[PaQSO] 07 PAQSO Special Event Station news

[William N. Goodman, CPA]

I think the idea is dumb!  A special event station should be one station at 
one location, in one county, not many stations.  Next year we can ALL enter 
as W3P.  How silly.  Go back to the original intent, which was to have one 
station using a club or special call.  This is out of hand, and one of the 
reasons I abandoned the PA QSO Party.  I speak from experience after we set 
a new multi multi record as W3FRC from K3ANS and many years of top scores, 
single op at K3ANS.   I also think adding all of the new classes has diluted 
the intent of the contest.  It was supposed to demonstrate the station 
building and operating skills of high rate QSOs with many multipliers.  Now 
you have so many categories to make all participants happy, it reminds me of 
socialism.  All participants win.  Do not let any ham be left behind. Do not 
hurt the feelings of the incompetent.   If you want to have a computer 
digital contest, make that a separate event, not mingled with the SSB and 
CW.  Keep the PA QSO Party simple and focused.  The ARRL has done the same 
confusion and diluting with Field Day.  Too many categories!   By the way, 
Gil Crossley, W3YA, was my engineering student advisor at Penn State Univ. 
in 1960.  Bill, K3ANS>>


----- 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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