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

[Mark Kempisty]

I found the last 3 or 4 hours on Sunday to be very productive.  Search & pounce
only yielded a few new stations, most were dupes, but when I sat on a frequency I
picked up a lot of stations that had just joined the contest.  Not a lot of
pile-ups but I never had to call CQ for more than a minute.  Most of their
numbers were low and I suspect those over a 100 QSO's were only sporadically in
the contest.  So my handing out CLI was good for them.

Yeah, there can be dead times and they get BORING but that is part of contesting
or breaking a DX pile-up.  You call and call and get nothing back (unless you
absentmindedly give your call when they ask for Oceania only - been there, done
that, got the "I don't think so" comment from the DX station).

Right now I do not feel any significant rules changes are needed.  Maybe some
clarifications.  This is not to say that I would never support any changes.

-- Mark N3GNW

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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