[PaQSO] Certificates received

[Goody K3NG]

Glenn, congratulations on taking the CAR trophy!  Going all CW this year
undoubtedly caused me to lose a few mults, but you're a great op.  I'm
going to be analyzing my performance and figuring out what I need to tweak
for next October.  :-)

73
Goody
K3NG


On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP <k3pp at k3pp.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I received my CAR award cert as well. I'm thrilled to have mine, but some
> day when I have a huge pile of them like Tom, I may want to opt out as
> well! :-) The "opt out" option is a good idea.
>
> BTW Tom: You are a hero to loads of us for dishing out so many rare county
> mults! Thank you!
>
> It's funny how I value the CAR award so much! I do the big DX contests and
> try to make the Top Ten in the very competitive Single-Op Assisted class. I
> usually do pretty well in these big events, and even made that venerable
> Top Ten on a few occasions. With all that, why is it so cool to win dinky
> little CAR in the PA QSO Party?
>
> 1. It's the PA QSO Party, my favorite contest of them all!
> 2. PA has always been my home. CAR has been my home for 50-ish of my 53
> years!
> 3. This "dinky" county is small with only a few PAQP participants, but
> it's been very competitive!
>
> Let's dig into that last one. My dear friend Goody K3NG has beaten me the
> past few years. I'm frying the ionosphere with 1500 watts, big antennas,
> and a killer QTH. Goody sits about 1.5 miles NNE of me across Beltzville
> Lake with his puny QRP signal and a far less ideal QTH. Yet, he's whooped
> me repeatedly in PAQP! Yes, some can be chalked up to the 2X multiplier,
> but obviously that alone is not enough. He's just good - damn good! Kudos
> to you, Goody!
>
> In fact, even with my 205,448 points, he came within a hair of me! Having
> him in CAR makes me push harder! He makes me a better operator! He forces
> me to improve on CW (his real secret weapon)! I know he'll be gunnin' for
> me come October! I will have to be especially diligent to retain the CAR
> bragging rights! Come October, Goody might just take it back from me!
>
> Just because I'm a big fish in a big pond, it doesn't mean I'm assured to
> be the big fish in this tiny pond! :-)
>
> Thank you to all, especially Goody, the mobile/rover/portable stations and
> of course, Mike N3LI and the NARC gang who make PA QSO Party such a
> wonderful event!!
>
> VY 73 de Glenn K3PP
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Dec 27, 2013, at 10:47 AM, "Tom Williams" <n2cu at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Got county certificates in the mail yesterday for my mobile effort to
> some
> > rare entities :-). While it is nice to get certs, and these are good
> looking
> > ones, I have hundreds of them collected over the years that are filed in
> > envelopes in a desk drawer. I would like to suggest a chance to "opt
> out" of
> > county certificates in order to save the Nittany ARC some printing and
> > mailing costs. Plaques and category winning certs are fine, but could
> there
> > be a checkbox on the entry form for "opting out" of the others?
> >
> >
> >
> > Looking forward to another great PAQP in 2014 and a bigger mobile effort!
> >
> >
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Tom N2CU <><
> >
> > K3 #3582
> >
> >
> >
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