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Mad River Radio Club and Ohio QSO Party Committee are pleased to announce
significant changes in the Ohio QSO Party, effective for the 2015 event which
will be held on Saturday, August 22.</SPAN></DIV>
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have decided to replace the serial number in the contest exchange with a signal
report. While it was fun to watch the competition in real time, we believe the
confusion caused with an exchange format different from that used in other
concurrent events caused people to avoid participating in the OhQP if they were
also involved in one of the other contests. So now, one can just treat the
multiple contests as one big one covering several states and work everybody with
the same exchange. </DIV>
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keeping track of serial numbers made things difficult for mobiles while in
motion, and often caused confusion for multioperator efforts using several
operating positions.</DIV>
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will be contacting software developers to update their software to the new OhQP
exchange. While we hope all will be able to get updated logging software in time
for the 2015 OhQP, for now we will still be able to process logs showing a
sent serial number; just log the received RS(T) in the received number
field.</DIV>
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a second, relatively minor change, the use of CW Skimmer and similar automated
spotting tools will be allowed for single operator stations. (Note - the use of
the regular spotting networks by single operators has been allowed for many
years). We do hope that stations using Skimmers will share their bounties of
cool OhQP stations found with the rest of the world via the regular DX
Clusters. </DIV>
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looking forward to seeing lots of you in the 2015 Ohio QSO Party, Saturday,
August 22, 1600Z to 0400Z August 23!</DIV>
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