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CONTEST CALENDAR FOR JANUARY, FEBRUARY AND EARLY MARCH 2018

Contest Name Start End Web Address
SARTG New Year Contest, RTTY 0800Z Jan 1 1100Z Jan 1 http://www.sartg.com/contest/nyrules.htm
ARRL RTTY Roundup 1800Z Jan 7 2400Z Jan8 http://www.arrl.org/rtty‑roundup
North American QSO Party, CW 1800Z Jan 13 0600Z Jan 14 http://www.ncjweb.com/NAQP‑Rules.pdf
Hungarian DX Contest 1200Z Jan 21 1200Z Jan 22 http://www.ha‑dx.com/HADX/html/rules_en.html
North American QSO Party, SSB 1800Z Jan 20 0600Z Jan 21 http://www.ncjweb.com/NAQP‑Rules.pdf
CQ 160‑Meter Contest, CW 2200Z Jan 26 2159Z Jan 28 http://www.cq160.com/rules.htm
REF Contest, CW 0600Z Jan 28 1800Z Jan 29 http://concours.ref‑union.org/reglements/actuels/reg_cdfhf_dx.pdf
BARTG RTTY Sprint 1200Z Jan 27 1200Z Jan 28 http://s3.spanglefish.com/s/7850/documents/contests/sprint/rules/current/
bartg%20sprint%20rules%202017.pdf
UBA DX Contest SSB 1300Z Jan 28 1300Z Jan 29 http://www.uba.be/en/hf/contest‑rules/uba‑dx‑contest‑rules
Winter Field Day 1700Z Jan 28 1700Z Jan 29 https://www.winterfieldday.com/rules/
Vermont QSO Party 0000Z Feb 3 2400Z Feb 4 http://www.ranv.org/vtqso.html
10‑10 Int. Winter Contest, SSB 0001Z Feb 3 2359Z Feb 4 http://www.ten‑ten.org/index.php/activity/2013‑07‑22‑20‑26‑48/qso‑party‑rules
Minnesota QSO Party 1400Z Feb 3 2400Z Feb 3 http://www.w0aa.org/docs/mnqp/MNQP%20Contest%20Rules.pdf
British Columbia QSO Party 1600Z Feb 3 0400Z Feb 4 http://www.orcadxcc.org/bcqp_rules.html
Mexico Int. Contest RTTY 1200Z Feb 3 2359Z Feb 4 http://www.rtty.fmre.mx/FMRE_RTTY_International_contest/Rules.html
North American Sprint, CW 0000Z Feb 4 0400Z Feb 5 http://ncjweb.com/Sprint‑Rules.pdf
CQ WW WPX Contest, RTTY 0000Z Feb 10 2400Z Feb 11 http://www.cqwpxrtty.com/rules.htm
Dutch PACC Contest 1200Z Feb10 1200Z Feb11 http://pacc.veron.nl/
FISTS Winter Unlimited Sprint 1700Z Feb 10 2100Z Feb 10 http://fistsna.org/operating.html#sprints
ARRL Int. DX Contest, CW 0000Z Feb 17 2400Z Feb 18 http://www.arrl.org/arrl‑dx
CQ 160‑Meter Contest, SSB 2200Z Feb 23 2200Z Feb 25 http://www.cq160.com/rules.htm
REF Contest, SSB 0600Z Feb 24 1800Z Feb 25 http://concours.ref‑union.org/reglements/actuels/reg_cdfhf_dx.pdf
UBA DX Contest CW 1300Z Feb24 1300Z Feb 25 http://www.uba.be/en/hf/contest‑rules/uba‑dx‑contest‑rules
South Carolina QSO Party 1500Z Feb 24 0159Z Feb 25 http://scqso.com/rules/
North Carolina QSO Party 1500Z Feb 25 0059Z Feb 26 http://www.rars.org/ncqsoparty/index.php?id=rules
North American QSO Party RTTY 1800Z Feb 24 0600Z Feb 25 http://www.ncjweb.com/NAQP‑Rules.pdf
ARRL Int. DX Contest, SSB 0000Z Mar 3 2400Z Mar 4 http://www.arrl.org/arrl‑dx

Note: In the above chart an * indicates Local Time. For more contest information check out these sites: http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/;
http://www.contesting.com; http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/; http://www.arrl.org/contests/; http://www.arrl.org/contests/calendar.html;
http://www.arrl.org/dxcc; http://www.cq‑amateur‑radio.com/cq_contests/index_cq_contests.html. The “Contest Calendar” is presented as a
guide only. RAC and TCA do not necessarily endorse or support any of the contests or the accuracy of the information.
Bands: The 30, 17 and 12m bands are never used in any contest.

VE3SKX 66 62 SOABLP (A) 12,090 SOUTH CAROLINA QSO PARTY
VE3XT 81 48 SOSB20 11,232 Call QSO Mult Category Score
CF7JC 74 43 SOABLP (A) 9,417 VA3ATT 32 19 SOLPCW 1,966
VE9CB 99 30 SOABHP (A) 8,730 VE3DQN 16 13 SOLPCW 1,166
VE6NS 58 50 SOABLP (A) 8,400 VA3QWW 22 12 SOLPPH 764
VE3CWU 77 35 SOSB20 7,875
VA3NGE 48 47 SOABLP (A) 6,768 VE2GT 8 8 SOHPPH 314
VE7AHT 51 34 SOABLP (A) 5,202 VA3RKM 5 5 SOLPCW 300
VE3MM 49 37 SOABHP (A) 5,106 VE3PYJ 4 4 SOHPPH 266
VE3RCN 41 34 SOAB LP 4,182
VE6EX 53 25 SOAB QRP 3,825 NORTH CAROLINA QSO PARTY
VE3JSQ 44 30 SOABLP (A) 3,690 Call QSO Mult Category Score
VE2AWW 41 30 SOSB160 3,330 VE9AA 184 71 SOHPMixed 34,672
VE3WZ 37 30 SOAB QRP 3,060 VA3QWW 110 56 SOLPPH 12,520
CG6AO 37 27 MSHP 2,997 VA3ATT 82 47 SOLPCW 11,762
VE7YU 40 23 SOSB40 2,691
VE7BGP 28 20 SOAB LP 1,620 VE3LMS 47 39 SOLPMixed 4,468
VA3MQS 23 22 SOABLP (A) 1,518 VY2LI 39 29 SOLPMixed 2,770
VE7KCY 23 20 SOABLP (A) 1,380 VE3DQN 25 16 SOLPCW 1,300
VE7JH 29 12 SOSB20 1,044 VA3EC 21 16 SOLPCW 1,058
VE100VIMY/VE7 VE4DWW 21 17 SOLPPH 764
(VA7KO, op) 36 7 SOABHP (A) 756 VA3RKM 12 8 SOLPMixed 330
CF2CZ 10 10 SOAB QRP (A) 300 VA7KO 8 8 SOLPCW 242
VE9BWK 8 8 SOAB QRP (A) 192 VE2FK 7 7 SOHPMixed 147
VE6CSX 9 7 SOABLP (A) 189
VA2LGQ VE2GT 1 1 SOLPPH 52
(VE3AV, op) 7 7 SOSB20 147

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