[SECC] 2021 Georgia QSO Party

[Mike - W5JR]

As a perineal mixed mode rover entry (N4N), a change to counting multipliers only once versus by CW/SSB, certainly will make us rethink the utility of mixed operation. 

I’m not sure what the following really means, I’m just thinking out loud. My perception in GQP (and other State QPs?) is that the overwhelming preponderance of participation is CW, not Phone. I’ve never really understood the rationale behind CW being worth 2 points, and phone worth 1 point. Does this discourage Phone participation? As a Rover, our experience has been it’s difficult to get a group of Phone folks to follow us county to county, but the CW folks line up and will follow us for every band change in every county, both days. And the CW contacts count double the Phone contacts, which for us in particular, are harder to come by. 

Whatever the rules are, that will probably define the participation. 


tnx
Mike / W5JR
N4N GPQ, Multi-2 Mixed Rover
Alpharetta GA


> On Jan 3, 2021, at 18:41, Dave Edmonds <dave at pkministrywebs.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff
> 
> Counting multipliers for bith modes will encourage mixed operators to make more contacts on both modes.
> 
> Why are you considering changing to the mults once and not per mode?
> 
> Ty
> Dave WN4AFP
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 6:27 PM Jeff Clarke <ku8e at ku8e.com> wrote:
>> I haven't heard any feedback. Either no one cares or they don't object to the rule changes I'm proposing. I will be making the changes to the webpage next week. I will also contact the developers on the logging programs (N1MM, N3FJP etc) and inform them of these changes.
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 12/28/2020 02:09 PM, Jeff Clarke wrote:
>>> The Georgia QSO Party will return to being a two day event in 2021.  The Georgia QSO Party is held annually the 2nd full weekend of April. There are two operating periods: 1800Z (2:00 pm EDST) Saturday until 0359Z (11:59 pm EDST) and Sunday and 1400Z (10:00 am EDST) to 2359Z. (7:59 pm EDST).  For 2021 that will be April 10 - April 11th.  Note the URL for the webpage has changed to https://gaqsoparty.com/
>>> 
>>> I've been contemplating making some changes for 2021 :
>>> 
>>> Counting multipliers only once and not per mode.
>>> Since COVID-19 will probably not be over by April continue to allow Multi-Ops to operate from more than one location. These locations need to be in the SAME COUNTY.  You also need to still follow the rules for Multi-Single and Multi-2 that are listed in the rules on the GQP webpage.
>>> Continue to have W4AN and W4NT as bonus stations. I will probably just get rid of the 100 points per QSO and make it one point value for just making a QSO - Maybe 500 bonus points.  I would like both these stations to be operated from just one county. Maybe as a Multi-Op.
>>> Also note rover operations will be allowed again.
>>> I'm also asking everyone to please read the rules. The SECC and SEDXC aren't eligible for the club competition but I still get many logs that list both of these clubs. Also make sure the Cabrillo file that you submit is correct. N1MM Logger Plus is pretty reliable in generating it correctly but others aren't. I'm requesting feedback before I make these changes. Please send me your comments.
>>> 
>>> Jeff KU8E
>>> 
>>> GQP Contest Director
>>> 
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