Every year we take our radios out in the field, woods, or parks and operate. Now let's add the dimension of observing the wildlife around us and make it a part of the operating event, which we will call Look Around In The Field or LAITF. The exchange will include the name of some wildlife you have seen on that day.

• Wildlife means some animal that you have seen since you left home for LAITF. It could be a deer, a moose, a squirrel, an egret, or a fly.
• Ants and other bugs will work, too.
• Heck, we'll even count dogs and cats here! Just for good measure everyone can send "human" just by seeing one.
• Send a different wildlife name for each QSO or the same one every time, but make sure you have actually seen it before you send its name. It is your choice if you send "hawk", "red tailed hawk", or "buteo jamaicensis".
• You've got to look around and not just concentrate on the radio for this operating event!

  Rules

  • Exchange
    • State, Province, or Country (S/P/C)
    • Your name
    • Wildlife name
  • QSO Points
    • Each QSO = 1 pt +
    • Each unique first letter of operator's names you worked = 1 pt
  • Multipliers
    • Sum of different wildlife YOU sent + Sum of different wildlife you copied from other operators
    • S/P/C total for all bands
  • Final Score
    • QSO points X Wildlife mults X S/P/C Mult
  • Work station once per band.
  • Categories
    • Home-Single Op
    • Home-Multi Op
    • Field-Single Op
    • Field-Multi Op
  • Certificates for the top 3 scorers in each category
  • Suggested Frequencies (kHz)

    1810

    3560

    7040

    14060

    21060

    28060

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  Scoring form

  There is no reason to fill out the form yet because the contest has not yet been held.  Please come back after the contest is over --  the submit button will then be present.

  You will still need to submit your logs to the contest manager

  • E-mail logs in ASCII format.
                  OR
  • Snail mail logs 2 weeks after end of contest

  Please provide the following contest information. Your e-mail address will NOT appear in the summary. It is just for my internal bookkeeping.

Reporting

Send LAITF contest entries (summary sheet and logs) within two weeks of contest date to:

Randy Foltz, K7TQ
ATTN: LAITF
809 Leith St
Moscow, ID 83843

or email ASCII-text entries to <rfoltz@turbonet.com>

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