[LCC] LaQP 2020

[marsh at ka5m.net]

Scott,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I believe there is an opportunity here. 

I'm all for a Delta Division (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee) QSO Party, but it may be difficult to get all 4 to agree on the dates and times.

A little background history....

ARQP -- May 11 2019 1400Z - May 12 2019 0200Z (12 hours)
LAQP -- March 16 2019 1400 - March 17 2019 0200Z  (12 hours)
MSQP -- April 04 2020 1400Z - April 05 2020 0200Z (12 hours)
TNQP -- Sep 01 2019 1800Z - Sep 02 2019 0300 (9 hours)

1400Z thru 0200Z (12 hours) are the state QSO party times of 3 out of the 4 Delta Division states. Seems like a reasonable timeframe.

Mississippi has chosen a good weekend. See https://www.contestcalendar.com/perpetualcal.php

At the very least, we could move to April 04 2020 1400Z - April 05 2020 0200Z (12 hours) to coincide with the MSQP. It would be easy for us to do and would be a significant step forward!

Comments / suggestions?

Marsh, KA5M











-----Original Message-----
From: W5WZ <w5wz at w5wz.com> 
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2019 9:17 AM
To: marsh at ka5m.net
Cc: LCC <lcc at louisianacontestclub.org>; Mark Ketchell K5ER <k5er at k5er.com>; Bobby Baker WM5H <Robert.Baker at opso.net>
Subject: Re: LaQP 2020

What weekend would you suggest?

How would you feel about a “Delta Divison”, or some other multi-state QSO Party?  

Participation in LA, AR & MS QSO Parties seem to collectively be low. There could be an opportunity there. 

Sent from my iPhone

Scott Dickson, W5WZ


> On Sep 22, 2019, at 08:28, <marsh at ka5m.net> <marsh at ka5m.net> wrote:
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> I'm never going to give up on getting this fixed.
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> The current weekend for the LaQP is not a good choice. There are two 
> (2) major contests that same weekend  - the Russian DX Contest and the BARTG.
> Both have many ops participating.
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> There are 52 weekends in a year, and there is no reason not to pick a 
> weekend without major contests, and that has other state QSO parties 
> going on.
> 
> Marsh, KA5M
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