[CQ-Contest] Fwd: Important Update for the 2020 Georgia QSO Party

[James Cain]

John, I made the rules modification proposals, IN PUBLIC, on cq-contest. My
original post is there. I proposed shortening both GA and FL QParties to
one day, as well as opening up 80M in the FLQP.

But it's highly unlikely that anything that I, a known *troublemaker,*
would propose would even be considered. And, it the Rulers did implement my
proposals, they would take credit for the ideas. That would be in character
for them -- so Trumpian.

Jim K1TN



On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:45 PM Jeff Clarke <ku8e at ku8e.com> wrote:

> Jim(s),
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.  We are discussing within the SECC the
> subject of holding a one day QSO party for this year. From the feedback
> I'm getting the consensus right now is that for this year we probably
> hold a one day QSO Party on Saturday April 11th from noon-midnight. I
> will make an announcement before this weekend if we choose this route.
>
> BTW the reason we have a two day QSO Party in Georgia (pre-COVID-19) is
> our state has 159 counties which is 2nd to only Texas. Many of the
> counties are small and we have a regular contingent of rover stations
> who activate many counties every year. Some out of state participants
> have come close to working all the counties because of our rover
> activity. I seem to remember one year that W0BH came to operate the GQP
> with N4PN. Bob and Paul activated 80 counties by themselves during the
> weekend! The success of both the GQP and FQP can be attributed to the
> large number of rover stations that are active year after year. In a
> normal year I don't believe all the counties could be activated in just
> one day. This year we had two people who planned to come from outside of
> Georgia to activate a large number of counties as a rover and I told
> them not to come because of the restrictions that have been placed on
> travel within Georgia. Having no rover stations is going to greatly
> change the complexion of our QSO party this year.
>
> Stay tuned for further announcements.
>
> Jeff KU8E  GQP Director
>
>
> On 4/2/2020 03:14 PM, Jim wrote:
> > In these days of fast changing orders and policies, a 9 day notice for
> GQP changes would quite reasonable.  Those who had serious plans - mainly
> the mobiles - have already figured things out and changed those plans.
> >
> > This year will be a good test of my belief that state QSO parties longer
> than one day make no sense. Nobody is going to sit at home in Ohio for two
> days trying to find every possible Georgia station, especially when there
> are no “new” mobile QSOs to be made. And perhaps more important, nobody
> sitting at home in GA or FL is going to want to spend a second day trying
> to scrape up random new guys who happen to be passing by.
> >
> > (In normal times Florida with a full complement of mobiles provides
> enough action to keep out of state CW ops interested, but I’d still think
> the second day as a FL fixed station would be quite boring.)
> >
> > I’d suggest that a 12 hour test  for GAQP - noon to midnight EDT - would
> be quite sufficient.  And not our decision, but I agree that adding 80
> meters to FQP for this year would make sense.
> >
> >
> >
> > 73  -  Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Apr 2, 2020, at 1:49 PM, James Cain <jamesdavidcain at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Jeff: There IS time. It's the internet age, after all. I am pretty
> >> sure the ARRL news editor would be glad to have a news item that he
> >> could put on their web page headlined:
> >>
> >> Georgia QSO Party Fights Virus with Timely Rules Changes
> >>
> >> A lot of clubs and groups pick up those ARRL news stories and pass them
> along.
> >>
> >> Nothing ventured, nothing gained, OM.
> >>
> >> Jim K1TN/Florida
> >>
> >>
> >> Jim,
> >>
> >>
> >> I would consider that for GQP but I don't know that I have time to get
> the
> >> word out in time since it's only 9 days away.
> >>
> >> I know it's been discussed before and rejected but allowing 80 meters
> in the
> >> FQP for just this year might be a good idea. Maybe even allow 160
> meters as
> >> well. I'm afraid that activity is going to be way down without having
> >> mobiles to chase around. I just updated my GQP activity map on the web
> page
> >> yesterday and we went from over 2/3 of the GA counties covered to less
> than
> >> 1/3 because I removed the planned mobile/portable operations.  Ouch that
> >> hurts ! Plus it didn't help that GQP falls on Easter weekend this year.
> >>
> >> Jeff
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