[SECC] 2021 Georgia QSO Party

Sun Jan 10 10:41:01 EST 2021

I would submit that the biggest challenge for a rover working SSB is getting a sufficiently powerful signal to obtain the required S/N ratio. 

Mobile installations have very compromised antennas. You can only run so much power. 

Sounds like we have a good balance of SSB and CW activity currently in GaQP, based on the 2019 numbers. Changing the way we do multipliers might reduce the SSB activity.

Another good data point for not changing that rule.

> On Jan 8, 2021, at 12:54 PM, Jeff Clarke <ku8e at ku8e.com> wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> That is true. Even thought the number of QSO'S is about the same when you compare CW vs SSB. As far as the data goes I'm going to compare 2019 which is a better indicator because even thought the number of logs in 2020 was higher. I.  If we go back to 2019 which was a normal GQP with rovers, the highest number of CW multipliers by and out of state entry was 118 by K7SV. I counted 5 stations outside Georgia that worked over 100 of the 159 counties on CW.  The highest number of SSB multipliers by an out of state entry was 40 counties by K3TW and K8RYU. K2SS had the highest number of CW QSO's at 222. N4XU/KP3 had the highest number of SSB QSO's at 100. The highest number of SSB QSO's by a SSB Only entry was only 80 QSO's. It's pretty clear most of serious out of state activity is on CW.
> 
> In 2020 the highest number of CW multipliers by an out of state entry was 34 counties by K2SSS. The highest number of counties worked on SSB was 36 by OM2VL. So COVID-19 had a huge effect on the available GA counties available because we had no rovers.
> 
> The biggest QSO Parties out side of GQP are CA, FL, PA and TX. All except for FL allow multiplier to be counted once. FL allows one per mode. I've done a mixed mode rover from FL in FQP at least a couple times and it appear not many people were chasing multipliers on SSB.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/3/2021 09:06 PM, Mike - W5JR wrote:
>> 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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