[EIDXA] CQ Marathon

[Joe Hungate - K8OM]

Hi Joe,

I participated in this a couple of years and had a blast!

As you said, this operating activity is an excellent way for the smaller 
pistol stations to pickup some ATNO, band slots and get some practice 
busting fairly significant pileups. My suggestion is that we try to get 
associate members active through encouragement, mentoring, opening up our 
stations for guest operations and help putting antennas up. Who can be the 
first to go from 0 to 100 countries???? Who can be first to do it with 100 
watts and a diploe??? Maybe special awards could be procured for different 
achievements.

Without a doubt, everyone would be welcome to participate and represent 
EIDXA but focusing on helping our current associate members and maybe 
recruiting additional associate members would be fantastic. Those are my 
thoughts..... hopefully others will chime in also.

I'll put this on the agenda for our next EIDXA meeting on January 22.

Thanks for your help and suggestions!

73,

Joe - K8OM
President EIDXA

-----Original Message----- 
From: Joe Hetrick
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 2:22 PM
To: EIDXA at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [EIDXA] CQ Marathon

Hi folks,

Is there any interest in resurrecting the EIDXA Marathon?

   A few years ago we ran an EIDXA Marathon with the intent of having 
members be active, work some new ones and submit to CQ.  Participation was 
somewhat low and I tried to spice things up by having a few different tops 
score displays.

  One idea I had was to help some of the associate members, or members who 
have just crested the 100 mark put more in the log and still shine.  In 
addition to maintaining:

Mode (RTTY/CW/Phone)
Total worked

for high-scores displayed, what if we did one for ATNO?  This, as with 
everything, would be honor-system.  Each time folks uploaded their log for 
the totals, they could put in the number of ATNO's they've gotten up to that 
point.

My thinking is that for folks who aren't running KW's and beams, but who are 
getting more in the log that they've never worked before; sure you may only 
work 100 stations the whole year; but what if 50 of those are ATNO for you? 
Thats a big big deal.

  My thoughts would be to encourage participation from everyone; I know we 
had some pretty big scores (including a top 3 international), but I wondered 
if those were a bit intimidating to more normal members.

  I haven't poked around the new spreadsheets to see about parsing them and 
auto-generating a tops-list as we had before, that would take a bit of time; 
but I wanted to re-float the idea to see if it was worth investing any time.

  Is there anythiing else reasonable that folks feel would get them to play?

73's

Joe KC0VKN
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