[SECC] California QSO Party Announcement - CQP Practice Session Friday Night

[John Laney]

Dear 2018 California QSO Party Participant,

Thank you for participating in last year's CQP.  We hope to hear you on 
the air this weekend!

California QSO Party
http://www.cqp.org
1600Z Saturday October 5 - 2200Z Sunday October 6

** All 58 California counties will be active again this year! **
40+ county expedition stations, 3 mobiles and hundreds of fixed stations 
will be active to help you achieve a CA county sweep and provide 
hundreds of possible CA QSOs to you this weekend.

Please see our newly designed CA county activation tracker page at:
http://www.cqp.org/tracker.html

There, you will see:
* Planned CA activity in all counties and rare counties in their 
respective tracker spreadsheets at the top of the above link.  You'll be 
able to see which mode each rare county will be on, what power level 
they'll operate, when they'll operate, and how many QSOs each station 
expects to make.
* Expedition Tracker, Mobile Tracker and Fixed Station Tracker tables. 
Please take a moment to click on their pages to learn more about these 
efforts and who you will be contacting on the air.
* Track the K6AQL/M station through 21 counties:
http://www.cqp.org/pdf/k6aql_cqp2019_route_map.jpg

CQP Practice Session:
On Friday night, you are invited to participate in our CQP practice 
session.  See the bottom of this email for details.

See you in CQP this weekend!

73...
-Dean - N6DE
CQP 2019 County Coordinator

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California QSO Party Practice Session
Date;    Friday Night, October 4
Time:    7:15 - 8:00 PM PDT  =  Saturday, October 5 - 0215 - 0300 UTC
Bands:    20M, 40M, 80M  (15 minutes per band, in that order)
Modes:    Both CW and Phone
Exchange and Center Frequencies:  Same as those shown in CQP Rules: 
http://www.cqp.org/Rules.html

On CW, use the macro that you'll use in the real CQP: for example, "CQ 
CQP <callsign>"
This has the benefit of being able to be spotted by Reverse Beacon 
Network so that you can review readings of your SNR from RBN stations to 
see how well you were being heard.

On Phone call  "CQ CQP Check"

Check your antenna SWR, CW macros, logging software, boomset, keyer, 
seat cushions, refrigerator, etc. to make sure everything is working 
smoothly.

All are welcome to participate ??? especially County Expedition teams.

Short Net Meeting after practice session:  Friday, October 4 at 8:00 PM PDT
Where:    3620 kHz LSB  (+/-)
Report on your status, try some signal or audio checks, ask questions, etc.

All 58 Counties will be on the air starting this Saturday, October 5 at 
1600 UTC.

73,

Glen W6GJB

CQP Chair
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