[SCCC] Fw: [NCCC] CQP

[Jim Neiger]

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Jim
N6TJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Thomas" <mmthoma at attglobal.net>
To: "Andrew Faber" <andrew.faber at gte.net>
Cc: "Nor Cal Contest Club" <nccc at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [NCCC] CQP


>I think that AE6Y is on target here.
>
> Andy,
> I don't think that we've been particularly
> successful at generating North-South rivalries.
>
> I think there are a lot of S. CA. guys who could
> get on the air, but don't.  As a practical matter,
> how do we pull this off and encourage them to get
> on the air?
>
> This really is like a "Field of Dreams" movie. If
> we get our CA guys on the air, the other guys will
> come.
>
> Your points below are the real key:
>
>>   1) They have more club competition in-state
>>   2) They have awards for stations in different parts of the state.
>>   Maybe we could stimulate more in-state participation by emphasizing
>> North-South rivalries?
>
> How do we do this?
>
> 73, Matt WX5S
>
>
>
> Andrew Faber wrote:
>>
>> Rob,
>>   CQP "ain't broke", but every year guys have ideas for improvements.  My
>> belief is that the genius of CQP is that it has a huge amount of in-state
>> participation.  The only other QSO party with similar in-state 
>> participation
>> is PAQP, but they make the fatal mistake of counting counties as 
>> multipliers
>> for in-state stations.  This leads to the PA guys spending all their 
>> daytime
>> operating time on 40 and 80 working each other, with the result that
>> stations outside of PA (and not within daytime 40m range don't have much 
>> to
>> do).  In CQP, by contrast, the CA guys are trying to work everyone out of
>> state, and that, in turn, leads to the huge participation by 
>> out-of-staters
>> that is the hallmark of CQP.
>>
>>   However, there are a few things the PA guys do to stimulate in-state
>> participation that we could think about:
>>   1) They have more club competition in-state
>>   2) They have awards for stations in different parts of the state.
>>   Maybe we could stimulate more in-state participation by emphasizing
>> North-South rivalries?
>>
>>   73, andy, ae6y
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