[PaQSO] W3USA PaQP Report

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

Pennsylvania QSO Party

Call: W3USA
Operator(s): K8MR,  AC8E
Station:  W3USA

Class: Mobile LP
QTH: 15  Counties
Operating Time (hrs):  9

Summary:
Band  CW  Qs  Ph Qs   
160:                               
80:   37       15                   
40:  410       38                   
20:  172       17                   
15:                               
10:                               
6:                               
2:                               
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Total:    619     70          Mults = 88  Total  Score =  96,996

Club: Mad River Radio  Club



Comments:

The  score includes the mobile  counties bonus but not a couple of W3P  bonus
station qsos.

By  County:

CW   SSB

LAW    26      5
BUT     57    4
ARM     45    5
INN     41      0
CMB    22    6
BLA      34   10
HUN    30      2
CEN    31    0
CLE      74   14
CRN    43     17
ELK    45     3
JEF     35   10
CLA     52     0
VEN    45     0
MER    33    0

30  counties    57 sections   1 DX 

This was a  Sunday only trip this year. With  the Indians in the 
baseball playoffs,  I worked both Friday and  Saturday
night, to be at the TV transmitter  just in case. Tough job to  watch
baseball on TV and get paid for it,  but you know, somebody has to do it. I 
did not plan to have the Saturday  night game go past 1:30 am, so I only had 
about 4 hours of sleep.  Fortunately driver AC8E did not stay up for the
game, so he arrived rested  and on time Sunday morning.

Conditions were  decent if one didn't  need to talk to in state stations on 40
meters.  There did seem to be a  dip around 11am to 1 pm, with signals
from some close in states like Ohio dropping in strength.
 
A few  months ago I picked up a new 4 resonator mount for the  Hustler,
and with the  10 meter resonator in place it also loads on six  meters. So 
with
the 20 meter  Hamstick in place and 2M FM, I have 12  band modes available. I
tried a couple  of calls on 2M and spent a  minute CQing on 28040 cw from CRN
at the appointed time,  but nothing  there. But it should be fun in a couple 
of years.

It was a very nice day  to be out touring in Pennsylvania, although with the
warm autumn and dry  summer the leaves have not yet changed colors. I did  not
really miss  doing the first day, with the need for 7 hours of driving after
dark, a  relatively short off time between operating periods, motels to deal
with, the  Saturday night RTTY QRM, and the need to depend on 80 
meters for long  stretches.

Now to unpack the car until the Michigan QSO Party  in  April 2008.


73  -  Jim   K8MR  
 



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