[MiQP-Mail] Suggestion for Mobiles/Rovers

[ku8e@bellsouth.net]

Hank,

I think that rover coordination is taking place already.  

 I noticed fixed station activtiy to be lower than last year. (unless all the MI stations are working each other on 75/80 meters before I can hear them in GA.)  In the past I have been able to tune across the 40 meter SSB General section during the day and it would be full of MI fixed stations calling CQ MQP.  I didn't see that this year and it wasn't because the band was long. I heard MI just fine all 12 hours of the contest on 40 meters. ... Plus, I only heard no more that a few MI stations on 75 SSB at any time...  Maybe Easter weekend hurt activity... I know it did in GQP last year... Not much you can really do about that...

73, Jeff

> 
> From: Hank Greeb <n8xx at arrl.org>
> Date: 2006/04/17 Mon PM 02:10:48 EDT
> To: miqp-mail at miqp.org
> Subject: [MiQP-Mail] Suggestion for Mobiles/Rovers
> 
> 
> A suggestions, NOT a criticism for MIQP mobile/rover operation.
> 
> Why not get together as a group (I thimk most of the mobiles are members 
> of MRRC) and decide on who will cover what counties, and divide the 
> number of counties amongst the mobiles.  Maybe this was done, but I've 
> seen 20+ counties per mobile, giving less than an hour per county.
> 
> If conditions are great, it really doesn't matter how long a particular 
> county is on the air, because people from everywhere can contact people 
> from anywhere.  But, when conditions are not optimal, then only distant 
> stations can contact mobiles from many of the counties, and the local 
> (Michigan) stations do not have an opportunity to gain "rare" multipliers. 
> 
> The fellow who ran four counties, and switched from 40/20 during the day 
> from each of the counties for the "far out" states, and back to the same 
> 4 counties for a tour of 80/75 meters had a good idea.  He was on over 
> an hour in each county on each band, which should have allowed folks who 
> were really looking for the county to find the station.
> 
> The optimum contest would have a well equipped fixed station in every 
> county for the duration of the contest, and the mobiles would be "icing 
> on the cake."   That doesn't even happen in Sweepsteaks  (for ARRL 
> Sections) so this is certainly a "pipe dream."
> 
> 73 de n8xx/N8M Hg
> 
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