[PaQSO] Special event sta

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Well Ron, I don't know what to tell you.

The N3SH Allegheny operation was split between three sites; one SSB, one CW,
one Digital Modes.  I know that the CW site (at K3VX) was supposed to run
two transmitters but suffered a catastophic failure on one of the radios --
Murphy happens, and still they made 139 QSO's on 160 & 80, and 269 on other
bands, which is not too shabby, all things considered (remember, had the one
rig not failed, they could have had close to double that).  And I understand
that the Digital station made very few contacts -- the people to work just
weren't there.

N3SH Washington and N3SH Venango both had very active CW stations.

N3SH Fayette lacked a good CW contester as of the start of the contest, so I
don't know how many QSO's they had on that mode.  This was not intentional,
it was caused by some scheduling issues as some of us had to work or be out
of town or otherwise have real life intrude.

I don't know about N3SH McKean, N3SH Clarion, or N3SH Butler yet, I will ask
the ops; I haven't seen their logs yet.

And the N3SH Mobile team was SSB only, which is the way N3ZNI/M has operated
in the last few contests.  I can't argue with any mobile station which does
not want to drive and operate code at the same time; I know many have done
it and still do it, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.

So, I'm not sure what you expect with a "level playing field."  Every effort
was made to have both modes active from all counties.  It didn't always work
out, but we tried.  By the same token, who expected 40 to go long so early
in the day both Saturday and Sunday?  Who knew 15 would be wide open to the
west with no one on to take advantage?  Who knew we'd have a couple of small
pile-ups on 20 most of Sunday afternoon when the band is usually full of
DX'ers and rag-chewers?

Sorry you had no luck, but it was not intentional.  That's just the way it
goes sometimes.

I'm very proud overall of the effort the WASH gang put out.  I'm almost
sorry that it will be a few years before we do it this way again... of
course, next year instead of N3SH Washington it will be W4ZE/3 again,
instead of N3SH Fayette it will be WA3SH again, N3ZK from Venango, N3ZNI/M,
K3AIR Butler, and so on.  Who knows, we may even have another
mini-DXpedition to see NP2JF and activate the NP2SH club station again.

What more do you want?

73, ron w3wn

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I would like to know if the operation was split equally between the Phone
bands and the CW/Digital modes. It seems like I had no luck with them on cw
so
us operators that use CW more than Phone are at a big disadvantage for the
points. I think in the future it should be a even split or forget the multi
pal
operation.Lets keep an even playing field for




                                                                Best  73
                                                                Ron
(WB3DOM)
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