[PaQSO] 07 PAQSO Special Event Station news

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Ditto.  One callsign running a few radios on different bands SSB and CW only from one location.

73
  

-----Original Message-----
>From: "William N. Goodman, CPA" <wgoodman at goodmancpa.biz>
>Sent: Apr 5, 2007 2:41 PM
>To: Michael Coslo <mjc5 at psu.edu>, paqso at mailman.qth.net
>Cc: Nittany Amateur Radio Board of Directors <narc at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [PaQSO] 07 PAQSO Special Event Station news
>
>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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