CQ FL Hams & Radio Clubs! Florida QSO Party April 25 & 26
Chris Blake, NX4N
Hello Florida Amateur Radio Clubs and FL Operators,
The Florida QSO Party (FQP) will be held April 25 - 26 this year and we need you and your club’s help in creating a lot of excitement and HF operating Activity on-the-air. Please request that your members operate their stations or your club station during FQP – whether serious contesting, casual operating, pre-Field Day readiness or new-ham training, FQP is huge fun and a way to make Florida more Radio-Active! Please share the announcement below with your friends and members and let us know of your club’s operating plans.
Vy 73,
Chris, NX4N
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*** CQ FLORIDA HAMS ***
Dear Fellow FL Hams,
Hello again and thanks to so many of you for your participation in the 2025 Florida QSO Party (FQP).
The 2026 Florida QSO Party will be held April 25 & 26. We sure hope you'll join us by activating your FL HF stations – home, club, school, mobile and expedition all welcomed.
Let’s make all 67 counties RADIO-ACTIVE!
CALL TO ACTION!!!
Florida Stations of all types – please go to the FQP website and register your fixed, mobile and expedition operations; just click on the “Counties" link and then the Activation Forms to get started – thanks!
Direct Links:
Saturday Registration Form: https://floridaqsoparty.org/counties/saturday-route/
Sunday Registration Form: https://floridaqsoparty.org/counties/sunday-route/
*PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU REVIEW YOUR ENTRY FOR ACCURACY BEFORE SUBMITTING*
Please check out the rules and further details at our Web Site: http://www.floridaqsoparty.org/
The Florida QSO Party
Object: Everyone works
Florida, Florida works Everyone
Activate and work ALL
Florida counties
Have as much FUN as
possible!
When: April 25 & 26, 2026
Two ten hour operating
periods, with a ten hour break:
Saturday, April 25
1600Z (Noon EDT) – April 26 0159Z (9:59 PM EDT)
Sunday, April 26 1200Z
(8 AM EDT) - 2159Z (5:59 PM EDT)
20 Hours total
Exchange: RST and County (Florida stations)
RST and QTH (State,
Province or Country for non-FL)
Where: 10, 15, 20 and 40 Meters
SUGGESTED OPERATING FREQUENCIES:
CW: 7.025-7.055, 14.025-14.055, 21.025-21.055, 28.025-28.055 MHz
Phone: 7.185-7.285, 14.225-14.325, 21.300-21.400, 28.400-28.500 MHz
Contacts outside these frequency ranges are still valid; see rules for details.
MOBILE WINDOW:
We expect that several
Mobile stations will be on and most can be found here:
CW: 7.025-7.035,
14.040-14.050, 21.040-21.050, 28.040-28.050 MHz
If you are not a FL mobile,
*please* refrain from calling CQ in these windows.
Categories:
Single Op, Multi Op,
Multi-Multi, Mobile, Expedition, Technician and School.
Three power levels:
QRP, Low, and High Power.
Modes: Use
CW, SSB or both.
Prizes:
Printable color
Certificates for top participants
Plaques for top
finishing entrants.
Web Site: http://www.floridaqsoparty.org/
Detailed rules, mobile routes, past results, plaques, county
abbreviations and maps and much more!
Logs:
Logs in Cabrillo format can be uploaded (preferred) at: https://fqp.contesting.com/fqpsubmitlog.php
or emailed to lo...@floridaqsoparty.org; Paper logs via US mail to: Florida QSO
Party, c/o Dan Street, K1TO, 9933 289th St E., Myakka City, FL 34251
Any questions or
feedback? Please feel free to reply to my email:
cqde...@gmail.com
We highly encourage you to
sign up to the FQP email Group f...@groups.io.
Anyone wishing to subscribe to the FQP email reflector
may go to this link to sign up: https://groups.io/g/FQP
Please forward this announcement to your club members and to other FL clubs.
THANK YOU in advance for making the 2026 FQP
another terrific event!
73,
Chris, NX4N, on behalf of:
Chris, W4WF and Dan, K1TO – President and Past President
Florida Contest Group, proud sponsors of the FQP since 1998
