The GQRP Club celebrated its 50th anniversary in September 2024, with a special on-air activity called "50 Years Low and Clear". This page is retained as a hostorical referece..
The activity was a friendly get-together event, not a contest. Commemorative certificates were available to mark the anniversary (see below), but there are no rankings and no winners.
Activity details
- The activity was run between 1st and 30th September 2024. The goal was to contact as many of the "LOW" or "QRP" Special Event Stations that were active during the month.
- The list of Special Event Stations included all the regional variations of
the Club callsign
- G5LOW
- GM5LOW
- Gi5LOW
- GW5LOW
- GJ5LOW
- GD5LOW
- GU5LOW
On top of those, there were seven overseas stations active.
- OE50LOW
- OH50LOW
- TM50LOW
- DM50LOW
- IR3QRP
- YP50QRP
- EG5LOW
All those stations ran at QRP power levels, and were active on different bands and modes.
- There were four levels of commemorative certificates available, according to the number of band-mode slots covered, namely: Bronze (5 points), Silver (10 points), Gold (15 points), and Platinum (contacted all the active stations at least once, on any mode).
- All the logs from stations claiming a certificate were be sent to Enzo M0KTZ
There were prizes available for activators and chasers, kindly offered by our regular SPRAT advertisers and by some members. Prizes will be assigned based on the overall "feeling" of a log, not just on the bare number of contacts! In particular, we lookws at the alignment of the operations to the principles that have guided the GQRP Club in the last 50 years: simplicity, ingenuity, sharing, homebrewing, and "doing more with less".
The 50th anniversary logo is shown above. Our thanks to Philippe, F5SDT, for the artwork.
