On 9/25/2019 5:12 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
but the 7QP will also have a big number.
And there's another wrinkle -- 7QP and NEQP (held the same weekend) have five character abbreviations (two for state, three for county). But there's also the question of whether sponsors of these state QSO parties WANT digital operation. The contest club of which I'm a member, the Northern California Contest Club, sponsors the largest of the state QSO parties, and we rejected RTTY when it was proposed years ago because it would have fundamentally changed the nature of the contest. I'd be very surprised if we would feel differently about adding FT8 of FT4.
That doesn't mean that we don't like those modes -- indeed, we regularly win the large club competition for RTTY Roundup, we MAY have won the large club competition for the new CQWW Digi contest; one of our members (W0YK) has won the world several times from P40X RTTY DX contests, and has been a major mover behind bringing FT8 and FT4 to both RTTY RU and the new Digi contest.
It's also important to realize that a major element of most state QSO parties is mobiles driving around the state(s) to activate as many counties as possible to make it more fun for out of state participants. There's a bit of that with 7QP and CQP, but many counties are activated by expeditions, set up Field Day style, and, when possible, on county lines.
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