Vermont QSO Party
Paul N. Gayet AA1SU
The Vermont QSO Party starts this FRIDAY at 7PM. We hope to hear many of you on the air. The more Vermont hams get on, the happier all the participants are. Everyone is especially looking for some of those rare Vermont counties. If you are in places like Essex, Orleans, Caledonia, Franklin, Grand Isle, Orange, those are often the most requested ones. If you can go mobile and put some of the rare counties on the air, that is good too. Propagation will be good on ALL the bands 160-10 meters, so do get on and call CQ. Use the spotting network to let everyone know where you are whenever you change bands.
Read the rules! Go to: https://www.ranv.org/vtqso.html
If you operate on FT8 or FT4 some things to know:
1. You must upload digital contacts from the WSJTx ADIF file SEPARATELY from the CABRILLO file containing the Phone/CW contacts. In other words do not try to log Digital and Phone/CW QSOs in your logging program. The upload will not work. Read the details on the web site. Don’t worry about your score – we will compute that for you. But you must upload a clean log. If not sure what to do, ASK NOW.
2. If you are on FT8 or FT4, you cannot give out your county as a multiplier – only grid squares, which will be FN34, FN33, FN32, FN35, FN44).
LET ME KNOW your approximate schedule of when you will be on and where. I will post this to the web site (but don’t do this after Friday afternoon – I will be busy with the contest then).
Let’s get on the air and have a ball!
Mitch
-- 73 Paul N. Gayet AA1SU ARRL Vermont Section Manager Fists #4028 ARRL Vermont Section Web Site: https://www.arrl.org/sections/view/vermont ARRL New England Division web site: https://nediv.arrl.org/