[PaQSO] 20 meters and other musings

[morsenut at aol.com]

Hello all,

As for this PA op, and in a semi-rare PA county (Some years, PHI is 
outright rare), I was on 20 and 15 meters often.

My incentive is that there are a lot of mults out west and other places 
to which 40 and 80 are not propagating.

Ok, ok..I only have a simple dipole for 20 and 15 meters.

  But I know that I was being heard on the West Coast with often a 
decent signal because I did work several WC stations that replied 
readily.

Its not holes in the propagation.    Its simply that out of state 
stations are not actively calling PAQP.

PAQP has always been an intra-state centric contest.  And thats ok.

But one thing is for sure;  you won't work them if they aren't there.

73 all,

Tim
WU3U