Author: "The Trench Family" <cwtrench@sprynet.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:37:16 -0400
The 2006 Pa QSO Party will be held this weekend. Rules are available at the following URL: http://www.nittany-arc.net/06_rules.pdf A particularly interesting aspect of this contest is that stations m
How many N3SH stations are there? Are they all going to be on at the same time? How will we know one from another for duping? For you rules mavens, don't forget that the PA QSO Party is the only cont
A couple of things to note about the Pennsylvania QSO Party: 1. Last weekend 15 meters was open very nicely (on both days) to California during the CQP. I suspect the band was also open further north
There will be several, operating in different counties. Your software will handle it in either of two ways. 1 - by accounting for the different counties automatically when you set up the software. Th
And although PaQP now accepts entries by email they require that a hardcopy summary sheet be sent by regular mail regardless of how you submit your logs! What's up with that? Failure to do so will re
For those of you using the NA logging program, you solve the same call, multi county operation by typing "Options" in the callsign field and electing the first option: QTH must match. This is the sam
Here is the reason: Last year, we only required in-state logs to submit hardcopy summary, and the result was that almost 40 percent of our logs came in without a summary at all. Since we generate the
Do you find claimed scores to be reasonably accurate? I check the logs for the Tennessee QSO Party, and find that claimed scores are often wrong, often by large amounts. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant V
The typical mistakes we find are lack of the EPA/WPA mults. The party uses sections instead of states. Another problem is that blasted 1.5 point CW QSO point value. Depending on where you round up, i
(I was going to make this reply private to Mike, but I think there are principles in here that may be helpful to anyone who operates in QSO Parties) We have similar problems in the Tennessee contest:
I have been watching the messages regarding the PA QSO party fly by and there have been many interesting points raised. This comment caught my eye and I would like to add a little: There is cabrillo,