SPONSOR Sponsored by the Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club, Call Box 599, Sterling VA, 20167. OBJECTIVE To promote amateur radio activity in the 95 Virginia Counties and 39 Virginia Independent Cities. DATES The new hours are Saturday, 17 March 1400 UTC – Sunday, 18 March 0200 UTC and Sunday, 18 March 1200 UTC – 2400 …
The Washington Salmon Run is basically a Worked All Washington or Washington QSO Party type of event familiar to other state QSO parties. The Washington Salmon Run is actually an off-shoot of the Boeing Employee’s Amateur Radio Society (BEARS) took place on September 17-19, 1966 when it was actually known as the Washington State QSO …
Date Third Sunday in June. Time Sunday 18.00 – Sunday 24.00 UTC (Total 6 hours). Eligible contacts Work stations once per band/mode. No repeater QSOs. WV to WV contacts allowed for QSO/multiplier. Exchange WV stations exchange signal report and county; all others signal report and state/province/DXCC country. Frequencies CW-1.810 and 35 kHz above band edge; …
It might be best to start off with a short description of what the WIQP is. This is our state QSO party in which hams try to contact as many other stations as possible during the contest period (7 hours on Sunday afternoon and evening in our case). Lots of other states have similar events …