[ILQSO] Island portable?

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:30:41 -0500

John,

I think the whole question of how to sign in the state QSO parties is slowly
migrating towards a better, more usable system. Many mobile are now signing
"Callsign/M County" or "Callsign/County" and even some fixed stations are
signing "Callsign County". I've worked some stations calling for instance
"CQ TXP XX5X" only to find out that they were in Oklahoma and the QSO didn't
count. In that case calling "CQ TXQP XX5X/OK" or "XX5X OK" would have saved
everybody time and energy.

Obviously it's very valuable for a mobile to let everyone know what county
he is currently running in order to maximize his score but I think it's
helpful for fixed and portable stations to do the same. It was kind of
interesting last weekend in the TQP, I worked a station who wasn't signing
/M and listening to him later found he was in a different county than when I
first worked him. Found him a third time and he was in another different
county, still not signing /M. I had to assume he was mobile so he's XX5XXX/M
in my logs. But for the most part, everyone is picking up on the benefits of
letting the listeners know where they are.

Nuff of this Dr. John, CU and the rest of Oklahoma in the ILQP!

Pete, NN9K

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of John Geiger
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ILQSO] Island portable?

Pete,

I agree with you on signing portable.  I was just
thinking that in terms of contest category, I believe
that it would be considered fixed, since he is not
mobile, and is not a country line portable.

73s John NE0P

--- "Peter E. Beedlow" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dr John,
>
> Guess I'd disagree with your statement. If Jeff
> operates at a location
> different from his primary station address he is
> technically portable and
> can sign /p. How the contest sponsors decide in
> which class to put his score
> is up to their discretion although the rules only do
> indicate an award to
> the "top county line portable station". They do not
> say that a station
> cannot be portable in the middle of a county.
>
> I can see situations where someone in say Cook
> county would want to go
> camping and operate /p from Whiteside county. I
> think in that case they
> would definite want to sign /p to indicate that they
> were not in their home
> county.
>
> Guess it's up to the operator in the end. You're a
> zero in five land and are
> well aware of the problems of not signing /p.
>
> CU
>
> Pete, NN9K
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of John Geiger
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [ILQSO] Island portable?
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> It seems that the only portable operation class is
> county line portable, so I would guess that you are
> fixed.  Which island are you planning to operate
> from,
> and what is the county?
>
> BTW, what kind of setup are you planning on using?
>
> 73s John NE0P
>
>
> --- Craig Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I will not be multi-county as there are no other
> > counties nearby. I would
> > just be single-county. Next question would be
> class
> > of operation. If I am
> > using commercial power would that make me fixed or
> > could I still be called
> > portable as everything would be outside?
> >
> > Thanks for your reply and efforts towards this fun
> > contest.
> >
> > Jeff Wilkins
> > WW9CW
> >
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