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Subject: [SECC] GQP Rules
From: ku8e1@yahoo.com (Jeffrey Clarke)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:40:23 -0700 (PDT)
Or you could do what they do in the ILL QSO party....

If you are on 2 county lines = 2 QSO's 3 county lines = 3 QSO's etc...

                   Jeff



--- Lee Hiers <aa4ga@contesting.com> wrote:
> On 22 Oct 2002 at 19:32, Ernest Zingleman wrote:
> 
> > One other suggestion should be to allow mobiles to run
> > county lines.  
> 
> Is it not allowed now?
> 
> The problem is that it's counter-productive to the contester, as it 
> reduces the number of QSOs.  If you're an active mobile station, the 
> county-hunters know it and will watch for you to change counties.  
> You can park on the side of the road and run a bunch of guys, then 
> move your car 15 feet and do it all again, doubling the QSOs.  I 
> know, I've done it...and had all the CH guys follow me.
> 
> You straddle a county line, and you've cut your QSOs in half...or 
> worse if it's a junction of 3 or 4 counties...like those guys in the 
> sailboat in SF bay do every year for the CQP.
> 
> Every time I work a mobile on a county line, I think, "just lost a 
> QSO".  And, FWIW, I'm a county hunter...kinda.  I'm just not active 
> in it now.
> 
> 73 de Lee
> 
> -- 
> Lee Hiers, AA4GA
> Cornelia, Georgia
> 
> 
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