[ILQSO] IL QSO Party Club Operation

[Joe LeKostaj]

Hi, Doug.

The club category is for members of a local-area club to contribute 
their scores to an aggregate score for their club. The members still 
enter individually in the Fixed, Mobile, or Portable catgories, but 
if they declare affiliation with a club, theirs scores also count 
toward the club's aggregate score.

ILQP does not presently differentiate between single-op or multi-op. 
However, you can have only one transmitter on the air at a time. So, 
multi-operator/single transmitter is OK but "multi-multi" is not 
allowed.

Your idea to activate the county on all bands from various members' 
stations is fine. In your example, I presume you mean each station is 
at a different member's home QTH. Each station would operate under 
its own call. Since they are 4 independent stations at different 
QTHs, there is no issue if any of them transmits at the same time. 
Each station would submit its own log, and the scores count toward 
your club's aggregate score.

Hope this answers your questions. I look forward to hearing a lot of 
Big Thunder ARC members on the air!

73,
Joe K9LY
RAMS / IL QSO Party committee




At 9:16 AM -0500 9/17/03, Doug Bergeron wrote:
>The Big Thunder Amateur Radio Club (Belvidere, Boone Cnty, IL) has 
>been discussing IL QSO participation. We would like to know what 
>rules or limitations there are on club operation.
>
>Can we operate multiop-multi transmitter-multiband?
>Is club operation the operation of a club station or the sum of 
>scores from individual club members?
>
>We are discussing several variations of club operating to make it a 
>bit more interesting:
>The "pub crawl" theme: bands of amateurs rove from station to 
>station sampling the hospitality and operating conditions of 
>different club member stations.
>The "im-not-different, im-unique" theme: The concept is to put the 
>county active on all bands from 160M to 2M SSB/CW. However, not all 
>stations are equipped to operate all bands/modes. So, select enough 
>different stations and assign them unique bands/modes to cover all 
>bands and modes. For example, station 1 might be 10-15-20, station 2 
>might be 40-80, station 3 is the local VHF weaksignal mode guru 
>operating 6 and 2, and station 4 is the guy with a 160M 4-square. 
>Then invite club members around to operate bands or modes that they 
>may not normally have access to. If we are allowed to operate only 
>one TX at a time, coordinate on the local repeater who is active and 
>who is standby, thereby allowing QSO Party participants to work our 
>county on as many bands/modes as they require.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Doug Bergeron
>HAF Consulting
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