[MiQP-Mail] OQP moved to April, concurrent with MiQP.

[David Pruett]

Hank,

Even on April 1 you would not have fooled many people regarding the OnQP 
dates.  OnQP moved to the MiQP weekend several years ago, and many 
people here on the reflector are aware of it.

What I find surprising is that I've never noticed any conflict between 
the two events over the years.  Whenever I work a VE3 in MiQP, I usually 
add an RST to my sent exchange (so that I'm compatible with their rules) 
and the VE3s seem to always send a QSO number (to be compatible with 
ours).  But I've never run into a large block of VE3s CQing for their 
contest.  It's almost like the OnQP activity takes place in different 
parts of the band from MiQP.  Perhaps there is a lot of VHF activity and 
QSOs within VE3?

73,

Dave/K8CC

Hank Greeb wrote:
> The OQP date and time seems to have been changed from August.  Note the 
> new Dates and Times: It is now being held the third full weekend of 
> April. For 2007, the contest periods are 1800Z April 21 to 0500Z April 
> 22, and 1200Z to 1800Z April 22.
>
> Oh?  What's this? Ontario?  That's not in Ohio.  How can Ontario usurp 
> OQP?  :)
>
> Actually this is a reminder that the Ontario QSO party is being run the 
> same weekend as MiQP, so be on the lookout for stations from Ontario who 
> will need a slightly different report (in addition to the regular MiQP 
> report).  Complete info on the OQP (Ontario) is at 
> http://cco.ve3xd.com/oqp/index.htm
>
> 73 de n8xx Hg
>
> P.S.  Sorry, I couldn't wait until April 1 to send this.  It might have 
> been more appropriate on that date.
>
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