[ILQSO] LOGS

Thu Nov 30 20:50:53 EST 2023

Hi all,

We had a good run as a rover this year.  600 Q's in 9 counties.  Although licensed for 25 years I am not a CW guy and that put us at a disadvantage. We made more Q's than anybody in our class but will finish 3rd.  Not sure if the CW bonus is appropriate anymore but respect the hell out of those guys that do it.

My vote would be for absolutely no FT8 or RTTY.  And I do a lot of both

Shorten the log submission to 14 days.  A ton of guys get on to give out some points but don’t care about points and scores. I have made Q's in this contest on and off for 20+ years and I think this is my first log submission just because we were serious. 

Enjoyed the hell out of it and already making improvements to the mobile for next year

NOTE-- these are not necessarily the opinions of my rover partner and brother N9UM !!

Thanks for all the Q's

73
Kevin
KG9IL

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To: 'C.Wilson' <kb9ppy at yahoo.com>; 'Illinois QSO Party' <ilqso at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] LOGS

I'll check into that, but right now my inclination is to say uh uh....

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I like FT8 , but doing so for qso parties is hard. The Vermont QP they allowed it but it was discounted points, like 2 to 1 if I remember right. And had a few other rules that went with it. Something to look at. 73WY9S Christopher 

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On Thursday, November 30, 2023, 5:42 PM, James Funk <n9jfcountyhunter at gmail.com> wrote:

I also have nothing whatsoever against FT8. I find it rather interesting. However, I have not seen that anyone can satisfactoryly  use it in this particular event.

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> On Nov 30, 2023, at 5:01 PM, K9LY - Joe <k9ly at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> In my opinion: If the mode used for a contact can't convey the contest exchange required by ILQP rules, then no valid QSO is possible in that mode. This would justify saying "no FT8" or any other mode that's incapable of sending and receiving the contest exchange.
> 
> I have nothing against FT8, by the way.
> 
> 73,
> Joe K9LY
> 
> 
> On Thu Nov 30 13:14:56 EST 2023 ilqso at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> 
> >Other observations:  We had a couple of logs that included FT8 >contacts. I see no reasonable way to include these in an ILQP log >though they are not "prohibited".  One log included the signal report >received instead of the QTH.  This caused considerable angst with the >log-checking software until I simply deleted them.  Another log >included a QTH that was obviously looked up post-contest (see Rant >above).    Any suggestions going forward?  Simply say, "no FT8"? Or >just keep the rules as they are ("each contact must include a call >worked, signal report received and QTH received")?
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