SD QSO Party
SD QSO Party
County Activation Schedule for Mobile Operators
2013 SOUTH DAKOTA QSO PARTY (SDQP)
OFFICIAL RULES
1800 UTC APRIL 20- 1800 UTC APRIL
21
OBJECT: Stations outside South Dakota work as many South Dakota stations and counties as possible. Stations inside South Dakota work everyone.
EXCHANGE: Stations outside South Dakota send signal report and state, province, or DXCC country. South Dakota stations send signal report and county.
MODE: Modes are phone, cw, and digital. (Any digital mode qualifies, ie: RTTY, PSK31, etc.) Stations may be worked only once per mode per band.
QSO POINTS: Phone contacts are worth 2 points, CW and digital contacts are worth 4 points.
MULTIPLIERS: Stations outside South Dakota multiply QSO points by total SD counties worked. Stations inside South Dakota multiply QSO points by SD counties+US States+ Provinces+DXCC entities.
CLASSES: Fixed station, and Rover.
MAXIMUM POWER: High Power [greater than 150 watts], Low Power [150 watts or
less] and QRP [5 watts maximum].
WORK STATIONS: Regardless of mode, work station only once per band per mode per county.
SCORE CALCULATION: Score= total QSO points X Multipliers.
FREQUENCIES: 160,80,40,20,15,10,6 and 2 meters. No repeater contacts can be included in score. Suggested operating frequencies: 1815 and 40 kHz up on CW; 1845, 3855, 7180, 14255, 21355 and 28455 on SSB; 3580+, 7035+, 14070+, 21070+ on PSK; 3585+, 7038+, 14075+, 21075+ on RTTY.
MOBILES: South Dakota Mobile (Rover) stations are considered a new contact each time they change counties. County line contacts count as multiple contacts for both stations.
LOGS: All logs must be received by June 1,
2013. Submit cabrillo files via email to: SDQP@kd0s.com. Include station callsign in the subject line.
Suggested logging programs: GenLog http://mysite.verizon.net/dmascaro1/
N1MM logger: http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/
For those of you using mobile logging in the SDQP,
CQ/X will be supporting multi QSO party logging so MI, SD, and ON
can all be logged with one program and then the logs split out.
Might come in very handy during this QSO party!
Below are the county abbreviations. If you are using N1MM (current version), CQ/x, or GenLog, these abbreviations will already be present in your logging program. There will be no penalty if the older 3 character abbreviations are used.
South Dakota County Abbreviations List
AURO Aurora,SD
BEAD Beadle,SD
BENN Bennett,SD
BONH Bon Homme, SD
BROO Brookings,SD
BRUL Brule,SD
BRWN Brown,SD
BUFF Buffalo,SD
BUTT Butte,SD
CAMP Campbell,SD
CHAR Charles Mix, SD
CLAY Clay,SD
CLRK Clark,SD
CODI Codington,SD
CORS Corson,SD
CUST Custer,SD
DAVI Davison,SD
DAY Day,SD
DEUE Deuel,SD
DEWY Dewey,SD
DGLS Douglas,SD
EDMU Edmunds,SD
FALL Fall River,SD
FAUL Faulk,SD
GRAN Grant,SD
GREG Gregory,SD
HAAK Haakon,SD
HAML Hamlin,SD
HAND Hand,SD
HNSN Hanson,SD
HRDG Harding,SD
HUGH Hughes,SD
HUTC Hutchinson,SD
HYDE Hyde,SD
JERA Jerauld,SD
JKSN Jackson,SD
JONE Jones,SD
KING Kingsbury,SD
LAKE Lake,SD
LAWR Lawrence,SD
LINC Lincoln,SD
LYMA Lyman,SD
MCOO McCook,SD
MCPH McPherson,SD
MEAD Meade,SD
MELL Mellette,SD
MINE Miner,SD
MINN Minnehaha,SD
MOOD Moody,SD
MRSH Marshall,SD
PENN Pennington,SD
PERK Perkins,SD
POTT Potter,SD
ROBE Roberts,SD
SANB Sanborn,SD
SHAN Shannon,SD
SPIN Spink,SD
STAN Stanley,SD
SULL Sully,SD
TODD Todd,SD
TRIP Tripp,SD
TURN Turner,SD
UNIO Union,SD
WALW Walworth,SD
YANK Yankton,SD
ZIEB Ziebach,SD