ABBREVIATED RULES FOR THE 1994 PENNSYLVANIA QSO PARTY

PENNSYLVANIA QSO PARTY
Sponsored by the Nittany Amateur Radio Club of State College, Pa.

OPERATING PERIODS
1600Z October 8 to 0500Z October 9 and 1300Z October 9 to 2200Z
October 9.

FREQUENCIES
SSB: 1850, 3980, 7280, 14280, 21380, 28310 
 CW: 40 KHz up from the bottom and 1810 KHz.
     Try 20, 15, 10 on the hour between 1600 - 2200 UTC
     Try 160 meters at 0300Z Sunday.
NOVICE/TECH CW: 10 KHz up from the bottom end of the subband.
MOBILE WINDOW: 5 KHz below listed frequencies.   KEEP CLEAR FOR
WEAK MOBILES.

EXCHANGES
Sequential SERIAL NUMBER plus COUNTY or ARRL or RAC section. 
Stations on county lines will give out ONE serial number per
contact but all counties may be counted as multipliers.

Work stations once per band and once per mode. Work mobiles again
as they change counties.

SCORING
QSO POINTS
     CW QSOs on 160 and 80 - 2 points
     Other CW QSOs - 1.5 points
     Phone QSOs - 1 point
     
MULTIPLIERS
     Pennsylvania Stations: ARRL sections + RAC sections + PA
     Counties + 1 for DX.  (150 total)
     Out-of-State Stations: Pennsylvania Counties (67 total)
FINAL SCORE
     Total Points X Total Multipliers
QRP BONUS MULTIPLIER
     Multiply your final score by 2 if less than 5 watts output.
NOVICE/TECH BONUS MULTIPLIER
     Multiply your final score by 3 if a novice or tech.
PA MOBILE BONUS POINTS
     If mobile, add 500 points to your final score for each PA
     county from which you made at least 10 QSOs.

ENTRY DIVISIONS
Single op medium power (150W), Single op QRO, QRP (5W),
Multi-single, Multi-multi, Portable (single op or multi-single
only), Novice/Technician, Mobile.

AWARDS
Plaques to top entries in all entry divisions plus single op
(Eastern, Central, and Western Time zones), single op EPA, single
op WPA, plus others as warranted.  Certificates to county and
section winners.  Trophies and gavel to winning big and local club.

LOGS AND DUPE SHEETS - Logs must be submitted on an official form
or reasonable facsimile.  Forms are available from NARC.  Entries
with 100 or more QSOs MUST have dupe sheets.  Computer logs and
dupe sheets OK.  Computer logs MUST include a completed summary
sheet!!!   100 points will be deducted for each dupe found.

SEND LOGS by November 13, 1994 to:
     Douglas Maddox, W3HDH
     Nittany Amateur Radio Club
     P. O. Box 614
     State College, PA 16804-0614

A DONATION of 1 dollar with your entry to help defray the costs of
mailing, printing, etc. would be greatly appreciated.  *** PLEASE
NO SASEs. 

An information packet including log and check sheets is available. 
#10 SASE to the above address or a request may be sent via packet
to K3CM@W3YA.PA.USA.NA or via E-mail to cwm3@psu.edu.  Persons who
have participated in the party in 1991 or later will automatically
receive these materials.

QSO PARTY COMPUTER LOGGING PROGRAMS
There are a number of PA QSO Party logging programs available. 
Contact their authors directly for info:  K3CP, KM3D, and LTA
Industries,( Box 92, Canfield, OH 44406).  There is also one available from 
the Delaware-Lehign ARC.  Contact W3TDF