[MiQP-Mail] Spice up the pie..

[ku8e at bellsouth.net]

  For someone like myself you really don't have to give me an incentive to do the MQP every year. 
I have a connection to MRRC from the past and like to get on and work all my friends up there. 
That's probably the same reason I heard K3ZO and K6NA doing the WiQP this weekend. 

 The activity is pretty good and improves every year. I would rate MQP up there with the most popular
QSP parties - CA and PA. Just keep the activity up and people will show up to work you. I guess for some people the freebies that some QSO Parties give away (i.e. CQP - wine ;  Salmon Run - Salmon etc...) are an incentive to get on. I even saw something on the FQP reflector the other day they are considering some type of foodstuff  (- i.e.oranges ) for the top scorers.

I agree with Jim that something like a mug would eventually just end up in the back of the cupboard.
I think the same can be said of t-shirts and caps. Is there some type of food Michigan is famous for ??

Jeff KU8E

> 
> From: k8gt at twmi.rr.com
> Date: 2007/03/13 Tue AM 09:54:17 EST
> To: Jimk8mr at aol.com
> CC: MIQP-Mail at miqp.org
> Subject: Re: [MiQP-Mail] Spice up the pie..
> 
> In the OK QSO Party, the OKDXA footed the bill for the mugs,
> participants coughed up $5 for S&H.   
> 
> 73, Gerry  K8GT
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jimk8mr at aol.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:48 am
> Subject: Re: [MiQP-Mail] Spice up the pie..
> To: MIQP-Mail at miqp.org
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Pennsylvania for years has had mugs and tee shirts available for  
> > participants in the PAQP. 
> > 
> > PAQP charges for the stuff, so no significant costs are incurred by 
> > the  
> > sponsoring club.
> > 
> > I think either tee shirts or hats would be a better choice. They 
> > tend to  get 
> > worn in public at places like hamfests, where others see them and 
> > get some  
> > advertising exposure for MiQP (or whoever). I still have and 
> > occasionally wear 
> > a  hat from a Texas QSO Party circa 1996.
> > 
> > Mugs tend to sit in cupboards.
> > 
> > 73  -  Jim  K8MR
> > 
> > Coming up north again next month!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > In a message dated 3/11/2007 1:51:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> > murphys at comcast.net writes:
> > 
> > 
> > I  agree with Dave's comments about increasing activity at the 
> > grass roots  
> > level.  I don't think some additional incentive would hurt,  
> > though.  The 
> > ARRL SS Coffee mugs, pins and brooms come to mind, and,  doesn't 
> > the League 
> > require the recipient to pay for their own mug or  pin?  That type 
> > of 
> > arrangement would keep MRRC from having to put up  the $$ for the 
> > awards.
> > Perhaps offering some sort of trinket for  achieving certain 
> > "milestones" 
> > (working WAS during the contest, for  example) might entice people 
> > to not 
> > only get on for the contest, but to  stay on for the duration.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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