Pennsylvania QSO Party
Call: W3USA
Operator(s): AC8E, K8MR
Station: W3USA
Class: Mobile LP
QTH: 16 Counties
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK Qs
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160:
80: 20 9
40: 351 84
20: 66 0
15:
10:
6:
2: 1
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Total: 437 94 0 0 Mults = 83 Total Score = 71,038.5
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
By county:
CW SSB
MER 36 24
LAW 20 2
BUT 20 7
ARM 20 4
INN 21 14
CMB 34 3
BLA 33 2
HUN 20 4
CEN 20 1
CLE 26 12
JEF 34 2
CLA 20 0
FOR 25 1
WAR 39 0
VEN 25 3
CRA 41 18
Tot 437 94
53 Sections/Provinces/DX (including EPA and WPA)
30 Counties
I had debated about whether to do both days of the PaQP, and finally decided
that it is not much fun to drive for six hours after dark when your only real
band is 80 meters. So we settled for a Sunday only effort, which was a very
fortunate decision given the G3 class geomagnetic storm on Saturday.
The bands (i.e. 40) had some spotty openings in state, but would come and go in
no time at all. I was working N3NTJ from Blair county with a good signal, and
had him say he needed Huntingdon which was less than half a mile away. But
before we got there, he was gone. I called and got an answer and report from
K3YTL in Cameron on 40CW, but before he could get my number the band took a
dump and he couldn't finish the qso. Missed that county. 20 was mostly poor,
with only 2 qsos from California. (Are you W6's still all tired out after
CQP?)
Finally about 2100z things got going well just as we were leaving rare Forest
county. For the rest of the contest we had rates over 100/hr, and a lot of new
multipliers like NB, NNY, MDC(!), and several new counties, but it was too
little too late.
At least it was an absolutely beautiful, pleasantly warm day to see the fall
colors in PA, always a highlight of mobiling in the PaQP.
So the mobile gear has been packed away until the Michigan QSO Party six months
for now. See you then, as well as from my single op, multi-station effort in CW
SS, from PJ2T in CQWW CW, and in lots of other contests this winter.
73 - Jim K8MR
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