[PaQSO] Limiting operation to 40 and 80

[Hank Greeb]

During Michigan QSO Party, 20 was fine - worked quite a few.

During the more recent Ohio QSO Party, 20 was OK for high power fellows, 
but for QRPers like me, the propagation just wasn't thar!

I agree wholeheartedly that one should give 20 thru 10 "a good olde 
jollie trie" but pray for the gods of the ionosphere to be kind to the 
weekend. :)  Folks out west (and in Europe and elsewhere) are counting 
on these bands for QSO's

73 de n8xx Hg
Will try to be on from Michigan - QRP, so dig down into the mud to pull 
my pipsquoke signal through the noise floor!


On 9/8/2011 3:09 PM, K3YD wrote:
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> limiting operation to 40&  80m tends to ignore a lot of ops outside of PA who might be calling CQ PA on 20, 15 or even 10m looking for PA counties
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> Norm,
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> I couldn't agree with you more.  Twenty meters, in particular, is a great place to find ARRL&  Canadian sections west of the Mississippi and there are a lot of them!  Many times I've worked as many or more Qs on 20 as on 75/80 but because many are new mults, there is a bigger benefit to my score.  Even simple antennas, a dipole or vertical, can generate a fair number of Qs on 20.   While DX only provides 1 mult, there are a lot of European DX stations who chase PA.  An extra DL or G is worth just as much as an extra BER.
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> When 10 is open it can produce some additional section mults, but I've found that some of the operators on 10 have no idea what their ARRL section is.  A few from California had no idea what ARRL was.  :-(
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> Over the years, fifteen has been my worst producer--both for contacts and for mults.
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> 73,  Blair K3YD