[PaQSO] ONE OTHER WAY TO SPICE UP THE SCORING IN PAQP

[Ron Notarius WN3VAW]

Sorry Tim, I disagree strenuously.  I think QTC's are a major pain in the
neck or worse.  They slow things down tremendously.  Can you imagine some
rare county with a pileup stopping for 2 or 3 minutes to exchange QTC's when
they could instead be working 5-10 other stations?

I operated in the last WAE, which uses QTC's.  I got chewed out by several
EU stations for declining them -- heck, I was just in it for fun and to pick
up a few new entities on certain bands.

Bottom line is, QTC's are a monkey wrench we can do without.  So let's do
without.

73, ron wn3vaw
"Be who you are, say what you think, people that matter don't care, and
people that care don't matter." -- Dr. Seuss


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Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:16 PM
Subject: [PaQSO] ONE OTHER WAY TO SPICE UP THE SCORING IN PAQP


One of the ways that some of the DX contests have made the scoring a little
more interesting is through the sending of "QTCs" between stations.  I think
this scoring feature could be used to great advantage in PAQP as well,
especially when everybody seems to have worked everybody.

A "QTC" is simply a report from one station to another listing where and
when
certain stations were heard and worked.   Up to 5 stations can be reported
and both the sending and receiving stations get credit for the QTC.  In
PAQP,
one rule would be that at least one of the reported stations must be a PA
station.  This would help people find out where the PA stations are and also
help PA stations find out where section multipliers are.  A "QTC" listing
from one station to another would sound like this:

W3TTY:   CQ CQ PAQP DE W3TTY
N8LXR:    DE N8LXR  QTC?
W3TTY:    R GA
N8LXR:     W3RER/CAR    7030   1814Z
                 (If W3TTY received OK he just sends a "dit" or says 'GO" on
fone)
                 W6REW/LAX  14,045 1900Z
                 K3GTE/POT   7.043   1830Z

This is a lot of fun and can be done between any two stations in the
contest.
 If between non-PA stations, then perhaps the reporting of PA stations only
would be allowed....between PA and out-of-state, any reporting of stations
would be allowed.   Of course, there is usually a limit to how many QTCs can
be done per hour and how many to the same station.

I think it would be kind of fun to add this to PAQP...those Sundays when
everyone has worked everyone are a little long and QTCs would make it so
that
you can keep operating with opporunity to score even when things are slow as
far as new stations are concerned and they would also render reliable
information as to where new stations might be found.

Just a thought.........

73 to all


Tim
N8LXR


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