[FQP] FQP and county line stations

[Jeff Clarke]

I can probably speak for all of us that go rovering in FQP the reason we all 
do it is because we enjoy the big pileups we generate as we go from county 
to county. If you choose right route with lots of counties you can have a 
perpetual pileup the whole contest like K4KG and K1TO. If you parked on a 
county line running more than one county you are going to have your pileup 
die down faster. Plus you are going to have to drive thru one of the 
counties you just ran with terrible rate until you get to your next county 
line.

I'm not really sure how the rules are written that if you do that you get 
credited for one or two QSO's. I know many of the QSO Party prohibit this. 
CU All at the end of April....

Jeff KU8E     a.k.a W4AN/m team

-----Original Message----- 
From: Georgek5kg at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 8:23 PM
To: k0rc at citlink.net ; fqp at kkn.net
Subject: Re: [FQP] FQP and county line stations

Bob,

Let me side with Charlie and Dan.  In the FQP we do not encourage  making
"dual" QSOs from county lines, although it is permitted, I suppose.

Jim, VE7ZO, and I have operated mobile as K4KG for the
I-don't-know-how-many-years, and we have never made contacts from county 
lines  by sending two
county identifiers in one logged contact.  We have, however,  operated
occasionally from county lines by working from one county, and then  moving
"across the line" and working from the other county.  This has  been our
practice, and will continue to be.  We have broken several records  with 
this method.

Tnx, George

George  Wagner, K5KG
Sarasota, FL
941-400-1960 cell


In a message dated 3/24/2013 6:33:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
k0rc at citlink.net writes:

Hello  FQPers...

The Florida QSO Party is one which allows (encourages?)  county line
operations by stations. There are explicit details in section  7)
Scoring, (B) Multipliers, (2) paragraph which state: /"//Florida
stations on a county line may be claimed as a QSO and a multiplier from
each county (2 QSO's and 2 multipliers)//"./

I am interested to  know how county-line stations log contacts during the
contest. During FQP  I might hear "CQ FQP de W4XYZ/LAK/POL/SUM" where a
station is operating  from the corners of Lake, Polk, and Sumter.

In my log, I end up with  three W4XYZ QSOs in a row, with each unique
county designator assign to  each QSO. This is straight forward.

My questions are regarding what  logging software do you use as a
county-line station? And what is the  process for logging these multiple
contacts? Do you log them as three QSOs  at that moment, or one QSO and
expand the log later, or what?

73 de  Bob - KØRC in  MN

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