<style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style><font face="Calibri"><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br> <b>Subject:</b> NEQP coming next weekend!<br> <b>From:</b> Tom Frenaye <frenaye@pcnet.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 30, 2023, 07:02<br> <b>To:</b> New Englnd radio clubs <frenaye@pcnet.com><br> <b>CC:</b> <br><br><br></font><html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hope you can find room to include the info below on the <b>New England QSO Party</b> out to your members on your email reflector or social media.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>It’ll be a lot of fun!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> 73 Tom/K1KI<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>New England QSO Party - 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=p1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>The New England QSO Party on May 6th and 7th is a great time to check out antenna systems and offers a moderately paced opportunity to work new states and countries. You'll find a wide variety of participants, from newcomers to experienced contesters, all interested in making contacts with New England stations.<br><br>Our goal is to get every one of the 67 counties in New England on the air so we hope you will encourage your friends to join in the fun! Even if you can join us for a couple of hours, we'd appreciate it!<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>Will you be QRV? Let us know with a message to<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:info@neqp.org" title="mailto:info@neqp.org">info@neqp.org</a></b></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><br></span><span class=s2><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0433FF'>The New England QSO Party is 20 hours long overall, in two sections with a civilized break for sleep on Saturday night. It runs from 4 pm Saturday until 1 am Sunday, then 9 am Sunday until 8 pm Sunday. Operate on CW, SSB and/or digital modes on 80-40-20-15-10 meters. For each QSO you'll give your callsign, a signal report and your county/state. Top scorers can earn a plaque and everyone who sends in a log with at least 25 QSOs will get a certificate. The goal is to work stations anywhere in the world - and their goal is to work New England stations, so you'll be very popular!</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0433FF'><br><br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Last year we had logs from 871 stations from around the country and world.<span class=apple-converted-space> There were 295 stations from New England on the air!</span><br><br>The full rules are here -><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.neqp.org/rules.html" title="http://www.neqp.org/rules.html"><span class=s3><span style='color:#0433FF'>https://neqp.org/rules/</span></span><span style='color:#0433FF'><br><br></span></a>The full 2022 results were posted a couple of weeks ago - <a href="https://neqp.org/2022-new-england-qso-party/">https://neqp.org/2022-new-england-qso-party/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>This next weekend is the 2023 NEQP. Please get on and make some QSOs even if you don't want to send in a log!<br><br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Thanks!<br><br>73 Tom/K1KI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> <a href="https://neqp.org/">https://neqp.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>—<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>Tom Frenaye, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093. c: 860-597-4539 h: 860-668-5444<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>