[ILQSO] RE: rules question

[Hank Greeb]

Jim:

Thanks for the clarification of the rules.  Your interpretation is how 
I'd read the rules, but I'm a novice at ILQP (durn it - it sounds like fun!)

The mobiles who are traveling probably know all these details, but it 
doesn't hurt to ask and get clarification before, rather than after the 
event.  And, I hope that the folks who are covering Champaign, Douglas, 
Edgar, and Vermilion counties as mobiles will stop in to visit for a 
minute or so at the corner of those counties, where I'll be operating..

I have two more requests:

1. Since I'll be in a dining canopy out in an open field, please tell 
the weather people to order 60 to 70 °F temperature, a very slight 
breeze, and no rain for that weekend.

2. Please order excellent propagation - openings on 6, 10 and 15 for 
much of the day, great close to medium coverage on 40, and lack of QRN 
on 80 and 160!

73 de n8xx Hg (N9M at the CHAM/DOUG/EDGR/VERM corner during the upcoming 
ILQP)

p.s. I wonder if you all could get someone in the four corners area of 
AZ/CO/NM/UT to set up and give the folks in Illinois four states at 
once!  Now THAT would be a gas!

James Funk wrote:

>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:09:28 -0400
>From: Hank Greeb <n8xx at arrl.org>
>Subject: [ILQSO] Rules Question
>To: Illinois QSO Party List <ilqso at mailman.qth.net>
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>I've another question about the rules for ILQP. 
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>It appears to me that if a mobile would be driving down a county line road, like Illinois SR 49 happens to be between Champaign and Vermilion Counties, and then between Edgar and Douglas, would the mobile be able to claim two counties at each time?  It's obvious that when I park as a portable at the corner of those four counties I can claim four contacts for each contact I make with a station in a single county, and multiples of four counties for each portable parked at 2, 3, or 4 county lines.
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>If a mobile can claim two or more counties when in motion on a county line road, and then park at the confluence of 3 or 4 counties, then the party could get really interesting.
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>Thanks in advance for clarification.
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>73 de n8xx Hg
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>My opinion, based upon other rulings in the past in similar situations:
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>The "ILQP rule" would be that, yes, as long as the road is the "county line" (i.e., if you were parked on it, you would claim both counties) then you may claim both counties if you are driving on it.  
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>There are two "caveats" (if that is the proper Latin...dunno...never studied it...):
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>1) This does not conform strictly to the "MARAC rule" about county lines, where purists require that you be parked "exactly straddling the line" to claim both.  Note that MARAC rules don't allow one to claim more than two counties from a single contact, either, but that is a decision to be made by the person who works you, not by you, if you are "as close as possible, keeping safety uppermost in mind" (historical ILQP ruling).
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>2) If you work someone from the Edgar/Douglas line (while driving) and then work them again from the Edgar/Douglas/Champaign/Vermilion corner (while sitting) on the same band and mode, you will need to sort out the dupes that occur in your log.
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>Does this make sense?
>
>73, Jim N9JF (who will post a route shortly....)
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