The A1 Club QSO Party in 2008

A1 Club is pleased to announce the A1 Club QSO Party, which is open to all radio amateurs world-wide and which
aims to encourage the use of and excellence in Morse code.

TheEvent: The A1 Club QSO Party. Participants may call CQ A1 PTY. This is an operating event, not a contest.

Date & time:
From 2008-4-30 15:00Z to 2008-5-31 15:00Z, for 1 month.

Object:To enjoy CW communication as much as possible on all amateur bands.

Exchange: Normal QSO style.

        1 pont for exchange of Callsign and RST
        +1 point each per additional information exchange such as Name, QTH, Rig, ANT, WX, etc.
        If you made ragchew you may add points by your decision .

Frequencies: CW portions of the amateur bands assigned in each country where you operate.


Activity Report: Report total points and your comments by web entry form.

How to write your log

In the entry form, your "Callsign", "Name", "Points", "Comments" & "image" will be shown on the web as soon as you register them.
Your "LOG" data is sent to the person in charge of the QSO PTY for confirmation but not disclosed to the public.

The simplest log is, "Date""Time""Worked Station's Callsign""Band""Report""point" to be input one QSO per one line.
For easy entry, you may copy & past "cabrillo" format data or any other text based data.

[For example] 
Cabrillo format;
QSO: 7000 CW 2008-05-01 0015 7K1CPT 599 001 JO1ZZZ 599 001 5
TXT format;
2008/5/1 JO1ZZZ 7 599 599 5 (the last figure "5" shows the point)


Certificate: No awards will be given as this is not a contest.
An entry certificate badge with your callsign (see sample) will be provided if you got more than 30 points and send SAE with 3IRC or 3GS to the following address;
        Mr. Kiyoharu Yamada, 7K1CPT
        2-46-14 Sakuradai, Nerima-ku, Tokyo 176-0002 JAPAN

Entry Cert sample.


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