MT QSO Party - 2010 Information

Date:
0000Z (6:00pm Mountain) Friday, April 9th until 0000Z (6:00pm Mountain) Sunday April 11th, 2010.

Object:
Contact as many stations as possible. (WARC band and Repeater QSO’s are not permitted.)  Work each station once per band and once per Phone/CW/Digital modes. 

Suggested frequencies:
Band    Phone               CW
160      1.860               1.825
80        3.960               3.550
40        7.260               7.050
20        14.260             14.050
15        21.360             21.050
10        28.360             28.050
6          50.950             50.145

VHF/UHF – around customary calling frequencies or on simpex frequencies.  

All stations should operate with regard to the ARRL band plans!
 

Categories:
For award purposes, all stations are considered to be operating in the same category.

Stations may operate the following categories.
Single:              Single Operator, one transmitter (SO).
Multi-Single:     Multiple operators, one transmitter (MS).

No Multi-Multi operations allowed.
Use of packet spotting (except self spotting) is encouraged and does not affect the entry category.
 

Power Categories:
Stations must operate the same power category for the entire contest.
High Power:     Greater than 150 watts (>150 watts)
Low Power:     Less than or equal to 150 watts (< = 150 watts)
Qrp:                 Phone = 10 watts or less, CW/Digital = 5 watts or less.
 

Contest Exchange:
Montana stations send a sequential serial number beginning with 001 and their Montana county. Stations outside Montana send a sequential serial number beginning with 001 and state/province or DXCC country.
 

QSO Points:
Each complete non-duplicate SSB contact is worth one point.
Each complete non-duplicate CW or digital contact is worth two points.

MULTIPLIERS - Multipliers are counted once per mode, i.e. working the same multiplier on both CW, SSB or DIGITAL counts as three multipliers.

FOR MONTANA STATIONS, multipliers are the 49 American States and 56 Montana Counties, plus the 11 Canadian Provinces (NL, PEI, NS, NB,VE2-7, YT/NWT/NU).

FOR ALL OTHER STATIONS, multipliers are the 56 Montana counties.
 

Power Multiplier:
Stations not indicating power level within their log will be scored as a operating with greater then 150 watts.

Greater then 150 watts, total score x 1
150 watts or less, total score x 2
QRP, total score x 3
 

Scoring:
Final Score = total QSO points x location multipliers x power multiplier. 
For mobile stations, multiply total QSO points by the total number of unique multipliers worked from all counties activated x power multiplier.
 

Reporting:
Paper logs of less than 25 QSO’s permitted, all others must be electronic Cabrillo logs.  Electronic log entries must be in the Cabrillo format.
Please remember, if your software only outputs ADIF format, there are many ADIF to Cabrillo converters available on the Internet.
Electronic entries and paper logs must be received by May 31, 2010, to:

K7NCR, Norm
Normsclassicradio (at) yahoo.com

Make sure to put your call sign and K7NCR DE QSO in Subject Line
! Example: K7NCR DE N7LT QSO Party Log.  This will make filtering your received email much easier.

Paper logs to:

K7NCR – MT QSO Party
3057 Highway 2 West, PO BOX 10895
KALISPELL, MT 59901

Miscellaneous
Callsigns and exchanged information must be received and confirmed by both stations for a complete QSO.  No cross-mode contacts. CW contacts must be made in the CW portions of the band. Any transmitter used to contact one or more stations may not be subsequently used under any other callsign during the contest period, with the exception of family stations where more than one callsign is assigned. Under these circumstances, no individual shall make a QSO utilizing more than one callsign.

No station may claim simultaneous operation in more than one county, state, or province. A mobile or rover station must move a minimum of 500 feet before claiming to be in a new county, state, or province.
 
73 es good luck!
Norm, K7NCR