2016 Michigan QSO Party April 16, 2016

>Announcing the 2016 Michigan QSO Party
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>Just Have Some Fun!!!!!
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>o Chance to get on the air
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>o Single Op, Multi Op, Mobile, EOC
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>o Be the station others want to work
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Maybe activate a rare county?
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>o Excellent Club Activity
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>o Reason to get together as group
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>o Join the fun in the “EOC” station category
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>o Excellent Training opportunity!
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>o Get new members on the air!
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>o Friendly Competition
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>Let’s all help make Michigan “radio-active” on the 16th of
>April!!!!
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>Get your local EOC on the air and show the emergency management team
>how amateur radio can benefit their efforts!!!
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>The 2016 Michigan QSO Party, sponsored by the Mad River Radio Club, is
>from 1600Z April 16 until 0400Z April 17.
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>Stations may operate the full 12 hours. Phone and CW on 80/40/20/15/10
>meters. Single-op, multi-op, and mobile categories. Work stations
>once per band and mode. MI-to-MI QSOs allowed. Work portables and
>mobiles again as they change county, state or province. Exchange QSO
>number and location (county for MI stations, state/province or “DX” for
>others).
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>Suggested frequencies: CW-3545, 7045, 14045, 21045, 28045; Phone-3825,
>7200, 14250, 21300, 28450. One point per phone QSO, two points per CW
>QSO. Count multipliers once per mode.
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>Multipliers are MI counties for all entries, plus states, provinces and
>”DX” for MI entries only. Final score is total QSO points times total
>multipliers.
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>Submit logs no later than 30 days after the contest. Electronic logs
>in Cabrillo format are submitted via the Log Submittal page on the MiQP
>web site http://www.miqp.org/submitLogFileMiQP.html. Mail paper logs
>with summary sheets to: Mad River Radio Club, c/o Dave Pruett, 2727
>Harris Road, Ypsilanti, MI 48198.
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>For full rules, along with free logging software, log and summary
>sheets, see http://www.miqp.org.
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>ARRL Great Lakes Division
>Director: Dale R Williams, WA8EFK
>wa8efk@arrl.org

Technician since July, 2010. General since November, 2012. Amateur Extra since April, 2014. Born in Saginaw, MI, 1952. Graduated from Au Gres-Sims High School in 1970. Graduated from Central Michigan University in 1974, B.S. in Ed.