A fact you may not have noticed with the recent weather in much of the
country: fall is coming, soon.
Which means it's time to dust off those radios, check out those antennas,
and have some fun this Saturday in the Ohio QSO Party.
The OQP runs from 1600z Saturday (8/25) to 0400z Sunday (8/26). That's
noon
to midnight EDT on Saturday.
Exchange is qso number and QTH. 80 though 10 meters. Multipliers count for
each mode. Full rules and other information is available at
www.oqp.us
One quick suggestion is that having a county map, which can also double
as a
multiplier check sheet, makes things a lot more interesting as you fill up
those blank spaces. A good source (for all states) is
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/stco_02.htm
There are a lot of plaques to be awarded for OQP, including ones for
single
op out of state, single op Mountain/Pacific time zone, single op QRP out
of
state, single op DX, and YL. In the case of the YL plaque we make the
women
compete against the Ohio YLs, admittedly not an even match but not totally
impossible from out of state either.
We have added suggested times for 15 and 10 meters (dream on!) : 10 meters
on the hour, on the even GMT/EDT hours; 15 meters on the hour, on odd
GMT/EDT
hours. 28045, 28450, 21045, and 21300 are the suggested frequencies.
Memory
aid: 10/28 = even, 15/21 = odd.
With the phone band expansion on 40 and 75 we have moved the suggested
phone
frequencies a bit lower in the band: 7200 and 3825.
We hope to see you Saturday!
Jim K8MR
OQP Chairman
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