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

[Jeff Clarke]

More Georgia QSO Party Updates :

We will be adding the Mult-2 Transmitter class back to the Georgia QSO 
Party. Thanks to Fred, WW4LL for offering to sponsor the plaque. I will 
be sponsoring the DX SSB plaque that he was previously sponsoring.

I've also decided *for this year only* that I am allowing Multi-Op 
entries to take place from more than one station location in a specific 
county. *You cannot the same call sign from two different counties*. If 
you are Multi-Single you are only allowed to have one station location 
on the air at a time.  Mult-2 Transmitter entries should note that their 
transmitters should be on separate bands. Anyone who breaks this rule 
will be reclassified as a CHECKLOG. I'm doing this so those who don't 
have remote capabilities can still do a Multi-Op this year.

I'm surprised no one has shown interest in being a bonus station. You 
will be giving out 100 point QSO's and will be in demand. Note that 
self-spotting is allowed in GQP so you will have lots of out-of-state 
stations wanting to work you. I need to make a decision on this by 
Thursday. If I don't get any feedback soon I will probably just have 
K4BAI and I will share W4AN and act as a bonus station.

Jeff KU8E


On 4/6/2020 08:17 PM, Jeff Clarke wrote:
>
>
> 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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