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Alabama QSO Party News

  • Please let me know by email if you are planning on operating in Alabama. I will update the Activity Page.
  • About two weeks until the 2013 Alabama QSO Party. We need your participation this year. We are trying to activate all 67 counties and we can not do it without your help. Please consider operate, if only just for a little while during this event.

    Please let me know if you are planning on operating from Alabama and the county. Thanks Jim/KC4HW May 18th, 2013

  • 2013 Alabama QSO Party will be held on Jun 1st, see rules for details.

  • The results of the 2012 AQP are available. Congratulations to all the plaque winner. Certificates are in the mail (Apr 16th, 2013) and plaques will be forthcoming.


    John/AD8J and his brother Mike as they prepared to start their trip in the 2012 AQP.
  • I have built a new Power Point presentation that perhap you can use to present to your local club. You can get to it at this link. If you have some suggestions to improve this presentation, please let me know. Thanks! 5/12/2012
  • Have activated the County Activity Page. If you are planning on operating please send me an email kc4hw(at)alabamaqsoparty(dot)com and tell me what county(s) and modes you will operate. If your club station will be active please let me know. 05/12/2012
  • Definitely need more mobiles. So definitely let me know if you are planning to operate mobile. 05/12/2012


    Jim/KC4HW presenting Jerry/N4JF his plaque from the 2011 Alabama QSO Party


    • Posted 2012 Rules.

      There is a slight change in the VE multipliers. I have change to be consistent with other events.

      Here is a list of the new VE mults.
      1. Alberta [AB] (VE6, VA6)
      2. British Columbia [BC] (VE7, VA7)
      3. Manitoba [MB] (VE4, VA4)
      4. New Brunswick [NB] (VE9)
      5. Newfoundland and Labrador [NL] (VO1, VO2)
      6. Northwest Territories [NT] (VE8)
      7. Nova Scotia [NS] (VE1, VA1, CY9, CY)
      8. Nunavut [NU] (VY0)
      9. Ontario [ON] (VE3, VA3)
      10. Prince Edward Island [PE] (VY2)
      11. Quebec [QC] (VE2, VA2)
      12. Saskatchewan [SK] (VE5, VA5)
      13. Yukon [YT] (VY1)
      

      The total mults for Alabama Stations will be 63. This does not effect the number of mults for those stations outside of Alabama.

      Additionally, I have tweeked the recommended mobile operating area. 9/3/2011

    • Just updated the Results and scores. 8/12/11

    • Am planning on presenting the Winner's Plaques at the Huntsville Hamfest, Aug 20 and 21, 2011. If you are planning on attending, please let me know and try to plan on attending the presentations on Saturday during the Contest Forums, actual time to be announced later.

      If you have some pictures please send them along. Thanks!

    • Thanks to all that participated in the AQP again this year. I have been processing the logs and found several that participated for the first time in a contest--congratulations on your first entry into the wonderful segment of our hobby called "Contesting". If you need some more information about contesting, please do not hesitate to contact me and I will help or point you in the right direction.

      Have turned on the Log's Soapbox comments and 3830 Soapbox comments links as well as the Received Logs link link. We have a total of 160 log received.

    • Please be aware that the Martime QSO Party will also be running at the same time as the AQP. There might be some confusion on what exactly should be logged by Alabama stations. If you should have contact with a VE1(NB), VE9(NS) or VY2(PEI) and they send their county three-letters abbreviation, you should ask the station to confirm his "provience" (PR? on CW). Likewise these Maritime VE stations may ask you to confirm your "state" (ST? on CW) when you send the four-letter abbreviation for an Alabama county.

      There is nothing wrong with this going on with either of these events. It was going to happen soon or later that someone would choose the first weekend in June for their event. There are no weekends where there is just one contest. So we cooperate/co-exist with the Maritime QSO Party. Historically we have not have much VE participation in the AQP, perhaps this will increase the support from our neighbors to the North and perhaps it will likewise have a positive effect on their event. I sure hope so! Have some fun! (5/28/2011)

    • If you have any questions, please contact me at kc4hw@alabamaqsoparty.org. Thanks and hope to see or hear you in the 2011 Alabama QSO Party!

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    • Please use the link to the left for the lastest rules. There have been changes, so please look them over closely. Also check out the county abbreviations as they have also changed. If you have any questions, please let me know at kc4hw{at}alabamaqsoparty{dot}org.
    • Unfortunately the AQP Records pages have not been updated with the 2010 results. I will get this done after the 2011 results are released. My apologizes, but just difficult to get everything done all the time. Jim/KC4HW
    • A Word about Corrections: I try to make the results, scoring and webpages error free, but in an effort to get the information published, there are errors, typos, etc. that just creap in and go undetected in different documents. Please let me know if you see anything that needs attention and I will get corrections made as soon as possible. Thanks!

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    • The Alabama Contest Group (ACG) is the primary sponsoring entity for the Alabama QSO Party. This organization have been very helpful in organizing and publicizing/promoting this event. If you are interested in information about the Alabama Contest Group, please take a moment to visit the Alabama Contest Group website for more information.

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