[MiQP-Mail] Spice up the pie..

[Randy Love]

No need to invade.
My "sleeper cell" is situated in the Northern 'burbs of DEEE-troit.

The in-laws have a nice little farm with wide open space and only 1 neighbor
within 1/2 mile there in Isabella county. Prime MiQP location very near the
center of the LP. :)

Thanks for the invite. I might swing by Rockford next time I'm over by GR. I
have a non-ham friend that lives in Comstock Park that I visit on
occasion... Looks like Rockford's just up the road a little piece.

73,
Randy
WF5X

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hank Greeb" <n8xx at arrl.org>
To: "hank k8dd" <k8dd at arrl.net>
Cc: "Randy Love" <wf5x at interserv.com>; "David Pruett" <k8cc at comcast.net>;
"Kenneth Meier" <w8mj at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MiQP-Mail] Spice up the pie..


> Yep, I was looking for a way to encourage "casual QSO party" operators.
> MiQP has a cadre of regulars, and I haven't searched to see how often we
> get "one timers" or "sporadic timers" to join us, but I do know there's
> generally only a few "top guns" who really take the contest seriously.
> The casual ops won't make the top scores, but they'd probably add "spice
> to the pie" as others have said.   And, if we continue to add some sort
> of "spice" to the contest, we might just drag a few of the "casual"
> folks into the more serious contest group.  Thimk of this as a
> recruiting tool.
>
> Upon reflection, the amount of time, publicity, and otherwise effort to
> do this "right" makes me propose this for 2008, and that we look for an
> "anniversary" within the state to commemorate.  The 50th anniversary of
> the opening of Mackinac Bridge is one which first caught my eye, but it
> would be the 51st anniversary, so that's probably not a good idea.  I
> think we could either spell "michigan" just for the H of it, or we might
> find some anniversary associated with one of the National Parks or
> larger cities or whatever - "Tulip festival of Holland" which is a few
> weeks later (if memory serves correct) - or whatever is one event of
> which I have personal knowledge, I'm sure others might have better
choices..
>
> We could discuss the situation @ Daytown Hamvention, get a consensus of
> the folks there, and talk the idea up.
>
> 73 de n8xx Hg
>
> p.s. If Randy decides to invade Michigan for the 2007 (or '08) MiQP, he
> has an invite to visit Rockford on the way to or from Mount Pleasant.
> It's only 70 miles or so between the two points.
>
> hank k8dd wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 3/10/07, Randy Love <wf5x at interserv.com
> > <mailto:wf5x at interserv.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     I think that extra incentives for non-"Hardcore" QP'ers is a great
> >     idea.
> >
> >
> >
> > I think Randy said it all in that sentence.
> > The "Hardcore" QP'ers are, generally speaking, going to show up anyhow.
> > You gotta "sell" MiQP to the non-"Hardcore" QP'ers.  Give them a
> > reason to get in there and look for stations calling "CQ MI QSO Party".
> >
> > Years ago when I made club stations worth something like 5 points per
> > QSO with them it seemed like the number of logs increased.
> >
> > Years ago there was something for the Techs - 6 meters and up which
> > caused pockets of activity from the VHF ops - they drove to
> > surrounding counties to give each other QSO's (and the Hardcore
> > QP'ers, too!).  One of them in Port Huron even used an airplane.   And
> > a few of them eventually upgraded and now enter QSO Parties on HF.
> >
> > Years ago in MiQP there were guys on county lines giving anywhere from
> > two to four counties and QSOs.  They sounded like they were having fun
> > and attracted attention for the QSO Party, and made a heck of a lot of
> > QSOs.
> >
> > Other than the unadvertised M/M battle between K8MQP and K8XXX, what
> > makes MiQP stand out?   (OK, and besides the NU8Z's "fire 'em up" SPAM
> > emails and a couple of road shows to some local clubs, that is).
> >
> > But will something like spelling a word that is not pronounced like
> > it's spelled (Macinac) make a difference for most of "Hardcore
> > type's"?  Probably not.    But might it attract some more of the
> > "casual type's"?   It just might!
> >
> > So there's my thoughts on the "spell Macinac or Michigan".
> > Hey - if you don't want to do it with 1X1 calls - use the first letter
> > of any suffix in MI to spell the word ..... you need two different
> > calls where there is a duplicate letter in the word.
> >
> > 73    Hank    K8DD
> >
> >
> > (Fireproof suit on!)
> >
> > -- 
> > 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their
> > level then beat you with experience.'      -anon
>