[PaQSO] 2009 PQP Special Event Station

Tue Jul 21 15:29:26 EDT 2009

 mjc5 at psu.edu writes:
> The particular station hasn't been decided yet, but we will be doing 
> an old school single station Special event station from one county. 
> -73 de Mike N3LI -

sheehanbill at hotmail.com writes:
> Too bad...
> The multi county, multi site bonus station added
> a nice touch and added a challenge to the QP.
> bill   KB3LIX
> 
     Thanks for the kind words, Bill.  I thought so too when I formed the 
plan, and so did MANY contestants overwhelmingly agree when writing to me 
privately after last years effort by DLARC's W3OK SES.
   It wasn't intended to be a model program, but one that would produce a 
respectable opportunity to log a SES during the rock-bottom of an already 
terrible Solar Cycle, and I'm convinced we delivered that last October for 
scores of participants.
  Few (if any?) records were broken in any category, even with so many 
chances to secure lots of Bonus Points, so it certainly wasn't over the top to 
offer all those points.  I believe conditions justified the effort, which by 
the way, many bright op's recognized was quite a logistical undertaking to 
prevent operating conflicts.
  It also gave our Club a great boost in morale and camaraderie for weeks 
leading up to the event.  It is no small coincidence that our Membership has 
nearly doubled in the last 16 months to now well over 200.  I wonder how 
many other Clubs are growing?

  http://www.dlarc.org/index.php/club-info/meeting-info

  We are also looking forward to see who is chosen to be 2009's Bonus 
Station.  With the DLARC's HF'ers back to business as usual this year, we will 
once again be a force to be reckoned with in the Club category.

  73 es GL.

  Pete / NL7XM

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