[PaQSO] Mid Atlantic QSO Party Ideas and Other stuff

Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:54:51 -0400

Good idea.. but you'd have to be careful to designate your county and
state
..I bet some of the states have counties by the same name.. like
Washington County?

I like splitting the thing into power classes.  It gives us 100W
(medium) and QRP ops a chance.  I do like to try to get other ARRL
sections as multipliers, as well, though.  How many counties are in each
state??  I know PA has 67.

Getting the thing all set up and the info to the ARRL for publicity
early could really help get the word out and the number of ops up.

Also, why not have the event earlier in the year..such as February or
March??  When it's cold out, people won't have a problem staying inside
to operate.  I would think that would increase the number of
participants.  I know I'd enjoy being inside operating in March or Feb
more than in May.  When it's warm in spring (May) people are itching to
get outside, who wants to be inside missing out the warm sunshine?  I do
like the 2 day aspect of a contest more than just a 12 hour (1 day)
contest.

Just my $0.02.

73
Matt
N3NTJ

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Kyle Chavis
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 5:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [PaQSO] Mid Atlantic QSO Party Ideas and Other stuff

I suggest the following:

A 12 hour contest. (Mid-Atlantic Sprint)

Each station maybe worked on each band and mode(CW/SSB).

Each contact is worth: 1pt-SSB, 2pts-CW, 3pts-Mobile

Sent exchange should be: Serial number plus County, State, or DX.

No extra bonus for High, Low, QRP, Mobile, Rover, or Portable, score
each
category independent.

Great idea, I'm looking forward in participating.
73,
Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of wa3eop
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Larry
Subject: [PaQSO] Mid Adtantic QSO Party Ideas and Other stuff

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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