October 2000

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QRP Contesters,
October is one of the big contest months as you can see below.
The PA QSO Party brings QRP into the forefront with a x2 multiplier
to be fully competitive.  Last year the top ten scores from out of
state had 5 QRP stations!  Much more activity than most and close
to CA QSO Party.  The BIG ONE for QRPers of course is the QRP ARCI
Fall QSO Party.  Hope to hear you ALL on that one!
Don't forget the ever popular ARS Spartan Sprint on the first
Monday evening of *EVERY* month.

72 de Ken - N2CQ

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Tesla Cup Championship ... QRP Category

Sep 30 - 0000z to 2400z (SSB)
Oct  1 - 0000z to 2400z (CW)

http://members.aol.com/k3bu/TeslaCup.htm
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Louisiana QSO Party  (CW/SSB) ... QRP Category

Sept 30 - 0000z to 2400z

http://www.tchams.org/users/contest/laqp/
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Texas QSO Party (All) ... QRP Category

Sep 30 - 1400z to Oct 1 - 0500z and
Oct 01 - 1400z to Oct 1 - 2000z

http://myweb.onramp.net/~gedwards/tqp/rules.htm
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Adventure Radio Spartan Sprint (CW) *** QRP CONTEST! ***

Oct 3 - 0100z to 0300z

http://www.natworld.com/ars/pages/spartan_sprints/ss_rules.html
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Deutscher Telegraphie-Contest (CW) ... QRP Category

Oct 3 - 0700z to 1000z

http://www.agcw.de/agcw-con/deutsche.html
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UCWC Contest (CW)

Oct 7 0000z to 0800z

http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/ucwc.htm
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TARA PSK31 Rumble (PSK31 only) ... QRP Category

Oct 7 - 0000z to 2400z

http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/rumble.html
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Oceania DX Contest  (SSB)

Oct 7 - 1000z to Oct 8 - 1000z

http://www.nzart.org.nz/nzart/update/contests/oceania.pdf
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F9AA Cup Contest (CW/SSB)

Oct 7 - 1200z to Oct 8 - 1200z

http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/f9aacc.htm
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European Sprint (SSB)

Oct 7 - 1500z to 1859z

http://home.online.no/~janalme/htmlrules/eusprint.html
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California QSO Party (CW/SSB) ... QRP Category

OCT 7 - 1600z to Oct 8 - 2200z

http://www.cqp.org/Rules.html
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RSGB 21/28 MHz Contest (SSB) ... QRP Category

Oct 8 - 0700z to 1900z

http://www.arrl.org/contests/months/oct.html
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Ten-Ten Day Sprint (All) ... QRP Category

Oct 10 - 0000z to 2400z

http://listserv.lehigh.edu/lists/tenten-l/rules.html
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Oceania DX Contest  (CW)

Oct 14 - 1000z to Oct 15 - 1000z

http://www.nzart.org.nz/nzart/update/contests/oceania.pdf
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Pennsylvania QSO Party (CW/SSB) ... QRP Category and Bonus

Oct 14 - 1600z to Oct 15 - 0500z
Oct 15 - 1300z to Oct 15 - 2200z

http://www.qsl.net/narc/parules.htm#Revised
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European Sprint (CW)

Oct 14 - 1500z to 1859z

http://home.online.no/~janalme/htmlrules/eusprint.html
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FISTS Fall Sprint (CW) ... QRP Category

Oct 14 - 1700z to 2100z

http://www.fists.org/~fists/sprints.html
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North American Sprint (RTTY)

Oct 15 - 0000Z - 0400Z

http://www.ncjweb.com/index.php3?leftcol=contestmenu&rightcol=sprintrules1
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Arkansas QSO Party (CW/SSB/PSK31) ... QRP Category

Oct 21 - 0000z to 2359z

http://www.arrl.org/contests/months/oct.html
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JARTS WW RTTY Contest

Oct 21 - 0000z to Oct 22 - 2400z

http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/jartsry.htm
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Asia-Pacific Sprint (CW)

Oct 21 0000z to 0200z

http://www.jsfc.org/apsprint/
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Rhode Island QSO Party (CW/SSB) ... QRP Category

Oct 21 - 0000z to Oct 22 - 2400z

http://www.99main.com/~ctri/rules.htm
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QRP ARCI Fall QSO Party (CW) *** QRP Contest ***

Oct 21 - 1200z to Oct 22 - 2400z

http://personal.palouse.net/rfoltz/arci/fall.htm
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Worked All Germany Contest (CW/SSB) ... QRP Category

Oct 21 - 1500z  to Oct 22 - 1459z

http://www.darc.de/referate/dx/fedcg.htm
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RSGB 21/28 MHz Contest (CW) ... QRP Category

Oct 22 - 0700z to 1900z

http://www.arrl.org/contests/months/oct.html
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Illinois QSO Party (CW/SSB)

Oct 22 - 1800z to Oct 23 - 0200z

http://www.megsinet.com/~jematz/ilqso00.html
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Ten-Ten International Net Fall QSO Party (CW) ... QRP Category

Oct 28 - 0000z to Oct 29 - 2400z

http://listserv.lehigh.edu/lists/tenten-l/rules.html
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CQ WW DX Contest (SSB)  ... QRP Category

Oct 28 - 0000z to Oct 29 - 2400z

http://cqww.com/2000rules.htm
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Thanks to K3WWP, LA9HW, SM3CER, WA7BNM, 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