Jim,
I would consider that for GQP but I don't know that I have time to get
the word out in time since it's only 9 days away.
I know it's been discussed before and rejected but allowing 80 meters in
the FQP for just this year might be a good idea. Maybe even allow 160
meters as well. I'm afraid that activity is going to be way down without
having mobiles to chase around. I just updated my GQP activity map on
the web page yesterday and we went from over 2/3 of the GA counties
covered to less than 1/3 because I removed the planned mobile/portable
operations. Ouch that hurts ! Plus it didn't help that GQP falls on
Easter weekend this year.
Jeff
On 4/2/2020 10:23 AM, James Cain wrote:
I have some ideas for last-minute rules changes that might help a little in
salvaging the GA and FL QSO parties.
1. Shorten the events to one day, Saturday, maybe 1200Z to 0100Z or
something like that.
2. Announce 15 and 10 Meter "meeting times" for in-state stations to check
those bands. It would help everybody catch any sporadic E skip and in-state
stations might be able to work some ground wave. The old ARRL CD Parties
used this trick and it really did work.
3. In the case of the Florida QP, allow 80 Meter QSOs to count.
K1TN
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