[SECC] Work 1x1 Callsigns in the GA QSO Party..

[Jim Stafford]

*Special 1x1 Call Signs by NFARL to be on-the-air during GQP*

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To encourage participation in the 51^st annual Georgia QSO Party, the 
North Fulton Amateur Radio League has announced it will operate a group 
of special 1x1 special event call signs during the GA QSO Party on April 
14 and 15, 2012.These call signs comprise a series that spells NFARL in 
the suffix.K4N, K4F, K4A, K4R, and K4L will be used by active contesters 
from the club in order to give maximum opportunity for contacts with 
these stations.They will also be seizing on this opportunity to expose 
some of their members who are new to Ham Radio, to the fun of HF and the 
thrill of contesting.


For those contest participants both inside and outside Georgia who log 
all five special event call signs during the contest, the club is 
offering a special certificate commemorating the achievement.Just 
extract the records for the 5 contacts from your log, paste them in to 
an e-mail, and send it to: gqp2012 at nfarl.org <mailto:gqp2012 at nfarl.org> 
before May 15, 2012.There is no charge for this certificate.They 
encourage you to be certain to also submit your entire log in Cabrillo 
format to the Georgia QSO Party at logs at georgiaqsoparty.org 
<mailto:logs at georgiaqsoparty.org>.

*About the North Fulton Amateur Radio League:*

The North Fulton Amateur Radio League is an ARRL Special Service Club 
whose members generally live just north of Atlanta, GA.In 2011, the 
NFARL won the GQP award, a gavel, for the highest aggregate score by a 
Ham Radio club in Georgia for the third year in a row and had 35 members 
active in the GQP.In 2012, they plan to increase their participation 
level to over 60 stations on the air including the special event 
stations.They will be on all contest bands and all modes, including 
Digital, on both contest days.Several of the club members, including at 
least one of the 1x1 call signs, will be operating as Rover stations in 
counties throughout North and Central Georgia.All of this increased 
activity notwithstanding, _they will not be pursuing a fourth gavel in 
2012_.By acclamation the club leadership has decided to instruct the 
club membership to assign their scores to other Ham Radio clubs and 
associations that they may be affiliated with and to encourage other 
clubs throughout the state of Georgia to step up their pursuit the 
honored top spot.More details on the NFARL club may be found at 
<http://www.nfarl.org <http://www.nfarl.org/>>.

*About the Georgia QSO Party:*

The GA QSO Party (GQP) is now one of the premier state and provincial 
QSO Parties in North America. The 2012 event marks the fifty-first 
consecutive year of the activity.Each year several hundred Amateur Radio 
operators throughout the state endeavor to activate all 159 counties, 
the most of any state except for Texas, during the two ten-hour sessions 
on the second full weekend of April. For additional information and 
rules for the GA QSO party, go to <http://www.georgiaqsoparty.org 
<http://www.georgiaqsoparty.org/>>.

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Jim Stafford W4QO

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