[PaQSO] County Line Ops

[K3YD at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/13/05 3:41:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jss167 at yahoo.com writes:

<< I may be in the minority here, but I do not like the
 concept of county line operation.  You are either in
 one county or the other. >>

I also could live without "county-line" operations.  I have worked many, but 
have never considered doing portable or mobile operation from one of these 
lines.  Even if an operator feels confident that his/her station straddles the 
line:
A.  There is no point benefit to the CL station
B.  The "rate" of the CL station is likely to be lower because of a longer 
exchange to be sent and more requests for repeats.
C.  Seldom are both counties equally rare.

If I wanted to activate adjacent counties, I'd be inclined to operate in one 
as a mobile or rover, then move and activate the second.  I would be giving 
others more points (more QSO's) and earning more myself 'cause I could work 
stations a second time.

The biggest benefit of this possible change would be an END to the endless 
debates about CL operation.  :-)

73,  Blair k3yd