Only stations within MN should be calling CQ MNQP. Everyone outside MN
should be calling CQ MN. YOU are looking for Minnesota stations. This is
the standard procedure, although not everyone is aware of this. This
goes for any QSO Party. Out of state stations call CQ "The state." This
should reduce other out-of-state stations calling you if you are not
located in the target state.
73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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On 2/6/2017 4:09 PM, Joe Fischer wrote:
I very much prefer the K9MA/WI pattern. Immediately lets me know that this person is not in
MN and I won’t call him. Usually when I try to raise somebody in MN, for example, by
calling 'CQ MNQP de AA8TA/OH' I’ll get more people from other states respond than
in-state participants. No biggie, I log them then transfer them to main log and take them
out of the Cabrillo file.
TU es 73 de Joe AA8TA
Message: 1
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 15:38:12 -0600
From: K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us>
To: CQ Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>, Minnesota Wireless
Association <mwa@w0aa.org>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] QSO Party Calls
Message-ID: <3a3e1f35-73db-24c3-1e23-45df7537f93a@sdellington.us>
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In the MNQP yesterday, I found I had to sign "K9MA/WI" when calling CQ,
so callers knew I was not in MN. A lot of MN stations the duped me, as
I had omitted the /WI when I called them. So, now there are two
versions of my call in some logs, but I didn't really want to waste time
adding the /WI when calling MN stations. What to do? I tried adding
1.5 spaces before the /WI, in the hope that other operators would not
log that part. I think it would be best if everyone could agree on some
designator for stations outside the target state, or at least not to log
them. Any other suggestions?
73,
Scott K9MA
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