Jim, the N4N team is happy to work you. We will have to figure out a way to
accomplish this. We spend 20 minutes or less per county in order to stick to
the scheduled number of counties. After about 6-7pm local, the 20m Q rate drops
off significantly.
We run two stations in my Yukon. Given the current sunspot levels, we keep a
station on 40m all day, both days. Being a mixed entry, we try to spend no more
than 5-7 minutes of that 20 minutes on SSB.
Getting the non 40m station switched between 80/75 and 20 hasn’t been plausible
in past years with our antenna configuration. I’ll work to add a third antenna
to the truck to allow for a quick switch from 40>20 and 80>20. It would also
help the 20>15(10) switch.
When one of our stations has to cover 2 bands, and one band has maybe only 5
stations following us, we will spend no more than 5 minutes, preferably much
less, a narrow window. Be ready, hi hi.
tnx
Mike / W5JR / N4N GQP Rover.
Alpharetta GA
> On Mar 23, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/22/2018 3:23 PM, Jeff Clarke wrote:
>>
>> The 2018 version of the Georgia QSO Party is only a few weeks away.
>
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I've enjoyed working these SE State QSO Parties for years, but last year may
> have been my last, thanks to rovers abandoning the higher bands where I can
> work them hours before those bands close, and before I can work them on lower
> bands. When I raised that issue online, the response was that they were
> moving down to work locals. In one of those contest, K4ZGB was the only rover
> who continued to work 20 until it died, and I still managed to work him on 80
> later on.
>
> Have suitable changes been made to scoring rules to discourage this practice?
> CAQP counts in-state QSOs for CA stations, but not mults.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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