[WIQPmail] Illinois QSO Party, 1700 GMT October 17 to 0100 GMT October 18, 2021

[Mark Thompson]

https://w9awe.org/ilqp/#68-75-wpfd-2021-1629816607

Announcing the 2021 Illinois QSO Party… Sponsored by The Western Illinois Amateur Radio Club Inc. 

Date/Time: 1700 GMT October 17 to 0100 GMT October 18, 2021
Bands: 160 through 2 meters, excluding 60, 30, 17, and 12 meters 
Special band activity times: IL stations are encouraged to spend some time on 20 meters in the earlyAfternoon to work DX stations seeking IL counties and to check 15 meters and 10 meters at 1800Z,1900Z and 2000Z.
Exchange: IL stations give RST and county; others give RST and state, province, orcountry.
Scoring: Count 1 point per phone QSO, 2 points per CW/digital QSO. No repeater QSOs. All stations arelimited to one transmitted signal at a time. SO2R operation is permitted. Stations may be worked once perband and mode (phone and CW/digital), and once per band/mode/county for IL Mobile and Roverstations. Each Mobile or Rover vehicle is considered one station and must use only one call. Contacts with/bystations at the border of 2 counties count as 2 counties and 2 QSOs; the border of 3 (or 4) counties counta s 3 (or 4) counties and 3 (or 4) QSOs. IL stations multiply points by the sum of states, IL counties, VEprovinces, and a maximum of 5 DXCC countries (for this event W/K, Alaska, Hawaii and VE do not countas DX entities). Count additional DX for QSO points but not for additional multipliers. Non-IL stationsmultiply points by number of IL counties worked.
Entry Classes:Illinois Fixed Station, High Power: Permanent station location, single county, with atransmitter output power level exceeding 200W PEP.Illinois Fixed Station, Low Power: Permanent station location, single county, with atransmitter output power level not exceeding 200W PEP.Illinois Portable: Not a permanent station location; antennas erected for the purpose of thecontest; may be on a county line or corner. (Note: County lines established by waterways may notbe activated in the ILQP.)Illinois Mobile: Stations capable of motion while operating though may be stationary. Entrantsare encouraged to utilize a separate driver and to choose operating procedures with safetyuppermost in mind! Mobile entrants may operate from only one county at a time. Simultaneousoperation from more than one county will result in reclassification to “Rover”category.Illinois Rover: Stations operating from more than one non-permanent location. Single county,county line and county corner operation is permitted. Any type of mobile or portable antennasmay be used. Any power source may be used (auto, generator or commercial mains). Roverstations may operate while moving or stopped.Outside Illinois, High Power: Any fixed, portable or mobile station operating from outside thestate of Illinois, with a transmitter output power level exceeding 200W PEP.Outside Illinois, Low Power: Any fixed, portable or mobile station operating from outside thestate of Illinois, with a transmitter output power level not exceeding 200W PEP.QRP Competition: A QRP entrant shall certify that operation was with a transmitter output power level of5 watts or less at all times by checking the QRP box in the Entry Class column on the summary sheet.QRP stations should also indicate an Entry Class. QRP competition is independent of Entry Class.
Awards:Plaques will be awarded to the highest-scoring IL Fixed Station High Power, IL Fixed StationLow Power, IL Mobile, IL Rover, IL Portable, IL 2 County Line Portable, Outside Illinois StationHigh Power, and Outside Illinois Station Low Power. Plaques will also be awarded, regardless ofentry class or station location, to the station reporting the highest raw Phone only QSO total, thehighest raw CW only QSO total and the highest raw Mixed Mode QSO total. (Note: Illinoiscounty line or county corner QSO multipliers do not apply for the raw QSO awards.)
Certificates will be awarded to the 2nd through 5th place IL Fixed Stations, High Power, the 2ndthrough 5th place IL Fixed Stations, Low Power, the 2nd through 5th place IL Mobiles, the 2ndthrough 5th place IL Rovers, the top IL and the top Outside Illinois QRP stations, and the highestscoring station (reporting at least 25 IL contacts) in each state, province, and country. Certificateswill also be awarded to the top 3 IL single county Portables, the 2nd and 3rd place IL 2 county linePortables, the top 3 IL 3 county line Portables and 2nd and 3rd place IL four county line Portables.As certificates are delivered in electronic format via email, all entrants are requested to include avalid email address on their summary sheet. If a certificate winner desires a hard copy version, theWIARC will do so for a donation of $2.50 to cover the costs of printing and mailing.Illinois Club Competition: Illinois entrants are encouraged to include the name of their local clubon their entries.Illinois Edible Award: Any Outside Illinois operator who makes at least 200 IL QSOs or worksat least 75 IL counties will receive an ‘Illinois Edible Award’.Logs: All entrants who use computerized logging are required to submit logs in electronic format. Do notsubmit a computer printed log from a logging program without also submitting the electronic file( Cabrillo file) as the scoring and verification process starts by transferring all log data into a master Excelfile. Hand written paper logs which are accompanied by an official ILQP Summary Sheet will be acceptedfor manual transcription by the Committee.
Electronic logs: Cabrillo format is preferred. Those entrants using a program that does notproduce a Cabrillo file for submission should contact the ILQP Contest Committee concerningacceptable formatting. Electronic logs should be sent as an e-mail attachment to: nj9f at arrl.net Paper logs: A paper log shall be hand written and indicate the entrant’s QTH, the band and mode,UTC, the call of the station worked, RST sent and received, and the state, province, IL county, orDX country. New multipliers must be marked in the log. Paper log submissions must beaccompanied by a completed ILQP summary sheet (can be downloaded, printed from the websiteor requested from the sponsor with SASE). Paper logs should be mailed to WIARC, P.O. Box3132, Quincy IL 62305-3132. The Committee is not responsible for log transcription errors dueto illegible logs or other issues.Logs that do not comply with submission requirements will be classified as Check Logs andwill not be eligible for awards.
Submission deadline: Logs sent by e-mail must be received by and logs sent by mail must be postmarkedby midnight, CST November 18, 2021. A list of all logs received will be posted to the ILQP webpage.Electronic logs received by e-mail will also be acknowledged by return e-mail. Entrants assumeresponsibility for contacting the event sponsor if they do not receive confirmation or if their call is notincluded in the “logs received” listing.
Disqualification: Participants are expected to follow good Amateur practices and operate within therestrictions of their license and in accordance with ILQP Rules. Compelling evidence to the contrary mayserve as grounds for disqualification. The decision of the Illinois QSO Party Committee shall be final.
Rules, summary sheet, and other information are available for downloadat: http://www.w9awe.org/ILQP.html You are invited to join the ILQSO email reflector at: http://mailmain.qth.net/mailman/listinfo.ilqso 
Miscellaneous:County Name Abbreviations: Participants are reminded that a proper log record of a contact with anIllinois station in this event requires the name of the Illinois County where that station is located be enteredas part of each QSO record. It is quite acceptable to enter either the complete and correctly spelled countyname or the unique abbreviated form of the county name. To facilitate the use of abbreviations, a list ofrecommended Illinois County name abbreviations is included every year as part of the ILQP Summarysheet. Each Illinois County has an established 4 letter abbreviation (Lee County excepted) shown in this listand which has been in use in this event for many years. Unfortunately, logs are submitted every year withall manner of variation and corruption of these abbreviations. In the past the ILQP Committee has beenvery lenient in not busting QSO’s due to the use of a non-standard abbreviation as long as there is someunambiguous clue in the abbreviation used as to the actual county name. In some cases, we even find thatthe wrong county name has been used. This often involves White (WHIT) and Whiteside (WTSD) countiesas well as Mason (MASN) and Macon (MACN) counties. The ILQP Committee asks that each entrantreview the list of county name abbreviations on the summary sheet and use only these abbreviations in theirlog entries and to make sure the correct abbreviation for a given county is used. As mentioned, there hasbeen great leniency in the past for the use of highly corrupted, widely varying or totally incorrectabbreviations. However, as this event is now generating a master log each year of nearly 50,000 QSO’s,manual intervention by committee members in the scoring process is becoming tedious and timeconsuming. And so, a word to the wise, in the future, this leniency will not be continued as a part of thescoring process.
QSO Record Minimum Data: Each entrant is asked to review their log file prior to submission to ensurethat every QSO record (i.e. each line) includes the following minimum data: operating frequency or band;operating mode; GMT date; GMT time; the call sign of your station; the RS(T) sent; the location of yourstation; the call sign of the station contacted; the RS(T) received; and the location of the station contacted.In addition, in a Cabrillo log file, each record should include the following data: ‘QSO:’ in the first field ofeach line. Please examine the sample excel spreadsheet generated Cabrillo file that is available for download on the WIARC ILQP web page. Also please review the sample log file at the end of the document forhelp in determining compliance with the preferred format.
Cabrillo File Header Information: Prior to submitting a log file, entrants should review the informationcontained in the header field of their Cabrillo file to make sure it is complete and accurate. In particular,make sure entry class, personal information, call sign, station location, and club affiliation are correctlyshown. The header information is automatically pulled and used by the processing software. Pleaseexamine the sample excel spreadsheet generated Cabrillo file that is available for down load on the WIARCILQP web page.

  
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