It's time again for the Texas QSO Party, next weekend, September 29-30. As in previous years we'll be serving up a bunch of the 254 counties for your QSO-ing pleasure and this year it's looking real
The 2012 edition of the Texas QSO Party rolls this weekend with 19 mobiles and 46 fixed stations teaming up to put all 254 counties from Anderson to Zavalla on the air with a good mix of SSB and CW.
Results of the 2012 Texas QSO Party are now available on the TQP website http://www.txqp.net. Thanks to all who participated and congratulations to the winners. Plaques to the winners are anticipated
Hi Hank -- In a recent posting you mentioned "Perhaps, if these five become "regulars" on the third weekend of April, someone will develop a contest logger designed with these four (five?) in mind?"
It's only about a month until Saturday night at the Crown Plaza where you can test your CW pileup skills on the latest competition concocted by Russ-K0VXU for the Kansas City DX Club's Hospitality Su
The program CQ/X (www.no5w.com) integrates this functionality along with distance to next county, next turn, etc within the contest logging function. Runs on Win7 and XP. Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 11:42
Once the files are received from Russ-K0VXU I will put together a small patch to be applied to the current practice program. The patch will be available on www.no5w.com on the same page where you ob
The Dayton pile up files from 2013 have been obtained from Russ-K0VXU and are now available as a patch to the Pile Up Player Practice program. You can download the patch (180-01) from the same page w
It's probably a bit early to be practicing for the Dayton 2014 KCDXC CW Pile Up Competition but I've made the following enhancements to the PileUpNet practice application that may prove useful in rev
I don't recall which "giant gun" station the recording came from but several years ago Gary W5ZL(SK) and I used such a recording to build a SSB Competition for the Austin Summerfest. The main labor,
There's a touch of fall in the air and we're seeing some gas prices under $3.00 so the weather and gas gods are smiling on the 17 Texas mobiles and numerous fixed stations just in time for the Big En
Logs for the Texas QSO Party are due by the end of the day Friday 10-31-14. Send paper logs to Keith NM5G at his address on QRZ Send electronic logs to Chuck NO5W at this email address. 73/Chuck/NO5W
It's only a few weeks until Dayton and the ever popular Saturday night KCDXC CW Pile Up Competition. In case you're feeling a little rusty and think a warm-up using past competitions would be helpful
A report listing the results and other information from the 2015 Texas QSO Party is now available on www.txqp.net Many thanks to all who participated. 73 Chuck-NO5W Keith-NM5G _______________________
This coming weekend its time again for the Texas QSO Party in two sessions Session 1: Saturday 1400Z - 0200Z Sunday Session 2: Sunday 1400Z - 2000Z Sunday Check here for full rules <http://www.txqp.n
I've enjoyed reading this topic but have not managed to read all of the responses so apologies if the following has already been covered. Both activities provide the opportunity to operate as a team
Results for the 2017 Texas QSO Party are available here <http://www.txqp.net/>. Follow the Results | Final Scores menu items to the 2017 results to view the results on line or to download the full re
Hi Mike -- Saw your comment to K8MR's note and thought I would follow up with this note of my own County overlay maps showing an outline of each county for each state are also available in KML format
Hi Mike -- Regarding your recent comment on this subject*: * interfaced with N1MM+ Check out the FQP Map Tracker Overview <https://www.no5w.com/Documents/FQP Map Tracker Overview.pdf> just released f
I agree with the concern voiced by K9YC regarding QSO party rules that create the wrong incentives for in-state participants. That is the reason we (TxQP) monitor the percent of QSOs that are Texas-t