{"id":199,"date":"2021-11-16T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2025-03-23T19:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T23:35:52","slug":"contesting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/contesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Contesting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Contest<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>North American QSO Party<\/td><td>Contact as many North American stations and states as possible<\/td><td>January\/August<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>RTTY Roundup<\/td><td>Test your RTTY or FT-8 digital skills by contacting as many stations around the world as possible<\/td><td>January<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Winter Field Day<\/strong><\/td><td>Operate off-grid outdoors and contact as many stations as possible.<\/td><td>January<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>CQ WW WPX, SSB and CW<\/td><td>Contact as many stations and prefixes as possible.<\/td><td>March\/May<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>ARRL Rookie Roundup, SSB<\/strong><\/td><td>Great for new hams!<\/td><td>April<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Field Day<\/strong><\/td><td>Contact as many USA stations and states and around the world as possible<\/td><td>June<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Ohio QSO Party<\/strong><\/td><td>Contact as many Ohio stations and counties as possible<\/td><td>August<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Ohio State Parks on the Air (Fall Field Day)<\/strong><\/td><td>Set up in an Ohio State Park and contact as many other parks as possible.<\/td><td>September<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>CQ World-Wide DX, CW and SSB<\/td><td>Contact as many stations around the world in different CQ Zones.<\/td><td>October\/November<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>ARRL Sweepstakes, CW and SSB<\/td><td>Contact as many stations as possible with a longer exchange.<\/td><td>November<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>ARRL 10 Meter Contest<\/strong><\/td><td>Contact as many stations as possible on 10 meters CW or SSB.<\/td><td>December<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Phone Fray<\/td><td>30 minute SSB HF contest Wednesdays at 0230Z (9:30 or 10:30 pm Tuesday)<\/td><td><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Contests in <strong>bold<\/strong> are usually club events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good resource listing all the contests can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contestcalendar.com\/\">Contest Calendar<\/a>. Some upcoming contests are listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.contestcalendar.com\/weeklycontdetails.php?ref=003ae9y0'>YBDXPI SSB Contest<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.contestcalendar.com\/weeklycontdetails.php?ref=003admsv'>PODXS 070 New Member Jamboree<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.contestcalendar.com\/weeklycontdetails.php?ref=003a81u1'>EA RTTY Contest<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.contestcalendar.com\/weeklycontdetails.php?ref=003a9rii'>Louisiana QSO Party<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.contestcalendar.com\/weeklycontdetails.php?ref=003ad70k'>Mississippi QSO Party<\/a><\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>If you work a contest from home, you can still give credit to BARC by listing <em>Bellbrook Amateur Radio Club<\/em> as your affiliated club. Be sure to spell it all the way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to uploading your scores to the contest website, be sure to add your score to <a href=\"http:\/\/3830scores.com\">3830scores.com<\/a> and give credit to <em>Bellbrook Amateur Radio<\/em> <em>Club<\/em> (select <em>Other<\/em> under <em>Club<\/em> and type it in).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contest Description Date North American QSO Party Contact as many North American stations and states as possible January\/August RTTY Roundup Test your RTTY or FT-8 digital skills by contacting as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellbrookarc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}