[ILQSO] ilqp date and website

Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:00:12 -0500

Steve, one of my reasons for attempting to get a LOT of mobiles active in
IQP is to counter what you felt last year.  I think most of us would like to
work most of the stations that need the county, on both modes, before flying
into the next one.  There is a "point of diminishing returns" that is
reached (don't ask me what that is....KF9D? W1NN? W3DYA? opinions?) when you
might as well be moving into a new one.  When conditions are good and the
activity is high, I would say 20 minutes in a county is NOT "enough".

The most I have ever run in one ILQP is about 20 counties, and it was NUTS!
I know Roger did a lot more than that a couple of times.

The strategy changes if there is a mobile bonus for activation of more
counties; we've beaten that horse before.

Just what is the optimum number of mobiles in a state of this size with >100
counties for an eight-hour contest?  Opinions?

73, Jim N9JF
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Woodruff <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: [ILQSO] ilqp date and website

> I looked back through the archives of the list
> to find the date of this year's ILQP.  I see it
> is Sunday, October 19. The date on the site
> is Oct 20, 2002.  There is no date listed for
> 2003...  Or maybe i'm looking at the wrong site??
> Is the correct site for ilqp:
> http://my.core.com/~jematz/rams.html  ???
>
> If that's the right place, the ILQP info there
> is for 2002 and you may end up losing some
> participation by the "wrong date" syndrome.
> Then again, maybe i'm the only one who'd fall
> for that!  :)
>
> I'm still putting together my plans.  With an
> unwilling driver this year, I may combine forces
> with N9REP this time.  Either way, i will not
> cover as many counties as I did last year since
> I felt like I was flying through them w/o time
> to work both modes.  And i didn't make it back
> to McHenry county before the contest ended which
> was a bummer!
>
> /steve n9oh
>
>
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>  Steve Woodruff, N9OH @ 42.18N 88.34W, [email protected]
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