[MiQP-Mail] 2010 Planned Operations Map Updated

[David Pruett]

All:

I have updated the Planned Operations map on the MiQP Home Page 
http://www.miqp.org.  The good news is that a bunch of counties were 
able to be colored in, particularly in the U.P.  The bad news is that 
with only one week to go until the 2010 MiQP, there are fifteen counties 
with no planned operations.

It is not my intent to try and tell the mobiles where to go, but in some 
cases there are multiple mobiles going thru certain counties, while 
neighboring counties are left without planned operations.  This is 
particularly true in the NE part of the L.P. as well as in the thumb.

It is my understanding that the K8XXX group will not be active this year 
due to pressing family matters for the station host.  This leaves Barry 
County without it's usual "big gun" effort.  If a mobile could divert 
thru there, they'd be pretty popular.  I've also heard that the K8EPV 
multi-op will not be active because one of the principals is on a 
DX-pedition out in the Pacific, so St.Clair county is vacant, although 
if some of the EMARC crew get's on it might not be a problem.

I worked N9NE while I was in KP2 during WPX SSB and he said he would be 
on doing the U.P.  We also have a second hand report that WI9WI will be 
active in the U.P.  It would be great if we could get a planned route 
from one of these two stations commiting to covering Keweenaw county.  
It *IS* possible to cover all the U.P. counties in a single MiQP 
weekend, including Keweenaw - W8MJ and I managed to do it in 2001.

So I'm asking the mobiles to take a look at the map and see if it 
wouldn't be possible to adjust your plans to cover some of the counties 
without planned operations.

Thanks and 73,

Dave/K8CC