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[mkempisty at comcast.net]

I've re-joined the reflector a bit late this year so I'm a bit unclear as to what W3UU is exactly planning.  Would somebody mind giving the run-down one more time?

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73, 
Mark N3GNW

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> 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. 
> >_______________________________________________ 
> 
> 
> 
> 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 
> 
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