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

Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:57:32 -0400

How do QTC's slow things down?  Well, let's see...

Example 1:  No QTC:
CQ Contest CQ Contest WN3VAW
WN3VAW N8LXR
N8LXR Thanks Please Copy Number 357 Allegheny ALL
Roger Please Copy Number 246 SNJ Good Luck!
Thanks QRZ...

Example 2:  QTC
CQ Contest CQ Contest WN3VAW
WN3VAW N8LXR
N8LXR Thanks Please Copy Number 357 Allegheny ALL Do you have QTC?
Roger Please Copy Number 246 SNJ Standby for QTC
OK Go Ahead
Please Copy 5 QTC
Roger
Copy 240 N3ZNI Mobile 45 McKean
Roger
Copy 241 W3YQ QRP 567 Forest
Roger
Copy 242 W4ZE 984 Washington
Roger
Copy 243 W3KWH 501 Allegheny
Roger
Let's see, one more, right?
Yeah, one more, go ahead.
OK, copy 244 N3SH 2203 Clarion
Did you say TWENTY TWO OH THREE Clarion?
Roger, that's what they sent.
OK, I QSL your QTC.  Thanks!  QRZ...

QTC's are a gimmick of certain EU contests.  Let's not bother with gimmicks.
Let's try and get more people on the air to cover more counties.

Besides, Sundays may be a little slow, but there are still people to work.
How many besides me remember that for years on end, you never had to worry
about Venango County -- just wait for the last 2 or 3 hours of the contest,
when N3BAT would finally show up!  And that's just one...

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

----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [PaQSO] ONE OTHER WAY TO SPICE UP THE SCORING IN PAQP

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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