[KL7AA] [AK-Contesters] State QSO parties

[president]

I asked this question some time back and got few replies.  I was told there
have been a couple of attempts to have an AK QSO Party over the years but as
Al pointed out, this is a hard place to work.
I like the concept of a state QSP Party.  I will say if an Alaskan QSO Party
is developed I would participate as would several of the Club members of the
Elmendorf Club I am sure.
How about grid squares?  True we cannot work a lot of them but it would be a
challenge to work them on HF.  Rovers could activate those that are
accessible by road in the Summer months.
Another line of thought would be instead of an all at once event.  Do a year
long grid search within the state.  Then using QSL cards or other
confirmation process participants could submit their logs.  Anyone who
contests already uses Cabrillo formats and those who have not yet it's not
hard to do, most logging software will output a Cabrillo log.
Another thing to keep in mind, there will be outside participants.  It is HF
after all.
Would be an interesting experiment in working other Alaska Stations outside
of the usual evening HF nets.
I think if this were to happen it will take a group of Hams to make it
happen maybe with several Club's supporting it and a sponsor or two.
So first question to ask is who would be willing to be part of the
development committee for an Alaska QSO Party?  Not a death by committee but
a real working group of people who will make it happen by next Summer.
I am going to be sorry for this next statement I am sure, I would be willing
to sit on a committee and help iron out the fine and gory details of such an
event.
Anyone else interested enough to be willing to work on this?

Sorry Al, didn't mean to hijack the discussion.  I simple like the idea and
feel it is possible to do this by Summer 2011.

Ron, KL7YK 

-----Original Message-----
From: kl7aa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:kl7aa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Allen R. Brier
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:54 PM
To: ak-contesters at googlegroups.com; kl7aa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [KL7AA] [AK-Contesters] State QSO parties

My guess it is because most state QSO parties are based on working counties
and having lots of rovers criss-crossing the state activating them. Not an
easy task in Alaska, and not that many counties. Some other sort of special
event (like the KL5O event we did a few years ago) might work and in fact,
we had a lot of activity from that one. One idea might be to join the 7QP
(7th area QSO Party) somehow. Otherwise, it seems pretty hard to come up
with KL7 multipliers. Do you (or anyone on these lists) have any ideas how
we could make an interesting KL7 QSO party? I would love to hear them. 

 

Allen Brier N5XZ / KL5DX 
1515 Windloch Lane 
Richmond, TX 77406-2533 
281-342-1882 
713-705-4801 (Cell) 
n5xz at arrl.net 

  _____  

From: ak-contesters at googlegroups.com [mailto:ak-contesters at googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Jeff Williams KL2HD
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:34 PM
To: ak-contesters at googlegroups.com
Subject: [AK-Contesters] State QSO parties

 

Anyone know why Alaska is the only state not to have its own QSO party
contest?

 

Jeff Williams

PO Box 1268

Homer, AK  99603

 

jeffrey at alaska.net

 





 

______________________________________________________________
KL7AA mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/kl7aa
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:KL7AA at mailman.qth.net

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html