[PaQSO] (no subject)

[Joe Stepansky]

At 12:42 AM 9/30/2004 -0400, Cliff Bell wrote:
>I wonder how many Qso's will be missed and how many "DUPES" will be thrown 
>out by the log checkers due to the W3UU operation .
>ex:
>  I hear W3UU/MIF on 40 meters. I work the station. Later I hear another 
> W3UU/M/MIF. I think "well that's a dupe" and move on .  I worked a  W3UU 
> on 40 meters on Saturday then Sunday I hear another W3UU on 40 meters ( 
> different station/location) but I don't know that so I don't work that 
> station. Why not run a FIELD DAY type big gun station from one location 
> as mult/mult and be done with it ?  I think the QSO PARTY committee needs 
> to address this issue for future Parties.
>_______________________________________________

<Sigh>

This is just my opinion, which may or may not be worth anything.  All I can 
tell you is what I said before.  As the mobile station we'll be "ID"ing 
W3UU/M/County.  I don't see how that can be any more obvious.  Hear us in a 
different county, work us.  Hear us on a different band/mode even from the 
same county, work us.  The multiple W3UU idea wasn't mine, but I liked it 
immediately.

If everything goes the way I think it will, you will NOT be working 
W3UU.  You will be working W3UU/DAU or W3UU/CUM, or W3UU/M/CLI or whatever.

Of course, the ultimate solution is not to work any W3UU's at all, or just 
work one on each band/mode as you normally would.  I don't know, maybe 
because I've been contesting for more than a few years, under some fairly 
"interesting" rules in some, I don't see this as a big deal (doesn't mean 
it isn't, it's just that I don't see it that way).  In fact, this could be 
downright hilarious, and I don't mean that in a snide or mocking 
way.  Instead of "where's Waldo" it's kind of like a "where's W3UU".

Also, the county is part of the exchange.  If a W3UU is working people, it 
will become readily apparent what county they're in, even if they don't ID 
properly.  If they're not getting answers to CQs, and not "ID"ing properly, 
just ask them.  If they call you, just work them.  If I'm in the mobile and 
call you, you can rest assured we haven't worked on that county/band/mode.

At the very least this has spiced up reflector conversation, no?  And it's 
not as though Dauphin and Cumberland counties are normally crawling with PA 
QSO Party participants.  Why not just enjoy the fact that both DAU and CUM 
will (or should) be readily available this year?

73, Joe KQ3F