[ILQSO] PA3ARM IN IL PARTY

[Axel Schernikau]

Hello Harry,

thanks for Your informations and opinions.
PA-QSO-Party this year was great, made 199 QSOs with 59 of the 67 
counties than, very good condx, most avtivities than by a few well nown 
Mobiles (at least on CW for DX) ... W3DYA, K4UK, K8MR, W3USA were the 
main stations in my log (59 QSOs or so).

In IL-QSO-Party had same experience like You, was in steady contact with 
Mario, DL5ME, in the ED7ZAB-7 cluster.
Started a bit slowly but than rushed up very good with lot of Mobiles 
but changing condx. Around local midnight a significant Aurora condx 
started on our path to USA so almost no more stations were copyable. 
After I checked 40m and found all those RTTY-stations in JARTS-Contest 
(also higher than 7040) I decidec to QRT because of QRL :-)

73 & gl

Axel Schernikau, DL6KVA
dl6kva@qsl.net

van Enckevort, Harry schrieb:

>Hey there,
>
>Just subscribed to this list; thought it may be of interest to share a
>little bit with u;  who I am and some feelings on this year's party. Age 57
>hr now es lis in 1979 but not on the bands between 1983 es 1994 ; so far
>operate CW only (98%) ,  100W wid moderate dipoles/inv vee. Already
>interested in USA-CA in 1979 ! 
>(some SSB (contest) /dig modes activity "planned" when I retire in january 
>
>Ten Tec freak, (first TRX OMNI D>B still in the shack - also OMNI 6 plus),
>ARRL member, mainly DX es counthy hunting activities; obtained the basic
>USA-CA in 2001 ; will/can apply fer mi 1000 endorsement later this year.  
>Just as with TX 4 weeks earlier condx finally made it fun to participate.
>Both during 2000 es 2001 parties I made a handful of contacts only. (by the
>way : cud not participate in  CA party - no condx anyhow es also not in PA
>party ! /wow ! must have been super condx ?!, after 2 subsequent
>participations in 00/01 wid lots of contacts)
>Mi vy first QSO party was GA in 1999; since then approx 25 more wid vy
>inconstant results  
>
>Still have approx 70 counties to go in ILL so the effort was worth it . Made
>38 contacts -lots of new counties but do they all count fer USA-CA???? -
>manual logging as always yet -  15m shone - also 20m es had hope the band
>wud stay open till 02,00 am here but just b4 midnight alls sigs vanished...
>should have gone to bed (had to be in the office next day) but decided to
>wait fer all the RTTY sigs to disappear on 40m (00.00Z) but made only 1
>contact ....called to NY4N numerous times but....believe there were no EU's
>anymore apart from DL5ME es myself..
>
>Was surprised from the beginning abt all the county line ops whether /p or
>/m ....had checked portable/mobile ops ops on the web but not realised there
>wud be so mni c/l ops -  understand now have to study the USA-CA rules es
>see how to work the QSLing out.  hi hi 
>Understand there are no possibilities to send the log electronically..
>
>THANKS TO ALL THE /P ES /M FER MAKING THE EFFORTS ES GIVING DX STNS THE
>CONTACTS !
>I still like (love)the parties as being contests plus being tools to upgrade
>the USA-CA which in mi eyes is one of the finest awards to obtain. (no award
>freak here!) 

>
>Hpe to be on in the parties fer mni mni years to come ..tks to RAMS fer
>organising this year's contest 
>
>Harry
> 
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