[CQ-Contest] Ca QSO Sad :(

[Andrew Faber]

Mal,
  I hope you'll reconsider and join the thousands of stations that will 
participate in CQP this weekend.  It's a great contest, and we'd certainly 
like you to be in it.
  Regarding your points, certainly all contest rules are subject to debate. 
But:
  1)  The exchange is a serial number plus your county if in CA or your 
State/Province/County if not.  So asking CA stations to log the county of 
other CA stations is just asking them to log the exchange.  We very 
consciously don't have CA counties as mults for CA stations because we want 
to encourage CA stations to work the rest of the world, and not cluster on 
40 and 80 working each other (as happens in some state QSO parties that do 
give multiplier credit for their own counties).
  2) Stations in U.S. territories are very welcome to the contest, as are 
all DX stations.  They are always in demand, and add an exotic flavor to the 
weekend.  From Puerto Rico, a serious competitor could make many hundreds of 
CA QSOs.
  CU all in CQP!
  73, Andy, AE6Y
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N7MAL" <N7MAL at CITLINK.NET>
To: "Ron Notarius" <wn3vaw at verizon.net>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Ca QSO Sad :(


> California QSO party has 2 really bad rules: The first one being the 
> requirement for CA stations to copy counties in CA when they don't count 
> for points for CA stations. The second is the rule about KP4 and other 
> similar US entities.
> I think someone needs to sit down with NCCC and explain the facts of  life 
> (birds-n-bees) to them and if that doesn't work then everyone do what I'm 
> going to do, watch football all weekend.
> Yes it  is their contest and they make the rules,,,, but if no one shows 
> up then maybe they will get the message and modify the rules.
>
>
> MAL         N7MAL
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
> http://geocities.com/n7mal/
> Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
> It's already tomorrow in Australia
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Ron Notarius
>  To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>  Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 16:14
>  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Ca QSO Sad :(
>
>
>  Felipe,
>
>  Sorry to hear about this, but there's a simple solution.
>
>  Wait one week.  Then operate in the 48th Annual PENNSYLVANIA QSO Party.
>
>  KP4 IS a multiplier in PaQP, and it's always a tough one to work (more 
> due
>  to minimal activity than anything!)
>
>  If you need more info, including rules, entry forms, history etc., they 
> can
>  be found at http://www.nittany-arc.net/paqso.html.
>
>  Hope to work you during the contest; I'm going to be at one of my club's
>  three Multi/Multi stations (either N3SH in Mercer County, WA3SH in 
> Fayette
>  County, or W4ZE in Washington County) -- don't know which one yet as 
> there
>  are some non-radio factors involved (family and work related!)
>
>  73, ron wn3vaw
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:09:12 -0400
>  > From: <fhdez at vox-tel.com>
>  > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Ca QSO  Sad :(
>  > To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
>  >
>  > Guys,
>  >
>  > Today I made the decision of operating the CA qso party, that all my
>  friends
>  > seem to like so much and guess what I found out?
>  > Puerto Rico is not a mult for Californians! But KL7 , KH6 are.. also
>  > VE and all its provinces count..
>  >
>  > Was that done purposely because of ke3q has been giving you guys such a
>  > headache on SS?
>  >
>  > Hi Hi... I'm sure the rules are older than Rich's stints.
>  > I just feel like a second rate citizen.... Happy CQP :(
>  >
>  > 73's
>  > Felipe
>  > NP4Z/KP3Z
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
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