2024 7th Call Area QSO Party
The Plan
Jay, WA0WWW, and I will activate one Montana county, twenty one Idaho counties, one Oregon county, and one Washington county in the 7th Area QSO Party, May 4 and 5, 2024 (UTC). We will use my callsign of K7TQ. All of our operation will be CW. We will try to be on both 20 and 15 m in each of the "daylight" counties and 20 and 40 m in the "nighttime" ones. No 80 m operation this year. With the current great solar flux numbers, we will probably stay on 20 m for longer than usual. Our sunset will be around 0330 UTC. You can work us each time we change bands or counties. Watch the RBN for K7TQ and it won't hurt our feelings at all if you feel inclined to spot us. We will try to be on frequencies ending in 0365 MHz, such as 14.0365 or 7.0365 MHz. There are other QSO parties going on those days, so we will have to be frequency agile.
Here is our schedule of when we hope to enter and leave each of our 24 counties.
Saturday, May 4, 2024 (UTC)
Beaverhead (MTBEA) 1300 - 1330 County line with IDCLA
Clark (IDCLA) 1300 - 1430 County line with MTBEA first half hour
Jefferson (IDJEF) 1430 - 1457
Clark (IDCLA) 1457 - 1504
Butte (IDBUT) 1504 - 1640
Blaine (IDBLA) 1640 - 1710
Lincoln (IDLIN) 1710 - 1750
Gooding (IDGOO) 1750 - 1825
Camas (IDCAM) 1825 - 1911
Elmore (IDELM) 1911 - 2045
Owyhee (IDOWY) 2045 - 2129
Canyon (IDCAN) 2129 - 2159
Ada (IDADA) 2159 - 2241
Boise (IDBOI) 2241 - 2304
Gem (IDGEM) 2304 - 2337
Payette (IDPAY) 2337 - 2358
Malhuer (ORMAL) 2358 - 2359
Sunday, May 5, 2024 (UTC)
Malhuer (ORMAL) 0000 - 0019
Washington (IDWAS) 0019 - 0139
Adams (IDADM) 0139 - 0237
Valley (IDVAL) 0237 - 0259
Adams (IDADM) 0259 - 0340
Idaho (IDIDA) 0340 - 0538
Lewis (IDLEW) 0538 - 0601
Nez Perce (IDNEZ) 0601 - 0636
Whitman (WAWHI) 0636 - 0652
Latah (IDLAT) 0652 - 0659