Here's the latest list as to who's planning to be on from where during this year's Ontario QSO Party.  Help us keep this list up-to-date:

Post your plans on the OQP Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oqp/
or on ve3_contest or email oqp@rogers.com

You can join the Ontario QSO Party e-mail discussion list by navigating to the OQP Yahoo Group above and click Sign Up.

Further below, you'll find some Tips To Increase Your Score!

Multiplier#	Who to Look For!
Mobiles/Rovers	Tracy VA3CDU
	Bill VE3ODX Saturday: KAWartha 2 to 4 pm DURham and TORonto and YoRK 6 or 7 pm till midnight Sunday: PEeL 9 am tentative HalToN 10 am WELlington 11: am HAMilton 12:30 or later
	Kevin VE3KKP and Kevin VE3WKG (call used)
	Bob VE3AGC Saturday: Oxford, Brant, Norfolk, Haldimand, Niagara counties; Brantford, Hamilton Sunday: Toronto; Peel, Halton, Wellington counties
Maritime Mobile
U.S.
DX
Algoma District
City of Brant
City of Brantford
Bruce County
City of Chatham-Kent
Cochrane District
Dufferin County
Durham Region
Elgin County
Essex County
Frontenac County
Grey County	VA3RAC (MM) bonus station.
Town of Haldimand	VE3DC MM
Haliburton County	Peter VE3AD
Halton Region	Tony VE3RZ, Bob VE3KZ, Peter VE3HG
City of Hamilton	Jacques VE3WBT, Jeff VE3NVY
Hastings County
Huron County	Jeff VE3CV
City of Kawartha Lakes
Kenora District
City of Chatham-Kent	Mike VA3FS
Lambton County
Lanark County
Leeds-Grenville County
Lennox-Addington County
Manitoulin District	Igor Slakva VE3ZF
Middlesex County
Muskoka District
Niagara Region	Kevin VA3OR
Nipissing District
Town of Norfolk
Northumberland County
City of Ottawa	Bob VA3RKM
Oxford County
Parry Sound District
Peel Region	Don VE3XD
Perth County	Mark VE3NB, James VA3WR
Peterborough County	Eric VE3CR
Prescott-Russell County
City of Prince Edward	Paul VE3ZT
Rainy River District	Norm VE3FYN, VA3EOA
Renfrew County	Mike VE3YF
Simcoe County
Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry United Counties	Al VA3KAI
City of Sudbury
Thunder Bay District	Tom VA3CCO(VE3CX), Manual VE3TU
Timiskaming District
City of Toronto	Stan VE3TW, Dave VA3RJ
Waterloo Region
Wellington County
York Region	Mike VE3FGU

A few tips to increase your score!

1. Don't just "search and pounce" on stations calling "CQ", find a good parking spot and call "CQ Ontario QSO Party" yourself. You'll be very surprised at the amount of activity you can generate on a seemingly "dead" band by putting out a "CQ" !
    
2. Don't forget the "easy" multipliers i.e. folks who are close to you that you can work on the VHF bands or via groundwave on the "higher" HF bands. Don't forget to make a quick call on the VHF frequencies at 15 minutes past the hour.
    
3. For Ontario stations, multis are also Canadian provinces/territories, U.S. states, and DXCC countries...so there are lots of multiplier points out there for you to collect. Also folks outside Ontario will be working the contest too. If the lower HF bands are "dead" try the higher HF bands and vice-versa.
    
4. U.S.A. stations close to the border should give a few shouts on VHF. Also try six meters for "E-skip" openings into Ontario.
    
5. Ontario stations should "listen up" in U.S. phone allocations for U.S. stations calling from time to time.
    
6. Don't forget to work to work CW. Even if your CW isn't very good most folks will "slow down" or "QRS" to work you.
    
7. Listen extra hard for weak signals such as mobile and QRP stations.
    
8. Use a computer to do your log. All of the logging programs that support the Ontario QSO Party (except Write-log and N1MM) run in good old-fashioned MS-DOS so that junky old 386, 486 and in some cases even a 286 can be used. This will make calculating your score and checking for duplicate contacts a whole lot easier. It'll also make the contest manager's life a whole lot easier too!!
    
9. Other contests will be in progress at the same time as the Ontario QSO Party. Check out WA7BMN's excellent contest calendar to find out who else is going to be on the air!!

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