[Elecraft] 2008 Elecraft QSO Party

[Ed K1EP]

I asked this question a couple of weeks ago and got no response 
either.  I would think that with over 500 new K3s out there that many 
would like to use them.  :)  Maybe it will be rescheduled later this year.


At 3/8/2008 06:09 PM, k9mms at comcast.net wrote:
>When is the 2008 Elecraft QSO party scheduled to take place?  The Elecraft
>website still contains the announcement for the 2007 EQP.
>
>Earlier this week, I found the 2008 Elecraft QSO party listed on a 
>couple of QRP
>websites, and it was scheduled for today; however the links still went to the
>Elecraft website and the 2007 announcement.  Earlier this afternoon, 
>I called CQ
>EQP and tuned around the suggested frequencies -- virtually nothing happening
>about EQP.  I only had one reply to my multiple CQ EQPs (a K3 in 
>ME), and I did
>not hear any EQP QSOs in progress.  After tuning around a few bands 
>for about 30
>- 45 minutes, I quit trying.  The bands seemed to busy with OK QP 
>and BERU QSOs.
>I checked later this afternoon and found that the Elecraft EQP 
>listings had been
>removed from the list of QRP contests that I previously found on the "web."
>
>Does anyone have the scoop on when the real 2008 EQP is to take place?
>
>Thanks.
>
>73,
>       Gary