First, in addition to the normal 1st, 2nd and 3rd place certificates that will be issued, the winner of the December RFTB will be receiving a special Holiday Piggie treat courtesy of Jeff K3OQ. Second, after this RFTB, the "Big Pig of the Sty", "El Numero Uno Hog" will be determined. This fine porkster will achieve a Certificate of Achievement as well as a special Piggie memento. Second and third place point accumulators for the year will receive something special also. And for those of you who participated in at least 10 RFTBs throughout the year will receive a "Piggie Attendance Award" So, here and forthwith begins the formal announcement. Roll the tape!

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This Sunday evening, the Flying Pigs Amateur Radio Club International will be holding its monthly Run For The Bacon. This is a friendly, two hour QRP CW Sprint, which is open to ALL radio amateurs, will last from 9:00 - 11:00PM EST (0200-0400 UTC Monday).

You may work stations once per band on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 or 10 Meters. Suggested starting frequencies are 1.812, 3.562, 7.044, 14.062, 21.062, and 28.062 MHz.

The exchange is RST, S/P/C (State, Province, Country) and Flying Pigs membership number. If you're not a member of the Flying Pigs, and would like to be; then please click on the "membership" hyperlink on http://www.fpqrp.com/. Otherwise, non-members can just use their output power figure.

You can report your score via the Autolog page which can be found at :http://www.fpqrp.com/fpqrprun.html;
or you can mail your logs to the address given on the Autolog page. The deadline for logs is December 24th at 2400 UTC.

Hope to catch you on the air Sunday evening!

72 es "oo"
Larry W2LJ FP#612