[ILQSO] FW: rough beginnings

Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:58:31 -0500

Checked Walmart up here and couldnt find one of those maps (I have one for Wisconsin...they are great!)
I'll keep checking.  If I dont find one in  next few weeks, I'll have to have one of you guys get me one and mail it up.

I have one question regarding the county line/corners operation.
Is close, not close enough?  i.e.  if a corner is 50 feet off an actually highway intersection, is that close enough?  Or do you
drive the 4 wheeler into the field?
Thanks,
Scott

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Amateur Radio NE9U/KA9ZGD/KB9TTO/TBA
Scott/Lori/Alex/Arielle/Jasper

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> From: Hal Offutt <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ILQSO]  FW: rough beginnings
> Date: Sunday, September 07, 2003 8:59 AM
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Hope you and your partner can make the ILQP.  It's definitely worth the
> trip.  It's just about the funnest QSO Party to operate as a mobile.  I've
> driven in from PA three times to operate.  It's a blast.  The county line
> rule is what makes it fun.  Requires very careful route planning to maximize
> your score.  Even if you have to log on paper, it's only 8 hours so it's not
> too bad.  I still log all my mobile contests on paper.  Alternatively you
> could log with some normal program and recalculate the score by hand after
> printing out the log.
> 
> You may have already received this information, but the map you need is the
> Illinois Atlas & Gazetteer, published by Delorme  (www.delorme.com).  Maybe
> some of the truck stops up your way sell it.  This map is an absolute must.
> (Total 96 pages, very detailed.)  Costs about $20.  I've even seen them in
> Wal-Mart, although usually they only carry the local one.
> 
> 73 & hope to see you in IL
> 
> Hal W1NN
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jasper" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 10:46 AM
> Subject: RE: [ILQSO] FW: rough beginnings
> 
> 
> > Hi Jim and all.
> >
> > Me (NE9U) and partner (N9BCA) are tossing around the idea of driving down
> and running mobile in the ILQP.  We have been mobiling in
> > the WQP past decade and always have fun!
> >
> > First I need to get a good Illinois map.  Since we will be driving down
> from central Wisconsin, we would probably start near the
> > border.  Are NW counties usually covered by operations pretty good?  Any
> places you would want us to cover?
> >
> > I also see Illinois allows county line operations.  After we tried that
> several years ago, WQP outlawed it.  We call it the NE9U
> > rule.  hi
> > How do you guys handle the exchange?  Have to make 3 separate qso's, or
> just one qso with multiple multipliers?
> >
> > And last but not least, logging software?  What do most mobiles do?  I
> usually use TR in WQP but dont see a .dom file for illinois.
> >  Is there one?
> >
> > Thanks for any help, and hopefully we will be down your way to experience
> the southern blackhole..its gotta be better than up here
> > in the northwoods!
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Scott NE9U
> >
> >
> >
> >
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