[CQ-Contest] Last CD Party?

Mon May 17 13:43:05 EDT 2021

The CD parties were awesome, the most contest fun I ever had.  Not only do I miss them, I miss having a dedicated CD (communication department) as a central ARRL concept.  And that's No Joking Matter.  

73,
Drew K3PA
RM EPA

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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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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 13:13:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: donovanf at erols.com
To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Last CD Party?
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Hi Dave, 

I remember K5MDX well from the 1960s CD Parties. 

Just one example, can you find my CW and phone scores? 

http://p1k.arrl.org/pubs_archive/49207 

The operating skill in CD Parties was like no other contest. 
The January 1962 was my first CW CD Party score over 100K, 
a milestone in the development of any CW contester 
60 years ago. 

73 
Frank 
W3LPL 

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From: "Dave Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com> 
To: donovanf at erols.com 
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2021 4:47:24 PM 
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Last CD Party? 

Frank, 

Entered several CD parties as K5MDX years ago. They were fun. 
73 Dave K4JRB 

-----Original Message----- 
>From: donovanf at erols.com 
>Sent: May 16, 2021 11:52 AM 
>To: CQ-Contest Reflector 
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Last CD Party? 
> 
> 
>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 ----- 
> 
>From: "Tim Shoppa" 
>To: "CQ-Contest Reflector" 
>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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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 18:51:26 -0600
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] CTY-3112 Country Files - 17 May 2021
Message-ID: <mailman.4.1621267202.2067.cq-contest at contesting.com>
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The Country (CTY) Files were updated on 17 May 2021:

    https://www.country-files.com/cty-3112-17-may-2021/

For installation instructions, start at:

    https://www.country-files.com/

Hover your mouse over the word Contest in the menu, then select the
software you are using.

To install the file, follow the link to your software at the top of the page.

If you are interested in a bigger CTY.DAT for everyday logging, you can get
it here:

   https://www.country-files.com/big-cty-17-may-2021/

Note that the release notes (and Version Entity) for this larger file are
different than what is shown below.  There is a separate link to them.

As a reminder, there is an RSS feed of the latest country file announcements:

   https://www.country-files.com/feed/

Here are the release notes:

    17 May 2021 (CTY-3112)
    VER20210517, Version entity is Uruguay, CX

    Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns:

	* GB2QM is Shetland Islands, *GM/s
	* EA8CPU/DE is Canary Islands, EA8
	* GB2IOM is Isle of Man, GD
	* GB0GLS and GB1TMD are both Northern Ireland, GI
	* GB0SLB, GB0TTC and GB2QM are all Scotland, GM
	* GB6RNLI is Wales, GW
	* K9IG is United States, K in CQ zone 4, ITU zone 7
	* KD6APH and WL7CSW are both Hawaii, KH6
	* N4AKO is Puerto Rico, KP4
	* LU1FMS/F, LU1HYW/H, LU1LTL/L, LU4LBU/L, LU6FLZ/F, LU7FKK/F and LW3EMP/L
	  are all Argentina, LU
	* LU2WA/W and LU9ESD/XO are both Argentina, LU in ITU zone 16
	* R0AI/3, R115MUSA, R65KZI, R75TKS, R800AN, R800ANG, R800ANL, R800ANN,
	  R800ANV, R800RAN, RO10RT, RV1CC/1 and UA5B/4 are all European Russia, UA
	* R100KOMI and R8MB/1 are both European Russia, UA in CQ zone 17, ITU zone 20
	* R1PN/8 and UB5O/9 are both Asiatic Russia, UA9

    Removed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns:

	* MM0MOL/P in Shetland Islands, *GM/s
	* RI01ANT in Antarctica, CE9
	* EA5ZD/URE in Spain, EA
	* EA8VK/URE in Canary Islands, EA8
	* MM0MOL/P in Scotland, GM
	* IT9PQJ/0 in Italy, I
	* II0ICV in Sardinia, IS
	* KE4YSP in Guam, KH2
	* KB5OXR and N0VYO in Hawaii, KH6
	* K5RD, K7BUF and KE5WGZ in Alaska, KL
	* KC5FWS in Puerto Rico, KP4
	* LU1AW/D, LU1XZ/H, LU2HA/H, LU3DVN/X, LU6DK/D and LU7DZV/D in Argentina, LU
	* R105IA, R125PR, R2014RK, R2014SE, R41WCMB, RK0HWW/1, RT9K/6, RV1CC/P
	  and UA3LMR/P in European Russia, UA

73 - Jim AD1C

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, https://www.ad1c.us

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