[PaQSO] Just a thought....and a wish list

[MORSENUT@aol.com]

I wonder what percentage of the ops sending in logs for PAQP participate in 
the pre-contest reporting of what stations will be acitive in which counties?

For instance, right now, we have activity listed in all the counties with the 
mobiles included, but there are several counties where no fixed station or 
portable activity is being reported.  I am sure that will not be the case 
during the contest.

I guess the some of the guys operating from home are doing so casually and 
don't feel the need to report that they will be on from a given county and 
the operators watching the reflector and listing their activity are the 
"hardcore" competitive ops.

One thing that strikes me as a do-able thing is to have a listing of what 
stations will be active out-of-state and from what sections.  If we were to 
have a website for that over the course of a given year, maybe guys would 
list their intended activity and thereby be prompted to participate in PAQP 
out-of-state, yet one more way to shake the impression that our great state 
QSO Party is an INTRA state contest primarily.  

I am not a computer programmer (God knows!) but it sure would be neat to have 
a logging program whereby one could enter the callsigns and routes of the 
mobile stations as program parameters and then the program would prompt the 
operator to check for a given mobile on either the last frequency it was 
heard or give the operator a list of the mobile window frequencies whereby it 
may be heard.   A wish list..unless I can get my friend who has a  
degree is comupter programming to do it for me!  LOL

Just musing....really hate being out of state this year but making it fun 
none-the-less by trying to do a lot of pre-contest workup to see who is going 
to be active and from where...LOL  it's not like shooting fish in a barrel 
this time!

73 to all...hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.
Tim
N8LXR


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