Contesting Basics 
25 DAYS AND 25 NIGHTS OF FUN
When: 00:00 UTC Wed 01 January 2020 (19:00 EST Sunday 12/31/19)
Thru 04:59 UTC Friday January 26, 2020 (23:59 EST Thursday 1/25/20)
Eligibility: All current AERO members.
Station: You may operate from any amateur radio station…from your home, a guest’s home, terrestrial mobile, maritime mobile, aeronautical mobile, local nets (all the stations on the net count if you list the call signs), here or abroad. A station may even be operated remotely!
Bands & Modes: Work any legal mode and band allowed by your license class. Echo Link, IRLP and Wires X contacts are permitted.
Repeater contacts are OK.
Scoring:
Two (2) points per AM or SSB contacts
Three (3) points per FM contact
Four (4) points per RTTY contact
Five (5) points per CW contact.
Six (6) points per DIGITAL contact
Seven (7) points per SSTV contact
Ten (10) points per ATV contact
Bonus Points:
Any contact via remote operation 100 points per contact.
Any contact above the 70 cm band 250 points per contact.
Any satellites including the ISS contacts 500 points per contact.
Any EME (earth-moon-earth) contact 1000 points per contact per team member
Other Info: The same station may be worked any number of times.
The Winner of this contest gets “the lamp” and will run the contest next year.
Results: E-mail log sheets to WB3FMT at joseph.miko@verizon.net by February 18, 2020. Contest results will be reported at the March 4, 2020 meeting of the AERO Club!
WB3FMT was the winner of AERO's 25 days and nights of Fun in January 2020.
HAVE FUN - - TRY SOMETHING NEW !
ARRL Sponered Contests for 2020
| January 2020 | |
| AGB New Year Snowball Contest | 0000Z-0100Z, Jan 1 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 1 |
| Phone Fray | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 1 |
| SARTG New Year RTTY Contest | 0800Z-1100Z, Jan 1 |
| AGCW Happy New Year Contest | 0900Z-1200Z, Jan 1 |
| CWops Mini-CWT Test | 1300Z-1400Z, Jan 1 and 1900Z-2000Z, Jan 1 and 0300Z-0400Z, Jan 2 |
| AGCW VHF/UHF Contest | 1400Z-1700Z, Jan 1 (144) and 1700Z-1800Z, Jan 1 (432) |
| QRP ARCI New Years Sprint | 1500Z-1800Z, Jan 1 |
| UKEICC 80m Contest | 2000Z-2100Z, Jan 1 |
| NRAU 10m Activity Contest | 1800Z-1900Z, Jan 2 (CW) and 1900Z-2000Z, Jan 2 (SSB) and 2000Z-2100Z, Jan 2 (FM) and 2100Z-2200Z, Jan 2 (Dig) |
| SKCC Sprint Europe | 2000Z-2200Z, Jan 2 |
| NCCC RTTY Sprint | 0145Z-0215Z, Jan 3 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 3 |
| NCCC Sprint | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 3 |
| PODXS 070 Club PSKFest | 0000Z-2400Z, Jan 4 |
| WW PMC Contest | 1200Z, Jan 4 to 1200Z, Jan 5 |
| RSGB AFS Contest, CW | 1300Z-1700Z, Jan 4 |
| ARRL RTTY Roundup | 1800Z, Jan 4 to 2400Z, Jan 5 |
| ARRL Kids Day | 1800Z-2359Z, Jan 4 |
| EUCW 160m Contest | 2000Z-2300Z, Jan 4 and 0400Z-0700Z, Jan 5 |
| IQRP Quarterly Marathon | 0800Z, Jan 6 to 2000Z, Jan 12 |
| ARS Spartan Sprint | 0200Z-0400Z, Jan 7 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 8 |
| Phone Fray | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 8 |
| CWops Mini-CWT Test | 1300Z-1400Z, Jan 8 and 1900Z-2000Z, Jan 8 and 0300Z-0400Z, Jan 9 |
| AWA Linc Cundall Memorial CW Contest | 2300Z, Jan 8 to 2300Z, Jan 9 and 2300Z, Jan 11 to 2300Z, Jan 12 |
| NCCC RTTY Sprint | 0145Z-0215Z, Jan 10 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 10 |
| NCCC Sprint | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 10 |
| YB DX Contest | 0000Z-2359Z, Jan 11 |
| Old New Year Contest | 0500Z-0900Z, Jan 11 |
| UBA PSK63 Prefix Contest | 1200Z, Jan 11 to 1200Z, Jan 12 |
| SKCC Weekend Sprintathon | 1200Z, Jan 11 to 2400Z, Jan 12 |
| North American QSO Party, CW | 1800Z, Jan 11 to 0559Z, Jan 12 |
| NRAU-Baltic Contest, SSB | 0630Z-0830Z, Jan 12 |
| NRAU-Baltic Contest, CW | 0900Z-1100Z, Jan 12 |
| DARC 10-Meter Contest | 0900Z-1059Z, Jan 12 |
| Midwinter Contest | 1000Z-1400Z, Jan 12 |
| RSGB AFS Contest, Data | 1300Z-1700Z, Jan 12 |
| Classic Exchange, CW | 1400Z, Jan 12 to 0800Z, Jan 13 and 1400Z, Jan 13 to 0800Z, Jan 15 |
| 4 States QRP Group Second Sunday Sprint | 0100Z-0300Z, Jan 13 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 15 |
| Phone Fray | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 15 |
| CWops Mini-CWT Test | 1300Z-1400Z, Jan 15 and 1900Z-2000Z, Jan 15 and 0300Z-0400Z, Jan 16 |
| NAQCC CW Sprint | 0130Z-0330Z, Jan 16 |
| NCCC RTTY Sprint | 0145Z-0215Z, Jan 17 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 17 |
| NCCC Sprint | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 17 |
| LZ Open Contest | 1800Z-2200Z, Jan 17 |
| Hungarian DX Contest | 1200Z, Jan 18 to 1159Z, Jan 19 |
| RSGB AFS Contest, SSB | 1300Z-1700Z, Jan 18 |
| North American QSO Party, SSB | 1800Z, Jan 18 to 0559Z, Jan 19 |
| NA Collegiate Championship, SSB | 1800Z, Jan 18 to 0559Z, Jan 19 |
| ARRL January VHF Contest | 1900Z, Jan 18 to 0359Z, Jan 20 |
| WAB 1.8 MHz Phone/CW | 1900Z-2300Z, Jan 18 |
| Feld Hell Sprint | 2000Z-2359Z, Jan 18 (EU-AF) and 2300Z, Jan 18 to 0259Z, Jan 19 (ENA-ESA) and 0200Z-0559Z, Jan 19 (WNA-OC-AS) |
| Run for the Bacon QRP Contest | 0200Z-0400Z, Jan 20 |
| SKCC Sprint | 0000Z-0200Z, Jan 22 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 22 |
| Phone Fray | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 22 |
| CWops Mini-CWT Test | 1300Z-1400Z, Jan 22 and 1900Z-2000Z, Jan 22 and 0300Z-0400Z, Jan 23 |
| NAQCC CW Sprint | 0130Z-0330Z, Jan 23 |
| NCCC RTTY Sprint | 0145Z-0215Z, Jan 24 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 24 |
| NCCC Sprint | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 24 |
| CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW | 2200Z, Jan 24 to 2200Z, Jan 26 |
| REF Contest, CW | 0600Z, Jan 25 to 1800Z, Jan 26 |
| BARTG RTTY Sprint | 1200Z, Jan 25 to 1200Z, Jan 26 |
| UBA DX Contest, SSB | 1300Z, Jan 25 to 1300Z, Jan 26 |
| Winter Field Day | 1900Z, Jan 25 to 1900Z, Jan 26 |
| QCX Challenge | 1300Z-1400Z, Jan 27 and 1900Z-2000Z, Jan 27 and 0300Z-0400Z, Jan 28 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 29 |
| Phone Fray | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 29 |
| CWops Mini-CWT Test | 1300Z-1400Z, Jan 29 and 1900Z-2000Z, Jan 29 and 0300Z-0400Z, Jan 30 |
| UKEICC 80m Contest | 2000Z-2100Z, Jan 29 |
| NCCC RTTY Sprint | 0145Z-0215Z, Jan 31 |
| QRP Fox Hunt | 0200Z-0330Z, Jan 31 |
| NCCC Sprint | 0230Z-0300Z, Jan 31 |
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