Special
1x1 Call Signs by NFARL to be on-the-air during GQP
To encourage participation in the 51st 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@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@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>.
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>.
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-- Jim Stafford W4QO