WELCOME TO THE OM INTERNATIONAL SIDEBAND SOCIETY (OMISS)
We hope you will check in often; it is for your enjoyment. The main objectives of the net are to promote good will, to pass emergency, formal and informal traffic, and for members to work each other for awards. You do not have to be a member to check in or to use our FREE QSL Bureau, but you must be a member to qualify for our awards. All contacts for awards must be made on the net.

For a "hard copy" of information on OMISS, send a #10 size SASE envelope, with two units of first class postage, to:

Membership
Membership is obtained by contacting two (2) member stations with OM numbers on net times and frequencies. There is a $7.00 lifetime membership fee. To become a member, send the log information of two member stations contacted, along with the membership fee to:

Please include your county and grid square with your other info. Make check payable to OMISS. Dick will send you a Certificate of Membership, a roster, and your OM number. DX stations, please use International Money Order or U.S. Currency.

HOW TO USE THE FREE QSL BUREAU
(Need NOT be an OMISS Member to use.)

The OMISS has a FREE QSL Bureau for all stations, members and non-members, for confirmation of net contacts. Please QSL. Members working for awards need your confirmation. Do not wait to receive cards before you send. When you have enough outgoing QSLs to fill an envelope, send them in along with some SASE's, with one or two units of postage each.

Please use only #10 business sized envelopes when sending SASE's to the buro. This helps with organization, and 99.9% of all cards fit in them without the need for folding.

* NOTE - DX Stations need NOT pay any postage. The Buro picks up the tab for all DX Stations.

When there are enough cards coming to you to fill an envelope, the bureau will send them out. QSL cards with cross-outs, write-overs, erasures, etc., will not be accepted for awards. If you make a mistake, throw the card away and write a new one. Write the month as the abbreviation rather than the figure. If the frequency is in MHz, be sure to put the decimal in the right place. Since we use UTC time format, the starting date for 75M, 40M, and 160M nets is one day later than the calendar date. (This may or may not apply to DX Stations.)
The current QSL Bureau Address is:

* And Monday if it is a Legal Holiday

** The Winter schedule will begin the last week-end in October and complete the 1st week-end in April.

Net Control Stations Needed!  Please contact if you can help out once in a while or regularly.

When you call or are called by another station; give your call sign, name, state, and OM number (if you have one). You may also be asked for your county and/or grid square, so please have them handy. Then give a signal report. The minimum acceptable signal report is 2 x 1. If the station has called you and given a signal report, acknowledge the report and give them one back; example: "I roger your 5 by 9. You are also 5 by 9." Net Control needs to hear both stations acknowledge the correct signal reports for the contact to be "a good one," making the call "official." 1 Net Control (or a relay for Net Control) can help fill in any of the information about the other station except for the signal report.

OMISS Awards - General:
All awards are available to OMISS member stations only. Contacts made by a member with a non-member are valid retroactively if and when the non-member becomes a member, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, such as on WAS and DX Awards where Membership is NOT required to be worked towards an award. Non-members may use contacts made with members retroactively after they obtain a OMISS Membership number. All contacts must be made on net frequencies and during net times to be valid for any of the awards. Unless otherwise specified, only log info need be sent in qualifying for the awards. (Although there are on-line forms available for your convenience - these must be printed and mailed in via US Postal Mail; not submitted electronically.) Signal reports are not required in info sent, but must be included on any required QSL cards submitted. In unusual circumstances, the Awards Manager may require QSLs to verify log information. The ARRL countries list will be used for all awards based on countries worked.

Contacts for all awards may be made on any of the bands used by the OMISS net. Unless otherwise stated, all awards will require a $4.00 fee. Endorsements require a $3.00 fee plus postage for return of required QSLs. Single band endorsements are available for the WAS awards only. If the original application for these awards shows that contacts were made on a single band, it will be endorsed for the one band at no additional charge.

Awards are numbered sequentially, in the order issued. Contacts submitted for qualifying for any of the awards may be made on any of the nets of the Society. Log information sheets submitted for awards will not be returned since they become part of the record if the award is issued.

AWARDS MANAGER:

KF5RD
Pete Mann
722 S 138 E Ave
Tulsa, OK 74108

E-Mail:

Click here for AWARD INFORMATION

Why the QSL Card?
All through life we carefully preserve documents and valuable papers showing that in such and such a year, on such and such a day, some important event took place; events such as the day we were born.

The QSL card which the ham finds in his/her mailbox is tangible proof of a worthwhile event and accomplishment.

Without QSL cards, there would not be any awards such as DXCC, WAC, WAS, etc., and your pride of accomplishment would not be recognized.

Not everyone likes QSL cards. Some are not "interested." Those of us who take the trouble to send QSL cards certainly indicate that WE WANT YOUR CARD. I am sure that most amateur operators feel the same way about this as I do. To make the QSL chore a little easier, many stations send along IRCs or a green stamp to the country worked, along with a self-addressed stamped envelope.

QSLs make us happy! Won't you send your card to those you work on the net? Use our FREE QSL Bureau!