Bill Bliss, W1WBB, writes on the CTRI Contest Group mailing list:
The beginning of State QSO Party season is upon us. This coming weekend (Sat/Sun Feb 5 & 6) the festivities begin anew. I’d really like to encourage CTRI members to consider joining the fun by participating in some additional State QSO Parties (incl. this coming weekend!) during the 2022 contesting season. They are fun, interesting and often short but challenging events that target a specific geographic area with SSB and CW as the primary modes of communication.
The State QSO Party Challenge (in it’s 3rd year now) runs concurrently and offers operators a season-long QP competition complete with a Leaderboard and Award Certificate offerings. It is also expected to include a brand new Club Competition (similar to ARRL’s) which will run throughout the QSO Party season. New for this year is the Quebec QSO Party as well as the inaugural running of the Canadian Praries (VE4/5/6) QP … exciting stuff for QP ops in 2022!
For the first events of the year, this weekend: The MN QP (a perennial top 10 in participation), BC QP and VT QP are all running at different times over the weekend. Make a minimum of two QSOs in each, then post your score to 3830scores (for each), and you will begin the QP season ‘3 for 3′ while beginning work toward the Worked All QSO Party award (min qualification is 50% QP participation by seasons’ end). And please don’t forget to indicate CTRI as your associated club on the 3830scores.com submission page — you can prefill this on the ‘preferences’ page found via this link: 3830scores.com – prefill preferences page
Some very helpful QSO Party links:
*State QSO Party Challenge 2022
*State QSO Parties Calendar 2022 by WA7BNM
*SQP Challenge, explanatory video by K8ZT
*groups.io – QSO Party group link
I hope this info will encourage you to consider trying out some upcoming QP events!
Good luck & good contesting/73,
Bill W1WBB