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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I know this is a bit of preaching to the choir, but below is the 2018 WIQP announcement.  Time to get those mobile operations fine tuned and ready to go.  That is absolutely what are group is up to.  BTW pretty much the same rules as last year.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The<span style="font-weight:400"> </span><b>2018 Wisconsin QSO Party</b><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span>is scheduled for Sunday, March 11th, 2018 from 1:00 PM to 8:00PM.  The best 7 hours of Ham Radio fun ever!!   Check out all the latest information at <a href="https://www.warac.org/wqp/wqp.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.warac.org/wqp/w<wbr>qp.htm</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The website has all the usual<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_-711522972122400519gmail-il">WIQP</span><span> </span>assists, rules, maps, entry forms, logging information, etc,  freshened up for 2018.  For those planning a mobile, rover or portable operation, don't miss the <a href="https://www.warac.org/wqp/activate.htm" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Activate All 72!</a> link.  You can get a detailed look at county activations/results for the past several years.  </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Come and join the fun.  Work a ton of Q's or only a few, we want you to participate and enter your log!!!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>-- Bonus Station: </b><span style="font-weight:400"> The West Allis Radio Amateur Club station, <b style="font-weight:400">W9FK</b>, will be on the air throughout the contest.  Each contact is worth 100 Bonus Points per band, per mode.<br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>--Log Submittal Deadline:</b></span><b style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px"> </b><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px"> The period for submitting logs has been significantly shorted to two weeks, which means </span><b style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px">all logs must be received by March 25th</b><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px">.  </span><br><b style="font-weight:400;font-size:12.8px"><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>--Club Competition:</b><span style="font-weight:400">  Enter with your WI Club.  </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Now is the perfect time to finalize your plans for this years event.  Save the date, March 11th, and looking forward to seeing you in the contest.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div><div class="gmail-m_-711522972122400519gmail-m_3303593169777521290gmail-m_-6520328173935541199gmail-m_-708065287051197449gmail-m_-8166357608266112399gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-711522972122400519gmail-m_3303593169777521290gmail-m_-6520328173935541199gmail-m_-708065287051197449gmail-m_-8166357608266112399gmail_signature">73,</div><div class="gmail-m_-711522972122400519gmail-m_3303593169777521290gmail-m_-6520328173935541199gmail-m_-708065287051197449gmail-m_-8166357608266112399gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-711522972122400519gmail-m_3303593169777521290gmail-m_-6520328173935541199gmail-m_-708065287051197449gmail-m_-8166357608266112399gmail_signature">MJ, WO9B</div></div><div class="gmail-m_-711522972122400519gmail-m_3303593169777521290gmail-m_-6520328173935541199gmail-m_-708065287051197449gmail-m_-8166357608266112399gmail_signature"><span class="gmail-m_-711522972122400519gmail-il">WIQP</span><span> </span>Team</div></div>

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