*** CQ FLORIDA HAMS ***
Dear Fellow FL Hams,
Hello again and thanks to so many of you for your participation in the 2024 Florida QSO Party (FQP).
The 2025 Florida QSO Party will be held April 26 & 27. We sure hope you'll join us by activating your FL HF stations – home, club, school, mobile and expedition all welcomed.
Let’s make all 67 counties RADIO-ACTIVE!
CALL TO ACTION!!!
Florida Stations of all types – please go to the FQP website and register your fixed, mobile and expedition operations; just click on the “Counties" link and then the Activation Forms to get started – thanks!
Direct Links:
Saturday Registration Form: https://floridaqsoparty.org/counties/saturday-route/
Sunday Registration Form: https://floridaqsoparty.org/counties/sunday-route/
*PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU REVIEW YOUR ENTRY FOR ACCURACY BEFORE SUBMITTING*
Please check out the rules and further details at our Web Site: http://www.floridaqsoparty.org/
Rules Changes:
- Expanded Suggested Frequencies
- Log submissions required within 10 days after the end of FQP
The
Florida QSO Party
Object:
Everyone works
Florida, Florida works Everyone
Activate
and work ALL
Florida counties
Have
as much FUN as
possible!
When: April
26 & 27, 2025
Two
ten hour operating
periods, with a ten hour break:
Saturday,
April 26
1600Z (Noon EDT) – April 27 0159Z (9:59 PM EDT)
Sunday,
April 27 1200Z
(8 AM EDT) - 2159Z (5:59 PM EDT)
20
Hours total
Exchange:
RST and County (Florida stations)
RST
and QTH (State,
Province or Country for non-FL)
Where:
10, 15, 20 and 40 Meters
NEW! EXPANDED SUGGESTED OPERATING FREQUENCIES:
CW: 7.025-7.055, 14.025-14.055, 21.025-21.055, 28.025-28.055 MHz
Phone: 7.185-7.285, 14.225-14.325, 21.300-21.400, 28.400-28.500 MHz
Contacts outside these frequency ranges are still valid; see rules for details.
MOBILE WINDOW:
We
expect that several
Mobile stations will be on and most can be found here:
CW:
7.025-7.035,
14.040-14.050, 21.040-21.050, 28.040-28.050 MHz
If you
are not a FL mobile,
*please* refrain from calling CQ in these windows.
Categories:
Single
Op, Multi Op,
Multi-Multi, Mobile, Expedition, Technician and School.
Three
power levels:
QRP, Low, and High Power.
Modes:
Use
CW, SSB or both.
Prizes:
Printable
color
Certificates for top participants
Plaques
for top
finishing entrants.
Web
Site: http://www.floridaqsoparty.org/
Detailed
rules,
mobile routes, past results, plaques, county
abbreviations and maps and much more!
Logs:
Logs in Cabrillo format can be uploaded (preferred) at: https://fqp.contesting.com/fqpsubmitlog.php
or emailed
to [email protected];
Paper logs via US mail to: Florida QSO
Party, c/o Dan Street, K1TO, 9933 289th St E., Myakka
City, FL 34251
Any
questions or
feedback? Please feel free to reply to my email:
[email protected]
We highly encourage you to
sign up to the FQP email Group [email protected].
Anyone wishing to subscribe to the FQP email
reflector
may go to this link to sign up: https://groups.io/g/FQP
Please forward this announcement to your club members and to other FL clubs.
THANK
YOU in advance for making the 2025 FQP
another terrific event!
73,
Chris, NX4N, on behalf of:
Chris, W4WF and Dan, K1TO – President and Past President
Florida Contest Group, proud sponsors of the FQP
since 1998