2025
|
|
5/7/2025...
The 2025 7QP is in the books. We started setting up at 5:00am and had everything going by 6:00am (or so we thought). After running one of the radio stations for about 45 minutes we discovered we weren’t getting out at all. We spent the next hour or so diagnosing, changing coax, changing antennas (Rick (K7RCR) went home and grabbed another antenna), double checked connections and radio settings. All to no avail.
The conclusion was, it had to be the ICOM 7300 was not working. John Perlick (K0UM) took the radio home, hooked up to his equipment, tested it, turns out the radio is working just fine. Well now what? He brought his dummy load back, we started the process of checking everything from the radio outward. Found it to be a coax problem. Interestingly enough, the coax that worked in the end , didn’t work in the beginning. Hum? Final decision, maybe the area used to be a burial ground and other “things” were not playing well with us. Then they realized we weren’t going to give up and moved aside. That’s our story, and we’re sticking to it.
In my opinion, the 2025 GVARC 7QP was a huge success. We had 13 operators (including 2 non-members) and made 118 QSO’s. We operated on phone, CW, and PSK31. We operated mostly 20m, 40m, and a little 15m. The bands were up and down. We had several people (including club members) just come by to visit with us and talk radio. In all, we had 20 people come to the party. (Listed below) The weather was really pretty good, we got a few gusts of wind that tried to blow papers all over, but it usually died down as quick as they came up. The camaraderie was awesome.
Operators/Loggers, Crew and visitors:
The bands dropped off quickly around 4:30pm, we had no one else signed up to operate, and those of us that had been there all or most of the day were getting tired. The decision….. let’s put a bow on the 2025 7QP.
A huge thank you to EVERYBODY that was there and helped with setup, operating, logging, teardown and clean up, and just making this 7QP a great and successful day.
Mike Nester (KL7KTP)
GVARC VP
The 2025 7QP is in the books. We started setting up at 5:00am and had everything going by 6:00am (or so we thought). After running one of the radio stations for about 45 minutes we discovered we weren’t getting out at all. We spent the next hour or so diagnosing, changing coax, changing antennas (Rick (K7RCR) went home and grabbed another antenna), double checked connections and radio settings. All to no avail.
The conclusion was, it had to be the ICOM 7300 was not working. John Perlick (K0UM) took the radio home, hooked up to his equipment, tested it, turns out the radio is working just fine. Well now what? He brought his dummy load back, we started the process of checking everything from the radio outward. Found it to be a coax problem. Interestingly enough, the coax that worked in the end , didn’t work in the beginning. Hum? Final decision, maybe the area used to be a burial ground and other “things” were not playing well with us. Then they realized we weren’t going to give up and moved aside. That’s our story, and we’re sticking to it.
In my opinion, the 2025 GVARC 7QP was a huge success. We had 13 operators (including 2 non-members) and made 118 QSO’s. We operated on phone, CW, and PSK31. We operated mostly 20m, 40m, and a little 15m. The bands were up and down. We had several people (including club members) just come by to visit with us and talk radio. In all, we had 20 people come to the party. (Listed below) The weather was really pretty good, we got a few gusts of wind that tried to blow papers all over, but it usually died down as quick as they came up. The camaraderie was awesome.
Operators/Loggers, Crew and visitors:
- Rick Rogers (K7RCR)
- Mike Nester (KL7KTP)
- Gene Short (N8ELA)
- John Lynn (KL7CY)
- Tom Lang (K7VOA)
- Bruce Brightman (WL7B)
- Mark Ferguson (KJ7DXL)
- Arnold Gonzales (KJ7VOG) (and spouse)
- Jim Sinclair (KF0AGW)
- Patti Donahue (KE7IR)
- Deanna Lentz (N9ASN)
- David Vitkus (KK7VLU)
- Laura Vitkus (KK7YZK)
- Dave Dobbins (K7GPS)
- John Perlick (K0UM
- Mike Bass (WA9TKK)
- Linda Boeck
- Rudy Sweisfurth (N7COP)
- Jack McGowen (AD7NK)
The bands dropped off quickly around 4:30pm, we had no one else signed up to operate, and those of us that had been there all or most of the day were getting tired. The decision….. let’s put a bow on the 2025 7QP.
A huge thank you to EVERYBODY that was there and helped with setup, operating, logging, teardown and clean up, and just making this 7QP a great and successful day.
Mike Nester (KL7KTP)
GVARC VP
2024
And the results for 7th Area Multi-Single Low
N7GV First in Category
... 7qp.org/new/MobPage.asp?Content=START&Page=2
N7GV First in Category
... 7qp.org/new/MobPage.asp?Content=START&Page=2
5/10/2024
Four club members braved the excellent weather at the Titan antenna to beat the bands for QSOs on Saturday from 1000 to 1600ish.
Thanks to Tom Smith, John Perlick and Mike Bass for picking apart the bands with me. I enjoyed the exercise of operating QRP PORTABLE.
We had a combined total of > 140 QSOs with the majority being CW followed by USB and one (1) digital PSK31. Digital was absent on most bands. I was surprised since each QSO was worth 4 points.
Log is being submitted to the 7QP officials after one last and final visual review of the combined ACLog.
Looking forward to FD if still able (present in AZ)
73, Dain
Four club members braved the excellent weather at the Titan antenna to beat the bands for QSOs on Saturday from 1000 to 1600ish.
Thanks to Tom Smith, John Perlick and Mike Bass for picking apart the bands with me. I enjoyed the exercise of operating QRP PORTABLE.
We had a combined total of > 140 QSOs with the majority being CW followed by USB and one (1) digital PSK31. Digital was absent on most bands. I was surprised since each QSO was worth 4 points.
Log is being submitted to the 7QP officials after one last and final visual review of the combined ACLog.
Looking forward to FD if still able (present in AZ)
73, Dain
5/9/2022
7QP is over for this year. Note the photos which were submitted by Randy Walker.
7QP is over for this year. Note the photos which were submitted by Randy Walker.
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 |
|
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. |