The 3rd International SV-QRP Marathon will run from October 19th till November 30th 2018.
That is 42 days, as the Classic Athens Marathon Run course has the length of 42 kilometers.
Think of this activity as a statistical “game” dealing with low power levels and a long continuous presence on the HF bands of Ham stations using QRP practices. Results will assist the extraction of useful information about propagation using low power, at this time of the present Solar cycle.
Radio Amateurs all over the world that are keen on QRP operation are welcomed to participate.
Contacts can be carried out in all the HF bands from 10m to 160 m, including the WARC bands, using the following modes: CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31.
Marathon participants should use QRP power levels of 5 watts or less for their QSOs, with any antenna type. The corresponding station, may use any power level and antenna.
Marathon participants can request the contacted station to QRP during the QSO, so that a higher score can be achieved. The QRP station can also further decrease its transmitting power to the level where the communication between the two parties can be sustained.
Only one QSO on each band can be logged for each day through the use of a free web-based program, where registered participants can log their results and watch on-line statistics.
For each contact only the power levels of the two stations and the call-sign and QTH locator of the “other” station need to be logged.
More details in our web page:
aegeandxgroup.gr/sv-qrp-2.html
Looking forward to the participation of any of your QRP members,
73 de Konstantinos, SV1ONW