FAQ

GQP

Georgia QSO Party

Above all, get on the air and make contacts and have a good time at it.

Logging... See the Log Programs page for the logging software and other downloads.

GA stations always send their county, even to other GA stations.
You will get credit for GA as a state Mult automatically in the final score

Go ahead and log the dupes... scores will be adjusted on final.

Leave all QSOs worked in the log, Invalid or other errors will also be picked off at final.

Get your log in by May 15th, this date is constant even thought the party moves a week or two some years.

Below are some Tips, an example of a Cabrillo File.

Logging. PLEASE Use a computer; send in an Cabrillo format log file. We receive printed files for logs. Please don’t print them, send the files as email attachments instead. We accept many forms of files. Preferred are Cabrillo, Text, and such. Excel spreadsheets are OK in most cases, just put all of the contact info on each line entry. Do not use dittos or blanks; fill each QSO in completely, all the details. Do not send Mac files. Please use a computer to send in any entry with more than a few contacts. If you are a member of a contest club, or a dx club this should be “given” requirement.
Name your file entries as “mycall.log” for the log files, and “mycall.sum” for the summary sheet. You do not need to put GQP or GQP2002 in the name, as we already know that.
Put the county or state in a separate field. Don’t put colons in times, and use UTC. Get the date right for all entries.
Contact scoring: You can work a station on each band and on each mode from each new location that the station goes to. This means that the GA rovers are good for new points each time they change counties, change bands, and change modes.
Multipliers: The multipliers are added up on a overall, per mode. When it is all done; you count the different multipliers from the overall log, once each for CW and once each for Phone. The total multipliers will be the sum of the Phone and CW overall unique multipliers.
GA stations should not count GA counties or DX as multipliers. GA stations can count GA as a state multiplier this is often forgotten. Don't worry, GA stations will get GA multiplier credited. Out of state stations count only GA counties, and not DX or other states. Use the official county list from the web site for the proper county abbreviations. Do not spell out the counties. Please use the abbreviations in all situations.
Before you email the file, look at it and see if you can read it, if it has all the dates right, and if all the lines have full info. See if the file makes sense to you. Give the file a name that has your call included.

A Cabrillo File example.... delete the "NOTE" lines for the bare Cabrillo.....

NOTE: The header section has the details of your entry
NOTE: Send your log to gqp.iham.us
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CREATED-BY: Cabrillo Example File
CALLSIGN: YOURCALL HERE
ARRL-SECTION: YOUR STATE PROVINCE OR "DX" HERE
CONTEST: State QSO Party - GA
CATEGORY: RS LP MIXED
CLUB-NAME: YOUR CLUB NAME HERE
CLAIMED-SCORE: YOUR SCORE
OPERATORS: CALLS OF OPERATORS
NAME: YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAMES
ADDRESS: STREET ADDRESS
ADDRESS: CITY, STATE, ZIPCODE
ADDRESS: (e-mail) YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
SOAPBOX: Put your comments in lines
SOAPBOX: like these for publication in the results.
NOTE:-------------------------------------------------
NOTE: All these NOTE lines can be deleted for submission (or not)
NOTE: There should be a colon and a space after the Keywords (like QSO)
NOTE: There should be NO more colons in the line after the Keyword.
NOTE:
NOTE: In the “QSO ” lines below, at least ONE space is needed between items.
NOTE: AND the items should be in the order shown on the lines.
NOTE: Extra spaces do not hurt, columns don’t have to align vertically
NOTE:
NOTE: Description of items on a QSO line---------------
NOTE: Frequency- with no decimals is preferred, or band like 40 or 20 is ok.
NOTW: Mode- is PH or CW only.
NOTE: Date- is as shown.
NOTE: Time- is 4 digit UTC with no colons.
NOTE: YOUR CALL- as used in the QSO party
NOTE: Sig Report- 5X or 5XX format as you sent
NOTE: YOUR QTH-(State nonGA US) or County (in GA) or Province (nonGA VE) or “DX”
NOTE: The CALL of the contacted station
NOTE: Sig Report- 5X or 5XX format as you received
NOTE: The QTH of the contacted station, A State/Province/GA County or “DX”
NOTE: GA to GA QSOs use a county for sent and received QTH- You get state mult
NOTE: Stuff after last item (His QTH) is ignored if no colons present)
NOTE: Example lines from a GA station below---------------------
QSO: 14000 PH 2007-04-14 1813 NE4S 59 GWIN KI4HPX 59 FULT
QSO: 14000 PH 2007-04-14 1831 NE4S 59 GWIN VE3VID 59 ON
QSO: 14000 PH 2007-04-14 1836 NE4S 59 GWIN K4XU 59 OR
QSO: 14000 PH 2007-04-14 1839 NE4S 59 GWIN VE3KPP 59 VB3
QSO: 14000 PH 2007-04-14 1831 NE4S 59 GWIN VE3VID 59 ON
QSO: 7000 CW 2007-04-15 2159 NE4S 599 CHER W8CAR 599 OH
QSO: 14000 PH 2007-04-15 2234 NE4S 59 COBB W4GKF 59 FULT
QSO: 7000 CW 2007-04-15 2306 NE4S 599 COBB N4BP 599 FLOY
QSO: 7000 CW 2007-04-15 2310 NE4S 599 COBB K5YAA 599 OK
QSO: 7000 CW 2007-04-15 2310 NE4S 599 COBB W4AU 599 VA
QSO: 7000 CW 2007-04-15 2313 NE4S 599 COBB VE3NBJ 599 DX
QSO: 7000 CW 2007-04-15 2313 NE4S 599 COBB WA3HAE 599 PA
QSO: 7000 CW 2007-04-15 2314 NE4S 599 COBB W7LPF 599 PA
QSO: 7000 CW 2007-04-15 2315 NE4S 599 COBB AA3B 599 PA
QSO: 7000 CW 2007-04-15 2315 NE4S 599 COBB AD1C 599 MA !
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