May 2000
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QRP Contesters,
Many good contests in the month of May as you can see below.
Many have QRP involved so do some!
Don't forget the reliable ARS Spartan Sprint on the first
Monday evening of *EVERY* month. (0100z Tue).
72 de Ken - N2CQ
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AGCW DL QRP Party (CW) (European only)... QRP Contest!
May 1 -1300z to 1900z
Rules: http://home.sol.no/~janalme/htmlrules/agcwmay.html
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Adventure Radio Spartan Sprint (CW) ... QRP Contest!
May 2 - 0100z to 0300z
Rules: http://www.natworld.com/ars/pages/spartan_sprints/ss_rules.html
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MARAC County Hunters Contest (CW/SSB)
May 6 - 0000z to May 7 - 2400z
Rules: http://home.sol.no/~janalme/htmlrules/marac.html
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Ten-Ten International Spring QSO Party (CW) ... QRP Category
May 6 - 0001z to May 7 - 2400z
Rules: http://listserv.lehigh.edu/lists/tenten-l/rules.html
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Indiana QSO Party
May 6 - 1400z to May 7 - 2300z
Rules: http://home.sol.no/~janalme/htmlrules/qsoin.html
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Massachusetts QSO Party (All)
May 6 - 1800z to May 7 - 0400z and
May 7 - 1100z to May 7 - 2100z
Rules: http://www.qsl.net/fara/qsoparty/maqsorules.html
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Connecticut QSO Party (Phone/CW/RTTY) ... QRP Category
May 6 - 2000z to May 7 - 0400z
May 7 - 1200z to May 7 - 2000z
Rules: http://home.sol.no/~janalme/rules/qsoct.txt
http://www.danbury.org/cara/CT_QSO_Party.html
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ARI International DX Contest (Italian) (CW/SSB/RTTY)
(Free logging software)
May 6 - 2000z to May 7 - 2000z
Rules: http://www.kkn.net/~i2uiy/ARI_rul_dx.html
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Nevada QSO Party (All)
May 13 - 0000z to May 14 - 0600z
Rules: http://home.sol.no/~janalme/rules/qsonv.txt
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Volta WW RTTY Contest
May 13 - 1200z to May 14 - 1200z
Rules: http://home.sol.no/~janalme/rules/avolta.txt
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Oregon QSO Party (All)
May 13 - 1400z to May 14 - 0400z
Rules: http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/orqp.htm
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FISTS Spring Sprint (CW) ... QRP Category
May 13 - 1700z to 2100z
Rules: http://www.fists.org/sprints.html
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CQM International DX Contest (CW/SSB/SSTV) ... QRP Category
May 13 - 2100z to May 14 - 2100z
Rules: http://www.mai.ru/~crc/cq-m/cqm_rul0.txt
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Dayton Hamvention (QRP Event - FDIM)
May 18-21
Info: http://www.hamvention.org/
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European Sprint (CW)
May 20 - 1500z to 1859z
Rules: http://home.sol.no/~janalme/htmlrules/eusprint.html
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Baltic Contest (CW/SSB)
May 20 - 2100z to May 21 - 0200z
Rules: http://home.sol.no/~janalme/rules/baltic.txt
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CQWW WPX Contest (CW) ... QRP Category
May 27 - 0000z to May 28 - 2400z
Rules: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/n8bjq/2000RULES.htm
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QRP ARCI Hoot Owl Sprint (CW) ... QRP Contest!
May 28 - 2000 to 2400 (Local Time)
Rules: http://personal.palouse.net/rfoltz/arci/hoot.htm
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Michigan QRP Memorial Day Sprint (CW) ... QRP Contest!
May 29 - 2300z to May 30 - 0300z
Rules: http://www.tir.com/~n8cqa/rules2000.htm
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Ken Newman, N2CQ
Woodbury, NJ
N2CQ@Citnet.com