[CQ-Contest] Tennessee QSO Party 2017 - Sunday September 3

[Jim Brown]

I disagree. Our club (NCCC) organizes CQP, and we work very hard to make 
it interesting for out of state participants by making county 
expeditions to dozens of counties where there are few if any hams, and 
we light up those counties on all contesting bands that are open. I've 
been a part of one of those expeditions every year since moving to CA in 
2006. I've also been a part of county expeditions for 7QP, lighting up 5 
counties one year and 7 counties another.

The life blood of state QSO parties is the activation of a lot of 
counties for as much of the world as possible given propagation. YOU may 
have found plenty of stations to work, but you were 1,000 miles closer 
to TN than hams in CA. With a good station, YOU could work mobiles on 
40M during the late afternoon, but we couldn't until much later.

Have you ever seriously worked a state QSO party with 2-4 mobiles 
lighting up counties as they drive?  It requires BIC with a lot of 
listening time that is rewarded when those mobiles cross the county line 
and call CQ with a different county ID. When you're sitting there 
waiting and they work only a band that isn't open to you, it DOES take 
all the fun out of it. The operators of those mobiles need to understand 
that if the QSO party is to be a success. And if no one tells them, some 
apparently don't know.

73, Jim K9YC

On 9/4/2017 5:34 AM, Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote:
> We need more positivity about why contesting is fun and less about why you
> aren't having fun.