[PaQSO] W3USA/M PaQP Report

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

Pennsylvania QSO Party

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

Class: Mobile LP
QTH: 16 Counties
Operating Time (hrs):  9

Summary:
Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  RTTY Qs  PSK  Qs
-------------------------------------
160:                             
80:   20       9                 
40:  351      84                 
20:   66       0                 
15:                             
10:                             
6:                             
2:            1                 
-------------------------------------
Total:   437     94       0        0  Mults = 83  Total Score  = 71,038.5

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

By  county:

CW    SSB
MER   36    24
LAW    20     2
BUT   20      7
ARM   20     4
INN    21    14
CMB   34      3
BLA   33     2
HUN    20     4
CEN   20      1
CLE   26    12
JEF    34     2
CLA   20      0
FOR   25     1
WAR    39     0
VEN   25      3
CRA   41    18

Tot   437    94   

53 Sections/Provinces/DX   (including EPA and WPA)
30 Counties

I had debated about whether to do  both days of the PaQP, and finally decided
that it is not much fun to drive  for six hours after dark when your only real
band is 80 meters.  So we  settled for a Sunday only effort, which was a very
fortunate decision given  the G3 class geomagnetic storm on Saturday.

The bands (i.e. 40) had some  spotty openings in state, but would come and go 
in
no time at all.  I  was working N3NTJ from Blair county with a good signal, 
and
had him say he  needed Huntingdon which was less than half a mile away. But
before we got  there, he was gone.  I called and got an answer and report from
K3YTL in  Cameron on 40CW, but before he could get my number the band took a
dump and  he couldn't finish the qso.  Missed that county. 20 was mostly  
poor,
with only 2 qsos from California. (Are you W6's still all tired out  after
CQP?)

Finally about 2100z things got going well just as we were  leaving rare Forest
county. For the rest of the contest we had rates over  100/hr, and a lot of 
new
multipliers like NB, NNY, MDC(!), and several new  counties, but it was too
little too late.

At least it was an  absolutely beautiful, pleasantly warm day to see the fall
colors in PA,  always a highlight of mobiling in the PaQP.

So the mobile gear has been  packed away until the Michigan QSO Party six 
months
for now.  See you  then, as well as from my single op, multi-station effort 
in CW
SS, from PJ2T  in CQWW CW, and in lots of other contests this winter.

73  -   Jim  K8MR  

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