[ILQSO] website?

Wed, 4 Sep 2002 21:43:29 -0500

Joe (and the group)

At the risk of incurring the wrath of the sponsoring club enclosed below  is
a message you sent in 2000 replying to several county line questions.
Assuming you haven't changed your mind, Jeff has a detailed map and it's a
narrow river, I would think Jeff could get within 100 yards of the county
line. Of course a good GPS mapping system could confirm that fact very
easily.

I go across a county line every day that runs down the middle of the Rock
River. One side of the bridge has a Henry county sign and the other side of
the bridge has a Rock Island county sign. And there is a parking spot that
is easily within 100 yards of the middle of the river and 20 feet from the
Rock Island county sign. Makes it interesting doesn't ?

At 6:18 PM -0400 9/27/2000, Hal Offutt wrote:
>
>NE0P's query on the Kendall/Will/DuPage/Kane county corner brings up the
>question of exactly how close a station (mobile or portable) needs to be to
>the actual county line.

Hi, everyone.
As part of the sponsoring club, I guess this is where I chime in.
Regarding how close one should be to a county line for both of them
to count:
1) Safety is the first priority. Don't endanger yourself or others
just to straddle the county line.
2) Don't trespass onto private property to be near a county line.
3) You can consider yourself at the border if you're within 100 yards of it.

>Another question I've had is what would happen if two mobiles show up at
>one of the choice locations at the same time?
>

If two mobiles show up at the same location at the same time, I would
say that both stations have an equal right to operate from there, and
need to work it out among themselves. Even if it were necessary to
separate themselves by a couple hundred feet to prevent receiver
overload, we would still allow them both to say they were in counties
X, Y, and Z. We just want people to have a good time and make QSOs.

73,
Joe K9LY
RAMS - ILQP committee

Regards,

Pete, NN9K

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Joe LeKostaj
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 7:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ILQSO] website?

Jeff,

This hasn't come up before, so guess I'll have to make a judgement call:
No, we won't permit using a river as a county line for the purpose of
2/3/4 county border operation.

73,
Joe K9LY
RAMS / ILQP committee

At 7:47 PM -0500 9/2/02, Craig Wilkins wrote:
>My name is Jeff Wilkins,WW9CW, and I want to know how close to the county
>line do you have to be? I have a three county line I want to use and it is
>in the middle of the Rock River. I can get to the bank, I think, and would
>like to know if this would count as the county line.
>
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