[CQ-Contest] 2018 Georgia QSO Party

[Mike/W5JR]

Jim, the N4N team is happy to work you. We will have to figure out a way to accomplish this. We spend 20 minutes or less per county in order to stick to the scheduled number of counties. After about 6-7pm local, the 20m Q rate drops off significantly. 

We run two stations in my Yukon. Given the current sunspot levels, we keep a station on 40m all day, both days. Being a mixed entry, we try to spend no more than 5-7 minutes of that 20 minutes on SSB.

Getting the non 40m station switched between 80/75 and 20 hasn’t been plausible in past years with our antenna configuration. I’ll work to add a third antenna to the truck to allow for a quick switch from 40>20 and 80>20. It would also help the 20>15(10) switch. 

When one of our stations has to cover 2 bands, and one band has maybe only 5 stations following us, we will spend no more than 5 minutes, preferably much less, a narrow window. Be ready, hi hi. 

tnx
Mike / W5JR / N4N GQP Rover. 
Alpharetta GA


> On Mar 23, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/22/2018 3:23 PM, Jeff Clarke wrote:
>> 
>> The 2018 version of the Georgia QSO Party is only a few weeks away.
> 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I've enjoyed working these SE State QSO Parties for years, but last year may have been my last, thanks to rovers abandoning the higher bands where I can work them hours before those bands close, and before I can work them on lower bands. When I raised that issue online, the response was that they were moving down to work locals. In one of those contest, K4ZGB was the only rover who continued to work 20 until it died, and I still managed to work him on 80 later on.
> 
> Have suitable changes been made to scoring rules to discourage this practice? CAQP counts in-state QSOs for CA stations, but not mults.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
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