Hamvention may be cancelled this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have any fun on that date. The World Wide Amateur Radio Foundation (WWROF) is sponsoring the Hamvention QSO Party on Saturday, May 16. The group is touting the 12-hour event as a “fun way for people to celebrate the Hamvention experience over the air.”
Here are some more details:
Contest period: 8 AM to 8 PM EDST (1200 to 2400 UTC), May 16, 2020
Bands: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters CW and SSB – You can work the same station once per band mode (12 QSOs possible with same station).
Exchange: Signal report and first year you attended Hamvention. If you have never attended Hamvention send “2020”.
Entry Categories: Only single operator entries – you may use assistance such as the cluster and the reverse beacon network (RBN). No self-spotting.
Power levels:
QRP – no more than 5 watts
Low Power – No more than 100 watts
High Power – no more than 1500 watts.
Scoring: Score is number of QSOs + bonus points = final score. There are no multipliers.
Special bonus points:
W8BI, the club call of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA is the host of Hamvention) will be activated by DARA members from their home stations. You can add 10 points for each band mode QSO with W8BI (12 available). So you can earn 120 bonus points (this is like having 120 additional QSOs)
To Enter: Post your score at 3830scores.com within 5 days of the event (May 21, 2020). No logs are required.
Awards: An online certificate will be available to all stations that post a score before the deadline.
Questions: Contact Tim Duffy, K3LR, [email protected]
Sounds like fun to me!
Dave New, N8SBE says
Hmm.
A REAL virtual Hamvention have an ebay-like area set up online for all the flea market vendors, and to make it even more realistic, let the vendors hide some or all of their intake from the Ohio revenuers to avoid paying sales tax. Then, let them ship their stuff for free to all takers, with no guarantee that any of it works.
Set up a gallery of all the regular vendors, where you can ‘wander the aisles’ and get Hamvention prices on all the new gear, and of course, free shipping home so you can avoid the sales tax.
Finally, do all the forums virtually (that will be the easiest) so everyone can attend their favorite forums.
Seems like we could have ‘virtual beers’, although I think the open source community already has beat us to that one.
With tongue thoroughly in cheek…