[PaQSO] Saturday Night

[Ron Notarius WN3VAW]

Only ended up spending about 4 hours tonite at N3SH due to work & family
commitments.  But what I did hear & see of the bands when I got there looked
good!

My apologies to the few who tried to work N3SH on CW tonite -- that was me
at the key, and I was more tired than I thought or I probably wouldn't have
tried.  When I start getting tired, I start losing the ability to
concentrate on code, and it showed.  Hopefully my fist will be in better
shape in the AM!

Highpoints:  Working EM1U (Antarctica) on 20, one of several DX contacts
(the gang was thrilled that after they worked a few JA's on 10, they got
spotted by the JA's on the reflector!); knocking off a few more counties;
and working WWA on 75 SSB shortly before the end of the night -- we actually
don't have many more sections to work (hmm, wonder if VY1JA will be QRV?).

Lowpoints:  Fighting with the logging program (it doesn't handle county
lines well, and it classifies USVI as DX not an ARRL section -- I would have
preferred 'JWE's program but so it goes), missing many of the mobiles (hope
to work 'em tomorrow) including N3ZNI, and finding out when we went to go
home that I'd left the van's dual-bander on and the power cord fried
slightly.  Hope it's just a fuse...

One of our goals was a county clean-sweep.  60 down, 7 to go.  And thanks to
WA3SES for working us on phone, the software doesn't take the "standard" 3
letter abbreviations right and I had him down as Cumberland not Cambria!
(That's now fixed!)

See you bright if not early in the AM, and don't forget to work the NP2SH
gang for the USVI mult!

73, ron wn3vaw

46th Annual Pennsylvania QSO Party October 11 & 12!
www.nittany-arc.org/paqso.html
Look for N3SH - Allegheny County, WA3SH - Fayette County, and NP2SH -- US
Virgin Islands!
For more information see www.washarc.org