7QP (7 Call Area QSO Party)...

It's 7 QP time for 2021

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2021...

5/2/2021
Yesterday six members of the club participated in 7QP at the deployed location at Jack McGowan's property.  They are:

Joe Dulick               KD0YKQ
Jeanne Crane         KJ7HCP
Sharon Smith          KF7YJW
Tom Smith               K7AFA
Mike Bass                WA9TKK
Rick Rogers             K7RCR

Together they made 153 contacts in 34 states, 4 provinces and one DX contact to Slovakia.  

We used the tower and antenna that Jack McGowan, AD7NK made and set up together with David Laity, KE5MEL, Joe Dulick, KD7YKQ, Rob Townsend, N7TTA and Bruce Tewksbury, K3BAT.  Pictures of the operators from yesterday will be uploaded to the 7 QP page on the club web site.  The log has been submitted and 7 QP is done for another year.

Thank you to everyone that participated or helped in any way with a special thanks to Jack for allowing us to set up on his property.  Everyone's efforts are much appreciated.

Rick Rogers, K7RCR
Former 7 QP Chair

pdf Log Sheet if you need one

Use this form to submit a photo of the 2021 7QP event

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2020...

The contest, held May 2nd, 2020, is over for this year.  As a club we did great on 7QP.  Thanks to the eleven club members that signed up to participate on 20,, 40 and/or  80 meters using Phone, CW and/or Digital included...  

Bruce Tewksbury K3BAT
Tom Smith K7AFA
Beetle Bailey K7gsb
Rick Rogers K7RCR
Sharon Smith KF7YJW
Roger Nelson KG7FZE
Jeanne Crane KJ7HCP
Mike Calvert KK7MK
Norm Kibby W5UJ
Art Blank WA7NB
Mike Bass WA9TKK

Lets get to the numbers:

Phone contacts:        610
CW Contacts:           649
Digital contacts:         30
TOTAL                    1289

Number of states:        50
(Worked ALL States!!!)
Number of provinces:    6
Number of DX             23

Total points claimed:  184,072 
This number is preliminary depending on whether all of our contacts count.

Now for the results for 2020
#3 in our category overall
#1 in our category for AZ submissions
#1 across all categories in Pima County
#8 across all categories in AZ
#23 across all categories in 7 call area

1150 logs were submitted for the contest

Third place - 7th-Area Single-Op High-Power Mixed
First place - Pima County, Arizona

A summary write up and detailed 2020 results are available at http://7qp.org.

This year, each operator worked the band they signed up for using the mode they signed up to use from their home. 
Together, they made just under 1300 contacts. 

Thank you to Bruce Tewksbury for his leadership and Rick Rogers who provided all sorts of  helpful videos of 'How To''s as well as examples of what operators might expect to hear or see during their QSOs.