[PaQSO] PA QP remarks

[Tad Danley]

I thought that summary sheets were no longer required for PAQP as of 2014?

Tad Danley, K3TD


On 10/15/2015 12:14 AM, Jim Funk wrote:
> I hesitate to go very deeply into what I consider an interesting discussion as I have only dabbled in the PAQP, have never sent in a log until this year (and from EMA as a guest op), and have never been mobile in the contest.  However, as meekness has never been my strong suit, here goes nothing....
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> 1) Comparing PAQP and CAQP is like comparing baseball and volleyball.  They both use round objects that you hit and hope nobody stops them.  That's where they start being different....
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> 2) It's nice that PAQP is still willing to accept hand-written logs. ILQP still does as well, but fortunately we receive only a dozen or so each year.  Transcribing them is a chore (I don't need to tell the PAQP folks this....).  I can understand why CAQP does not, given the volume of total logs they get.
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> 3) I cannot understand why a summary sheet is required for an electronic log, but that's entirely up to the sponsors and log checkers.  For ILQP we are happy to receive a summary sheet, but it is used only as a comparison with the score we calculate from the entrant's log.  If there is a marked discrepancy, we did deeper to find out why.  Sometimes it's our scoring model that had messed up; more often it's that the entrant has miscalculated something.
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> 4) Not all QSO parties have to be the same.  My take on the PAQP is that the emphasis is on allowing PA stations to get a "sweep" of all 67 counties.  This is well and good and appears to make many people happy.  Many states give special recognition to stations who get all of the target state's counties.  I hope someday to give something super-duper to the first station to work all 102 IL counties in ILQP.  Maybe this year....?
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> 5) For those who wish to endure a two-day QSO party, have at it.  I am "wooped" after operating 8 hours in ILQP as a mobile.  I can't imagine doing 24 hours over two days.  (Well, come to think of it, I did this in TX a few years ago....but I digress....).  It would seem to me that it's more difficult to get out-of-state stations to come in as mobile entrants if they have to leave home on Friday and get home on Monday....but maybe not....  Maybe when I retire....
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> 73, Jim N9JF
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> Best regards,
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> Jim Funk
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