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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Don’t forget, you can call CQ to every other APRS Field Day site in the country using Pete’s CQSRVR (or Lynn’s ANSRVR).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Sitting there at your portable FD APRS station, reach out to the world.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">STEP 1: Just send an APRS message to CQSRVR and make the first two words of the message be “CQ FD …” and your exchange.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Your message will go to every other APRS FD site that has also sent such a message.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">But like any band, calling CQ is usless unless someone answers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">STEP 2: When you see similar CQ’s from other APRS stations, now you have their callsign!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">STEP 3: MAKE the QSO by now sending a specific MESSAGE to their CALLSIGN acknowledging their exchange info.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">STEP 4: When you see an ACK, the QSO is complete.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">These contacts do NOT COUNT for FD points. But heck, it is fun, and what else is APRS for but fun and showing off.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">See <a href="http://aprs.org/cqsrvr.html">http://aprs.org/cqsrvr.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, Wb4APR</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
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