[PaQSO] 2004!

[John Myers]

Well, we made it home to Ohio in record time. This was a great weekend, and
we found the perfect camping location. Now, if it was just in a different
county.
As reported earlier, we had planned to make it to ARM this year, but the
campground got sold. This forced us to find an alternate, with BUT being the
best we could do. But, plans are already being made for next year. More on
that later, if the plans come together.

Here's our preliminaries:
Total QSO's: 530
Counties: 65 (Missed BRA & CRA)
Sections: 46
DX:1
W3UU 11 times :5500 points
preliminary score: 67436

Several people told us that our 80 & 40 meter signal was the loudest on the
band. This was great, since the amp died about 5 minutes before the contest.
We also ran into a jerk, but considering where we were at frequency wise, I
wasn't surprised.


Thanks again to the organizers. This was a great contest weekend.

John, KD8MQ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kay Craigie" <n3kn at comcast.net>
To: "PA QSO Party" <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 7:34 PM
Subject: [PaQSO] 2004!


> Another clean sweep, but this time it was a nail-biter. Last year I had it
> in the bag well before noon on Sunday, but this year the last county (CRN)
> went in the log with less 2 hours to go.
>
> Despite the confusion about what the W3UU deal was going to be, here's the
> truth from my station: without the W3UU ops going to a lot of different
> counties, I would not have come close to a sweep this year.
>
> In the future, I hope creative approaches to the bonus station can be
> announced clearly and authoritatively from the get-go, so we can skip the
> confusion, controversy, and distress. Just tell us reasonably well in
> advance what's going to happen and instruct us how to log it and score it,
> and we should all be happy puppies.
>
> I only had one run-in with a jerk. I said I would QSY as soon as I
finished
> a contact with a weak mobile station, but he had to keep mouthing off.
> Finally I pointed out that the sooner he shut up, the sooner I could
> complete the contact and get out of his hair. I identified my station, he
> didn't. Funny how some human bodies have a big mouth but no spine, eh?
>
> Thanks to everybody for all the points and multipliers.
>
> 73 - Kay N3KN
>
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