[ILQSO] RE: Peg KB9LIE State QSO party questions

[Hank Greeb]

The addition of 25 or so 1 x 1 calls, and ability to spell OKLAHOMA with 
their suffixes, brought out quite a few more operators for the OKQP.  
I'm a big fan of trying to get "newbies" into contesting - who knows, 
maybe some will get "hooked."  The 1 x 1's who parked at three or four 
county intersections REALLY had pileups.  It was sometimes hard to get 
through when you're a pipsqueak like me, with a temporary, low, wire 
antenna and several folks are calling at once, and they keep piling on.

How about Mississippi? Massachusetts?  There wouldn't be enough 1 x 1's 
with "s" suffixes to do that.

Actually, I've been operation in the Ohio QSO Party for years.  I'm 
thinking that Ohio (and other states with very short names) might find 
some town or event which is celebrating a 50, 75, 100, 150, 200 year 
anniversary, and spell that. (Not much happened before 200 years ago, 
because Ohio became a state in 1803.  If all else fails, one could spell 
the name of a major city, Columbus, Ohio for example, or Cincinnati, 
Cleveland, Toledo?

In Michigan we're offering a certificate for folks who spell MACKINAC - 
in honor of the 50th anniversary of opening the Mackinac Bridge.  Since 
we didn't think of it in time to garner support for enough 1 x 1 calls, 
we're allowing folks to spell Mackinac with the first letter of any 
suffix of Michigan sections.
 
73 de n8xx Hg

John Geiger wrote:

>--- Samuel Saladino <ortracr at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> <>But as far as spelling out the name of the state using the 1x1 call 
>> suffix, and being charged really think  about it, how much of a 
>> challenge would it be to spell IOWA or OHIO.  Now Massachusetts would 
>> give me a migraine.
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> Now the IOWA might be tough since they no longer have a QSO party. 
> They had one briefly in the 1980s, but it is now long gone. There also 
> used to be a ZERO district QSO party (I was contest chairman 1 year) 
> but it also has died.
>
>73s John W5TD
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