[MiQP-Mail] MiQP 2011

[Hank Greeb]

Randy:

Thanks for trying to stir up interest.  That's always a good thing!

I'm trying to organize a bunch of QRP ops the partook of the MIQP as 
K6JSS/8/COUNTY, where "county" can be any of the counties in Michigan.  
We'll be having an annual meeting of the Michigan QRP Club @ Marshall 
Hamfest on the 19th of March, which will include a strategy and 
recruitment session for MiQP.

Why K6JSS, you might ask?  Well, K6JSS was THE founder of QRP Amateur 
Radio Club International some 50 years ago, and K6JSS is now the club 
call for QRPARCI.  That group has a goal to have operators in each of 
the 50 states, plus Puerto Rico activate during a week during this 
Golden Jubilee year.  It was a "natural" to choose the week of the MiQP 
for operating in Michigan, because that will be when a number of other 
stations will be on from Michigan, and folks will be looking for 
Michigan.  I've just started soliciting operators for this effort, but 
other states have had between 2 and several dozen stations active during 
"their" week, so I'm hopeful we can get a good representation of QRP ops 
from Michigan.

Folks @ ARRL HQ say it is perfectly legal to operate multiple stations 
with the same call letters at the same time from geographically 
different locations.  It is the customary to identify one's location 
with /COUNTY, particularly if one has a call prefix other than "8", so 
this shouldn't confuse the participants.  The goal is to have one fixed 
station operating as  K6JSS/8 in each county - but we all know this will 
be impossible.

I'll either be @ the W8LRC clubhouse, they have a 100' tower and 40 thru 
10 metre beam, which might give a pipsqueak signal an advantage, or, if 
we can muster enough ops there, I'll run up to Mecosta County and set a 
new record for QRP operation from that county.  (Yes, I looked, and 
there's been no other QRP entry from Mecosta, so, unless someone else 
challenges me, it will be a shoo in. :)

73 de n8xx Hg
Operating as K6JSS/8/County  (where county will be either KENT or MECO) 
during MiQP 2011

p.s.  If you're heading WAY north, you could either stop in Hell (near 
Ann Arbor) or Paradise (in the upper peninsula).  We have both in 
Michigan. Hell is farther south, so that may not fit your criteria for 
WAY north! :)

On 2/8/2011 4:01 PM, Randy Love wrote:
> Time to kick the hornet's nest!
> MiQP 2011 is just over 6 weeks away!
>
> Anybody have any plans / operations that want to announce?
>
> W8OAK will probably go for a three-peat in the EOC category, and I'm not sure whether I'll be contributing to that effort or heading WAY North.
>
> So, what's brewing for MiQP this year?
>
> 73,
> Randy
> WF5X