-bands only. Stations may be worked once per band using each mode. Stations that change MD counties or states are different stations for logging purposes. Non-MDC stations must be single operator.

Non-MDC must work MDC stations. MDC works the world! No packet or repeater QSOs allowed. No QSOs as part of a regularly scheduled net are allowed. Club entries must be from a single QTH.

Exchange QTH and MAJOR CATEGORY of entry. QTH is county for MDC, State, Province, or Country as appropriate for others. MAJOR CATEGORIES are CLUB, QRP, MOBILE, TECHNICIAN, and STANDARD. Stations should send the category that reflects THEIR HIGHEST POINT VALUE to the station worked.

SUGGESTED FREQUENCIES- VOICE 3.92, 7.23, 14.268, 21.37, 28.38, 50.15, 146.55, 146.58 MHz. Other simplex on 2 meter or higher bands OK. CW 3.643, 3.7, 7.07, 7.126, 14.055, 21.115, 28.055 + VHF & UHF. Try CW especially on the odd half hours – Examples 1730, 1930, 2130 UTC.

SCORING Add up the QSO Points and Multiply by the sum of the multipliers. Multipliers may be claimed once each. They do not repeat on each band.

QSO Points score as follows: 10 points per club QSO ! 5 points per QSO with a mobile station !

4 points for a QSO with a QRP station OR a Technician 3 points for each CW, RTTY or ATV QSO

1 point for any other valid contest QSO. Only te highest single point value applies for each valid QSO.

Multipliers – for Non-MDC each MD County + Baltimore City + DC ( 25 possible )

For MDC Stations The Basic 25 above + 49 other states + DX Countries

Note: Each Canadian Province is no longer a Separate Multiplier !

An optional Scoring Summary Sheet and Optional Log Form is available on the Web at www.qsl.net/w3cwc or you

May send an SASE to ARA (address above) for a printed Summary Sheet if desired.

Your 1999 MDC QSO Party Committee WA3EOP (Chairman again) KZ3AB N3TDN K3CWC N3VGS

All are working hard to bring you another fun contest. The award certificate designs are new again this year !

Questions about the party? E-mail [email protected] or [email protected]

ARA would like to thank the Foundation for Amateur Radio for their financial support. Thanks too to those who made donations so that ARA may continue with the FUN CONTEST for 2000 !