With CQP 2024 safely behind us, scanning back to October 2019, it would seem that a "Blast from the Past" post for CQP was published reflecting on all the CQP events from 2000 - 2018. This little ad-HOC Blog post is to revisit the CQP events from 2019 thru 2023.
To make it easier to find the Blog post to each event, let's begin with summary links to those Blogs.
- [X] - Original Blast from the Past Blog
- [X] - 2019: K6C #1 CCOS and NX6T #2 SDIE
- [X] - 2020: K6A #1 SDIE and K6C #1 CCOS
- [X] - 2021: K6QLF #2 ALAM
- [X] - 2022: Confirming CQP: Some ThoTs on MaKing it All Happen
- [X] - 2022: Confirming CQP (Part-2): Contingency Plans for Contingency Plans
- [X] - 2022: WQ6X #1 CCOS QRP and K6Q #1 CCOS LP and NX6T #1 RIVE
- [X] - 2022: Some CQP After-Thoughts about CQP
- [X] - 2023: W6R #1 SDIE and WQ6X #1 CCOS and NX6T #1 RIVE
- [X] - 2024: WQ6X Successfully Navigates a 5-Way California QSO Party
- [X] - 2024: Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA) runs a CQP Training Exercise
For this 2019 CQP event, I decided to take the easy way out by registering the K6C callsign and repeating last year's dual-OP with NX6T from W7AYT's QTH in Contra Costa County.
and the California QSO Party (in particular). LooKing for a SAFE location to run the 30-hour
event, it was suggested that we coordinate with the California Historical Radio Society (CHRS),
whose museum JUST happens to be 2-blocks from my office in Alameda.
The original idea was to organize the Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA) as K6QLF. Unable
to secure a secure location for 40+ hours eventually the deciding factor, suggesting that ARCA can always come back in 2023.
on (radiosport-wise) - each year I discover here-to-for undiscovered (for me anyway) ways to play
the CQP game. When it's ALL over, the Question becomes, DiD the CQP contest overall adequately activate all 58 California counties [nearly] all of the time?
before, during and after the CQP added yet another dimension to CQP as an operating event.
My time was divided between 5-Events: