Post your operating plan on: Operating Plan Submission Page
OR OQP e-mail reflector
OR CCO e-mail reflector
OR email direct to oqp@va3cco.com

You can join the Ontario QSO Party e-mail discussion list by navigating to the OQP Groups.io and click Join.

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

2025 Operation Chart

OQP Bonus Stations in RED

Mobiles/Rovers:	VE3WG	BRA, BFD, DUF, HAL, HAM, HTN, NOR, OSF, PEL, SIM, TOR, WEL, YRK
	VE3ODX	Sat: WAT, OXF, BRA, BFD, HAM, HTN Sun: PEL, WEL, DUF,YRK,SIM
U.S.		Look for MIQP on Sat.
		Look for NE QsoP on Sat
	MA	KC1QEM General portions of 40 & 80
DX		OM2VL
CANADA		Look for QC operators on Sun.
OQP Multiplier		Who to Look For !
Algoma District	ALG
Brant County	BRA	VE3WG/R, VE3BMO/R
City of Brantford	BFD	VE3JZT
Bruce County	BRU	VE3WI
City of Chatham-Kent	CHK	VE3RGO/R
Cochrane District	COC
Dufferin County	DUF	VE3WG/R VE3BMO/R
Durham Region	DUR	VE3PYJ
Elgin County	ELG	VE3MGY
Essex County	ESX	VA3FN, VE3RGO/R
Frontenac County	FRO	VA3WW
Grey County	GRY	VE3FP
City of Haldimand	HAL	VE3BMO/R
Haliburton County	HLB	VE3AD
Halton Region	HTN	VE3KZ
City of Hamilton	HAM	VE3LRL(SSB)
Hastings County	HAS	VA3NGE
Huron County	HUR	VA3WR, VA3VY
City of Kawartha Lakes	KAW	VE3SST, VA3MW
Kenora District	KEN
Lambton County	LAM
Lanark County	LAN	VE3CCO, VE3VY
Leeds and Grenville County	LGR	VE3VN
Lennox and Addington County	LXA	VE3PJ
Manitoulin District	MAN	VA3YV
Middlesex County	MSX	VE3GYL, VE3UZ
Muskoka District	MUS
Niagara Region	NIA	VE3EJ, VA3NFL
Nipissing District	NIP	VA3SK
City of Norfolk	NFK	VE3NYP,
Northumberland County	NOR	VE3PTA
City of Ottawa	OTT	VE3TM, VA3RKM
Oxford County	OXF	VE3NQM
Parry Sound District	PSD	VA3PC(SSB)
Peel Region	PEL	VE3BR, VE3MIS
Perth County	PER	VA3IJK
Peterborough County	PET	VA3CCO, VE3CT
Prescott-Russell United Counties	PRU
City of Prince Edward	PED	VE3FZ, VA3KRJ (mostly CW)
Rainy River District	RAI
Renfrew County	REN	VE3YX
Simcoe County	SIM	VA3GKO
Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry United Counties	SDG	VE3DQN
Sudbury District	SUD	VE3AC, VE3ZI
Thunder Bay District	TBY	VE3MXJ
Timiskaming District	TIM
City of Toronto	TOR	VA3RAC, VE3MV
Waterloo Region	WAT	VE3YT, VE3HZ, VE3UM
Wellington County	WEL	VE3IFT(40m), VA3YBW (SSB), VE3KTB
York Region	YRK	VE3AQ

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, mults 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 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 !! For example - if you work a MI station during their contest, consider giving both exchanges - "W8xxx 59 Muskoka and Ontario. "
   For exchanges with Quebec stations "VE2xxx 59 Ontario Muskoka" and obtain
   their administrative region exchange.
   
10. If a contact shows as a Duplicate - work them anyway. Dupes do not count against you, and if the first QSO was somehow broken, this contact might just count.
    
11. The OQP counts towards the State QSO Party Challenge

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