EURAO Party - Autumn 2013

The European Radio Amateurs' Organization announces its first party on the air with the motto: "make new friends with classical phone". This is not a contest, it is just a radio meeting with a few simple 'rules', better to call them recommendations.

Purpose: to have fun and meet hams all over the world. Of course SWLs are welcome to participate.

Date & time: December 7th and 8th, 2013, Saturday and Sunday, 00:00-24:00 UTC.

Bands & modes: 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m and 10m SSB, around the following recommended frequencies: 3.740, 7.090, 14.290, 21.360 and 28.390 MHz.

Call: "CQ EURAO Party".

Exchange: because this is a QSO event, not a contest, you can talk about whatever you want, in any language, and for as long as you like. Here are some topic suggestions to get the conversation going: name, city, locator, weather, antennas, rigs, etc.

Also talk about QSL interchange. Tell the truth. Say "no, thanks" if you are not interested in QSL cards. But if you would like to have a memory of your contact, feel free to use our EuroBureauQSL (see below).

Logs: for statistic purposes only, we ask participants to submit their logs to party@eurao.org in ADIF format, where the filename should be your callsign (e.g. EA3RKF.ADI).

There will be no results or league tables, only statistical information about number of QSOs, countries, callsigns, OMs/YLs/Clubs, etc.

Certificate of Participation: for those sending the log and with a minimum of 10% QSOs confirmed.

EuroBureauQSL: you can use it to interchange QSLs even if you are not member. In this case, just send the QSL to the entry point of the country of the station you have contacted.