[PaQSO] FURTHER MUSINGS ON OUT-OF-STATE OPERATION

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Thanks for the tip about ground wave..and certainly will be looking for the 
FRC's bonus station and anyone else I can hear on 20 meters.

* The QTH is not ideal...especially in light of 20 meters.  The QTH will be 
Sicklerville, NJ....right across the Delaware River from Philadelphia.  I 
suspect I will be able to hear the really close-in PA Counties on most bands:
PHI (IF anyone gets ON from there, esp on CW.....don't get me started!), BUX 
DCO, MGY, CHE...all of these should yield QSOS on groundwave on several 
bands.   

The further out counties may be heard on backscatter......  I will listen on 
20 and maybe even the higher bands,,,but from my experience, the high bands 
are not prime QSO producing bands in PAQP (the far flung states complain of 
our seeming reluctance to get on the high bands). When I was mobile last 
year, I did some 15 meters and just a few Qs on 10...I would have to look, 
but I do not think I worked any PA groudwave or otherwise on the high bands 
from anywhere in the state.

SNJ seems an odd place from which to do PAQP...at least Camden Co.  40 and 80 
will produce Qs of course..but its too close for normal skywave propagation 
on 20...so 20 will be somewhat "blind", even when running short (save for 
groundwave and other "funky" modes)....so the next viable strong band over 
the relatively short distances from PA to SNJ would be 160...but the antennas 
for that band are such monsters,,,that perhaps very few PAQP Ops use 160 for 
the same reason the band is not heavily used by Hams generally. 

I still wish I could get PHI on the air for an all out, full time effort, 
really tried hard guys..but need help to do a field effort in that case and 
cannot find anyone here wanting to do it (I live in a Center City Phila apt, 
so I don't have fixed antennas)   I have the rig, G5RV, lots of battery 
capacity, a 3 KW generator and a big charger, computer, etc.,....but since 
the truck is still being rebuilt, I cannot go it alone in the field this 
year...that and finding a place to set up within PHI's borders is no-so-easy. 
 Still, it's doable somehow I suppose........was thinking of renting a UHaul 
truck, set-up a long table in the back of it and just finding someplace to 
put up the G5RV somewhere within PHI....but I would need the help of a few 
other Philadelphia area Hams (or otherwise) in that regard (would be nice to 
have the station on SSB and CW, full time effort).  Time is too short now I 
guess, but I am still open if a last minute offer of help comes in.  Short of 
that...and SNJ here I come!

OK rambled long enough,,, 73 to all and thanks for all the musings!

Tim
N8LXR


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