[PaQSO] Re: Ports

Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:05:45 -0400

I believe that there also needs to be a minimum of three stations active
from a county...I certainly won Perry last year, but no certificate.

I'm not complaining...I have so many now that I keep them in an album!

Bill WA3RA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: [PaQSO] Re: Ports

> >Subject: Re: [PaQSO] I disagree
> >To: [email protected]
> >From: [email protected]
> >Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:04:44 -0400
> >
> >
> >Mark N3GNW wrote:
> >
> >>Now a question,  are portables eligible for the county certificate?  If
> >not, I
> >>agree with Dick that that's not right
> >
> >Ports are eligible for the county certificate.
> >
>
> If Ports are eligible for the County Certificate then why did
> the NARC people screw me over like they did last year?
> Last year I sat two days in my car mobile on the Bedford/Fulton
> line (no external grounds, power or antennas) drive away at the turn of
the
> key and have them change my classification from
> Mobile on the two county lines to Portable LINE, beat my closest
> competition for Fulton by 24K points and not get a thing but screwed? My
> points also reflect what should have been second
> in Bedford but their scoring don't mean a thing.
>
> The way I feel right now I doubt I'll ever do the contest again.
> It was fun doing it for the first time with a broken tooth,
> hardly being able to talk and missing a sweep by two counties.
>
> I think this year I'll sit home and let them screw somebody
> else.
>
> On the VHF issue from another thread it could be interesting
> when you look at the first day of the MDC QSO Party last Fall.
> There was a solar flare and the only points to be had the first
> day were basically on VHF. I was mobile sitting way out in Far western
> Garrett County, MD and the HF bands were dead leaving
> those I could hear operating the VHF bands. It was so bad I
> never even submitted my log.
>
>
> Larry - N2OCW
>
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