[LCC] Fwd: Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee QSO Party

[keith at kathyandkeith.mx]

We just don't have much to bring to the table.  Yet?

Keith, KV5J

On 2019-09-27 13:47, w5wz at w5wz.com wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee QSO Party
> Date: 2019-09-23 14:43
> From: w5wz at w5wz.com
> To: arsk5db at gmail.com, w5xx at vicksburg.com, w9wi at gmail.com
> 
> Ralph K5DB
> Malcolm W5XX
> Douglas W9WI
> 
> Gentlemen,
> 
> Hello from Louisiana.  I'm Scott Dickson, W5WZ, a founding member of
> the Louisiana Contest Club and the current president.  The LCC
> sponsors the Louisiana QSO Party.
> 
> Over the past several years, participation in the Louisiana QSO Party
> has been in serious decline, both in-state and out-of-state
> participation.  Several of us have been kicking around ideas to foster
> participation, and an idea was floated that I wanted to open a dialog
> with you.
> 
> The idea is that of a "Delta Division" QSO Party, with AR, LA, MS and
> TN participating in a larger event, somewhat like the 7QP.  Or, some
> other merging of on-air activity to foster increased participation
> inside and outside of the grouping of states.
> 
> The LAQP struggles, perhaps in part, to sharing a weekend with the
> BARTG RTTY and the RUSSIAN DX contests (years ago, the LAQP was in
> September).  At the very least, we'd consider moving our contest date
> to coincide with the current AR or MS QSO party.
> 
> 
> I welcome your thoughts and comments on the matter at hand.
> 
> --Scott, W5WZ
> --w5wz at w5wz.com
> 
> 
> And the response from Mississippi, W5XX:
> 
> Hello Scott,
> 
> Thanks for the note.  I was Chairman of the Delta Division QSO Party 
> from
> about 1976 through 1983. At that time Mississippi did not have a QSO 
> Party
> (the first MSQP died in the late 1960's), but the other three states 
> did.
> I tried to reactivate the Mississippi QSO Party, but did not get much
> support. So, I got together with the Delta Division Director W4WHN and
> started the Delta Division QSO Party.  Unfortunately, I didn't much
> participation from any of the states.  It seems that most of the 
> potential
> participants from states that had QSO Parties wanted to spend their 
> time
> in their own State QSO parties. As a result the Delta Division QSO 
> Party
> died.
> 
> Currently Tennessee has a monster QSO party. I made over 100 Q's on 
> Labor
> Day weekend. Mississippi is doing OK. About 125 logs received, although
> during the Sunspot Peak, I had over 175 logs received.. As for 
> Louisiana,
> the only recent comment I heard was from W3DYA/M, who said activity was
> bad news. I don't know anything about Arkansas.
> 
> With the exception of California, Washington, Texas, Florida, Georgia, 
> and
> Tennessee (and maybe a few more) it seems like interest in QSO Parties 
> has
> dropped, especially in the smaller ham population states. I got in the
> Alabama, Iowa and New Jersey QSO Parties this last weekend and activity
> was not good.
> 
> Anyway scheduling the LAQP the same weekend as the MSQP is not a good 
> idea
> since people would get two five area QSO Parties mixed up, and Missouri 
> is
> the same weekend and until this year also Montana.
> 
> I have the advantage in Mississippi of having strong support from the 
> 599
> DX Association and the Magnolia DX Association which results in a lot 
> of
> activity. I also call people on the phone the weekend before the QSO 
> Party
> to get them motivated, which has been successful to some extent.
> 
> Best 73 de W5XX
> 
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