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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hank et al:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The MiQP committee has done, and continues to do a
great job. However, that doesn't mean there isn't room for
improvement.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We've had record years of participation, and that's
hard to judge until after the log submission deadline. Perhaps activity is
down a little, but MiQP is still one of the best QSO parties around</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One could find a category for just about
everything. Perhaps you could conjure up plaque support in Michigan for a
new category, as you helped to do in Cincinnati?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Are you volunteering to coordinate #2
below?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>73 Dennis KT8X</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=n8xx@arrl.org href="mailto:n8xx@arrl.org">Hank Greeb</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=miqp-mail@miqp.org
href="mailto:miqp-mail@miqp.org">miqp-mail@miqp.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:21
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [MiQP-Mail] Suggestion for
Mobiles/Rovers</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>Several suggestions:<BR><BR>
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<TD vAlign=top>1. <BR></TD>
<TD vAlign=top>How about some one (or some committee/group within MRRC)
thinking about ways to not only "cover" all the counties, but to try to
make sure they are at least "semi available" to folks both within
Michigan and outside the state?<BR><BR>The same might hold for the Ohio
QSO Party.<BR><BR>There seems to be a clique which coordinates efforts
amongst themselves and/or who make predetermined schedules of
time/frequency for contacts. I say this because even when the
folks in Ohio publicize their routes, and approximate times they'll be
in particular counties, it seems to be very, very difficult, if not
impossible, to find these folks. This was even the case last
year during OQP when conditions were good to excellent, we at W8B were
at a site with NO electrical noise from power lines (being at least ½
mile from the nearest power line), and the OQP web site had published
lists of approximate times and frequencies.<BR><BR>With the rotten
conditions of the latest MiQP, any mobile who was on 40 meters was
impossible to hear unless he/she happened to be within a few miles of
this location. So, only those counties covered during the late
afternoon and evening hours were possible to contact on 80 metres.
I did find a few mobiles on 80 metres, some of them looking for KENT,
but others calling CQ, and I then looked for them in several counties
and got the multipliers.<BR><BR>Maybe a "rover" category similar to the
OQP could be used for MiQP? One could "rove" amongst three or four
counties for a couple hours each during the day on 40/20 metres, and on
80/75 for a couple hours. As one fellow said to me privately, a
30' mast and full size antenna would be a great help in radiating power
compared to a wimpy mobile antenna.<BR></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top>2.<BR></TD>
<TD vAlign=top>Another kink to try - how about contacting the emergency
coordinators (EC) of each county (or multiple counties if some EC's
cover more than one county, and invite the emergency groups to
participate as a training exercise and as a way to demonstrate to
governmental officials that they can contact many (all?) the counties
within Michigan. These kind of data could be very useful in
negotiating with county officials for space, financial resources, et.
cetera. The EC in Hamilton County, Ohio was always asking me how
he could best contact other areas of the state when I lived down
there. Until this discussion, I didn't think of asking him and his
fellow EC's to encourage participation in the state QSO
party.....<BR><BR>The roster of EC's is available at <A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.mi-arpsc.org/Section_Staff.htm">http://www.mi-arpsc.org/Section_Staff.htm</A><BR><BR>In
other words, there's more than one way to skin a cat.<BR></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top>3.<BR></TD>
<TD vAlign=top>Overall, MiQP didn't seem to have nearly as much activity
as other state QSO parties in which I participated. As someone
else said, Easter probably created lots of personal conflicts, and
marginal propagation probably discouraged others.
<BR></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>Just a few ideas from a non-contester who
happens to like a few selected State QSO parties.<BR><BR>73 de n8xx Hg<BR>
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