[SECC] Georgia QSO Party
Mike Condon
mcondon@attglobal.net
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:48:14 -0400
John, and all
Thanks for the help on CW to Gary....
>From Colorado, with the mobile setup, we do fight the poor northern
propagation to make contacts. I did not hear a peep on 15 or 10.
N4PN was heard on 20 all the 20 hours.
K4BAI was heard all the time, except 10/15, whenever he was on.
KN4Y, NJ4U, AF4QB, and other mobiles kept the fun going with new locations
every few minutes.
We were competing with the museum ship party for attention, and I think it
took away from GQP considerably. There was no serious IOTA action at 14260,
however.
I agree that more out of state action is needed, and perhaps we should play
up the great CW part of GQP.
FYI, this year I have the WT4I contest score and report software to use on
the 2001 logs. I think this is what FQP has used to put up some great
reports. You all can look forward to the same kind of spread for GQP this
year. County activity, individual scores summaries, state breakouts, etc.
Perhaps some expansion of the GQP pages with good feed back, some personal
items, and other improvements will help get things growing. K5OT suggests a
county checklist of mobile activity when we do this next year...
I already have 3 logs, confirming notes sent, in the first day after the
contest. I expect an avalanche to follow both in soft form and in the
mail.... sent them in folks...
I had a great time, plan to do better next time.
73, Mike, NE4S
-----Original Message-----
From: John T. Laney, III <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
To: secc@contesting.com <secc@contesting.com>; sedxc@contesting.com
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Date: Sunday, July 22, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: [SECC] Georgia QSO Party
>Hello all: Hope everyone had a great time in GQP this weekend. It is
>increasingly evident to me that the real way to enjoy this contest is to
>operate mobile from a number of counties, especially if you have a good
>set up on both modes. Otherwise, unless conditions are unusually good,
>you will run out of people to work. I don't have too many ideas as to
>how to promote activity, particularly among out of state stations, more
>than we have already done.
>
>One thing that did occur to me is that we don't do a very good job of
>rewarding those who submit logs with timely, written results. In 1999,
>I took the info from K4EA, which was a little spotty, and developed it
>into a report, which KT4ZB mailed out with the certificates. I don't
>know if it was mailed to those who did not earn a certificate. I
>suspect not, but Jere can advise us about that. If Jere didn't do it, I
>don't think anyone did it. Those results were posted on the URL, but
>not everyone has access to the internet or knows to look for the results
>on the reflector.
>
>For 2000, I have a copy of the complete results from NE4S, but I don't
>they were mailed out at all. I think the certificates were sent alone.
>The complete results were to be posted on the URL, but have not been
>yet, due mainly to the problems in Feb at contesting.com.
>We do not, at best, send out a very informative report that would
>encourage guys to return next year. For a example of how this can be
>done (maybe overdone) see the FCG webpage for results from FQP. Mike or
>someone else needs to develop a written report of the GQPs as they occur
>and these should be mailed with the certificates, or separately, and
>mailed to everyone who sends in a log, whether it is a winner or not.
>We can add a requirement of sending in $1.00 for a copy of the results,
>which some contests do, if expense is a problem.
>
>I operated about the same time this year as last (17 hours). I had
>reviewed last year's log before the contest and wondered how I could
>possibly improve on it. (This said, I was beat last year by N4PN
>running low power and wires.) I didn't beat last year's. For one
>thing, I made less of an effort to move multipliers from SSB to CW and
>vice versa than last year and that was a mistake. I thought the mults
>would come, but I ran out of QSOs Sunday afternoon. Sunday afternoon
>was terribly slow and painful. So I took Weesie to a minor league
>baseball game and missed the last 1 1/2 hours. I did work (thanks
>NJ4U/M) the last GA county that I didn't have confirmed after nearly 47
>years.
>
>The mobiles did a wonderful job and should have made the contest a
>success for the out of staters. Thanks to all involved. I hope we got
>all counties activates. Hope Mike can tell us from the logs how close
>we came.
>
>Here are my results:
>
>Band CW QSOs PH QSOs
>80 26 4
>40 142 36
>20 182 353
>15 49 14
>10 11 18
>ALL 410 425 = 835 x 92 (43 CW 49 PH mults) =
>114,540.
>
>This compares to last year's 122,800 with 100 mults. Last year I had
>fewer CW QSOs, more SSB QSOs and more mults on both modes.
>
>Longer skip this year than last was evident. Even during the day, the
>GA stations on 40 were often much weaker than stations further out.
>Even though I worked a lot of close in (NC and FL and VA stations) on
>20, there were times when the bread and butter 8s, 9s, etc were skipping
>over us. I worked a lot of Europe and also a UA9, but not JE1TSD. Tosy
>visits the Atlanta area often (and has visited W8JI) and was specially
>looking for GQP QSOs.
>
>Hope everyone has a good week.
>
>This was High Power (500 watts output) with a TH6DXX, dipoles and a
>General class frequency restriction.
>
>73,
>
>John, K4BAI.
>
>
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