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COLORADO QRP CLUB ANNOUNCES CHANGES July 1, 2023

CONTESTS. CQC will suspend its three short contests: the Gold Rush in July, the Snow Shoe Run in December, and the Winter QSO Party in February.
 
MEETINGS. CQC will no longer conduct Chat-N-Chew informal gatherings, nor will CQC conduct bi-monthly regular meetings. CQC will conduct two meetings during the year – one in June AT FIELD DAY and one in December, for the required ANNUAL ELECTIONS.
 
FOX HUNTS. CQC will continue to promote the weekly summer and winter QRP Fox Hunts which Dale, WC7S, and some of his fellow Foxers manage. These events draw many participants each week from all around North America (mostly U.S.).
 
FIELD DAY. CQC will continue to conduct Field Day at the Strasburg site, whether CQC has one antenna or a half dozen. CQC will promote Field Day during the year and test the waters to see if the club can find a Field Day chair to step up and fully organize a competitive QRP Field Day site. This will entail recruiting CW and phone operators willing to operate per a schedule; recruiting additional help for Friday noon setup and Sunday noon tear down; separating the BS area from the operating area; separating the phone operations from the CW operations; seeing if CQC can filter out digital noise for a digital station; helping get the COW and the tri-band beam operational; establishing GOTA and VHF-UHF stations for new and less competitive hams; and other things as necessary. CQC will, in the absence of the previous, operate a CQC Field Day station at the Strasburg site with one main wire antenna and some additional portable antennas as CQC did in 2023 with those who chose to participate. CQC will, in the absence of the previous two items, operate CQC Field Day at the Strasburg site somewhere in between, as participation levels allow.
 
QRP INFORMATION NET. CQC will continue with the Monday night (8 p.m. Mountain Time) QRP Information Net (sometimes referred to as the FrankenNet) merging the Colorado Repeater Association’s 145.460 machine with its linked repeaters, Echolink (when it is up) and Zoom as a vehicle to keep in touch. The net was started BEFORE the inception of CQC by Jim Pope KGØPP as a QRP Information Net. CQC sees continuation of this net as important as the club winds down other activities.
 
COMMUNICATION. CQC, in addition to the Monday Night QRP Information Net, will endeavor to get as many members as possible tied into CQCLIST at Groups.io as another communications vehicle. CQC will post current critical announcements on its website, COLORADOQRPCLUB.ORG, and social media. Reinstituting The Low Down Newsletter is still under consideration.
 
GARAGE SALE. CQC will continue the CQC Garage Sale, managed by Vince KIØRB, at the major swap meets as our primary fund-raiser. This means CQC will continue to accept donations of dang near anything ham radio or electronic for the Garage Sale.

Our domain name, www.CQC.org, was stolen in March, 2015 - well over six months before it was due to be renewed. The Colorado QRP Club had owned this domain name since 1998 when we first created it before anyone else. The webhost and registrar, at the time of the theft was Parcom.net with wowrack as their parent company. Tucows held the domain name but, being in Canada and outside our borders, was especially difficult to work with.   Overall, none of these companies, after repeated requests for help, provided any assistance in protecting our domain name or recovering it. We've filed complaints with ICANN, the Washington State Attorney General's office (where the registrar was located at the time of the theft), and the various webhosting companies and registrars associated with our domain name since it was stolen. Name.com, here in the Denver area, eventually held the name but would provide no assistance, either, so we filed a theft complaint with the Denver Police Department (Report 2018-6007948).   From what we've learned, at this point, is that we're going to need a court order, and the assistance of an attorney, to recover our domain name. Please contact your humble webmaster, or any of the club's officers, if you can help. Until then, we'll continue using this mirror site (www.coloradoQRPclub.org) until we're able to recover our domain name. Thank you, everyone, for your assistance and support!   - WBØJNR, CQC Webmaster and Treasurer