[PaQSO] 2004!

[John Myers]

Hmm! OK, here's where I got messed up. I made a mistake setting up the
program, and entered 500 points per bonus stations, not 200.

I appreciate you're pointing that out, Paul.

My corrected preliminary score is now 64136

73,

John, KD8MQ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Gondos" <pgondos at hotmail.com>
To: <jmyers18 at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [PaQSO] 2004!


> Hi John:
>    Very good signal from Butler. I'm just wondering how you got 5500 bonus
> points from W3UU with only 11 Q's? I got 10 Q's for a total of 2000!!!!.
>
> Paul, KA3JOI (op at W3SK)
>
> >From: "John Myers" <jmyers18 at sbcglobal.net>
> >To: "PA QSO Party" <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
> >Subject: Re: [PaQSO] 2004!
> >Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:26:50 -0400
> >
> >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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