[CQ-Contest] QSO Party Rules

[Dave Edmonds]

Hey Duffey

In SCm, we also encourage our mobiles to run as many counties as
possible...We offer the following scoring for SC Mobiles

9.2.2. SC Mobile/Expedition Stations
1. Each South Carolina county - 46 total
2. Each USA state including South Carolina and Washington, D.C. When
logging other SC stations, enter the SC County as the exchange (not SC).
3. Each SC county activated. At least one (1) QSO must be made from a
county in order for it to count as activated.
4. Each Canadian Province/Territory.
5. DX contacts count for QSO points only. Enter DX for the exchange

Stan... You are correct that QPs are challenging and that's what makes them
so darn fun! A challenge This year I experienced the challenge during the
HIQP. Band conditions were very poor, but I had 40+ hours to make the 2 Qs.
I worked AH6KO on 20m and 15m. Whew! I had to plan my activity to make
these important Qs.

Happy QPing!

73 Dave WN4AFP

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:54 PM James Duffey <jamesduffey at comcast.net>
wrote:

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> > On Sep 20, 2022, at 11:00, K9YC wrote:
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> > The way most of these parties work, mobiles get another mult for each
> > state they work for each county from which they work them. If a mobile
> > works me from 20 counties on 2 bands, we each get 40 mults; if he works
> > KA6BIM (in OR) from 25 counties on 2 bands, they both get another 50
> > mults. And so on.
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> This is not the way the QSO Party rules I am familiar with work. In the
> QSO Party rules I am familiar with, if I, a mobile, work you from 20
> counties on two bands, you do indeed earn 40 mults, but I only get two, one
> each for your SPC per band. Sometimes, only one per contest.  I am not sure
> I understand your KA6LIM situation as Oregon does not have its own QSO
> party, but rather participates in the 7QP. Mobiles get credit for the
> states in the 7QP, not the counties. Multipliers usually do not accumulate
> from county-to-county, at least in the State QSO Parties I am familiar
> with. Some only count the SPC once per contest not once per band. It does
> help to work mobile-to-mobile in state QSO parties, but, in my experience
> it is not worth the time searching them out to the detriment of running
> stations.
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> The one SPC multiplier per contest by a mobile, regardless of county in
> which it is worked, applies to the contests you cited as having unfavorable
> rules, although some QSO Party rules award bonuses to mobiles for working a
> certain minimum number of QSOs per county they activate. The closest thing
> for incentivizing  mobiles to work intrastate, mobiles only, is the Texas
> QSO Party:
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> "Texas Mobiles—...Add five hundred (500) bonus points to your FINAL SCORE
> for each Texas mobile worked in five (5) different counties regardless of
> band or mode. If you work the same Texas mobile in five (5) additional
> counties, you add an additional five hundred (500) bonus points to your
> FINAL SCORE, etc. However, for bonus points you can only count one (1)
> contact per county per mobile.”
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> So, you may have a point with regard to TX about it having rules slanted
> to intrastate QSOs for mobiles, but it isn’t the cumulative multipliers you
> cite. I think that TN, PA, NE, and WA have the same multiplier structure
> for mobile and fixed stations, perhaps with a bonus for a minimum number of
> QSOs per county by mobiles in some of the contests.
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> If there are state QSO parties that calculate multipliers the way you say
> “most" do, I would like to know about them. Sounds like fun mobiling with a
> giant score looming. I am not aware of any, but I have not looked
> exhaustively at all the state’s rules, but in addition to the above, the
> ones I have operated inor contemplated operating in mobile do not.
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> As I said in myv earlier post, it is nice to have QSO Parties with
> different rules and one can choose to operate those with rules they like
> and not operate those with rules they don’t like. - Duffey KK6MC
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