---------------------------------------------------------
Text-only page
Edited by SM3CER - sm3cer(at)contesting.com - 14 August 2003
SM3CER Contest Service - http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/
---------------------------------------------------------



New Jersey QSO Party
--------------------

The Englewood Amateur Radio Association
is proud to announce the
44th Annual New Jersey QSO Party,
which will be held on August 16th and 17th 2003.


CONTEST PERIOD AND TIME:

    2000 UTC Saturday August 16th to 0700 UTC Sunday August 17th, 2003

  and from

    1300 UTC Sunday August 17th to 0200 UTC Monday August 18th, 2003


PARTICULARS:
  A station may be contacted once on each band.
  Phone and CW are considered separate bands.

  Stations outside New Jersey may only contact NJ stations.
  NJ stations may contact any other station (including those in NJ).


GENERAL CONTEST RULES:
  General call for stations outside NJ is "CQ NEW JERSEY" on Phone,
  and "CQ NJ" on CW.

  New Jersey stations should send "CQ" by saying "NEW JERSEY CALLING"
  on Phone and by sending "DE NJ" on CW.

  Suggested frequencies are: 1.810, 3.535, 3.950, 7.035, 7.235, 14.035,
  14.285, 21.100, 21.355, 28.100, 28.400, 50 - 50.5 and 144.0 - 146.0


EXCHANGE:
  All stations send a sequential serial QSO number and QTH as follows:

  NJ stations send their NJ county, Out-of-State stations send their
  State, Province, or Country as applicable.


SCORING:
  New Jersey stations:
  Multiply the total number of complete contacts times 3 points each,
  times the total number of NJ counties, states (other than NJ), and
  Canadian provinces worked.

  Out-of-State stations:
  Multiply the number of complete contacts (with NJ stations only)
  times 3 points each times the number of NJ counties worked.


MULTIPLIERS:
  New Jersey stations:
  The number of NJ counties, states (other than NJ), and Canadian
  provinces worked, for a maximum of 83 (21+49+13).

  Out-of-State stations:
  The number of NJ counties worked for a maximum of 21.


  ----------------------------------------------------------
  The 21 New Jersey counties are:
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  COUNTY      ABBR  |  COUNTY      ABBR  |  COUNTY      ABBR
  ----------  ----  |  ----------  ----  |  ----------  ----
  Atlantic    ATL   |  Gloucester  GLO   |  Ocean       OCN
  Bergen      BER   |  Hudson      HUD   |  Passaic     PASS
  Burlington  BURL  |  Hunterdon   HUNT  |  Salem       SAL
  Camden      CAM   |  Mercer      MER   |  Somerset    SOM
  Cape May    CMY   |  Middlesex   MSX   |  Sussex      SUS
  Cumberland  CUMB  |  Monmouth    MON   |  Union       UNI
  Essex       ESS   |  Morris      MOR   |  Warren      WAR
  ----------------------------------------------------------


AWARDS:
  Certificates will be awarded to the first place station in each
  New Jersey county, state, Canadian province, and country.

  In addition, a second place certificate will be awarded when four or
  more logs are received.

  A total of two plaques have been donated by the ARRL Section Managers
  for NNJ and SNJ to the highest scoring single operator station
  residing in each of their sections.


LOG SUBMISSIONS:
  Logs must show the UTC date and time, QSO exchange, band,
  and emission mode, and must be received no later than
  September 13th, 2003.

  The first contact for each claimed multiplier must be indicated and
  numbered, and a check list of contacts and multipliers should be
  included.

  Multi-operator stations should be noted and participating operators
  listed.

  Send logs and comments to:

    Englewood Amateur Radio Association
    P O Box 528
    ENGLEWOOD, NJ 07631-0528
    USA


REQUEST FOR NOTIFICATION:
  Stations planning active participation are requested to contact
  the Englewood ARA, at - w2rj(at)arrl.net - that we may plan for full
  coverage from all the counties.


          -------------------- ooo --------------------


Date of info: 14 August, 2003
  - Source: NJQP Web Site - http://www.qsl.net/w2rj/ -


          -------------------- ooo --------------------


This contest is known to be supported by:

  GENLOG by W3KM: http://www.qsl.net/w3km/gen_log.htm
     N1MM Logger: http://pages.cthome.net/n1mm/
      NA by K8CC: http://datom.contesting.com/

SM3CER Contest Service Software Page:
  http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/software.htm


          -------------------- ooo --------------------


MORE INFO:

  NJQP Web Site: http://www.qsl.net/w2rj/


          -------------------- ooo --------------------


Please send corrections/changes/new rules/results to:
  Jan-Eric Rehn - SM3CER
  sm3cer(at)contesting.com

----------------------------------------------
URL: http://www.sk3bg.se/text/contest/njqp.txt
Copyright © 1997-2003 Jan-Eric Rehn - SM3CER
This page was created March 30, 1997
Most recent revision August 14, 2003
----------------------------------------------