[RTTY] Fwd: PAQSO Party 07 announcement

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

RTTY and PSK-31 now a regular part of PA QSO Party.
Get on and work those PA counties!

73 - Jim AD1C

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] PAQSO Party 07 announcement
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:55:57 -0400
From: Michael Coslo <mjc5 at psu.edu>
To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>

Goodday all

The Pennsylvania QSO Party is being held October 13 and 14, 2007

The Pennsylvania QSO Party is celebrating it's 50th anniversary.

A number of changes have been made to the party this year.

The PSK31 and RTTY classes tried as an experiment last year, are now
included as a regular part of the party.

The rules have been greatly expanded due to popular demand. Instead
of a one page rule sheet, we have added definitions and
clarifications where needed. While the rules of the party are more or
less the same as last year, the bands of operation have been defined,
classes have been defined, and a few other tweaks have been added.
County line station qualifications have been defined.

We have added a few new plaque classes.

A 20 meter "Good Neighbor" plaque has been added to encourage PA
operators to get on 20 meters and operate more Out of State Ops.

An SSB only plaque has been added to  complement the CW only plaque

A new class has been added - Multi Op Multi Transmitter Portable.
This corrects a weird situation in which people who wanted to operate
at say a camp with several friends and a couple transmitters had to
either operate as a one location rover (stupid) or could operate as a
portable, but not compete (stupid and unfair) Since MM portable
sounds like one heck of a lot of fun, it was the least we could do.

The club award has been reinstated - actually it was last year.

The extension of the rules prompted another change.

Since the rules changes brought the rules to 8 pages, and that would
double the size of the party mailings, it was decided to eliminate
the mailings. Results and announcements are taking place via PDF
file. In addition, this will enable the party results to come out
much sooner than before. Given the universality of Adobe Reader these
days, this should end up as a very positive change. The pdf's will be
emailed out to recent party participants, or they can be downloaded
from the Web site at:

http://www.nittany-arc.net/paqso.html

Certificates will still be printed and mailed by the party committee.

In order to ensure more rapid and accurate delivery of party
promotional items, a T-Shirt Czar is being appointed so that that
part of the post party work is accomplished in tandem with the
scoring. There will be a special and new design 50th anniversary T-
Shirt this year, as well as new design Coffee Mugs.

We are having a different special event station this year. There will
be 5 stations distributed in the state operating under the W3P
special event call sign. One of the stations will be in mobile
operation, and the others will be in fixed position.

A 50th Anniversary certificate will be sent to stations who make
contact with all 5 Special event stations. To qualify, work all 5
stations, and send a SASE to:

PAQSO Party 2007 c/o NARC
P.O. Box 614
   State College PA 16804-0614


For the future.......

In 2009, the 1.5 point CW QSOs are going away. At that point, all CW
QSOs will be worth 2 points.

County line stations point value will be revisited in the off season.
We will possible be giving out 1 QSO point per county, instead of 1
QSO for the entire communication.


- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -