January 2001

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ARRL Straight Key Night (CW)

Jan 1 - 0000z to 2400z
www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/skn.html
"Brass Pounders Renewal"
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AGB NYSB -"New Year Snowball" Contest (SSB/CW) ...QRP Category

Jan 1 - 0000z to 0100z
www.qsl.net/eu1eu/agb_nysb.htm
"Activity Group of Belarus Snow Ball Fight"
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AGCW Happy New Year Contest (CW)...QRP Category

Jan 1 - 0900z to 1200z
http://home.online.no/~janalme/rules/agcw-dl.txt
"Activity Group in Germany Nuen Jahr"
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Adventure Radio Society - Spartan Sprint (CW) ... QRP Contest!

Jan 2 - 0200z to 0400z (Monday Evening US/Canada)
www.natworld.com/ars/pages/spartan_sprints/ss_rules.html
"Test those portable new toys"
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AGCW-DL QRP Winter Contest (CW) ... QRP Contest!

Jan 6 - 1500z to Jan 7 - 1500z
http://home.online.no/~janalme/rules/agcwdl.txt
"Activity Group of Germany. Anyone can play"
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Kid's Day

Jan 6 - 1800z to 2400z
www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/kd-rules.html
"Train the kids on ham radio and have fun too"
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Michigan QRP Club Contest (CW) ... QRP Contest!

Jan 13 - 1200z to Jan 14 - 2359z
www.tir.com/~n8cqa/rules2000.htm
"Excellent QRP-ARCI Contest Training Session"
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CQ WW 160-Meter DX Contest (CW) ... QRP Category

Jan 26 - 2200z to Jan 28 - 1600z
www.cq-amateur-radio.com/160rules01.html
"QRP is a real test 160 meters. Try it."
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UBA DX Contest (Belgian) (SSB) ... QRP Category

Jan 27 - 1300z to Jan 28 1300z
http://home.online.no/~janalme/rules/uba.txt
"Very good QRP entry. Work anyone"
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Thanks to K3WWP, LA9HW, SM3CER, WA7BNM, WB3AAL, ARRL and others
for assistance in compiling this calendar.

Anyone may use this "QRP Contest Calendar" for your website, newsletter,
e-mail list or other media as you choose.
(Include a credit to the source of this material of course.)

Ken Newman, N2CQ
Woodbury, NJ
N2CQ@Citnet.com

A special thank you goes out to our own Eastern PA QRP Club Member #9

for the contest information. Ken, N2CQ, he is also a member of the NJ QRP Club.