[SCCC] Maine QSO Party question

[Bob Grubic]

Thank you, Dennis and Kurt.

I'll give it a go. I'm discovering the fun and diversity of the state QSO
parties all because of the State QSO Party Challenge!

Great idea!

73,
Bob NC6Q

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 4:47 PM W6PH via SCCC <sccc at contesting.com> wrote:

> It's called the Maine Intrnational QSO Party.
> W6PH
> In a message dated 9/22/2020 4:07:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> NE6I at cox.net writes:
>
> I confirmed this with Tim, KB1HNZ this afternoon. It's a work the world
> contest, even for out of staters. Maine QSOs do count double but you don't
> actually have to have any Maine stations in the log! Pretty unique state
> QSO
> Party!
>
> --Dennis NE6I
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SCCC <sccc-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Bob Grubic
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 8:32 PM
> To: Ryan Noguchi <ai6do at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Southern California Contest Club SCCC <SCCC at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [SCCC] Maine QSO Party question
>
> Ryan, thank you for that. Most enlightening.
>
> 73,
> Bob NC6Q
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 8:04 PM Ryan Noguchi via SCCC <sccc at contesting.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > Multipliers are the same for all participants. Can that be?
> > ...> What
> > > happens when a CA station works the Maine QSO Party? Do you also work
> > other
> > > U.S. states, Canadian provinces, and other DX entities since they are
> > also
> > > multipliers? Is it sort of a free for all, but akin to the NAQP? Seems
> > like it. From the 2019 results page (http://www.ws1sm.com/MEQP-2019.html
> )
> > as well as results pages going back as far as 2016:
> > "We continue to see a number of log entries that ONLY include QSOs with
> > Maine stations. The rules allow all QSOs during the contest period to be
> > scored, as long as a proper exchange is made between the two stations.
> This
> > means many of the entrants could've had significantly higher scores had
> > they included their other QSOs!"
> >
> >
> > 73, Ryan AI6DO
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