[PaQSO] Certificates received

Wed Jan 8 23:10:50 EST 2014

Thanks Goody!

My success has much more to do with the station and especially this hilltop QTH than the operator. If I ever get really good at this game, look out! :-)

I'll also be analyzing and seeking to tweak. I look forward to another battle for the CAR bragging rights! May the best man win ... um ... but I'd rather it be me instead! 

One of these years, I'd like to take a stab at mobile, rover, or portable. As the beneficiary of those intrepid souls over the years, I feel a desire to "pay it forward" - giving the rare ones instead of just taking them! We shall see!

VY 73 de Glenn K3PP 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Goody K3NG <goody.k3ng at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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