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.

http://www.no5w.com/


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