[SECC] Ideas to Create More Activity in the Georgia QSO Party

[Jeff Clarke]

I've been thinking about a way to create more activity from fixed 
Georgia stations in the GQP to make up for the loss of rovers. Here are 
a couple ideas :


*1) Have GQP bonus stations that a QSO is worth 100 points*. My idea is 
to have the GQP sponsors *W4AN *(the SECC club call) and *W4NT* (The 
SEDXC Club call) as bonus stations. These calls would be operated as 
Multi-Multi from different locations. To operate using one of these call 
signs you need to be a member of the respective club. Anyone who 
operates using one of these calls will need to reserve a band/mode 
beforehand so we have coordination that the call isn't being used at the 
same time on a band/mode. Here are the proposed available spots :

160 SSB  W4AN and W4NT

160 CW  W4AN and W4NT

75 SSB   W4AN and W4NT

80 CW   W4AN and W4NT

40 CW   W4AN and W4NT

40 SSB   W4AN and W4NT

20 CW   W4AN and W4NT

20 SSB   W4AN and W4NT

I would also ask that if you are interested in operating a bonus station 
that you are on the band/mode assigned to you when it's open. Since 
neither SECC or SEDXC are eligible for the club competition you can't 
counted the score towards a club score. Also note during the time when 
you aren't operating one of the bonus stations you can use your home 
call. We could also offer a certificate for anyone who works W4AN or 
W4NT on all of these band slots. I would also add that if you choose a 
spot make sure you have a good antenna on that band. We don't want 
someone using 100 watts and  dipole doing 20 meters. It would be better 
to have a station that has a Tribander/ KW or better as a minimum setup. 
Same for the lower bands. I would like everyone running a amp so out of 
state stations can her you well. this idea might generate some nice 
pileups for those who choose to participate.


*2) Allow distributed multi-ops.* They are allowing this for the Florida 
QSO Party (see https://floridaqsoparty.org/) this year. Right now we 
just have a Multi-Single category. For this year only we could add a 
Multi-2 category. So for example say you are operating one of the 
special 1x1 NFARL calls like N4N. If you are *multi-single *you could 
use this call with only *one* *transmitted signal *at a time from any 
station location in your county. For *Multi-2 *you could have *two 
transmitted signals* from two different stations at a time in your 
county. It's *very important *that you don't use the same call sign from 
two DIFFERENT counties.


For those of you that are worried about logging programs calculating 
scores incorrectly don't worry. I have my own program when I check logs 
that calculate scores. Also it will be easy to promote this on 
CQ-Contest before Saturday.

If anyone else has any other ideas to get more stations on the air 
during GQP please forward them to me. We can discuss this for a day or 
two and make a decision whether to move forward with these ideas. Any 
thoughts?


Jeff KU8E  GQP Director







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