[FQP] CQ FQP - Recruiting Mobiles!

[Christopher Blake]

Hi There Jim - great news to have you as a new FQP Mobile! Sounds like you
have a things well planned out, even in the middle of the trek north!
Enjoy!

vy 73/OJ,
Chris, NX4N

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Jim Stahl <jimk8mr at aol.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
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