[PaQSO] question on doing PAQSO Party from out of state

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/4/2008 8:35:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
tbehler at charter.net writes:

Can I operate the contest from out of State by calling CQ, and just say  I'm 
from Michigan looking for PA contacts?  Is there a specific CQ  strategy 
you'd recommend?
 
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This is an excellent strategy on bands where you have propagation to PA,  and 
people within PA don't have propagation to each other.  It will also  work on 
bands where both you and the PA stations have propagation.
 
Fortunately for you, unfortunately for the people in PA, this the first  
scenario is likely to exactly fit the situation on 40 meters.
 
The strategy works better on SSB than CW because there more casual PA ops  on 
SSB, and because the mobile CW ops (such as myself) don't spend much time  
tuning around to answer CQs by others.
 
CQ in a form like:
 
"CQ Pennsylvania, looking for anyone in Pennsylvania, from KB8TYJ in  
Michigan".
 
Avoid using "CQ Pennsylvania QSO Party" as this implies you are looking for  
anyone in the party, including people outside PA.
 
You will still have to tune around looking for the PA guys who are CQing.  
But there will be many qsos to be made (potentially well more than half) by  
CQing.
 
 
73 and GL   -   Jim    K8MR
 
Team (W3) USA 



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