[PaQSO] 07 PAQSO Special Event Station news

[Jon]

Mike,
I'm willing to do Lancaster County (my home) or
Rover ( ie. park and run off a generator ) in the occasionally elusive 
Chester County.
Cheers,
Jon  K3KYW






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Coslo" <mjc5 at psu.edu>
To: <paqso at mailman.qth.net>; "Party reflector" <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Nittany Amateur Radio Board of Directors" <narc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: [PaQSO] 07 PAQSO Special Event Station news


> 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 -
>
>
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