[CQ-Contest] ZEROLAND QSO PARTY

[Julius Fazekas]

A LOT of work!

MnQP has done a great job.

Some contests are easier to get folks motivated for than others. The best state style QSO parties get the mobiles out on the road AND others to play from home. This does take organization and effort.

Of course, it helps if it's FUN too!

73,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en

Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/

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--- On Sat, 11/13/10, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ZEROLAND QSO PARTY
> To: radioham at gmail.com, "John T. Laney III" <k4bai at att.net>
> Cc: "CQ-Contest Reflector" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 5:12 PM
> We restarted the dormant Minnesota
> QSO Party just a few years ago, and did a 
> lot of work to make sure we activate every county. 
> Participation is 
> building every year.
> 
> But it takes work!
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: ZEROLAND QSO PARTY
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 9:36 PM
> To: John T. Laney III
> Cc: CQ-Contest Reflector
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ZEROLAND QSO PARTY
> 
> Certainly some good points John.
> 
> We know we are small potatoes, and wont give up and stop
> until we get it
> right!
> 
> I hope you have read the website we have changed a lot of
> rules to fit the
> NEQP & 7QP closer
> working with n1mm creators to better fit in...
> http://www.zerolandqsoparty.com
> 
> As far as the ZQP it was made to activate the very inactive
> middle states
> like Nebraska, SD,ND, etc, and when our own states Iowa QSO
> party barely
> activates 1/2th of the 99 counties that are in Iowa, it
> occurred to us that
> we could hold a QSO party that no body would ever activate
> even show up to
> activate the over 600 counties in Zero land to begin with.
> 
> We wanted to work contesters on both coasts with ZEROLAND
> in the middle and
> its the perfect conditions to work a ton of people and
> activate the ZQP so
> it would take off..
> 
> 73
> Joe
> W0IW
> ZQP STAFF 
> 
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