[Members] Ontario team for QRP ARCI this weekend

[Robert MacKenzie]

   The Contest Club Ontario is fielding a team or two in the contest this 
weekend. I am serving as coordinator for CCO for this event and have to 
submit names to the contest manager Jeff VA3JFF by tomorrow. (You need not 
be a QRP ARCI member to participate.)

   I would like to see some more Ontario QRPers on the teams. If you want to 
add your score to CCO's (it's competing in the club competition) please go 
to the CCO website and sign up as a member of CCO (there are no dues) and 
then notify me either on the CCO reflector or directly that you will 
participate in the contest. I'll include you even if the CCO member 
secretary has not officially welcomed you. You post your own personal score, 
of course, and that is also used for CCO's total. The number of contacts is 
not important. Any number will help! I've only been contesting for a year 
and a half, and getting better slowly. The scoring is the same as most 
contests, with multipliers making it non-linear. (20 Qs gets about 8k in 
points, 40 Qs gets 25k, 80 100k, and 160 360k).  CCO has been the top club 
the last 2 times out, but the club's QRP contest experts and high-scorers 
say they won't be able to devote much time to it this time.

    Watch out for rockbound ops. One CCOer will be on 3.579 with 2W.

    If you don't have a contest logger, N3JFP's is cheap for the basic 
logger and all the contest modules (n3jfp.com) or W3KM GenLog is free 
(www.qsl.net/w3km/gen_log.htm). And Jeff is always there for advice on logs 
and log submission.

CCO website: cco.ve3xd.com
QRP ARCI: www.qrparci.org/
CCO reflector: groups.yahoo.com/group/ve3_contest/

    Hope to work you all on Saturday and Sunday!

Bob  VA3RKM (Ottawa)
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CCO posting:

Thank you to those who have said they would be on for the QRP ARCI event
this weekend (1200Z Saturday- 2400 Sunday). I hope that more will sign up,
especially those who operate mostly QRP. This is a chance to show your stuff
on as level a QRP playing field a one can get for a big contest. The point
of the event is participation and not high scores, although a little
competition usually helps participation.
    Given that the sun is devoid of sunspots both back and front,
participants will be able to say in 5 years time that they operated in a
contest with minimal power at the very bottom of the cycle! The propagation
report still shows solar wind conditions improving on Saturday over Friday.
I saw on the upcoming Zombie Shuffle contest's website (zombies don't
sprint, apparently) that participants can award themselves 666 points if
they think that conditions were awful. Maybe Jeff can consider this as a
rule change?
    Currently we have the usual QRP (among other accomplishments of course)
experts on the CCO team: KZ, DF, NR and W1AJT. There is room for many more
on this or other CCO teams. Just let me know.

Bob VA3RKM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff - JWID" <va3jff at yahoo.ca>
To: <ve3_contest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 11:06 AM
Subject: [ve3_contest] ANNOUNCEMENT - QRP-ARCI FALL QSO PARTY

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