[CQ-Contest] Last CD Party?

[Jeff Clarke]

I remember the smoke filled room at the ARRL National convention in 
Louisville, KY (back in the 1990's ?) where the concept of the NAQP was 
conceived. The ARRL CD parties had just been discontinued and discussion 
was going on in the contest suite about a replacement for it. I seem to 
remember maybe K8CC, K5ZD and others came up with the idea and drafted 
the rules for the 1st NAQP. At first there was only a CW NAQP but SSB 
contest was added later.

Jeff KU8E


On 5/16/2021 11:52 AM, donovanf at erols.com wrote:
> The 20 hour July Open CD Party was replaced by the IARU Radio Sport
> Championship in 1977
>
>
> http://p1k.arrl.org/pubs_archive/69752
>
> The ten hour April Open CD party was replaced by the Poisson d'Avril
> contest
>
>
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Tim Shoppa" <tshoppa at gmail.com>
> To: "CQ-Contest Reflector" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2021 2:15:04 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Last CD Party?
>
> Did the CD Parties continue up until 1991 when the NAQP's started, or was
> there a gap?
>
> Tim N3QE
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