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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