[FQP] CQ FQP - Recruiting Mobiles!

[Jim Stahl]

I’m looking forward to my first Florida FQP. The FQP butts right up to our schedule for heading north, somewhat constraining my options. Present plan is a solo effort, starting on Saturday near the LEE/CLR/HEN corner, and heading north along or close to those county lines to HAR. I’m intending about a hour per county, including travel time. Traffic permitting, while driving I may go to a low activity band (15?) to CQ away while recording audio.

Sunday we’ll load the car and head north. Which won’t be first thing in the morning. I’m hoping to be able to squeeze in an operating position while my wife drives. We’ll end up at my sister’s place in The Villages (SUM), from which it will not be too far for me to solo over to LAK and MAO after saying hello and dropping off my wife.

If anybody was interested to join me on Saturday (leaving Sarasota) I’d consider a route starting near the CLR/MON/DAD corner and heading north and counterclockwise around Lake Okeechobee and back to Sarasota.


73  -  Jim  K8MR




> On Mar 10, 2017, at 7:54 AM, Christopher Blake <cqdenx4n at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello FQP fans,
> The 20th anniversary Florida QSO Party is coming up soon April 29-30 and we
> are actively recruiting new and returning mobile ops/stations to maximize
> the fun for operators in and beyond Florida.
> 
> Going mobile during FQP is a contester's dream- deep pile ups with YOU as
> the 'rare one' for each new county change, road rally-like route planning
> and driving all over our sunshine state and a chance to give the other
> participants new FL Counties and a possible sweep!  Plus mobile ops report
> many fun and often strange stories from the road including flying boxes,
> stinky stops, #19, multi-mobile stations, Wiley E. Coyote ingenious
> antennas and other contraptions, steering wheel keyboards, dinners with
> tall tales from the road and more.
> 
> 
> *We hope you, and perhaps a buddy or two, will consider going mobile for
> FQP 2017.*
> *Please 'reply all' and share your FQP mobile plans.*
> 
> 
> Make this the year that you hit the road for FQP!
> 
> Vy 73/OJ,
> Chris, NX4N
>