I have a certificate for winning the Western Pennsylvania section in the
16th Pennsylvania QSO Party held in 1973. It was then and now sponsored by
the Nittany Amateur Radio Club, and I believe it has been a continuously
running party for all those years.
My first contest as a General (or maybe just the first after I got a VFO)
was the New Jersey QSO Party in the summer of 1965. Sadly although this
still goes on, it is a contest that should be put out of its misery.
73 - Jim K8MR
In a message dated 9/17/2009 7:43:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
hwardsil@gmail.com writes:
Such a subject is sure to generate some discussion :-) The specific
subject is "which state QSO party is the oldest?" In the last issue of the
Contest Update (www.arrl.org/contest/update) I printed the claim of
California's QSO Party to being the oldest of the lot. Subsequently, a
question was
raised about that - is the Pennsylvania QSO Party older? I don't know -
and possibly there are others with a claim to the title.
Now - let's be sure we distinguish between "longest continuously running
state QSO party" and "first state QSO party". I'd kinda like to know both.
This year is CQP's 45th running - that's pretty good! Can any others
match or exceed that? And when was the very first state QSO party, anyway,
regardless of activity since then? And no regional or local contests - it has
to be a contest aimed at a single state (yes, territories are OK, too, you
KL7's and KH6's).
An interesting question - let the games begin!
73, Ward N0AX
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