Thirteen Years of FYBO

**By Randy Foltz, K7TQ**

FYBO (Freeze Your B--- Off) is a winter contest dreamed up by the Arizona ScQRPions, a 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, eight of the thirteen years I've been able to go out in the field somewhere near Moscow, Idaho, and operate. Here are reports from all thirteen of the events. Generally, they are taken from what I reported at the time.