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To set the record straight - I believe that MRRC and their MiQP
committee does a fine job. I never said anything differently. I'm
offering suggestions which might make things even better. From the
perspective of a casual contestor, it seems the contest is designed for
the dyed in the wool contestor, and not very inclusive toward the
casual contestor or beginning ham who might become a contestor.<br>
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About item # 2. I made a database in Excel with appointments, names,
calls, and e-mail addresses for all the listed EC's (and the SEC) which
are listed 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>
This took about 20 minutes of time massaging the source code for that
page. And, it assumes that the master mailing list for the various
EC's is working and up to date.<br>
<br>
This can be merged into something like worldmerge to generate
individualized e-mails to the EC's. Before we do that, I'd suggest
someone contact the Section Emergency Coordinator, because we wouldn't
want to p.o. any of the hierarchy by using their mailing list for
something to which they'd not be agreeable. If someone from the MiQP
committee or MRRC is acquainted with the Section
Emergency Coordinator/State Radio Officer - Martin Mendelson, N8MG,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SEC@mi-arpsc.org">SEC@mi-arpsc.org</a>,
this would be the person to make the initial
contact. If no one in the club knows this fellow, I'm not shy, and I'd
make the contact. I do note that there was at least one Emergency
Operating Center activated during the contest, so the idea shouldn't be
totally foreign to the Emergency Response folks.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<br>
73 de n8xx Hg<br>
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Dennis & Stephanie Ward wrote:<br>
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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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Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:21 PM</div>
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Re: [MiQP-Mail] Suggestion for Mobiles/Rovers</div>
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Several suggestions:<br>
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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<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>
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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>
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In other words, there's more than one way to skin a cat.<br>
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<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>
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Just a few ideas from a non-contester who happens to like a few
selected State QSO parties.<br>
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73 de n8xx Hg</blockquote>
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