[ILQSO] IQP thoughts

[suejim]

Hi Chuck,
    I couldn't agree more.  For many years, I have wondered (and asked) why
we couldn't change the starting time to 1700Z so the IQP would end at 0100Z.
When I used to go /m in this party, that late hour made it tough if you
weren't close to home at the end.  If you had to get up early to work the
next morning....bummer!  Agreed, that last hour is pretty much wasted...

    Have always thought that 8-cty extra multiplier should be for out of
state and /m only.  Why someone hasn't just fired up on 2 meters (or all
bands for that matter) in say Cook county and reaped many, many extras mults
is beyond me.  Maybe if you do as you suggest about getting the no code 2
meter gang out, it will prove a point.

    Lastly, I also want to thank the RAMS gang and Jim, N9JF for the hours
they all put into the IQP this year...... good job guys!

73.........Jim  K9WA











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Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: [ILQSO] IQP thoughts


> Well, fun as normal!
>
> Thanks to the guys at RAMS & N9JF for the hard work, allowing me to have
fun!
>
> Here are some ideas, I know these have been brought up before, & I will do
it
> again!
>
> 1) WHY does this thing run until 0200z?? The last hour is a real bite. I
> think it would be better to run this thing 1700z-0100z, giving the mobile
guys an
> extra hour to put the counties on 40, where the fixed stations can get a
crack
> at them.
> 75 SSB is non-existant, & 80 CW isn't real active without the mobile &
> portable guys on. Most, I think, may have packed it up by then. It would
also give
> us an extra hour to hit the high bands.
>
> 2) The 8/QSO mult.  Y U K.  This is great to keep for out of state & in
state
> mobiles. But, again, it can be very unfair to most fixed stations. For
> instance, my last 18 QSO's tonite where with my own county. Could have
been way more
> if I had hit 2 FM earlier.  Next year, I am going to make a concerted
effort
> to work every no-coder within 3 counties! ;-)  Seriously, I can EASILY
pick up
> an extra 10 mults by getting the VHF crowd on the air. Keep this for out
of
> state guys, & mobiles. But kill it off for us fixed guys. Face up to it,
the
> guy in Cook can put up a ton of local 8/Q mults, but, the guy in Hamilton
gets
> screwed. Anyone else see a serious flaw here?
>
> 3) Move the 75 SSB freq off of 3890, AMer's hang there.
>
> Thats all I can think of. Really, what harm would a slight change make?
I'd
> like to hear everyones thoughts are on the time change to 1700z-0100z, &
> killing off the 8/Q mult for fixed stations.
>
> Again, thanks so much RAMS, for 10 (or is it 11?) years of a great time!!
>
> 73-Chuck KI9A  ST.CLAIR
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