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

[John Lindmeier]

My 2 Cents,

If it ant't broke don't fix it !!!  The contest has been run this way
for years.  QTC's would be a very large pain for a mobile or rover
trying to make the most contacts in the limited time they have available
at that stop or while driving through a county.  Not to mention the
problem of logging QTC's let alone contacts while driving.

NA software does not support the WAE contest, NO QTC SUPPORT.  All the
current software out there for the contest (except maybe for Writelog)
would have to be rewritten to support the addition of QTCs.  This would
mean that all those using NA would probably have to change to a new
software package.  

If you want to spice up the scoring, Sunday afternoon is a great time to
work on your SO2R skills for the CQWW in a few weeks.

73 - John - K3ZV



MORSENUT@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Well, it really should not take anywhere near 3 minutes to send a QTC if both
> OPs are decent operators and any operator can just send "NIL" to a QTC
> request anyway and just keep sending his CQ.
> 
> I fail to see how QTCs "slow things down" when, after all, a point is a point
> is a point, at least from the standpoint of the sending station.
> 
> If your county is really that rare, then you can be sure that the stations
> really needing you will standy by while you QTC and they will have the
> benefit of listening to the QTC, a report that might tell them where another
> needed multiplier was last heard.
> 
> As it is now, Sunday is a poor second to Saturday.  I spent most of the time
> Sunday just trying to find ANY PA station I had not already worked on any
> band...my computer beeping madly at me when I entered any of the heard
> callsigns as these were all dupes.  Sunday is therefore rather boring...and
> maybe having QTCs for Sunday only would add a little something to the
> scoring.
> 
> Short of that or something similar and I thing PAQP should be Saturday only.
> 
> My 2 cents!    73
> 
> Tim
> N8LXR
> 
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