Rules

Purpose

Promote contacts between as many Hawai’i and non-Hawai’i stations as possible.

Rules

1. Operating period is 48 hours from 0400 UTC Aug 22 through 0359 UTC Aug 24, 2020

2. Stations must be worked only on the 10, 15, 20, 40, 80, and 160 meter bands.

3. Stations can be worked only once per band-mode (CW, SSB, digital).

4. Digital mode include ALL digital modes (RTTY, PSK, QPSK, FT-x, etc) as “digital”

5. Use of spotting networks is permitted and encouraged.

6. Operation must conform to home country regulations.

7. Logs must be submitted electronically no later than 14 days following the event. 

Exchange

Hawai’i stations send RS/T plus Hawai’i Multiplier

Non-Hawai’i stations send RS/T plus State or Province as appropriate. 

Non-USA / Canada stations send “DX”

Categories

S/O QRP Single operator limited to 5 watts or less

S/O LP Single operator limited to 100 watts or less

S/O HP Single operator limited to 1500 watts or legal maximum, which ever is less.

M/S LP Multiple operator, single station (one radio only), 100 watts maximum.

M/S HP Multiple operator, single station (one radio only), 1500 watts or legal limit.

M/M LP Multiple operator, multiple stations, 100 watts maximum.

M/M HP Multiple operator, multiple stations, 1500 watts or legal limit max.

Contacts

Hawai’i stations work anyone    –   non-Hawai’i stations work only Hawai’i

Note: Each station can be worked three times per band. Once each on CW, SSB, digital

Points

SSB: 2 points       CW: 3 points       digital: 3 points

Contest Multipliers

Non-Hawaiian stations: 14 Hawai’i districts per band. Maximum of 84 (6 bands x 14 districts)

See a map and list of Hawai’i multipliers here.

Hawai’i stations: 14 Hawai’i districts plus US states (including DC), plus Canadian provinces, plus DXCC entities. ONCE ONLY – NOT PER BAND – 

Score

Final Score is the total number of QSO points times the number of earned multipliers.

Awards

All participants are eligible for a Certificate of Achievement.

Special awards for the top finishers in each Category listed above.

Suggested Frequencies

CW: 1815 or 30-40 kHz up from the bottom edge of each band

SSB: 1845, 3850, 7230, 14250, 21300, 28450 please avoid nets

digital: Follow the ARRL Band Plan

NOTE for FT8 and FT4: If you are in the USA then please use the Field Day exchange. HI stations should send their QTH as part of their CQ such as CQ MAU KH6TU or as a special 73 message such as 73 MAU

Log Submission

All log must be submitted no later than September 7, 2020 at the HQP Log Upload Page

Logs should follow the Cabrillo 3 format.

Software

Several loggers are available that support HQP. They include:

Writelog, N1MM, N3FPJ, SD by EI5DI, GenLog, Skookum Logger