Many Years of FYBO
FYBO (Freeze Your B--- Off) is a winter contest dreamed up by the Arizona ScQRPions, QRP club. They thought it would be neat to have a contest where the temperature you operate in determined the multipliers. The mults start at 65 F and above for a mult of 1 and as the temperature goes down by 10 degrees, the mult goes up by 1 until you reach a temp of 20 F and below where the mult maxes out at 7.
Since FYBO began in 1997, many of the years I've been able to go out in the field somewhere near Moscow, Idaho, and operate. Here are reports from all of the events. Generally, they are taken from what I reported at the time.
1997 - Ski to operating site near Elk City, ID
1998- I stayed home to get DE for QRP WAS in the DE QSO Party. It was the last state I needed. Got 3 of them and got QSL cards, too!
1999 - Another year of staying home, but this time with the window open. It only got down to 55 in the shack.
2000 - Snowshoe to operating site near Deary, ID
2001 - Snowshoe to operating site near Elk River, ID
2002 - Snowshoe to operating site near Elk River, ID and multi-op with KC7QCS
2003 - Wind and rain kept me home with the window open. RATS!
2005 - No snow so walk to operating site near Deary, ID
2007 - An outdoor-indoor multi-op with KC7QCS from home in Moscow, ID
2009 - Under the back deck from home in Moscow, ID
2010 - Another low snow year so walk to operating site near Deary, ID
2014 - I did not operate in this one at all.
