[CQ-Contest] Who Is the Oldest?

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Ward,

There's no, ah, "contest."

If the 2009 running of it is the 45th annual California QSO Party... and the
2009 running is the 52nd annual Pennsylvania QSO party(*)... c'mon, it's not
even close.

This reminds me of what one local club used to do... they'd hand out flyers
to their upcoming hamfest in March, proclaiming it the first one in the
area.  They did this at MY club's hamfest in February.  You can put whatever
you want on a flyer, but if it's not true, it's not true, no matter how much
hype you put behind it.

73, ron w3wn

(*) yes, I know Mike N3LI didn't put the number of years on this year's web
site... but the 2006 results state that it's the 49th annual, 2007 the 50th,
and last year was the 51st, so it's not exactly tough to figure out!

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ward Silver
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:57 PM
To: CQ-Contest Reflector
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Who Is the Oldest?

Such a subject is sure to generate some discussion :-)  The specific subject
is "which state QSO party is the oldest?"  In the last issue of the Contest
Update (www.arrl.org/contest/update) I printed the claim of California's QSO
Party to being the oldest of the lot.  Subsequently, a question was raised
about that - is the Pennsylvania QSO Party older?  I don't know - and
possibly there are others with a claim to the title.

Now - let's be sure we distinguish between "longest continuously running
state QSO party" and "first state QSO party".  I'd kinda like to know both.
This year is CQP's 45th running - that's pretty good!  Can any others match
or exceed that?  And when was the very first state QSO party, anyway,
regardless of activity since then?  And no regional or local contests - it
has to be a contest aimed at a single state (yes, territories are OK, too,
you KL7's and KH6's).

An interesting question - let the games begin!

73, Ward N0AX
Editor - Contest Update
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