[SCCC] Maine QSO Party question

[Bruce Horn]

I think it's unfortunate that the MEQP organizers have chosen rules that make it essentially an NAQP, but with two modes and all countries available as mults, not just NA. As Dennis points out, you don't have to have any QSOs with Maine stations. In the past, participation has been very small (41 entries in 2019) so the unique rules didn't have much effect. Particularly, since as the organizers point out, many entrants only submitted QSOs with ME stations. With the extreme interest in state QSO parties as the result of the SQP Challenge this year, this has the potential of being a farce. Despite its name, it's not a state QSO party.

73 de Bruce, WA7BNM   (bhorn at hornucopia.com)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Younker" <NE6I at cox.net>
To: "SCCC Reflector" <SCCC at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 4:07:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SCCC] Maine QSO Party question

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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