Louisiana QSO Party

Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 8:00am to 8:00pm

Emerson Electric Hall Room G29

From laqp.org:

1. Object: For Amateurs to exchange QSO information with as many Louisiana stations as possible on the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6 and 2 meter bands. It is also an opportunity for county hunters to work rare or otherwise inactive Louisiana Parishes.

1.1 Louisiana stations work everyone.

1.2 Non-Louisiana stations work Louisiana stations only.

2. Contest Period: The Louisiana QSO Party will run from 14:00 UTC, April 4, 2020 to 02:00 UTC, April 5, 2020 (9:00 AM to 9:00PM CDT Saturday, April 4, 2019)

2.1 All stations may work the entire contest period or any part thereof.

3. Suggested Frequencies +/-:

3.1 CW

3.1.1 HF: 1.840, 3.540, 7.040, 14.040, 21.040, 28.040 VHF: 50.095, 144.050

3.2 Phone

3.2.1 HF: 1.865, 3.865, 7.255, 14.255, 21.365, 28.465 VHF: 50.135, 144.210

3.3 Digital

3.3.1 In the standard digital sub-bands

3.4 Since some consider these as contests, Please – No WARC band contacts

4. Classes: Non-Louisiana and Louisiana

Non-Louisiana stations compete only against other Non-Louisiana stations. Louisiana stations compete only against other Louisiana stations.

5. Categories: There will be twelve main categories:

5.1 NON-Louisiana

5.1.1 Phone only

5.1.2 CW/Digital only

5.1.3 Mixed mode

5.2 Louisiana fixed stations

5.2.1 Phone only

5.2.2 CW/Digital only

5.2.3 Mixed mode

5.3 Rover (inside Louisiana)

5.3.1 Phone only

5.3.2 CW/Digital only

5.3.3 Mixed mode

5.4 Overlay – For Louisiana and Non-Louisiana Stations

5.4.1 CATEGORY-OVERLAY: WIRES (antennas made of wires only, no aluminum tubing)

5.4.2 CATEGORY-OVERLAY: TB-WIRES (tribander for 10/ 15/20M and wires for 40/80/160

5.4.3 CATEGORY:OVERLAY: POTA (POTA, Campground, Federal Wildlife Refuge)