[PaQSO] TIOGA County was not rare this year!

[n3fe@repeater.net]

Also another Tioga COunty Station N3FE (Single Op)

I had quite a few people ask me for CW this year.  I hope I helped out
those CW only stattion.

I didn't get much time to operate.  Less than last year.  I had a sick son
and it seemed everytime I snuck away when he would fall asleep, I would
get about 5 minutes operating time before he was back up again.  I
operated less time, but had more CW contacts.  I had about 3,000 more
points this year.  One of these years I will be able to do the whole
contest instead of a little time here and there.

The NR3K "Gang", myself, and NM3O all hung out on 146.550 to stay in
touch.  We heard other people on that freq now and then, but no one would
answer us.

I will post my score once I get it double checked.

I had a lot of fun, and I can't wait until next year.  To bad this event
didn't happen twice a year!

Corey  N3FE


>NR3K...
> As some of you know NR3K is a local club that has attempted for the last
> few years to make TIOGA County un-rare. Being new to contesting we hunt
> and pounce more than sit still but we are getting better every year. The
> chili gets better every year as well. We have a great party with food to
> the point of making us sleepy! NR3K was run this year by WB3DLN, WO3C,
> KE3HT, KA2VSR, KA3VRW (and friend), KK5SS and a bunch of other visitors.
>
>
> Even with our presence these past few years it is still sometimes hard
> to find TIOGA. Not this Year! We had a great time and so did 5 other
> stations that I know of from TIOGA County. I also saw Potter and
> Bradford represented by more stations than I have ever seen before.
>
> High bands (non-40/80), this is the first year I can remember having a
> real serious number of contacts on 10/15/20. On Saturday we thought we
> might work all sections! DX was pouring in! We also discovered our beam
> was pointing 180 degrees from the rotor markings and we were still doing
> great! Unfortunately Sunday was a bust. There was a short opening on 10
> and 15 on Sunday but it did not last long.
>
> IMHO these three North Central PA counties have seen an Increase in
> activity unlike Green and Clarion who seem to have had a decrease.
>
> When I was a mobile with KA3MMM I used to look at last years results to
> see if we could hit a rare county just to get more of a pile up going.
> Being mobile is hard and has no real rewards (contest wise). I did it
> for a bunch of years so I have compassion for Mobiles. They do the work
> of dozens of stations sometimes and yet they don't have much to look
> forward to other than our thanks. SO THANKS TO ALL THOSE MOBILES! Oh
> yea, thanks to W3USA also! How does he do it? Someday he may retire! (
> /M humor-sarcasm )
>
> The NR3K score will be posted soon.
>
>  ,,,, Tim KE3HT/R
>
> http://www.ke3ht.org
>
>
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