Saturday 25 May 2013
2000 - 2359 Local Time !

The Hoot Owl Sprint is a unique QRP ARCI contest because it is held on Saturday night at 8 pm in your “local” time zone and not UTC.

This is also one of the QRP ARCI contests that rewards bonus points for going out into the field to operate portable. And being only 4 hours long this contest is a very good way for you to check out your portable gear for the summer season if you haven`t been out portable over the winter.

Contest rules: Hoot Owl Sprint 2013

The Michigan QRP Club will be running their Memorial Day Sprint on Monday 27 May 2013.

Start time is 2300z and it runs for 4 hours.

There are 4 classes for different power levels and bonus points available for those using homebrew equipment.

Further details can be found at the MI QRP webpage

The results of the 2013 Spring QSO Party are now available - here

In the A1 AB category Brian, VE3MGY, beat Arn Olean, K0ZK, by a fairly close margin with Arn having 3 more mults but 64 less points. In the A1 HighBand category Chuck Stroud, KA8HDE took the top honors while Duaine Demus, KA6AIL took the top spot in the SB15 category.  In the SB20 category Phil Graitcer, W3HZZ, took the lead with the high score while Paul Kirley, W8TM worked 44 stations while running 4 watts to lead the SB40 section.

In the A2 category the AB winner was John Laney, K4BAI, with 278,656 points. Not to be out done Bob Patten, N4BP, took the top honors in the A2 HighBand category with 356,846 points. In the A2 SB20 category Don Calbick was unchallenged in his SB20 effort and made 40 QSO’s. A full report will be presented in the Summer edition of QQ.

Congratulations to all !!

The results of the 2013 Grid Square Sprint are now available - here

The 2013 QRP ARCI Grid Square Sprint is now history and had an increased participation level from 2012.

Two of the A1 winners even braved the elements to reap the rewards of going portable! In the AB A1 category Jim Wilson, VE3KQN, took first place operating portable with just 800mW. Gene Warren, N5GW, also in the A1 category and also portable, took the top spot on 20 metres running 5W. On 40m Garry Nichols, WA1GWH, stayed inside to capture the top spot on 40m with 4.5 Watts.

In the A2 category, and no doubt much warmer, Bernhard Doctor, K8AR, took the top AB spot with 4 Watts while Allan Richardson, NR1X, took the 20m spot.

Congratulations to all !