<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Randy Love</b> <<a href="mailto:wf5x@interserv.com">wf5x@interserv.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I think that extra incentives for non-"Hardcore" QP'ers is a great idea.</blockquote></div><br><br>I think Randy said it all in that sentence. <br>The "Hardcore" QP'ers are, generally speaking, going to show up anyhow.
<br>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". <br><br>Years ago when I made club stations worth something like 5 points per QSO with them it seemed like the number of logs increased.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>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).
<br><br>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!
<br><br>So there's my thoughts on the "spell Macinac or Michigan". <br>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.
<br><br>73 Hank K8DD<br clear="all"><br><br>(Fireproof suit on!)<br><br>-- <br>'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their <br>level then beat you with experience.' -anon<br>--