[SEDXC] GA QSO Party, This Weekend

[John Laney]

Hello all:  Please consider this a personal plea to get on the air this 
weekend as much as your other responsibilities allow, and operate in the 
annual Georgia QSO Party.  All information is available at 
http://gqp.contesting.com/
Georgia stations, this is our chance to shine and show that GA stations 
are a meaningful force.  Give out contacts and multipliers (your 
county).  AL and SC guys are welcome to come to GA and operate or stay 
home and work GA stations.  You will find that there is a lot of 40M 
activity during the daytime and contacts on 80 are possible.  NY4N/M 
will have a rig monitoring the 80M CW (3545) frequency all the time, so 
you can call him on that frequency or call CQ on that frequency when he 
is running on 40 or 20 and he will respond.  Please "talk it up" and 
let's make this a contest to remember.  We have commitments for activity 
from all 159 counties this weekend.  Who will be the first to make a 
"sweep" of all 159 counties and who will give out that coveted "last 
county?"  It has never been accomplished before, although W9IU worked 
154 of the 158 counties that were activated last year.

Remember that 160 and 6 meter QSOs are now permitted.  A free logger 
developed by W4GKF for GQP is available for download from the website.

NOTE:  Italian hams are conducting emergency communications as a result 
of the recent earthquake on 7045 SSB.  This is our suggested 40M CW 
frequency.  The communications emergency may be over by the weekend, but 
it would be a good idea to stay a few kHz above or below 7045 kHz when 
there is any propagation to Europe.

There will be a lot of mobiles, fixed stations and portables QRV in the 
contest.  Also, there will be a multi-multi operation from the NQ4I 
contest station in Spalding County signing the club call for the amateur 
radio club in Griffin, K4HYB.  Who can work them on all bands and modes 
160 to 10M?  There are plans for at least one low power M/M station, as 
well.  How many counties can you work some of the mobiles in?  W3DYA/M 
is coming over from TX to join in the fun!

Thanks for any help you can give.  I look forward to working you from my 
home station and from W4AN/M (the SECC club call) with KU8E.
73,

John, K4BAI.