January 2002

Rock Around the Clock (CW)

Jan 1 0000-2400 UTC

Rules: http://www.wfu.edu/~hoglund/Roc.htm

"Fun With Xtal Rigs"
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AGB NYSB -"New Year SnowBall" Contest (80M SSB/CW)

Jan 1 - 0000z to 0100z

Rules: http://www.qsl.net/eu1eu/agb_nysb.htm

"Activity Group of Belarus Snow Ball Fight"
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AGCW Happy New Year Contest (CW)

Jan 1 - 0900z to 1200z

Rules: http://www.agcw.de/

"Activity Group in Germany Nuen Jahr"
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AGCW-DL QRP Winter Contest (CW)

Jan 5 - 1500z to Jan 6 - 1500z

Rules: http://www.agcw.de/

"Activity Group of Germany. Anyone can play"
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Kid's Day

Jan 5 - 1800z to 2400z

Info: http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/kd-rules.html

"Train the kids on ham radio and have fun too"

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Adventure Radio Society - Spartan Sprint (CW)

Jan 8 - 0200z to 0400z (Monday Evening US/Canada)

Rules: http://www.natworld.com/ars/pages/spartan_sprints/ss_rules.html

"Test those portable new toys"
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Power Management Contest (CW)

Jan 12 - 1800z to Jan 13 - 0600z

Rules: http://www.qsl.net/wd3p/qrp/pwrcontest/pwrcontest.htm

"NAQP Piggyback to see how long your battery runs down"

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070 Club PSK Contest

Jan 19 - 0000z to 2400z

Rules: http://www.arrl.org/contests/months/jan.html

"QRP PSK on the air"

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Michigan QRP Club Contest (CW)

Jan 19 - 1200z to Jan 20 - 2359z

Rules: http://www.qsl.net/miqrpclub

"Excellent QRP-ARCI Contest Training Session"

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LZ OPEN CONTEST 2001 (CW 80M/40M)

Jan 19 - 1200z to 2000z

Rules: http://www.qsl.net/lz1fw/lzopen/

"Work anyone. 6 digit exchange. (QSO# sent + QSO# rcvd from last QSO)"

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CQ WW 160-Meter DX Contest (CW)

Jan 25 - 2200z to Jan 27 - 1600z

Rules: http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/cq160rules.html

"QRP is a real test 160 meters. Try it."

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UBA DX Contest (Belgian) (SSB)

Jan 26 - 1300z to Jan 27 1300z

Rules: http://www.uba.be/HF/conrules/UBArulesfor.htm

"Very good QRP entry. Work anyone"

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Thanks to K3WWP, SM3CER, WA7BNM, ARRL and others
for assistance in compiling this calendar.

Please forward the contest info you sponsor to N2CQ@ARRL.NET and
we will post it and give it more publicity.
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@arrl.net