News

02/23/2024

The results of the 59th annual TPQSO Party (2023) were emailed on February 16 to those on our distribution list, including all participants. The results are posted on this website. Planning is underway for the 60th annual event. I welcome any comments or suggestions that you may have.
John WA5MLF

07/28/2023

Greetings to all friends and participants of the annual Telephone Pioneer QSO (TPQSO) Party. The 59th annual TPQSO Party will take place on Friday & Saturday, October 20-21. Details are posted on this website and can be provided via email or postal mail, if desited.

01/27/2023

The results of the 58th annual TPQSO Party (2022) have been emailed to those on our distribution list, including all participants. The results will be posted on this website. Planning is underway for the 59th annual event, to take place in October, 2023.

I welcome any comments or suggestions that you may have.
John WA5MLF

07/10/2022

The 58th annual TPQSO Party will take place on October 21-22. Details are posted on this website and can be provided via email or postal mail, if desited. In response to my initial announcement via email on July 3rd, I received feedback about the suggested frequencies for phone contacts. The frequency ranges are now expanded to provide greater space to operate and look for other participants. As you review the event details and plan your radio operations, please feel free to send me comments or suggestions. Have a healthy summer!
73, John WA5MLF

12/25/2021

I received 15 logs from the 2021 Telephone Pioneers QSO party. I hope that all participants had fun contacting fellow Pioneers who share similar work histories. The results and analysis are shown in the 2021 entry of the Results menu tab. I welcome your comments and suggestions for the 2022 event.

10/03/2021

At this writing there are only 3 weeks until the Telephone Pioneer QSO Party. Make sure that your rig and antenna(s) are ready to join the fun! Several pages on this website were updated in the past few weeks. The option for logging with N1MM+ has been developed and tested for the most common logging needs in this event. See the Logging Program page under the Logging menu entry. Please send any comments or questions to this contact email.

03/28/2021

TPQSO this year will consist of:

• A two-day event, Sunday-Monday (October 24 & 25)
• Two 3-hour sessions per day and a 2-hour break between sessions
• One CW/digital session and one phone session each day
• A 1-hour digital-only session on each day

Contact WA5MLF with any comments or questions.

03/07/2021

Greetings to all friends and participants of the annual Telephone Pioneer QSO (TPQSO) Party. I am sure that you all appreciate the years of dedication by Jim Muiter, N6TP, to this event that highlights the fellowship of Telephone Pioneers through amateur radio. On February 7, 2021 Jim distributed the 2020 results and announced that he is handing off the event coordination to me as the successor. I am very interested in your comments and suggestions for the future of this event.

I assembled some questions to guide our plans for 2021 and beyond. I invite you to reply with your answers to any or all of the questions. I’ll be happy to share responses anonymously with this community of interest for further development. I anticipate close guidance from several active participants from our sponsoring organization, the Telephone Pioneers Amateur Radio Club of Alabama (TPARCA.org).

Here are the questions for your consideration:

1. Do you plan to participate in this year’s event?
2. Are you employed full-time, employed part-time, or retired?
3. In the previous few years TPQSO was a single-day event held on a Monday, to avoid the commonly-heavy weekend contest activity. Should TPQSO continue as:
   a) a 1-day weekday event?
   b) a 2-day weekend event?
   c) a 2-day weekday-weekend event (Friday-Saturday or Sunday-Monday)?
4. Have you made any TPQSO contacts on digital modes? If so, which digital mode did you use?
5. Should we reserve a single hour exclusively for digital mode contacts?
6. What is your preferred form of TPQSO log submission? Paper or electronic?
7. Did you use a computer logging program to generate your most recent TPQSO log? If so, which logging program?
8. Previously the TPQSO event was easily publicized through the Telephone Pioneers of America organization and reached many interested radio amateurs who were members. In recent years, due to organization and participation changes, fewer radio amateurs (employed or retired) are aware of the event. Can you suggest additional contacts for publicizing our event to present or past employees of the telecommunications industry, to reach a wider audience of potential participants?
9. The scoring of the event has included the identification of a Pioneer chapter for each station contacted. Participants who were not Pioneer members were asked to use a designated “non-Pioneer” chapter number (599).
a) If we attract a significant number of non-Pioneer affiliated participants, should we develop new “chapter” designations?
b) The fellowship aspects of the event seem to have been enhanced by recognition of the historical chapters. Should we continue using chapters as part of the scoring or convert to a standard location code or eliminate that element for the event scoring?

I welcome any comments or suggestions that you may have.

John WA5MLF