[PaQSO] Northumberland

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

Sounds like NUM was the toughest of counties this year, or at least very  
close to it.
 
Not that I didn't try!  But when I was there about 00z, I CQ'd  and CQ'd on 
80 cw with only 3 qsos in about 8 minutes to show for it. (I  had one more 
when I called W3VPJ across the river in Snyder).  And that's  right after I 
had a decent run on the same frequency just before leaving SNY. I  probably 
also tried 40 CW, but if I did I had no qsos there either.
 
So I went to 75 SSB to salvage a few qsos. There I heard a very loud  
KA3QLF/m working somebody, so I called QLF even though it was the other guy's  
frequency. Turns out he was in UNI, only a few miles away, and by the time we  
finished the QSO he had entered NUM, so we worked again. 
 
In the end, in my time driving up from US 11 to  PA 147 to I-80,  I ended 
up with only nine qsos in about 18 minutes, not even enough for the  mobile 
station bonus   :>( 
 
I'm still adding up my scores, more to follow later.
 
 
73  -  Jim   K8MR   --   W3USA/M in the  contest