Hi all,
The 2025 California QSO Party (CQP) is this weekend. We are looking
forward to your participation!
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2025 California QSO Party
1600Z October 4 - 2200Z October 5, 2025
https://cqp.org
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1. All 58 California counties will be active in CQP on both CW and SSB.
https://cqp.org/tracker.html
2. Participate in the Friday practice session and 3610 kHz chat.
Details:
https://cqp.org/pdf/CQP2025_Practice.pdf
3. What to expect from CA stations
* Expect new callsigns to contact on Sunday of CQP. CA stations have a new
challenge this year: the Sunday Challenge. We hope this brings you fresh
callsigns to contact on Sunday that weren't active on Saturday.
* There will be several stations on dual-county lines, and one station on a
tri-county line. Know how to log county line stations in your software
program. Read this guide:
https://cqp.org/files/cqp_how_to_log_a_county_line_qso.pdf
* There will be over 25 1x1 callsigns active. K6CQP, N6CQP and W6CQP will
all be active.
4. Plan for your CQP 2025 effort
* Catch all 58 counties while they're on the air. See tracker spreadsheet:
https://cqp.org/tracker.html
* Track mobiles live
https://cqp.org/mobile.html
Thanks to K2UA and team for setting up a live mobile APRS tracker map of
California. If you wish, you can view it during CQP at:
https://mobiletracker.stateqso.com/
* When to expect activity on each band and mode? See CQP 2024 QSO graphs
by hour:
https://cqp.org/graphs.html
* Utilize the new CQP scores database to review your QSO totals on each
band-mode from last year and compare with other stations.
https://cqp.org/Scoresdb.html
5. Fun Challenges
https://cqp.org/pdf/CQP2025_Fun_Contest_Challenges.pdf
* Time Challenge (6-hour, 12-hour, 18-hour and 24-hour champions)
* POTA Challenge
* Video Challenge
Win a gourmet California cheese gift box.
6. Chase an Accolade
Awards
https://cqp.org/Awards.html
New Record
https://cqp.org/Records.html
7. Club Competition
https://cqp.org/Clubcomp.html
Encourage your club to participate.
8. Get inspired for CQP 2025 by watching the 24 videos from CQP 2024:
https://cqp.org/av.html
73...
-Dean - N6DE
CQP Chairman
https://cqp.org
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