[PaQSO] Great Party

[Hank Greeb]

I'll second the "Great Party" comment!

I noticed that there were very few stations, at least late in the 
evening on Saturday, and most of the day Sunday, who were calling CQ.   
Since I was running <5 Watts, I didn't have enough of a signal to 
attract many PA stations by calling CQ (Eggzactly zero, in the one and 
only time I tried called CQ for several minutes in a row, nearby 
K8JQ/WVA who was doing quite well with a "run" of PA stations.  
Occasionally a "new" CQer would pop up, and he'd be deluged with a 
pileup for several minutes before my mighty pipsquoke signal could be 
heard amongst the cacophony of calls.

With receipts of >1100 Q's for s/n from Multi-multi stations, it doesn't 
seem to me that there are few stations on from PA, but there was a 
dearth of stations calling CQ.

Caveat - most of my operation, due to QRP, was CW, (80 CW QSO's, 41 
Phone) but when I was trying for SSB contacts I found "approximately" 
the same phenomenon on Phone as with CW.  It did seem that more SSB 
stations were calling CQ than on CW.  But, I could find them all (at 
least all who could copy me) in a half hour or so, then I'd listen 
around, find many others who answered one of the CQers, but couldn't be 
found up or down the band calling CQ themselves. I didn't keep track, 
but it seems that some of these were in fairly rare counties.

All in all, though, the PAQP was a GRRRRR8 event!  Congrats to the 
Nittany ARC for a grande show!

73 de n8xx Hg


On 10/10/2011 1:55 PM, n1tl tdstelme.net wrote:
> <snip>
> Not sure if it was just me but the number of Pa. hams seemed to be down from previous years?
> <snip>