[PaQSO] I disagree

Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:03:57 -0400

Getting a sweep this year will be more of a challenge.  For the past
several years, I have represented PHI on both modes both days.  Last
year I has 830 Q's and in 2000 I had 914 Q's.  This year, I'm planning
on being at the W3FRC bonus point station.  

The only other PHI station who usually gets on is John, W3AYT but he
doesn't work CW.  If PHI is needed I may operate Sunday from home on CW
only.  Hopefully, the mobiles and rovers can help with PHI contacts.

73s - John - K3ZV

Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
> 
> My, how times have changed...
> 
> How many of you remember when a county clean sweep was not possible because
> not all 67 counties were active?  Or when all of the results fit on both
> sides of ONE piece of paper (I still have a few of those in the filing
> cabinet!)?   Heck, I remember when the contest was in SEPTEMBER -- and why
> it was moved, which turned out to be one of the best things that ever
> happened to it.
> 
> Have we gone from the days when a Clean Sweep was something to celebrate to
> something considered so "routine" that it's not challenging ENOUGH?
> 
> I've come close, in the 25+ years I've operated (from club stations, from
> home, mobile or portable) but never quite made one yet.   Still, it is
> easier to work one than it once was.
> 
> So, I could go along with a "double sweep" recognition -- one all phone, one
> all CW -- as an endorsement to the regular sweep, but that's about it.
> Three awards seems a bit excessive.
> 
> And I'll be out there looking again this October.
> 
> 73, ron wn3vaw
> 
> "And they give you cash,
> which is just as good as money!"
> Yogi Berra, AFLAC Commercial, 2002
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Raymer <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:30 PM
> Subject: [PaQSO] I disagree
> 
> >I think it was Jim, K8MR that mentioned working all 67 county's on SSB
> AND
> >CW to qualify for the sweep award, and as a new set of 67 mults also.
> Seems
> >we've generated so much activity that getting the sweep is a little on
> the
> >easy side now. I've been lucky enough to get the sweep 5 or 6  years
> >running...but seems I get it rather late in the contest each year. How
> >about "Worked all countys CW AND SSB", or maybe two separate awards
> >(worked
> 
> A Little Easy??????? I don't think it is easy to get a sweep when you
> have mobiles that activate counties that have been dead for hours. Plus
> you have a few that Run mobile QRP, making it worse for everyone to work
> them.  Easy, This called being at the right time in the right place and
> having your Packet DX cluster on! I  think it is a good idea to have 3
> categories for the sweep, one for CW, SSB and one for Both.
> 
> Another thing, i hate to get like most other contests like FD or
> something like that, but i think the possibility of adding a digital mode
> to the Test would be interesting as well.
> 
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