Jim -
You misread the rules. PA stations do get county multipliers.
10. Multipliers and Scoring 10.a. In-State Multipliers: ARRL Sections +
Canadian Sections + PA Counties + 1 DX.
Once upon a time many, many years ago, they did not - it was just ARRL
sections. Which leads to the odd situation that when they did add counties,
they kept ARRL sections - so PA stations still get the EPA and WPA multipliers!
My observation is that the PAQP culture is perhaps the most focused on working
all the in-state counties. Many times on Sunday mornings on the PAQP email list
are people asking who is going to be on from such-and-such county. But I've
never seen anyone asking when they might work Eastern Washington or San
Francisco.
73 - Jim K8MR
(I'm a PA native. If you check out the 1968 results on the web site, that #2
station in WPA - that's me!)
On Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 03:18:18 PM EDT, Jim Brown
<k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
Studying the Rules, I'm pleased to see that PA stations get no mults for
PA counties, and also awards for QSOs on the higher bands. This
discourages the self-defeating practice (for the state QSO Party) of
mobiles abandoning the higher bands to work short hop stations. And it
means that those of us providing long haul QSOs will hang in.
Other state QSO parties who do allow mults for in-state QSOs would do
well to follow it. I've abandoned those QSO Parties whose mobiles
abandoned the higher bands when they were still open. I used to work
them seriously, even won GA once, but no more.
73, Jim K9YC
On 10/8/2025 8:15 AM, committee@paqso.org wrote:
> *Announcing the 2025 Pennsylvania QSO Party! *
>
> Hello *K9YC,*
>
> The 69^th running of the Pennsylvania QSO Party, also known as the
> _Friendly QSO Party_, occurs October 11, 1600Z to October 12, 0400Z and
> then resumes October 12, 1300Z to 2200Z.
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