Last Update: 22-Jul-2022 at 1600 UTC
Note: You can download a PDF of these rules HERE.
Club Competition is highly encouraged in CQP.
I. Eligibility
A. USA and Canadian clubs must be affiliated with either the ARRL or the RAC. DX clubs have no such requirement.
B. Participants must be bona fide members in good standing of their respective club prior to the start of CQP 2022.
C. Ineligible Clubs: National organizations or clubs without a geographic basis, and which do not hold regular in-person or remote meetings. Examples: CWops, Long Island CW Club, FOC, QCWA, FISTS, SKCCC, DARC, JARL.
D. The Northern California Contest Club (NCCC), the CQP sponsoring organization, is ineligible to participate in the CQP Club Competition. NCCC members are encouraged to join other ARRL Affiliated Clubs and assist with their CQP Club Competition effort.
II. Club Circle
A. The “club circle” for all participating clubs regardless of the number of logs submitted is defined as a 175 mile (280 km) radius. This is the same ARRL circle for large clubs. Participants must operate and reside within this club circle for their score to be added to a club's total, with three allowed exceptions:
B. Exception 1: California County Expeditions to sites outside the club's circle may still contribute points to a club's total. Example: K0EJ traveling from Tennessee to California and operating in a county expedition to Tuolumne County can apply his full score to the Tennessee Contest Group.
C. Exception 2: A club member who resides outside of the club's circle but who travels to a station within the circle, or operates in a California County Expedition, may contribute points to the club's total.
D. Exception 3: Mobile operations which travel outside of the club's circle can contribute points to the club's total. This applies for stations inside and outside California.
E. Points earned operating from a fixed location (i.e. non-Expedition, non-Mobile) outside the club circle cannot be claimed for club competition.
III. Club Category
There are 5 categories of California clubs and 5 categories of non-California clubs. Categories are based on the number of logs received by each club. To commemorate California's stunning natural landscape, five U.S. National Parks located inside California were selected as club category names. Spanning California from the northwest to the southeast corners of the state, these national parks include forests, mountains, vast desert wilderness, islands in the Pacific Ocean, towering waterfalls, granite cliffs and the tallest trees on Earth. Just as these national parks are different from each other, so too are amateur radio clubs. CQP Club Category names attempt to cherish this fact and to represent different levels of club participation. |