[FQP] Re: [FCG] Top Ten reasons to operate the NEQP---this is great!

[wlbaber at bellsouth.net]

That's right!  I operated in the three main qso parties from North Carolina:  NEQP, MQP, and FQP--FQP is the only one with proper CW only categories.  Also, the Florida mobiles make FQP work so well....I plan to join this group next year.  

73, Will, wj9b, dit dit
Alachua County

> 
> From: "Charles Wooten NF4A" <nf4a at knology.net>
> Date: 2005/05/01 Sun PM 09:27:24 EDT
> To: <fcg at kkn.net>,  <fqp at kkn.net>
> Subject: [FCG] Top Ten reasons to operate the NEQP---this is great!
> 
> This is from the NEQP website....read it ALL, especially the #1 reason:
> 
> Top Ten Reasons to Operate the NEQP
> 
> 
> 10. For a lot of U.S. hams, New England is halfway to Europe, and in the
> right direction, so you can try out your new European stacks and Beverages. 
> 
> 9. If you're a W1 operating from your home, it's just like a DX contest
> where you only have to push F1 all weekend and run guys. The multipliers
> will come to you. 
> 
> 8. Tell a mobile in Vermont or Rhode Island how loud he is and butter him up
> so you can get the mult in SS. 
> 
> 7. The W1 big guns going mobile will have a chance to see how it feels to be
> weak for a change.  And if you're in Europe, you can hear what weak W1s
> sound like. 
> 
> 6. You can try to figure out why there are Windham counties in Connecticut
> and Vermont, but not New Hampshire, where Windham is just a town.  You can
> ask every station you work in Rockingham County, NH, if the hams there are
> really rocking. (note - the aforementioned Windham, NH is in Rockingham
> County). 
> 
> 5. If your call is K3WW, it's yet another contest for you to enter! (K3WW
> operated 52 different contests in 2001) 
> 
> 4. Since the exchange is the first 3 letters of the county and the
> two-letter state abbreviation, this opens up all kinds of opportunities.
> See if you can find a YL named Norma in Norfolk County, MA. Work K1TTT in
> Berkshire County, MA, and see if the ARRL will accept it for XZ credit.  See
> if K1KI/m has to stop the car for a rest stop in Piscataquis County, ME.
> See if you can drive the ops at N1TN crazy by asking them "Where's Waldo?".
> Ask W1UF if he knows a limerick that starts with "There was a young miss
> from Nantucket...".  Ask a mobile to drive from Washington County VT to
> Washington County ME to Washington County RI so you can get your WAWC award.
> Be thankful there's no Eaton County in Maine. 
> 
> 3. It's going to rain next weekend, so you won't be able to do antenna work
> anyway. 
> 
> 2. Ask the ops at W1YK and K1EA how "Wissta County, Mass" gets abbreviated
> "WOR MA", and see how long it takes before they start saying they are in
> "Wor-sess-ter" county. 
> 
> and the Number One Reason to operate the NEQP..... 
> 
> 1. You missed the 2005 Florida QSO party, and you've been looking forward to
> operating a QSO Party for the last year!   
> 
> 
> -- courtesy of Doug Grant, K1DG 
>   
> 
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