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Indiana QSO Party "Rare County" Plaque Rules

For 2024, there will be two plaques for stations operating in rare Indiana counties - one for fixed stations and one for portable stations. The designated rare counties for 2024 are:

  • Adams
  • Boone
  • Carroll
  • Cass
  • Greene
  • Martin
  • Morgan
  • Sullivan
  • Switzerland
  • Vermillion
A plaque will be awarded to the station with the most logged QSOs in each category, fixed or portable, regardless of power category or portable category (portable, including county line but not mobile or rover). Score will be used as a tiebreaker if necessary. Stations must have at least 50 QSOs to be eligible for a plaque. For rare county plaques, only one signal is permitted on the air at any time, so multi-multi class stations are not eligible for either of these plaques.

The Fixed Station Rare County Plaque is intended to encourage local residents of rare counties to activate their home county and enjoy the fun of the QSO party. Low power, high power, and QRP fixed stations are in this category and may be single-op or multi-single stations.

The Portable Rare County Plaque is intended to encourage portable and county-line stations to activate designated rare counties with the intent of logging a high number of QSOs, possibly removing the county from the rare category for an extended period. The plaque will be awarded to the station with the most logged QSOs in one designated rare county. County Line stations on a county line where only one of the two counties is a rare county will receive QSO count credit toward ths plaque only for the designated rare county. A county line station on a line of two rare counties logs two QSOs for each contact as usual, one for each county; however, only QSOs logged for one designated rare county of the two will count towards the portable rare county plaque.