[PaQSO] Mid Adtantic QSO Party Ideas and Other stuff

[Mark Kempisty]

This sounds good.  I would recommend at least letting mobiles to have a 
multi-op class (or at least a driver) for the safety aspect. 

What would be the exchange?  May I suggest signal report, state and 
county for in region stations, signal report, state/province for North 
American stations and signal report, DX for everything else.

73,
Mark N3GNW

wa3eop wrote:

>Hi Gang-
>
>I had a couple direct responses toward maybe going ahead with a Mid Atlantic
>QSO Party in the Spring-
>
>Here is what I'm looking at right now-
>
>Proposed weekend of May 8 & 9 2004 - Nevada and Oregon have state parties
>that weekend but I think they are small contests and are not oriented
>towards the east coast.
>
>Eligible States- PA, MD, VA, DE and WV would be the theme states. The object
>basically would be to work as many counties in those states as possible as
>ONLY those counties (243 possible) would be multipliers. Anybody anywhere
>could be worked for points. Multipliers are counted only once.
>
>Scoring - 1 Point per valid qso with a fixed or portable station including
>rovers
>               2 Points per valid qso with a mobile due to the added degree
>of difficulty with contacting those stations. Mobiles could be worked again
>in each county operated from in the 5 state region.
>          To keep things simple each station could be worked once per band
>regardless of mode. All of the contest bands on HF, VHF and UHF would be
>allowed. All entries would be single operator stations.
>
>Final score would be points x multipliers.
>
>Proposed awards: Certificates: High score from each county where at least 50
>qsos were made. (25 for mobiles)  High score for each state. The
>Mid-Atlantic Champion.
>
>Special certificates: Worked all counties in any of the 5 states.
>Endorsement for more than one state. This is a real challenge.
>
>Is there anyone out there who could do the software for logging this and
>would be interested.  Any others wish to express thoughts as to whether you
>like the idea and might participate?
>
>The decision has not been made yet to definitely try this event for 2004.
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>ON OTHER TOPICS- I have separate cards for when I am operating fixed or
>mobile. The mobile card has a place at the top to plainly identify my county
>and state of operation and a rough photo of me in my Pocket Rocket Mobile.
>
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>In the last PA test I got NP2SH on 2 bands from the mobile ...15 and 20.
>
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>One final note- you may not be aware of it but I sponsor a free "Found The
>Elephants" award to anyone who qsos WA3EOP in 6 or more states. 22 folks
>have already managed to claim that award and there are probably 40 or more
>who only need me on one or two other states to qualify.
>
>Page WA3EOP (We Are 3 Elephants On Patrol)
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