[PaQSO] WA3SES Results

Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:24:50 -0400

Congratulations for a great score Ed.  

Most of you are probably not aware but Ed, who by the way is the person who
got me interested in ham radio, and I have had a fairly serious competition
going between us for PaQP bragging rights since 1991, and he really took it
to me this year (I ended with about 205,000 or so points).  We even have a
plaque with multiple brass tags, that bears the name of each year's winner
(needs updated though), and the winner gets to keep it for that year.  Right
now, if my count is correct, Ed has 6 notches on his belt and I have 5.  By
the way, last year Ed ended with around 204,000 points and soundly beat my
180,000 score.  Then, I finally break the 200K barrier with 205,000 or so
and what does he do?  234,910 POINTS!!  That's it, I'm demanding an
inquiry!!  tee hee

This really adds spice to the contest and gives us an excuse to spend a
number of hours hoisting cold ones, commiserating what we did wrong this
year, and swear what we'll do right next year.  Lots of fun.

Friendships are a good thing.  Thanks Ed.

Bob, N3FR

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:42 AM
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Subject: [PaQSO] WA3SES Results

Band CW   SSB
160  75   26
80   153  83
40   258  368
20   134  50
15   66   16
10   6    0

1695 QSO Points x 138 mults  =  233,910
5 W3FRC QSO's;
X 5 for medium power
Claimed total: 234,910

Improved on previous best (204k) by more than 10%. Very satisfied with
that.

Dissapointed in my results on 10 and 15. I know that with wire dipoles at
50' or so I can't expect to get numbers I would with the aluminum I have at
home, but still feel I can do better. AA3B mentioned wire beams. Not sure I
have the room to put one of those up AND the 160 and 80 and 40 meter
dipoles, but will consider it for next year.

My two best years ever on 160 were this year and 1996, the other year I was
in Prince Gallitizin State park...must be Glendale lake???

One neat thing that happened was the visit from some folks from another
cabin. Seems their curiosity about all my wires got the best of them. One
of the guys had his wife back some chocolate chip cookies as an entree' to
my cabin. Spent close to 1/2 hour talking to them about ham radio in
general and contesting in particular. One family was from LAN and the other
from CMB. Seeing as how I already had those Cty's in the log, did not take
credit for the QSO's. And the C. Chip cookies were great...still warm. I
had been living on Oreo's...the C.Chip's added varity to the diet.

Thanks one and all, (home and rover, mobile and portable, hi, low and QRP
power; newbee's and oldbee's; CW only, SSB only and mixed) for a wonderful
time. I probably should not single any one station out, but what the
heck....thanks N3ZNI for the last two, POT and CRN.

Here's hoping I can get the same cabin for next year. It is about as
"antenna friendly" as any I've found.

The "X 5 for medium power" is just there to see how many read down this
far. I assume those that do not read this far will be on me real quick for
taking a 5 mult for medium power, which I did not do, obviously...just for
the fun of it.

Ed/WA3SES

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