[PaQSO] 07 PAQSO Special Event Station news

[Michael Coslo]

	For the 50th Anniversary of the Pennsylvania QSO Party, we wanted to  
have a different sort of Special Event station.

	My original plans were to have a multiple station/multiple county  
setup under the W3YA callsign. Indeed the results mailers were  
printed out with that very thing.

	However, most of the NARC members are clustered in and around State  
College. We do have members in Huntingdon, Clinton, and Clearfield  
county, and a few other nearby QTH's, but all in all, except for  
whatever mobile operations happened, it would be near our Centre  
County home.

	At our recent meeting, a suggestion was made that we do things with  
a bit of a twist. It is an idea that has enough merit to get me to  
back up a moment and shift gears. (and do cliches)

	We're going to run a Special Event Call for the party, probably W3P.

	Now here is the fun part. We want to have some other operations join  
in. NARC would be running Stations in Centre County - maybe a county  
line CEN/HUN effort.

	We are looking for stations in WPA and EPA who would be willing to  
run under the W3P call sign in their counties for the weekend.  A  
club effort, or even an ad-hoc group that would get together just for  
the event would be great. A mobile or two would be a help also - I'm  
planning on running a mobile station during the party myself. Of  
course, there will need to be a coordination effort between the  
respective mobiles and the fixed stations.

	We are looking for at least 4 other fixed stations in addition to  
the NARC station. Mobiles are another matter-we'll be looking at the  
response.

	But here is the issue. We have our stuffing/mailing party of the  
mugs, t-shirts, and results on the 15th of April. I had the results  
mailing printed, but need to change it to reflect the new special  
event station idea.

	What I need is to get some response from prospective stations to see  
if this dog hunts, and be able to have enough of an idea to redo the  
announcement page of the results by that April 15th deadline.

	note: that means I need to have some good idea pretty soon- like  
before the 15th,  so I can rewrite the flyer, and get copies made and  
folded for the mailing.

	If anyone might like to be part of the special event station for the  
historic 07 PAQSO party, give us feedback - soon -  and let's see  
what develops.


-73 de Mike KB3EIA -