LIQRP
Club Information
Welcome to LIQRP -
The Long Island QRP Club!
If you are
interested in joining LIQRP, please
email your name, callsign, email address, Town and State,
(regular full mail address and telephone
number is optional) to
ne2j@arrl.net
(use subject line JOIN LIQRP :
Your Callsign)
Note that the Club has no dues and everyone is
welcome to join.
Also, be sure to subscribe to the LIQRP email
listserver – see the directions
below.
The Long
Island QRP Club was established in
1996
by
Jeff Casey, NE2J (formerly
WB5GWB), and Nick Franco, KF2P.
It is
the
intent of the group to participate
in existing QRP contests and events,
initiate a few events
of our own, support other
established QRP clubs, and promote the
building and operating
of QRP equipment.
Above all, our purpose is to have fun with QRP!
LIQRP is a
small, informal group. We
have
no officers, no bylaws, and we do not collect
any dues. We get together to show off our
various pieces of QRP equipment, and to discuss
at length our tales of excitement and woe on
the air and at the workbench.
Thus far, we have never conducted any “business”
at our meetings.
Instead, our meetings and “QRPicnics” consist
of “show-and-tell,” informal conversation,
plentiful amounts of food, and trying out a few
rigs on the air.
Our past
meetings have been held at Sunken
Meadow
State Park in good weather and Nicky's
restaurant, a moderately priced establishment
in Centerport, in inclement weather.
However, we are always open to new meeting
locations
in different parts of the Island,
including Nassau County. If you want to suggest
a new meeting location, send an email to
the LIQRP listserver and post the
information as to location.
One reason
that the Club can maintain a "no
dues"
policy is that we rely on an email listserver
to keep in touch with each other. The listserver
is the backbone of our group.
All meetings and activities are announced via
the email listserver.
HOW TO
SUBSCRIBE TO THE LIQRP CLUB EMAIL LIST
To subscribe to the LIQRP
Club email list please follow the steps below. These steps will be
familiar if you have had occasion
to subscribe to other amateur radio email lists hosted by www.qth.net
and www.qsl.net.
1.
Point your browser to http://www.qth.net
2. Click on "Directory of Email Lists".
3. Scroll down through the blue alphabetized list of abbreviated email
list names until you find "LIQRP", then click on it.
4. Follow the instructions given under the heading "Subscribing to
LIQRP". Specifically:
a.
Enter your email address in the box provided.
b. Entering your name and a password are optional; the
name box and the two password boxes may be left blank.
c. Click "Yes" or "No" in response to the question "Would
you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?"
Most of
our subscribers choose "No", since the LIQRP list does not have a great
deal of traffic.
d. Click "Subscribe".
5.
You will shortly receive an
automatically generated email message with a subject similar to "confirm
18d7b13834b543f434d1124543b6e82e8e253d66" (or some such random
character sequence). Follow
the instructions in this email to
confirm that you wish to subscribe to the LIQRP list.
6. Watch for a second
automatically-generated email message saying that you are now
subscribed to the
LIQRP list. When this message
arrives, you may delete the previous confirmatory email.
Once you
are subscribed, you can send a message to all
list members by
addressing it to:
liqrp@mailman.qth.net
If you're new to
the club, why not send a message to the list
introducing yourself to us?
We'd love
to hear about such topics as:
-
What got you interested in QRP?
- How your station (if you have one at present) is
set up, and what rigs, antennas, etc. you've been
using lately
- Projects you're working on or planning for the
future
- On-air operating activities that you enjoy or think
you might like to try
- Any questions you may have about the world of QRP --
there's no such thing as a "dumb" question or a
question too basic (or too advanced) for our group.
- Anything else on your mind that's at least
tangentially related to QRP. Why, we'll even
entertain the occasional QRO (high transmitter
power) question or comment, especially during the
doldrums of the solar cycle minimum!
At present, we
have about 100 subscribers on
the
listserver. Of course, not all of them live
on Long Island and we welcome members from all
over the world. The LIQRP listserver is a great
place to ask questions and test out ideas that
are "not ready for prime time" on the much
larger QRP-L listserver. You'll never be deluged
with LIQRP messages, since the group is so
small.
Once again, welcome to
LIQRP! We look
forward
to hearing from you and hope that you will
subscribe to our
listserver and get involved
in our club activities. And please help us spread
the word that Long
Island does have a QRP club!
72* & 73,
Members of LIQRP
* “72” means
“have fun with QRP!” in QRP
parlance.
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Thanks
to QSL.NET for this
site location, Please support them if you can.
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sent to:
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