Contester's Rate Sheet for April 2, 2008
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CONTESTER'S RATE SHEET
2 April 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 Radio Track Meet -- VHF Spring, Low Power, EU CW Sprints
o MO, GA, MT QSO Parties
o Roofing Filter Presentation by NC0B
o Equinoctical Propagation Demystified
o Word To The Wise -- New Feature
o Deutsche Welle's Big Aluminum
o Time Reversal With the Pd'A
o Shrinking Wire Antennas
o Crack A Smile, Will Ya?
NEW HF OPERATORS - THINGS TO DO
o With a plethora of smaller contests available, the coming couple of
weeks would be a good time to stock up on propagation know-how. Focus
on one band or get on the air at "interesting" times, like sunrise or
sunset.
BULLETINS
o No bulletins in this issue.
BUSTED QSOS
o The link to the Kosmonavt photos was left out of the last issue.
Here it is: < http://tinyurl.com/34qbwj> (Thanks, David Coursey)
CONTEST SUMMARY (Rules follow Commentary section)
April 5-6
- Montana QSO Party
- MO QSO Party
- QCWA Spring QSO Party
- QRP ARCI Spring QSO Party, CW
- SP DX Contest
- EA RTTY Contest
- VHF Spring Sprint, 144 MHz (May 7)
- Low Power Sprint, CW (May 7)
- DX to NA YL, Phone (May 8-10)
March 12-13
- EU EME Contest
- EU Spring Sprint, CW
- PSK31 Flavors Contest
- Japan International DX Contest, CW
- Yuri Gagarin DX Contest, CW
- GA QSO Party
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NEWS, PRESS RELEASES, AND GENERAL INTEREST
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CQ Communications, Inc, publisher of CQ Amateur Radio magazine, and
Buckmaster Publishing jointly announce that Buckmaster's searchable
online archive of CQ magazine back issues, dating back to the
magazine's first issue in January 1945, is now complete and available
via <http://hamcall.net/cq> or the CQ Web site
<http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/>. All issues through early 2006 are
now online. By agreement with CQ, issues are not posted until two
years after their publication dates, as paper copies are still
available from the CQ bookstore. Newer issues will be posted as the
two-year "window" expires. Full issues are available to CQ
subscribers while the first 10 pages are available to all. (Thanks,
CQ and Buckmaster)
Rob Sherwood NC0B of Sherwood Engineering recently published a new
presentation called "Roofing Filters, Transmitted IMD & Receiver
Performance" in PowerPoint and PDF formats. <http://www.sherweng.com/>
Also posted is an MP3 audio file. Play the audio and follow along
with the PPT or PDF. The presentation with audio lasts about an hour,
followed by another 30 minutes about AGC in modern rigs. The
presentation was made to the Boulder, Colorado Amateur Radio Club in
February. (Thanks, Chet K8RA)
Tim K3LR announces the program list for the 2008 Dayton Hamvention
Antenna Forum (Friday, May 16 from 1430-1700 EDT at Hara Arena):
"Real World Antenna Patterns vs. Theoretical Computer Antenna Plots"
by Mike Wetzel, W9RE and Tom Chance, K9XV
"A New Approach for Measuring Complex Antenna Currents in a Vertical
Array" by Greg Ordy, W8WWV
"Multi-element Lowband Vertical Arrays - Approaches for Small Lots"
by Dr Ted Rappaport, N9NB and Ray Sokola, K9RS
And don't forget the Contest Supersuite <
http://contestsupersuite.com/> while you're at it!
If you're a bit nostalgic for Straight Key Night, why not give the
Weekday Straight Key Sprint a go?
<http://www.skccgroup.com/sprint/sks/sprint-rules.html>. It would
spice up Wednesday evening (in the States). (Thanks, Mark K5GQ)
Looking for a lightweight portable gain antenna for the Magic Band?
Ken VE3HLS suggests a stressed Moxon from PAR Electronics.
<http://www.parelectronics.com/stress_moxon.htm> It weighs 3 pounds
and needs only a Phillips screwdriver to take it apart. Assembly and
takedown time is estimated as 5 to 10 minutes.
From NASA Science News, "For reasons not fully understood by
scientists, the weeks around the vernal equinox are prone to Northern
Lights. In other words, spring is aurora season. Observations from
NASA spacecraft are shedding new light on this old mystery." Check
out the full story at < http://tinyurl.com/3c4ety> (Thanks, Tim K3HX)
For the linguistically curious, Randy K5ZD sent a link
<http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html?link_id=54> to a selection of
online language courses with more than 100 languages to choose from.
I might try my hand at Dakota!
URL of the Week -- Before Texas Instruments and silicon wafers
changed the face of modern electronics, there was the Loewe Radio
Company <http://tinyurl.com/2cfyu3> and some fairly amazing
tube-like-objects! (Thanks, John K0IO)
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WORD TO THE WISE
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Here's a new feature for the Rate Sheet -- a technical or radio-type
word that isn't common ham lingo. Let's start with one from John
N9RF, whose post gave me the idea!
Ampacity - The current carrying capacity, expressed in amperes, of a
conductor under stated thermal conditions.
This is useful when specifying power cable for your new linear
amplifier or the like.
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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
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Peter DF3KV sends some URL's of Web sites guaranteed to make the ham
with even the biggest antennas feel inadequate:
The rotable arrays of Deutsche Welle Nauen, 80m high, 87m wide,
6-26MHz
based on Telefunken technology at
<http://sfbb.sf.funpic.de/bilder/nauen03.jpg>
<http://www.senderfotos-bb.de/nauen.htm>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALLISS>
Another type on rails in Vatikan and Vienna:
< http://tinyurl.com/2tlfsx>
Remember listening to the time-at-the-tone signals from various
shortwave stations around the world? You can still do it!
<http://www.intervalsignals.net/> has dozens of these melodic little
memory ticklers. (Thanks, John K1AR)
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RESULTS AND RECORDS
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From Sean KX9X, ARRL Contest Branch Manager, "We've received 1,962
logs via email for the 2008 ARRL DX Contest so far. Logs will be
accepted through April 1, 2008. All 2007 Sweepstakes mug and pin
orders have been processed and shipped. Many thanks to Carol Michaud,
Ashley Rakus and Dawn Trigilio for their help with this project. ARRL
EME contest results have been updated and should be on the web
shortly."
There is now a complete listing of the 2008 CQ WPX plaques and
sponsors available at <http://www.cqwpx.com/plaques.htm>. Special
thanks to Ken K5KA who manages the CQ WPX Awards program and Randy
K5ZD who manages the CQ WPX Web site. There are plaques currently
without sponsors. If you are interested in sponsoring a plaque,
please contact the Awards manager at awards@cqwpx.com. (Thanks, CQ
WPX Manager, Steve K6AW)
The results for the 2007 Fall Sprints, sponsored by the Southeastern
VHF Society, are now available at
<http://svhfs.org/2007_fall_sprint_results.htm>. Rules for the 2008
Fall Sprints will be posted soon. (Thanks, Jim W4KXY)
Preliminary results are now posted for the NA RTTY Sprint of two
weeks ago at http://www.ncjweb.com/sprintrttyprelim.php. Official
results and article will appear in the May/June NCJ which is about to
go to the printer. Please let me know any questions or errors ASAP.
LCRs (Log Check Reports) are available upon request to
rttysprintmgr@ncjweb.com. Thanks to everyone for their participation
despite poor conditions. (Thanks, Ed W0YK)
A listing of the logs received for the Canada Winter Contest 2007 and
the corresponding entry categories has been posted at:
<http://ritcb.sasktelwebsite.net/>. Please advise VE5SF@rac.ca if
you see any errors in the logs posting. We have had to resort to a
private Web site due to problems getting information posted on the
official RAC site. (Thanks, Sam VE5SF, Canada Winter Contest Manager)
Preliminary results for the HA-DX 2008 Contest are available at
<http://www.ha-dx.com/> under 'Results' on the left hand side.
Everyone who has submitted a log for the contest can have a look at
their evaluated log via 'Your Log'/'Show your evaluated log' on the
home page. Questions and remarks should be sent to
contestmanager@mrasz.axelero.net. (Thanks, Tibor HA1AH)
The results of the 2007 Ohio QSO Party are now posted at the Ohio QSO
Party Web site <http://www.oqp.us/>. (Thanks, Jim K8MR)
Taking the lead in contest reportage, the results for the annual
Poisson d'Avril (April Makes Me Sick) Contest have been released
before the contest itself. The Physics Dept at Princeton is looking
into this phenomenon. Also in keeping with grand tradition, K1DG has
won the contest once again. The Pd'A contest -- a technology leader
-- allows (nay, encourages) remote stations, demotivations, public
relations, prevarications, adjudications, preadaptations, pure
fabrications, exfoliations, Code Skimmers, backswimmers,
lightdimmers, hedgetrimmers, linetrimmers, Bimmers, and The Zimmers.
Full details are online at
<http://www.freewebs.com/poissondavril>
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OPERATING TIP
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After a weekend of mangling unusual call signs, your talking muscles
may seem pretty worn out, especially if you used an unfamiliar call
yourself! Take this as a sign that you should spend some time
studying your regular contest call. Do the phonetics "flow" into
each other so that your mouth works as little as possible? It might
be a good idea to get together with a friend on a quiet band and try
out different combinations of phonetics that have plenty of audio
punch with a minimum of syllables and effort. You'll thank yourself
after the next phone contest.
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TECHNICAL TIPS AND INFORMATION
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Stan WA1LOU's ARRL Web column "Surfin'" for Mar 21st
<http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2008/03/21/10020/?nc=1> includes
some links to useful low-band receiving antenna designs and Web
sites. This information might be helpful for portable operating.
Steve XE1UFO suggests the following solution for capturing audio and
video streams that don't lend themselves to the usual downloading
techniques - FreeDownloadManager
<http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm> It has filters to
restrict capture to MP3 or GIF or whatever type of file you want.
While the dip meter (aka -- grid dip meter) is no longer the ham
shack fixture it once was, it remains a very versatile piece of
equipment. CW AI4MI also notes that they are very good for tuning 160
meter antennas in the presence of strong broadcast RF where an
antenna analyzer may be unusable. He notes that the techniques to
perform more than a dozen useful tasks are illustrated in the manual
for the Heath HD-1250 at <http://bama.sbc.edu/heath.htm>. Dennis N6KI
reports that Heathkit manuals are also available on-line at
<http://www.tech-systems-labs.com/heathkit.htm>. W7FG
<http://www.w7fg.com/> sells original versions of the manuals as well.
No word on whether original shipping boxes are also available to
complete your collection.
Here's a neat site on antenna stacking for VHF+ contesters
<http://www.sm2cew.com/gt.htm> that gives a figure of merit for quite
a number of antennas. The more positive the published G/T figure, the
better the combination. (Thanks, Gene W3ZZ)
Lynn N7CFO reports rediscovering an amazing technological
breakthrough on page 122 of the October 1954 issue of QST by W9TO
regarding wire size: "Formed by reverse drawing extremely fine wire,
this conductor has the velocity factor of .07. Thus a 40-meter half
wave is 4.62 feet long and a ten-meter mobile whip shrinks to a mere
6.7 inches. One experimental antenna being pruned for operation on
147.3 Mc. disappeared altogether." This is an incredible discovery,
and Lynn is attempting to locate a source for this wire. It could
revolutionize all radio operations, but the possibilities for VHF/UHF
are truly staggering. Think about it - six meter stacked Yagis that
can be stored in a shoebox!
While we are a bit past winter here in the Northern Hemisphere, cold
weather performance of rotor grease is still a topic of concern in
places. Doug VE5RA uses Canadian Tire low temperature grease
recommended for snowmobiles, NGLI grade 00. Since he lives in
Saskatchewan, he should know.
Still using "password" as your password? Maybe you should toughen up
that easily-guessed string, but what makes a password "strong"?
Dennis N6KI sent this story
<http://forums.pcworld.com//docs/DOC-1231> that explains what you can
do about changing from an 8-character weakling to something typed
from stouter stuff.
And here is a company that sells some cool parts -- Sparkfun
<http://www.sparkfun.com/> has an interesting collection of goodies
that run the gamut of adapters to IC's and networking gewgaws.
(Thanks, Tom K1KI)
Laptop too hot? Rig too hot? Bill KC4PE posted a link to a series
of "laptop coolers" < http://tinyurl.com/2n8dxh> that sit under the
equipment to be cooled. Fans pull air through the equipment into the
cooler, where it is, um, cooled. It seems to work well on radios
large and small.
TECHNICAL URL OF THE WEEK -- Amplifier builders and maintainers will
want to bookmark the WD7S Web site
<http://home.earthlink.net/~wd7s/updates.htm>. It features a lot of
discussion about vacuum relays and shows the actual timing of their
operation. (Thanks, Jim W7RY)
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CONVERSATION
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Crack A Smile, Will Ya?
I've been doing a lot of multi-op contesting over the past few years
and have grown to like it more and more. There's always something
happening, a new multiplier makes the rounds, the team keeps each
other motivated and busy. But the best parts are the myriad moments
of mirth.
It would be a pretty unusual circumstance for the K3LR team not to
have a wildly funny "gab" file built up at the end of a big contest.
No, I can't reproduce it here -- family values and all that -- but
just going back through it takes me right down to the radio room with
all of us laboring away, throwing out a bon mot or two. Why,
operating without the gab window jiving away would be anathema!
Pity the poor single operator, pounding away with no teammates
jollifying the contest with rude noises, pithy remarks, or the
occasional prank. (Hint -- Slightly diluted Listerine looks a lot
like ginger ale when poured over ice cubes! Not that I have ever made
such a substitution, mind you.) When the going gets tough, it's a
lot easier to throw in the towel in isolation than when you know the
other operators will razz you if you let that rate meter fall too
far!
And the conventions -- surely you don't think we go mainly for the
seminars and forums and presentations? Why, where else than those
late night hullaballoos would I be able to gaze upon the results of
the beverage can stacking competitions, creating their teetering
excrescenses that balance atop the slumbering bodies of stalwarts
unable to stay awake in the contest suites? And the improvised
signage held in place by their somniferent fingers loudly proclaiming
their owner "Will Operate for Beer"? Their bedecked visages will
live forever on Web image repositories!
This is a pretty serious group sometimes -- maybe a little too
serious on occasion. After all, this is AMATEUR RADIO and you just
never know who might need to be impressed with all the cool radio
stuff that we know and do! The late, great Jim Maxwell W6CF had
forgotten twice as much as most of us could ever hope to know, yet I
never met a guy that seemed to just get a laugh out of radio more.
His ability with a limerick was unsurpassed and the stuff of legend.
I sure hope you have a Chicken Feathers in your circle!
On this High Day of the Foole (it was when I uploaded this file, so
humor me, so to speak) I doff my topper to those clowns and
clownesses that perform their prestidigitations, transmuting leaden
interludes to golden smiles. Ya done good!
73, Ward N0AX
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CONTESTS -- 2 APRIL THROUGH 15 APRIL 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
Montana QSO Party, Phone/CW/Digital, 0000Z Apr 4 to 0000Z Apr 6.
Frequencies (MHz): 160-10, 50-432. Exchange: RS(T), S/P/C or MT
county. Logs due: 31-May, Web site: http://www.fvarc.org/
MO QSO Party, Phone/CW, 1800Z Apr 5 to 0500Z Apr 6 and 1800Z Apr 6 to
2400Z Apr 6. Frequencies (MHz): 160-10, CW 40 kHz from band edge;
Phone 1.880,3.980,7.280,14.280,21.380,28.380. Exchange: RS(T), serial
or MO county. Logs due: 30 days, Web site:
http://www.W0MA.org/mo_qso_party.htm
QCWA Spring QSO Party, Phone/CW, 1800Z Apr 5 to 1800Z Apr 6.
Frequencies (MHz): 160-10, 50 and up, CW
1.810,3.540,7.035,14.040,21.050,28.050; Phone
1.845,3.890,7.244,14.262,21.365,28.325. Exchange: Year licensed, QCWA
chap or S/P/C. Web site: http://www.qcwa.org/qso-party.htm
QRP ARCI Spring QSO Party, CW, 1200Z Apr 5 to 2400Z Apr 6.
Frequencies (MHz): 160-10, 1.810,3.560,7.040,14.060,21.060,28.060.
Exchange: RST, S/P/C, power or QRP ARCI number. Logs due: 30 days,
Web site: http://www.qrparci.org/
SP DX Contest, Phone/CW, 1500Z Apr 5 to 1500Z Apr 6. Frequencies
(MHz): 160-10. Exchange: RS(T), serial or SP province. Logs due:
30-Apr, Web site: http://www.contest.spdxc.org.pl/en/index.php
EA RTTY Contest, Digital, 1600Z Apr 5 to 1600Z Apr 6. Frequencies
(MHz): 80-10. Exchange: RST, serial or EA province. Logs due: 9-May,
Web site: http://www.rttycontesting.com/rules/earttyrules2007.pdf
Low Power Spring Sprint, CW, 1400Z Apr 7 to 2000Z Apr 7. Frequencies
(MHz): 160-10. Exchange: RST, grid square, category. Logs due: 30
days, Web site: http://om3kfv@zoznam.sk/
DX YL to North American YL, Phone, 1400Z Apr 8 to 0200Z Apr 10.
Frequencies (MHz): 160-10. Exchange: RS, serial, ARRL
section/Prov/DXCC entity. Web site: http://www.ylrl.org/
EU Spring Sprint, CW, 1600Z Apr 12 to 1959Z Apr 12. Frequencies
(MHz): 80-20, 3.550,7.025,14.040. Exchange: both callsigns, serial,
name. Logs due: 15 days, Web site: http://www.eusprint.com/
PSK31 Flavors Contest, 1200 local Apr 12 to 1800 local Apr 12.
Frequencies (MHz): 20, 14.070-14.080. Exchange: S/P/C and name or 070
number. Logs due: 12-May, Web site: http://www.podxs070.com/
Japan International DX Contest, CW, 0700Z Apr 12 to 1300Z Apr 13.
Frequencies (MHz): 160-10. Exchange: RST, JA prefecture or CQ Zone.
Logs due: 31-May, Web site: http://jidx.org/
Yuri Gagarin DX Contest, CW, 2100Z Apr 12 to 2100Z Apr 13.
Frequencies (MHz): 160-10. Exchange: RST, ITU Zone. Logs due: 7-May,
Web site: http://www.srr.su/
GA QSO Party, Phone/CW, 1800Z Apr 12 to 0359Z Apr 13 and 1400Z Apr 13
to 2359 Apr 13. Frequencies (MHz): 160-10, 50, CW
1.815,3.545,7.045,14.045,21.045,28.045,50.095; Phone
1.865,3.810,7.225,14.250,21.300,28.450,50.135. Exchange: RS(T), S/P/C
or GA county. Logs due: 15-May, Web site: http://gqp.contesting.com/
VHF+ CONTESTS
VHF Spring Sprints, Phone/CW, 1900 local Apr 7 to 2300 local Apr 7.
Frequencies (MHz): 144. Exchange: Grid Square. Web site:
http://www.sysadnet.com/vhfsprintrules.htm
EU EME Contest, Phone/CW, 0000Z Apr 12 to 2400Z Apr 13. Frequencies
(MHz): 144, 2.3 GHz,3.4 GHz. Exchange: TMO/RS(T) and "R". Logs due:
12 days, Web site: http://www.dubus.org/
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LOG DUE DATES - 2 APRIL THROUGH 15 APRIL 2008
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April 3 - Open Ukraine RTTY Championship, email logs to:
krs@model.poltava.ua, paper logs and diskettes to: George Ignatov
(UT1HT), PO Box 87, Kremenchug-21 39621, Ukraine. Find rules at:
http://www.ucc.zp.ua/rtty2008rules_eng.htm
April 6 - High Speed Club CW Contest, email logs to:
hsccontest@googlemail.com, paper logs and diskettes to: Lutz Schroer,
DL3BZZ, HSC Contest Manager, Am Niederfeld 6, 35066 Frankenberg,
Germany. Find rules at: http://www.fmcnet.de/hsc/en/contests.html
April 6 - UBA Spring Contest, 6m, email logs to: ubaspring@uba.be,
paper logs and diskettes to: Michel Gertis, ON4CAQ, Mommestraat 69
B-3550 Heusden Zolder, Belgium. Find rules at:
http://www.uba.be/hf_contests/rules/uba_spring_en.pdf
April 7 - SOC Marathon Sprint, email logs to: n4bp@arrl.net, paper
logs and diskettes to: Bob Patten, N4BP, 2841 NW 112 Terrace,
Plantation, FL 33323 USA. Find rules at:
http://www.qsl.net/soc/070310.htm
April 8 - Idaho QSO Party, email logs to: NT4TT@MSN.COM, paper logs
and diskettes to: (none). Find rules at:
http://www.nt4tt.com/main_page_link/rules.htm
April 8 - BCC QSO Party, email logs to:
qsoparty@bavarian-contest-club.de, paper logs and diskettes to:
(none). Find rules at:
http://www.bavarian-contest-club.de/contest/qso-partys2008/253,709.html
April 8 - ARCI HF Grid Square Sprint, email logs to:
contest@qrparci.org, paper logs and diskettes to: ARCI Spring QSO
Party
c/o Jeff Hetherington, VA3JFF, 139 Elizabeth St W, Welland, Ontario
L3C 4M3 Canada. Find rules at:
http://www.qrparci.org/component/option,com_extcalendar/Itemid,/extmode,view/extid,56/lang,en/
April 9 - Wisconsin QSO Party, email logs to: k9kr@tds.net, paper
logs and diskettes to: Wisconsin QSO Party, West Allis Radio Amateur
Club
PO Box 1072, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA. Find rules at:
http://www.warac.org/wqp/2008/wiqp_rules.htm
April 9 - RSGB Commonwealth Contest, email logs to:
commonwealth.contest@rsgbhfcc.org, paper logs and diskettes to:
RSGB-G3UFY, 77 Bensham Manor Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 7AF,
England. Find rules at:
http://www.contesting.co.uk/hfcc/rules/2008/rberu.shtml
April 9 - NSARA Contest, email logs to: ve1pjs@rac.ca, paper logs and
diskettes to: Peter J. Surette, VE1JPS, 55 Edgewood Drive, Turo, Nova
Scotia B2N 1P1 Canada. Find rules at:
http://nsara.ve1cfy.net/nsaracst.htm
April 15 - 9K 15-Meter Contest, email logs to: 9k2rr@9kcc.com, paper
logs and diskettes to: Faisal N. Al-Ajmi, 9K2RR, PO Box 1124,
Alfarwanya 80000 Kuwait. Find rules at:
http://www.9k2hn.com/9kcc/9KCCRule.htm
April 15 - CLARA and Family HF Contest, email logs to: ve7ony@rac.ca,
paper logs and diskettes to: Leona, VE7ONY
PO Box 266, 2475 Dobbin Road #22, Westbank, BC V4T2E9 Canada. Find
rules at: http://www.clara.comm.sfu.ca/contest.html
April 15 - Virginia QSO Party, email logs to: nq4k@arrl.net, paper
logs and diskettes to: VA QSO Party, Call Box 599, Sterling, VA 20167
USA. Find rules at:
http://www.qsl.net/sterling/VA_QSO_Party/2008_VQP_Rules.html
April 15 - UBA Spring Contest, 2m, email logs to: ubaspring@uba.be,
paper logs and diskettes to: Michel Gertis, ON4CAQ, Mommestraat 69
B-3550 Heusden Zolder, Belgium. Find rules at:
http://www.uba.be/hf_contests/rules/uba_spring_en.pdf
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
The Contester's Rate Sheet wishes to acknowledge information from the
following sources:
WA7BNM's Contest Calendar Web page -
<http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal>
SM3CER's Web site - <http://www.sk3bg.se/contest>
ARRL members may subscribe at no cost by editing their Member Data
Page as described at <http://www.arrl.org/contests/rate-sheet>.
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