From randy at n3zk.com Thu Oct 1 09:06:57 2015 From: randy at n3zk.com (randy at n3zk.com) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:06:57 -0700 Subject: [PaQSO] N3ZK PAQP Plans Message-ID: <20151001060657.07f683d8d2acb2f3b481ab68bb371def.ff79fd8b8e.wbe@email11.secureserver.net> Hi Fellow PAQP contesters!! Team N3ZK, will be operating from Indiana County again this year. Keep an eye out for us!! This years team: Randy - N3ZK Frank - N3FB Good luck everyone!!!! We look forward to seeing you on the air!!! -Randy, N3ZK From kb3cbo at yahoo.com Thu Oct 1 17:57:38 2015 From: kb3cbo at yahoo.com (Edward A Moyer) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 17:57:38 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Ab3ah/p Operations Message-ID: <416F0964-47A8-4D32-BEA5-7214D8453223@yahoo.com> Good Evening Everyone , I Myself (ab3ah) (wa8yih) will be operating from Cowens Gap state park ...... Franklin/Fulton county ... Both of these counties are often the few last ones to work ... We're in a rf hole, but it's with a shot Look for us on the following frequencies plus or minus qrm Cw. Ssb 3.525. 3.833 7033. 7187 14033. 14247 21033. 21307 Well try psk and rtty as well Ill be primarily on cw ... So give the other guy grace as he is not a contester..lol ... Thanks again for your time and hope to work you all, Ed Moyer ( ab3ah). Sent from my iPhone From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 11:24:59 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:24:59 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 4 Ocboter Message-ID: <000e01d0feb8$d678e870$836ab950$@gmail.com> The following is a summary of 2015 PA QSO Party operating plans I have seen as of 10/4/15. Please share additions or corrections. 73, Bud AA3B 56 of 67 counties appear on the list. No plans are shown for the following: ADA, ARM, BEA, BED, BLA, CHE, CUM, GRE, LEH, PHI, WAS I will put out at least one more update and please try to share any additional plans as soon as possible. Fixed & Portable Stations Cty Call Notes ALL WA3HAE SSB & CW, 160 through 10 BER AA3B Single Op, High Power, CW, SSB, 160M - 6M BRA KA3EQU Multi, KA3EQU and AD3O BUT N3MSE BUX K3TX Low power CW BUX W3TDF CAR AA3K & K3FT in CAR M/S or M/M 6 - 160 mainly Phone CAR K3PP Single-Op, All HF + 6m, CW & SSB CAR N3CR Multi-Single, 80 thru 6 on SSB/CW/digital CLI KI4BXU/3 80 thru 10 SSB and CW, possibly 160 CLI N3IW/P Multi, QRP, CW, SSB, 80M-10M, 160M and 6M possible CMB WA3CSP/P 160 - 6 maybe 2 mid power, single op DCO KW3A All bands, high power, CW/SSB. 6m and 2m ELK KE3FO 10-160 CW & phone ERI W3GV 10-80 Multi-Multi FAY W3GPC Multi Multi FRA AB3AH/P FUL/FRA County Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY FUL AB3AH/P FUL/FRA County Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY HUN NA3V single op low power CW and SSB INN N3ZK + N3FB JEF KD8MQ/P LAN K3IR All bands and modes including PSK LAN N3NTJ Single Op, medium power, SSB 80m - 10m LEB K3LV Multi-Multi 80 - 10m MER W3WGM Multi-Multi 80 - 10m MGY NW3H SOHP All Band All Mode 80-6 NHA NS3L CW & SSB, 160M - 10M, 6M, 432 POT K3CC 160-10 meter all modes SCH W3SC Multi Multi SOM N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M SOM N3LZV 80-10M, SSB and some PSK SUL WQ3N/P multi single TIO NR3K Multi Multi VEN WB3AFS All bands WES K3MJW all bands SSB/CW multi-multi WES N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M WYO W3C Bonus Station Multi Multi Station YOR KF3M/P multi-op, LP, 80-10, mostly SSB, Sat 12 to 6 PM Mobile and Rover Routes Cty Call Notes ERI N2CU/M SAT CW, SSB 10-80m WAR N2CU/M SAT CRA N2CU/M SAT VEN N2CU/M SAT MER N2CU/M SAT LAW N2CU/M SAT BUT N2CU/M SAT CLA N2CU/M SAT FOR N2CU/M SAT WAR N2CU/M SUN FOR N2CU/M SUN ELK N2CU/M SUN CRN N2CU/M SUN MCK N2CU/M SUN CEN W3CG SAT 40 CW and SSB MIF W3CG SAT JUN W3CG SAT PER W3CG SAT DAU W3CG SAT SNY W3CG SAT UNI W3CG SAT CLI W3CG SAT LYC W3CG SAT NUM W3CG SAT MTR W3CG SAT COL W3CG SAT SUL W3CG SAT LUZ W3CG SAT WYO W3CG SAT LAC W3CG SAT MOE W3CG SUN PIK W3CG SUN WAY W3CG SUN SUS W3CG SUN BRA W3CG SUN TIO W3CG SUN POT W3CG SUN CRN W3CG SUN ELK W3CG SUN CRN W3CG SUN FOR W3CG SUN WAR W3CG SUN CRA W3CG SUN ERI W3CG SUN JUN AF4NC/M CW and SSB CEN N3LI/M SAT CLI N3LI/M SAT LYC N3LI/M SAT POT N3LI/M SAT CRN N3LI/M SAT ELK N3LI/M SAT CLE N3LI/M SAT TIO N3LI/M SAT TENTATIVE MCK N3LI/M SAT TENTATIVE PER N3LI/M SUN JUN N3LI/M SUN K0BAK/R Southwest Counties Out of State Sec Call Notes MI KB8TYJ From kb3cbo at yahoo.com Sun Oct 4 12:03:00 2015 From: kb3cbo at yahoo.com (Edward A Moyer) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:03:00 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Ab3ah/p Franklin / Fulton county line Message-ID: <4A1CAB98-AE38-425A-8948-FC8393E592D2@yahoo.com> Good Afternoon , I'm announcing my Operations ...Myself (ab3ah) and a non contester (wa8yih) will be operating from Cowens Gap state park ...... Franklin/Fulton county ... We're in a rf hole, but it's with a shot Look for us on the following frequencies plus or minus qrm Cw. Ssb 3.525. 3.833 7033. 7187 14033. 14247 21033. 21307 Well try psk and rtty as well Ill be primarily on cw ... So give the other guy grace as he is not a contester..lol ... Thanks again for your time and hope to work you .. Ed Moyer ( ab3ah). From peteralbright1 at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 19:29:52 2015 From: peteralbright1 at gmail.com (Peter Albright) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 19:29:52 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Final tentative itinerary... Message-ID: Just a few tweaks. 40 CW and SSB, then 20 CW and SSB CLE W3CG SAT CEN W3CG SAT CLI W3CG SAT MIF W3CG SAT JUN W3CG SAT PER W3CG SAT DAU W3CG SAT SNY W3CG SAT NUM W3CG SAT UNI W3CG SAT LYC W3CG SAT MTR W3CG SAT COL W3CG SAT SUL W3CG SAT LUZ W3CG SAT WYO W3CG SAT LAC W3CG SAT MOE W3CG SAT PIK W3CG SAT PIK W3CG SUN WAY W3CG SUN SUS W3CG SUN BRA W3CG SUN TIO W3CG SUN POT W3CG SUN MCK W3CG SUN CRN W3CG SUN ELK W3CG SUN FOR W3CG SUN WAR W3CG SUN CRA W3CG SUNERI W3CG SUN 73. -Peter, AA2AD and Laurie, N3KZI dba W3CG/m From weslager at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 19:31:01 2015 From: weslager at gmail.com (Jim Weslager) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 19:31:01 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Mac Logging Application Message-ID: <9FFE0C32-C479-42DE-BFB3-5C1AA18F962C@gmail.com> Can anyone point me to a good logging program for a Mac computer? Currently, I am using MacLogger, however, all of the features needed for the PA QSO Party are not included with this app? 73?s Jim / K3WR From tvguy07 at gmail.com Sun Oct 4 20:16:39 2015 From: tvguy07 at gmail.com (John Myers) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 20:16:39 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 4 Ocboter Message-ID: Hi everyone, We will be leaving probably Thursday for the Jefferson County QTH. We are planning to operate everything from 160 to 6, CW & SSB. I will be reviewing the rules this week to see what the convention is for 6 m. last year we made one contact on 6 m. This year I'm hoping to bring a better 6M antenna to the party. I'm looking forward to working all of you on both the pre-net , and during the contest. There's a better-than-average chance that I will also be handing out KD8MQ/P on the Century Club Nets on Thursday and/or Friday night. 73 all, John, KD8MQ On October 4, 2015, at 11:24, Bud Trench wrote: The following is a summary of 2015 PA QSO Party operating plans I have seen as of 10/4/15. Please share additions or corrections. 73, Bud AA3B 56 of 67 counties appear on the list. No plans are shown for the following: ADA, ARM, BEA, BED, BLA, CHE, CUM, GRE, LEH, PHI, WAS I will put out at least one more update and please try to share any additional plans as soon as possible. Fixed & Portable Stations Cty Call Notes ALL WA3HAE SSB & CW, 160 through 10 BER AA3B Single Op, High Power, CW, SSB, 160M - 6M BRA KA3EQU Multi, KA3EQU and AD3O BUT N3MSE BUX K3TX Low power CW BUX W3TDF CAR AA3K & K3FT in CAR M/S or M/M 6 - 160 mainly Phone CAR K3PP Single-Op, All HF + 6m, CW & SSB CAR N3CR Multi-Single, 80 thru 6 on SSB/CW/digital CLI KI4BXU/3 80 thru 10 SSB and CW, possibly 160 CLI N3IW/P Multi, QRP, CW, SSB, 80M-10M, 160M and 6M possible CMB WA3CSP/P 160 - 6 maybe 2 mid power, single op DCO KW3A All bands, high power, CW/SSB. 6m and 2m ELK KE3FO 10-160 CW & phone ERI W3GV 10-80 Multi-Multi FAY W3GPC Multi Multi FRA AB3AH/P FUL/FRA County Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY FUL AB3AH/P FUL/FRA County Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY HUN NA3V single op low power CW and SSB INN N3ZK + N3FB JEF KD8MQ/P LAN K3IR All bands and modes including PSK LAN N3NTJ Single Op, medium power, SSB 80m - 10m LEB K3LV Multi-Multi 80 - 10m MER W3WGM Multi-Multi 80 - 10m MGY NW3H SOHP All Band All Mode 80-6 NHA NS3L CW & SSB, 160M - 10M, 6M, 432 POT K3CC 160-10 meter all modes SCH W3SC Multi Multi SOM N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M SOM N3LZV 80-10M, SSB and some PSK SUL WQ3N/P multi single TIO NR3K Multi Multi VEN WB3AFS All bands WES K3MJW all bands SSB/CW multi-multi WES N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M WYO W3C Bonus Station Multi Multi Station YOR KF3M/P multi-op, LP, 80-10, mostly SSB, Sat 12 to 6 PM Mobile and Rover Routes Cty Call Notes ERI N2CU/M SAT CW, SSB 10-80m WAR N2CU/M SAT CRA N2CU/M SAT VEN N2CU/M SAT MER N2CU/M SAT LAW N2CU/M SAT BUT N2CU/M SAT CLA N2CU/M SAT FOR N2CU/M SAT WAR N2CU/M SUN FOR N2CU/M SUN ELK N2CU/M SUN CRN N2CU/M SUN MCK N2CU/M SUN CEN W3CG SAT 40 CW and SSB MIF W3CG SAT JUN W3CG SAT PER W3CG SAT DAU W3CG SAT SNY W3CG SAT UNI W3CG SAT CLI W3CG SAT LYC W3CG SAT NUM W3CG SAT MTR W3CG SAT COL W3CG SAT SUL W3CG SAT LUZ W3CG SAT WYO W3CG SAT LAC W3CG SAT MOE W3CG SUN PIK W3CG SUN WAY W3CG SUN SUS W3CG SUN BRA W3CG SUN TIO W3CG SUN POT W3CG SUN CRN W3CG SUN ELK W3CG SUN CRN W3CG SUN FOR W3CG SUN WAR W3CG SUN CRA W3CG SUN ERI W3CG SUN JUN AF4NC/M CW and SSB CEN N3LI/M SAT CLI N3LI/M SAT LYC N3LI/M SAT POT N3LI/M SAT CRN N3LI/M SAT ELK N3LI/M SAT CLE N3LI/M SAT TIO N3LI/M SAT TENTATIVE MCK N3LI/M SAT TENTATIVE PER N3LI/M SUN JUN N3LI/M SUN K0BAK/R Southwest Counties Out of State Sec Call Notes MI KB8TYJ ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From wmorganjr at verizon.net Sun Oct 4 20:59:36 2015 From: wmorganjr at verizon.net (Chip Morgan) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 20:59:36 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] N3IW/CLI Update Message-ID: <5611CB78.6020604@verizon.net> N3IW portable from CLI. 160m - 6m, CW & SSB, multi-multi QRP. Note that 10m and 6m operation will be dependent on band openings and heard activity. All other bands will be operated according to propagation conditions (and the whim of the operators). 73, Chip N3IW From zelna.alz at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 07:19:04 2015 From: zelna.alz at gmail.com (Al Z) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 07:19:04 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3C Message-ID: Plans are coming together and we are ready to give out lots of Bonus Points this year. Here are the Band/Mode possibilities for W3C from WYO. 160m CW SSB 80m CW SSB RTTY PSK 40m CW SSW RTTY PSK 20m CW SSB RTTY PSK 15m CW SSB RTTY PSK 10m CW SSB RTTY PSK 6m CW SSB 2m FM Our focus is 160m-10m CW and SSB to serve the majority of participants. However, we will spend time on RTTY and PSK to increase the number of possible QSO's with W3C. Digital activity for 10, 15, and 20 *will definitely* coincide with the Hi-Band Periods on SAT and SUN. Additional digital activity will depend on operator availability and band conditions. Sat and Sun: 10m 1800Z SSB 10m 1830Z CW 10m 1900Z RTTY 10m 1915Z PSK 15m 1900Z SSB 15m 1930Z CW 15m 2000Z RTTY 15m 2015Z PSK 20m 2000Z SSB 20m 2030Z CW 20m 2100Z RTTY 20m 2115Z PSK Details for digital activity on 40m and 80m as well as 6m and 2m are still in the works... Stay tuned! Al, N3KAE From mcoslo at comcast.net Mon Oct 5 12:01:25 2015 From: mcoslo at comcast.net (Michael Coslo) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 12:01:25 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 4 Ocboter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Regarding 6 meters, we?ve been trying to reach that critical mass of operators to kickstart a lot of activity on the band. But the rules are pretty much the same as the other bands, so give it a shot. -73 de Mike N3LI - > On Oct 4, 2015, at 8:16 PM, John Myers wrote: > > I will be reviewing the rules this week to see what the convention is for 6 m. last year we made one contact on 6 m. This year I'm hoping to bring a better 6M antenna to the party. From rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com Mon Oct 5 14:06:37 2015 From: rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com (Pete K0BAK) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 18:06:37 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] K0BAK/R plans Message-ID: <1599412726.821708.1444068397193.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> K0BAK "final" rover plan for PA QSO Party. Everything subject to change of course. Last year was my first year, and I learned that I needed a time plan not just a location plan. This year I learned that all reasonably priced hotel rooms within 1000 square miles around Penn State are booked early for a football weekend, so I should have planned much much earlier. At this rate of learning, I'll be an expert in 27 years. :-) I planned my stops to actually operate for about 30 minutes each. Not much total operating time, but that's the life of a rover. In addition to the verticals I may have a 40m hamstick dipole on the roof for an NVIS, but haven't tried mounting it on the minivan yet (it does work surprisingly well 8' above the ground though). Saturday, mostly at high locations with a 27' elevated ground plane vertical: CAM, Cambria BLA, Blair BED, Bedford SOM, Somerset FUL, Fulton Saturday after dark, time and stamina dependent, inefficient coil loaded vertical for fast setup: FRA, Franklin HUN, Huntingdon (unlikely but possible) BED, Bedford, backtrack to operate low at the hotel, prob. on 80m if at all Sunday, mix of high and low locations, 27' vertical antenna: MIF, Mifflin JUN, Juniata PER, Perry DAU, Dauphin Sunday, sprinting home after 2:30, inefficient coil loaded vertical for fast setup, as many of these as I can: LAN, Lancaster LEB, Lebanon BER, Berks CHE, Chester MGY, Montgomery Good luck to everyone, looking forward to contacting you on the air. I'm hoping for dry weather; I'm in flooded Columbia SC at the moment. -- Pete K0BAK From dave at pkministrywebs.com Mon Oct 5 17:55:10 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:55:10 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] bonus stations? Message-ID: Hi PAQP, Are y'all going to have bonus stations all over the bands similar to last year's adventure? 73 Dave WN4AFP -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" From goody.k3ng at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 23:47:15 2015 From: goody.k3ng at gmail.com (Goody K3NG) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 23:47:15 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] K3PP in CAR In-Reply-To: <7272262E-094A-48D5-B540-EF46A3D65E18@k3pp.com> References: <7272262E-094A-48D5-B540-EF46A3D65E18@k3pp.com> Message-ID: Unfortunately I will not be participating this year. I have a wedding I'm a part of this weekend. I'm heartbroken, having to miss a PAQP, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Ironically this family member got married once before on Field Day about seven years ago. I'm not going to his third wedding, if that happens, I promise you! So the County of Carbon is up for grabs. I'll be back next year, with a vengeance. I promise. I'm going to win Carbon County, QRP, maybe CW Only, and do the 67 county sweep, all in one swell foop. :-) 73 Goody K3NG On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP wrote: > I'll be on again in force for this year's big event! I don't know what > Goody K3NG has planned, but I always have to assume he'll be a serious > threat - because he IS! > > K3PP, Single-Op, Home Station, All HF + 6m, CW & SSB > > PA QSO Party is my favorite contest! It truly is "The Friendly QSO Party!" > > VY 73 de Glenn K3PP > > Sent from my iPad > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > From mkempisty at verizon.net Tue Oct 6 11:25:18 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] K3PP in CAR In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <899563691.1038223.1444145118536.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Well AA3K will be there with 100W and a low dipole.? I may be using Warminster ARC's club call K3DN.? I have permission to do so. ?Take care, MarkAA3K From: Goody K3NG To: "Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP" Cc: PAQSO Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [PaQSO] K3PP in CAR Unfortunately I will not be participating this year.? I have a wedding I'm a part of this weekend.? I'm heartbroken, having to miss a PAQP, but you gotta do what you gotta do.? Ironically this family member got married once before on Field Day about seven years ago.? I'm not going to his third wedding, if that happens, I promise you!? So the County of Carbon is up for grabs.? I'll be back next year, with a vengeance.? I promise.? I'm going to win Carbon County, QRP, maybe CW Only, and do the 67 county sweep, all in one swell foop.? :-) 73 Goody K3NG On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP wrote: > I'll be on again in force for this year's big event! I don't know what > Goody K3NG has planned, but I always have to assume he'll be a serious > threat - because he IS! > > K3PP, Single-Op, Home Station, All HF + 6m, CW & SSB > > PA QSO Party is my favorite contest! It truly is "The Friendly QSO Party!" > > VY 73 de Glenn K3PP > > Sent from my iPad > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From dave at pkministrywebs.com Tue Oct 6 12:25:35 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:25:35 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Mobile Activity? Message-ID: Hi PAQP Team, Is there a website that includes planned routes for all or most of the PAQP mobiles? Does the PAQP have a spotter page? We used one for the SCQP and it was very helpful to all... The developer created our spotter page within a day of the request.. It's not too late. Here's the link to our spotter page http://cwfun.org/funspots/scqp/frames.html I would also invite any of you that work QSO Parties to join the QSO Party Connection Yahoo group. This is also a great place for QP Team Members to promote QP.s https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/qsoparty My goal is to break the SC record this year.. Thanks Dave WN4AFP Member of the SCQP Team From w3tdf at ptd.net Tue Oct 6 12:29:34 2015 From: w3tdf at ptd.net (Ray Bilger) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:29:34 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Goodie missing ! Message-ID: <01bb01d10054$2f9a0190$8ece04b0$@net> We're gonna miss ya Goodie. I'm gonna be low key muself, but, SWELL FOOP, anyway ! Ray From TwelveVDC at aol.com Tue Oct 6 13:05:16 2015 From: TwelveVDC at aol.com (TwelveVDC at aol.com) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 13:05:16 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Mobile Activity? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2D207C2A-02BF-49E0-A24A-A38BE8E0641C@aol.com> Wow! I like that a LOT. Who can write a script and find a host for it in 3 days? Anyone up for the challenge? -Pete The Greek / NL7XM > On Oct 6, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Dave Edmonds wrote: > > Here's the link to our spotter page > http://cwfun.org/funspots/scqp/frames.html From n2cu at roadrunner.com Tue Oct 6 18:27:05 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (Tom Williams) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 18:27:05 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Mobile Activity? Message-ID: <4810D5361EB94E23B40B8EF55EB93CE7@696908E74163425> That's a really cool idea. I usually have W6RK going when I'm not out in the mobile. 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 From Jimk8mr at aol.com Tue Oct 6 19:16:48 2015 From: Jimk8mr at aol.com (Jimk8mr at aol.com) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 19:16:48 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Rovers vs. Mobiles Message-ID: <337f35.fcc0813.4345b060@aol.com> Excuse the non-timely response, as I just ran across this while cleaning out my incoming mail folder. There is a way a rover with mobile operation can game the system, but it's not as described below. It is a battlefield conversion of a mobile station who after operating most of the contest as a real mobile, realizes he is losing and "stops" to operate as a rover. He may actually set up a fixed antenna, though it would not be verifiable if he in fact did not. If this is a concern, one way around this would be to place a limit on the number of counties a rover could operate from, for credit. I'd suggest 22, i.e. one county per hour of the contest. Since most counties can be crossed in 30 minutes, that would imply an average stop of 30 minutes in each county, which is certainly enough to distinguish from a bona fide mobile. (Don't DQ a rover who might operate from more places, just don't count the extra counties). If the weather cooperates, a rover operation does not take that much effort. I have developed a very effective and quickly deployed rover antenna - a 33 foot wire fed against the car body, supported by a push up fiberglass mast (DK9SQ or similar) held up by a tripod base. I can put it up by myself, or take it down, in about five minutes. It's 2-3 S-units better than a mobile antenna on 40, and with a loading coil (which adds a couple of minutes to setting up) 3-4 S-units better on 80. That is a huge difference. What a good rover operation does contribute to the contest is workable stations on SSB from rare counties. While a 40 meter mobile antenna produces enough of a signal to work guys on CW, band conditions permitting, such an antenna just does not cut it on SSB. Sure, a mobile guy might tune around calling the loud fixed stations, but he will never attract enough attention to work those SSB guys who themselves are mostly tuning around calling guys. A rover operation with one operator and a non-ham/non-operating driver is a much better proposition that a similarly staffed mobile. The frequent stops allows the driver breaks from driving, a more desirable situation than expecting somebody to spend 12 hours behind the wheel, especially at night. 73 - Jim K8MR In a message dated 9/28/2015 1:29:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mcoslo at comcast.net writes: Thanks for all the input, folks. I try to not influence things one way or the other, but want to have some input on this important Rover and Mobile issue. When I look at modifying classes, I need to try to see all of the unintended consequences that can happen. It?s why we went to the mobile-multi and mobile single. The singles, just about universally operate stopped, so they do not cover as many counties as those who have a driver. So while I?m not always worried about the ? playing field?, there was just a huge disparity between the two modes of operation. But what I have to do is take an idea, and then think of all the ways I can fail the idea. Some times it seems like pessimism, but in reality, it?s just trying to be certain I don?t gum up the works. There?s a dilemma with trying to have rovers operate as mobiles between stations. It?s no secret that there aren?t all that many people who operate rover. It?s a class that takes a lot of effort. But I?ve looked long and hard at the idea of allowing rovers to operate as mobiles between stationary locations, and it has one big problem - it can be gamed, and gamed heavily. I could have my first location set up as a rover, stationary antenna and all, say in Chester County. I could make contacts from there, and then start moving to my next stationary location. In Erie County. And I hit Erie County on Sunday afternoon. And I have operated in 20 counties in between on Saturday and Sunday. Operating perfectly within the rules. And there lies the problem with blurring the distinction between the Rovers and mobiles. The two classes become almost indistinguishable. The station gaming the system ends up with an immense advantage over the station that operates with mostly fixed antennas - which after all, is the reason why there is a rover class. Better signal, although at the expense of mobility. Likely more QSO?s, with less bonus points. That?s the concept. Anyhow, I do thank everyone for their suggestions, and encourage more suggestions. As usual I can?t implement all of them, because not all suggestions are compatible with each other, and I have to take everyone into consideration. But I do listen, and if something can work, we might just use it. -73 de Mike N3LI - > On Sep 28, 2015, at 10:08 AM, n2cu at roadrunner.com wrote: > > Traditionally, a rover sets up at a location, operates, and then tears down the setup for the move to the next county. Technically, there is no tear down if you operate during the move. I'm not trying to diminish the fun factor for any rovers, but what about the single-op rover who can't operate while moving to the next location? he now has a diminished chance of winning the category because he has no driver. Keeping the rover rules the way it is levels the field. Just sayin'. From n2cu at roadrunner.com Tue Oct 6 20:21:22 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (Tom Williams) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 20:21:22 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Rovers vs. Mobiles Message-ID: <5D3048D22CA54409B84DC65E7FE8ACE6@696908E74163425> Two years ago I worked 86 stations on 40m LSB from Cameron County in 35 minutes. Not too shabby for a 7' tall screwdriver antenna. 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 From mcoslo at comcast.net Tue Oct 6 21:03:32 2015 From: mcoslo at comcast.net (Michael Coslo) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:03:32 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Mobile Activity? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3A25CAC6-3CB3-43E3-B079-EC5E3E578170@comcast.net> I?ve looked at it, and it?s pretty interesting. I?m not going to implement one for this year though - too close to the party, and anything I put out needs to be in the rules, and only dire situations will have me rewriting/adding to them at this juncture. -73 de Mike N3LI - > On Oct 6, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Dave Edmonds wrote: > > Hi PAQP Team, > > Is there a website that includes planned routes for all or most of the PAQP > mobiles? > > Does the PAQP have a spotter page? We used one for the SCQP and it was very > helpful to all... The developer created our spotter page within a day of > the request.. It's not too late. > > Here's the link to our spotter page > http://cwfun.org/funspots/scqp/frames.html > > I would also invite any of you that work QSO Parties to join the QSO Party > Connection Yahoo group. This is also a great place for QP Team Members to > promote QP.s > > https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/qsoparty > > My goal is to break the SC record this year.. > > Thanks > > Dave WN4AFP > Member of the SCQP Team > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Tue Oct 6 21:16:00 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:16:00 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 6 October Message-ID: <005201d1009d$bbec8340$33c589c0$@gmail.com> The following is a summary of 2015 PA QSO Party operating plans I have seen as of 10/6/15. 59 of 67 counties appear on the list. No plans are shown for the following: ADA, ARM, BEA, CUM, GRE, LEH, PHI, WAS I will issue an update if additional information is received and / or after the warm-up net. Please share additions or corrections. 73, Bud AA3B Fixed & Portable Stations Cty Call Notes ALL WA3HAE SSB & CW, 160 through 10 BER AA3B Single Op, High Power, CW, SSB, 160M - 6M BRA KA3EQU Multi, KA3EQU and AD3O BUT N3MSE BUX K3TX Low power CW BUX W3TDF CAR AA3K & K3FT in CAR M/S or M/M 6 - 160 mainly Phone CAR N3CR Multi-Single, 80 thru 6 on ssb/cw/digital CLA N3SBF with KB3GMN CLI KI4BXU/3 80 thru 10 SSB and CW, possibly 160 CLI N3IW/P Multi, QRP, CW, SSB, 80M-10M, 160M and 6M possible CMB WA3CSP/P 160 - 6 maybe 2 mid power, single op DCO KW3A All bands, high power, cw/ssb. 6m and 2m ELK KE3FO 10-160 cw & phone ERI W3GV 10-80 Multi-Multi FAY W3GPC Multi Multi FRA AB3AH/P + WA8YIH, FUL/FRA Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY FUL AB3AH/P + WA8YIH, FUL/FRA Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY HUN NA3V single op low power CW and SSB INN N3ZK + N3FB JEF KD8MQ/P 160 to 6, CW & SSB LAN K3IR All bands and modes including PSK LAN N3NTJ Single Op, medium power, SSB 80m - 10m LEB K3LV Multi-Multi 80 - 10m MER W3WGM Multi-Multi 80 - 10m MGY NW3H SOHP All Band All Mode 80-6 MTR N3JIX mostly 40M SSB NHA NS3L CW & SSB, 160M - 10M, 6M, 432 POT K3CC 160-10 meter all modes SCH W3SC Multi Multi SOM N3LZV 80-10M, SSB and some PSK SOM N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M SUL WQ3N/P multi single TIO K3WJV Low power TIO NR3K Multi Multi VEN WB3AFS All bands WAR WB3IFD mostly 40 and 80 with KB3PPI, KB3PPG, KB3RUD WES K3MJW all bands SSB/CW multi-multi WES N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M WYO W3C Bonus Station Multi Multi Station YOR KF3M/P multi-op, LP, 80-10, mostly SSB, Sat 12 to 6 PM Mobile and Rover Routes Cty Call Notes ERI N2CU/M SAT CW, SSB 10-80m WAR N2CU/M SAT CRA N2CU/M SAT VEN N2CU/M SAT MER N2CU/M SAT LAW N2CU/M SAT BUT N2CU/M SAT CLA N2CU/M SAT FOR N2CU/M SAT WAR N2CU/M SUN FOR N2CU/M SUN ELK N2CU/M SUN CRN N2CU/M SUN MCK N2CU/M SUN CLE W3CG/M SAT 40 CW and SSB, then 20 CW and SSB CEN W3CG/M SAT CLI W3CG/M SAT MIF W3CG/M SAT JUN W3CG/M SAT PER W3CG/M SAT DAU W3CG/M SAT SNY W3CG/M SAT NUM W3CG/M SAT UNI W3CG/M SAT LYC W3CG/M SAT MTR W3CG/M SAT COL W3CG/M SAT SUL W3CG/M SAT LUZ W3CG/M SAT WYO W3CG/M SAT LAC W3CG/M SAT MOE W3CG/M SAT PIK W3CG/M SAT PIK W3CG/M SUN WAY W3CG/M SUN SUS W3CG/M SUN BRA W3CG/M SUN TIO W3CG/M SUN POT W3CG/M SUN MCK W3CG/M SUN CRN W3CG/M SUN ELK W3CG/M SUN FOR W3CG/M SUN WAR W3CG/M SUN CRA W3CG/M SUN ERI W3CG/M SUN JUN AF4NC/M CW and SSB CEN N3LI/M SAT CLI N3LI/M SAT LYC N3LI/M SAT POT N3LI/M SAT CRN N3LI/M SAT ELK N3LI/M SAT CLE N3LI/M SAT TIO N3LI/M SAT TENTATIVE MCK N3LI/M SAT TENTATIVE PER N3LI/M SUN JUN N3LI/M SUN CAM K0BAK/R SAT BLA K0BAK/R SAT BED K0BAK/R SAT SOM K0BAK/R SAT FUL K0BAK/R SAT FRA K0BAK/R SAT HUN K0BAK/R SAT TENTATIVE BED K0BAK/R SAT MIF K0BAK/R SUN JUN K0BAK/R SUN PER K0BAK/R SUN DAU K0BAK/R SUN LAN K0BAK/R SUN LEB K0BAK/R SUN BER K0BAK/R SUN CHE K0BAK/R SUN MGY K0BAK/R SUN Out of State Sec Call Notes MI KB8TYJ From rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com Tue Oct 6 21:32:51 2015 From: rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com (Pete K0BAK) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 01:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 6 October In-Reply-To: <005201d1009d$bbec8340$33c589c0$@gmail.com> References: <005201d1009d$bbec8340$33c589c0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1604438337.1711498.1444181571865.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> I might be able to sneak over the river to CUM on Sunday if it remains uncovered, at the cost of some of my later counties. -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bud Trench To: PAQSO PARTY Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:16 PM Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 6 October The following is a summary of 2015 PA QSO Party operating plans I have seen as of 10/6/15. 59 of 67 counties appear on the list. No plans are shown for the following: ADA, ARM, BEA, CUM, GRE, LEH, PHI, WAS From rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com Tue Oct 6 21:47:12 2015 From: rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com (Pete K0BAK) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 01:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] Mobile Activity? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1779469510.1730402.1444182432248.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> I think a single web page for announced activity makes a lot more sense than periodic emails, but I appreciate Bud Trench's emails with the summary. Maybe next year? The best web effort I've seen to assure state county coverage is Kansas' QSO Party. Man, those guys are organized! A dedicated spotter page makes a lot of sense, and several of the QSO parties provide them. However, to be effective it has to be widely understood as the one place to go; way too late for that this year. But, there's still the DX Cluster, which is where I intend to look and self-spot. Obviously it's really important to get spotted for a rover with limited operating time, so let me know if there's a better place to go. Definitely don't want more than one place, it's hard enough running a mobile/rover without having to post to or look at multiple places. -- Pete K0BAK ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Edmonds To: "" Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:25 PM Subject: [PaQSO] Mobile Activity? Is there a website that includes planned routes for all or most of the PAQP mobiles? Does the PAQP have a spotter page? We used one for the SCQP and it was very helpful to all... The developer created our spotter page within a day of the request.. It's not too late. Here's the link to our spotter page http://cwfun.org/funspots/scqp/frames.html I would also invite any of you that work QSO Parties to join the QSO Party Connection Yahoo group. This is also a great place for QP Team Members to promote QP.s https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/qsoparty My goal is to break the SC record this year.. Thanks Dave WN4AFP Member of the SCQP Team ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From bmanning at zitomedia.net Tue Oct 6 23:56:28 2015 From: bmanning at zitomedia.net (Bruce A. Manning) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 23:56:28 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 6 October In-Reply-To: <1604438337.1711498.1444181571865.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <005201d1009d$bbec8340$33c589c0$@gmail.com> <1604438337.1711498.1444181571865.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <6fb56eb7f028f294294999cc0ecb94e2@127.0.0.1> The Headwaters Amateur Radio Club will be on from Potter County. Call sign of N3PC. Operations on SSB and CW. Should have 2-3 stations on the air. On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 01:32:51 +0000 (UTC), Pete K0BAK wrote: > I might be able to sneak over the river to CUM on Sunday if it remains > uncovered, > at the cost of some of my later counties. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Bud Trench > To: PAQSO PARTY > Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:16 PM > Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 6 October > > The following is a summary of 2015 PA QSO Party operating plans I have seen > as of 10/6/15. > > 59 of 67 counties appear on the list. No plans are shown for the > following: > ADA, ARM, BEA, CUM, GRE, LEH, PHI, WAS > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Bruce A. Manning From bud at n3tir.com Wed Oct 7 09:25:41 2015 From: bud at n3tir.com (Bud Plants) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:25:41 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] pa qso Message-ID: <003e01d10103$acd78470$06868d50$@n3tir.com> WA3COM Wacom club room- Washington County 80m and 40 m SSB From bud at n3tir.com Wed Oct 7 09:25:41 2015 From: bud at n3tir.com (Bud Plants) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:25:41 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] pa qso Message-ID: <003f01d10103$aee7ede0$0cb7c9a0$@n3tir.com> N3TIR Washington county all bands From k3pp at k3pp.com Wed Oct 7 23:00:08 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 23:00:08 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] K3PP in CAR In-Reply-To: References: <7272262E-094A-48D5-B540-EF46A3D65E18@k3pp.com> Message-ID: <85F59D36-8709-46C0-B7CC-1144B0FE2739@k3pp.com> I think you need to adopt a different family, or at least disown this dude!! HI!! It won't be the same without you, Goody! Having you in the hunt makes me better! VY 73 de Glenn K3PP Sent from my iPad > On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:47 PM, Goody K3NG wrote: > > Unfortunately I will not be participating this year. I have a wedding I'm > a part of this weekend. I'm heartbroken, having to miss a PAQP, but you > gotta do what you gotta do. Ironically this family member got married once > before on Field Day about seven years ago. I'm not going to his third > wedding, if that happens, I promise you! So the County of Carbon is up for > grabs. I'll be back next year, with a vengeance. I promise. I'm going to > win Carbon County, QRP, maybe CW Only, and do the 67 county sweep, all in > one swell foop. :-) > > 73 > Goody > K3NG > >> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP wrote: >> >> I'll be on again in force for this year's big event! I don't know what >> Goody K3NG has planned, but I always have to assume he'll be a serious >> threat - because he IS! >> >> K3PP, Single-Op, Home Station, All HF + 6m, CW & SSB >> >> PA QSO Party is my favorite contest! It truly is "The Friendly QSO Party!" >> >> VY 73 de Glenn K3PP >> >> Sent from my iPad >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From k3pp at k3pp.com Wed Oct 7 23:01:05 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 23:01:05 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] K3PP in CAR In-Reply-To: <899563691.1038223.1444145118536.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <899563691.1038223.1444145118536.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <81CD4174-728E-41F3-B0AD-C811C24BAB0C@k3pp.com> Welcome back, Mark! VY 73 de Glenn K3PP Sent from my iPad > On Oct 6, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Mark Kempisty wrote: > > Well AA3K will be there with 100W and a low dipole. I may be using Warminster ARC's club call K3DN. I have permission to do so. > Take care, > MarkAA3K > From: Goody K3NG > To: "Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP" > Cc: PAQSO > Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 11:47 PM > Subject: Re: [PaQSO] K3PP in CAR > > Unfortunately I will not be participating this year. I have a wedding I'm > a part of this weekend. I'm heartbroken, having to miss a PAQP, but you > gotta do what you gotta do. Ironically this family member got married once > before on Field Day about seven years ago. I'm not going to his third > wedding, if that happens, I promise you! So the County of Carbon is up for > grabs. I'll be back next year, with a vengeance. I promise. I'm going to > win Carbon County, QRP, maybe CW Only, and do the 67 county sweep, all in > one swell foop. :-) > > 73 > Goody > K3NG > >> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP wrote: >> >> I'll be on again in force for this year's big event! I don't know what >> Goody K3NG has planned, but I always have to assume he'll be a serious >> threat - because he IS! >> >> K3PP, Single-Op, Home Station, All HF + 6m, CW & SSB >> >> PA QSO Party is my favorite contest! It truly is "The Friendly QSO Party!" >> >> VY 73 de Glenn K3PP >> >> Sent from my iPad >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help supp From steven_strauss at yahoo.com Thu Oct 8 07:20:19 2015 From: steven_strauss at yahoo.com (Steven Strauss) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 07:20:19 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] NY3B - LEH Message-ID: NY3B will be operating this year on Saturday only from home county of Lehigh- mainly 40m SSB and CW. Couldn't make it up to NUM this year- sorry. Regards, Steve Sent from my iPhone From radio_k3vx at verizon.net Thu Oct 8 07:39:10 2015 From: radio_k3vx at verizon.net (radio_k3vx at verizon.net) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 06:39:10 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [PaQSO] GRE Message-ID: <7623953.1112174.1444304350915.JavaMail.root@vms170035.mailsrvcs.net> Unless its well represented, I'll mobile in GREene on Sunday SSB and 40M only - unfortunately my IC706 quit working on CW. 73 and Happy County Hunting, Larry K3VX From edwardamoyer at gmail.com Thu Oct 8 10:05:24 2015 From: edwardamoyer at gmail.com (Edward Moyer) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 10:05:24 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Ab3ah/p Frankin/ Fulton County Message-ID: <8DCB90C7-AAE9-4510-8CF1-BDB5411E755E@gmail.com> Good Morning , Let's try this again ..I'm announcing myOperations ...Myself (ab3ah) and a non contester (wa8yih) will be operating from Cowens Gap state park ...... Franklin/Fulton county ... We're in a rf hole, but it's with a shot Look for us on the following frequencies plus or minus qrm Cw. Ssb 3.525. 3.833 7033. 7187 14033. 14247 21033. 21307 Well try psk and rtty as well Ill be primarily on cw ... So give the other guy grace as he is not a contester..lol ... Thanks again for your time and hope to work you .. Ed Moyer ( ab3ah). Sent from my iPhone From tvguy07 at gmail.com Thu Oct 8 11:00:02 2015 From: tvguy07 at gmail.com (John Myers) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 11:00:02 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Good luck everyone! Message-ID: Well, we're going to be leaving in a few minutes. As usual, we're never sure what we'll run into as far as internet coverage at the cabin so I want to wish everybody a great weekend on the bands. 73, John Myers, KD8MQ From zelna.alz at gmail.com Thu Oct 8 15:25:48 2015 From: zelna.alz at gmail.com (Al Z) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:25:48 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3C 40m 80m Digi In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Folks, Still batting around ideas for 40m and 80m RTTY and PSK. I would like input from the groups who were Bonus Stations over the past 5 years of their successes and challenges of Digital modes on these bands. Thank you Al Zelna for W3C From edwardamoyer at gmail.com Thu Oct 8 15:59:20 2015 From: edwardamoyer at gmail.com (Edward Moyer) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:59:20 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] One last try ... Ab3ah/p Message-ID: Good Afternoon , Let's try this again ..I'm announcing myOperations ...Myself (ab3ah) and a non contester (wa8yih) will be operating from Cowens Gap state park ...... Franklin/Fulton county ... We're in a rf hole, but it's with a shot Look for us on the following frequencies plus or minus qrm Cw. Ssb 3.525. 3.833 7033. 7187 14033. 14247 21033. 21307 Well try psk and rtty as well Ill be primarily on cw ... So give the other guy grace as he is not a contester..lol ... Thanks again for your time and hope to work you .. Ed Moyer ( ab3ah). Sent from my iPhone From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Thu Oct 8 20:53:57 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:53:57 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 8 Oct Message-ID: <002a01d1022c$faf51f80$f0df5e80$@gmail.com> The following is a summary of 2015 PA QSO Party operating plans I have seen as of 10/8/15. 63 of 67 counties appear on the list. No plans are show for the following: ARM, BEA, CUM, PHI Please share additions or corrections. I plan to put out the last update after the Friday evening Warm-up Net. 73, Bud AA3B Fixed & Portable Stations Cty Call Notes ADA K3DCS SSB only, 40M, part time in the afternoons ALL WA3HAE SSB & CW, 160 through 10 BER AA3B Single Op, High Power, CW, SSB, 160M - 6M BRA KA3EQU Multi, KA3EQU and AD3O BUT N3MSE BUX K3TX Low power CW BUX W3TDF CAR AA3K & K3FT in CAR M/S or M/M 6 - 160 mainly Phone CAR K3PP Single-Op, All HF + 6m, CW & SSB CAR N3CR Multi-Single, 80 thru 6 on ssb/cw/digital CLA N3SBF with KB3GMN CLI KI4BXU/3 80 thru 10 SSB and CW, possibly 160 CLI N3IW/P Multi, QRP, CW, SSB, 80M-10M, 160M and 6M possible CMB WA3CSP/P 160 - 6 maybe 2 mid power, single op DCO KW3A All bands, high power, cw/ssb. 6m and 2m ELK KE3FO 10-160 cw & phone ERI W3GV 10-80 Multi-Multi FAY W3GPC Multi Multi FRA AB3AH/P + WA8YIH, FUL/FRA Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY FUL AB3AH/P + WA8YIH, FUL/FRA Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY HUN NA3V single op low power CW and SSB INN N3ZK + N3FB JEF KD8MQ/P 160 to 6, CW & SSB LAN K3IR All bands and modes including PSK LAN N3NTJ Single Op, medium power, SSB 80m - 10m LEB K3LV Multi-Multi 80 - 10m LEH KC3WX/P 80-10 MCK KD3D 160 thru 10, SSB and CW MER W3WGM Multi-Multi 80 - 10m MGY NW3H SOHP All Band All Mode 80-6 MTR N3JIX mostly 40M SSB NHA NS3L CW & SSB, 160M - 10M, 6M, 432 POT K3CC 160-10 meter all modes POT N3PC SSB and CW, 2-3 Stations SCH W3SC Multi Multi SOM N3LZV 80-10M, SSB and some PSK SOM N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M SUL WQ3N/P multi single TIO K3WJV Low power TIO NR3K Multi Multi VEN WB3AFS All bands WAR WB3IFD mostly 40 and 80 with KB3PPI, KB3PPG, KB3RUD WAS N3TIR WAS WA3COM 80m and 40 m SSB WES K3MJW all bands SSB/CW multi-multi WES N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M WYO W3C Bonus Station Multi Multi Station YOR KF3M/P multi-op, LP, 80-10, mostly SSB, Sat 12 to 6 PM Mobile and Rover Routes Cty Call Notes ERI N2CU/M SAT CW, SSB 10-80m WAR N2CU/M SAT CRA N2CU/M SAT VEN N2CU/M SAT MER N2CU/M SAT LAW N2CU/M SAT BUT N2CU/M SAT CLA N2CU/M SAT FOR N2CU/M SAT WAR N2CU/M SUN FOR N2CU/M SUN ELK N2CU/M SUN CRN N2CU/M SUN MCK N2CU/M SUN CLE W3CG/M SAT 40 CW and SSB, then 20 CW and SSB CEN W3CG/M SAT CLI W3CG/M SAT MIF W3CG/M SAT JUN W3CG/M SAT PER W3CG/M SAT DAU W3CG/M SAT SNY W3CG/M SAT NUM W3CG/M SAT UNI W3CG/M SAT LYC W3CG/M SAT MTR W3CG/M SAT COL W3CG/M SAT SUL W3CG/M SAT LUZ W3CG/M SAT WYO W3CG/M SAT LAC W3CG/M SAT MOE W3CG/M SAT PIK W3CG/M SAT PIK W3CG/M SUN WAY W3CG/M SUN SUS W3CG/M SUN BRA W3CG/M SUN TIO W3CG/M SUN POT W3CG/M SUN MCK W3CG/M SUN CRN W3CG/M SUN ELK W3CG/M SUN FOR W3CG/M SUN WAR W3CG/M SUN CRA W3CG/M SUN ERI W3CG/M SUN JUN AF4NC/M CW and SSB CEN N3LI/M SAT CLI N3LI/M SAT LYC N3LI/M SAT POT N3LI/M SAT CRN N3LI/M SAT ELK N3LI/M SAT CLE N3LI/M SAT TIO N3LI/M SAT TENTATIVE MCK N3LI/M SAT TENTATIVE PER N3LI/M SUN JUN N3LI/M SUN CAM K0BAK/R SAT BLA K0BAK/R SAT BED K0BAK/R SAT SOM K0BAK/R SAT FUL K0BAK/R SAT FRA K0BAK/R SAT HUN K0BAK/R SAT TENTATIVE BED K0BAK/R SAT MIF K0BAK/R SUN JUN K0BAK/R SUN PER K0BAK/R SUN DAU K0BAK/R SUN LAN K0BAK/R SUN LEB K0BAK/R SUN BER K0BAK/R SUN CHE K0BAK/R SUN MGY K0BAK/R SUN GRE K3VX/M SUN 40M SSB Out of State Sec Call Notes MI KB8TYJ SC WN4AFP From zelna.alz at gmail.com Thu Oct 8 21:24:48 2015 From: zelna.alz at gmail.com (Al Z) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 21:24:48 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3C In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Here is the FINAL list that illustrates the planned digi activity for W3C. Activity for 10, 15, and 20 on Sat and Sun coincides with the Hi-Band Periods. They are 15 minutes for RTTY, followed by 15 minutes for PSK. Digital periods for 40 and 80 were added. They are also 15 minute periods... RTTY then PSK. Please note, 2130Z Sun is the last half-hour of the contest. We will have digi running on both 40 and 80 for that last 30 minutes. Each time period shown is for Sat and Sun: 80m 1700Z RTTY 80m 1715Z PSK 40m 1730Z RTTY 40m 1745Z PSK 10m 1800Z SSB 10m 1830Z CW 10m 1900Z RTTY 10m 1915Z PSK 15m 1900Z SSB 15m 1930Z CW 15m 2000Z RTTY 15m 2015Z PSK 20m 2000Z SSB 20m 2030Z CW 20m 2100Z RTTY 20m 2115Z PSK 40m 2130Z RTTY 40m 2145Z PSK 80m 2130Z RTTY 80m 2145Z PSK Hope to give out plenty of points this year! If Murphy stays out of the shack and the bands cooperate, I feel confident we will one-up our 2009 Bonus Station totals as shown below. BCNU de N3KAE, KA3QLF, N3XLS... The KQX Group On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Al Z wrote: > Plans are coming together and we are ready to give out lots of Bonus > Points this year. Here are the Band/Mode possibilities for W3C from WYO. > > 160m CW SSB > 80m CW SSB RTTY PSK > 40m CW SSW RTTY PSK > 20m CW SSB RTTY PSK > 15m CW SSB RTTY PSK > 10m CW SSB RTTY PSK > 6m CW SSB > 2m FM > > Our focus is 160m-10m CW and SSB to serve the majority of participants. > However, we will spend time on RTTY and PSK to increase the number of > possible QSO's with W3C. Digital activity for 10, 15, and 20 *will > definitely* coincide with the Hi-Band Periods on SAT and SUN. Additional > digital activity will depend on operator availability and band conditions. > > Sat and Sun: > 10m 1800Z SSB > 10m 1830Z CW > 10m 1900Z RTTY > 10m 1915Z PSK > > 15m 1900Z SSB > 15m 1930Z CW > 15m 2000Z RTTY > 15m 2015Z PSK > > 20m 2000Z SSB > 20m 2030Z CW > 20m 2100Z RTTY > 20m 2115Z PSK > > Details for digital activity on 40m and 80m as well as 6m and 2m are still > in the works... > > Stay tuned! > > Al, N3KAE > > From strong619 at comcast.net Thu Oct 8 21:58:42 2015 From: strong619 at comcast.net (Charles Strong) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 21:58:42 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3CQB in YOR Message-ID: <56171F52.5060404@comcast.net> I got my antenna back up. York County. Will be on late Saturday night and all day Sunday. 80-10, SSB and CW. Charlie, W3CQB From tvguy07 at gmail.com Thu Oct 8 22:14:44 2015 From: tvguy07 at gmail.com (John Myers) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 22:14:44 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] KD8MQ/3 Message-ID: Well, we made it tho JEF, and got the antennas up. Unfortunately, the 40/80 dipole is showing sky high SWR. tomorrow, we'll be dropping it, and doing whatever repairs are needed to be ready for the weekend. We're OK on 20, &6. I packed the digital interface, so RTTY, and PSK are possible. Oh yes, we have Internet access. Woot woot! John, KD8MQ From cefar4 at hotmail.com Thu Oct 8 22:36:55 2015 From: cefar4 at hotmail.com (Daniel and Colleen Farrell) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:36:55 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] K3LV now K3L Lebanon County Message-ID: The Lebanon Valley Society of Radio Amateurs have been granted K3L call for the party weekend. 10, 15, 20, 40, 80 Meters , SSB, some CW too. Multi/Multi Looking good for a fun filled event! Dan. AA3LY Colleen KA3ZNI Experience is a Great teacher, but the tuition is high. From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Thu Oct 8 22:45:12 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:45:12 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Plots of Mobile Routes and Rover Locations Available Message-ID: <004201d1023c$871ad130$95507390$@gmail.com> I have plotted the mobile routes and rover locations on individual state maps using Power Point. Please drop me a note if you want a copy. 73, Bud AA3B From wxduff at gmail.com Thu Oct 8 23:37:32 2015 From: wxduff at gmail.com (Evan Duffey) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 23:37:32 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3YA to be active in CEN Message-ID: All, W3YA will be operating multi multi on 160-10, SSB and PSK31 for sure, likely some CW. Talk to you Saturday, have fun everyone. Evan N3TWM From n2cu at roadrunner.com Fri Oct 9 08:27:47 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (n2cu at roadrunner.com) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 8:27:47 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Friday night meet? Message-ID: <20151009122747.6JGF8.264397.root@cdptpa-web18> There's usually a Friday night 75m get together for the PAQP. Are we on for this year? What time and QRG? 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 From rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com Fri Oct 9 09:27:06 2015 From: rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com (Pete K0BAK) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 13:27:06 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] Friday night meet? In-Reply-To: <20151009122747.6JGF8.264397.root@cdptpa-web18> References: <20151009122747.6JGF8.264397.root@cdptpa-web18> Message-ID: <276017834.1406904.1444397226413.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> In the rules, it says: To check on party activity regarding mobiles, portables, rovers and general information, there will be a net on Friday, October 9, at 0000Z 3.910 LSB +/-. We'll see if my 40m home doublet will work on 80. :-) -- Pete K0BAK ________________________________ From: "n2cu at roadrunner.com" To: paqso at mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, October 9, 2015 8:27 AM Subject: [PaQSO] Friday night meet? There's usually a Friday night 75m get together for the PAQP. Are we on for this year? What time and QRG? 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Fri Oct 9 12:51:39 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 12:51:39 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] N1MM+ Call History and WriteLog Preload files available for 2015 Pa QSO Party Message-ID: <004501d102b2$c49246d0$4db6d470$@gmail.com> I have prepared N1MM+ Call History and WriteLog Preload files for the 2015 Pa QSO Party. The files provide counties for in state calls and sections for out of state calls; a total of 5817 calls are included. Please drop me a line if you would like a copy and let me know which one. 73, Bud AA3B From mjcn3li at gmail.com Fri Oct 9 13:16:07 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 13:16:07 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Friday night meet? In-Reply-To: <20151009122747.6JGF8.264397.root@cdptpa-web18> References: <20151009122747.6JGF8.264397.root@cdptpa-web18> Message-ID: <058BD3FC-8CAD-4409-993B-14CBC2D83712@gmail.com> Pre-party net is tonight at 0000 Z on 3.910 LSB +/- - 73 Mike N3LI - > On Oct 9, 2015, at 8:27 AM, wrote: > > There's usually a Friday night 75m get together for the PAQP. Are we on for this year? What time and QRG? From zelna.alz at gmail.com Fri Oct 9 13:57:18 2015 From: zelna.alz at gmail.com (Al Z) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 13:57:18 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3C Early Check-In Message-ID: Early check-in since we may not be on the net tonight... W3C Bonus Station M/M WYO 160m-10m SSB CW RTTY PSK 6m SSB CW 2m FM (listening 146.55 Mhz) Please take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the Mobile Windows and KEEP THEM CLEAR for those whom they were intended!!! Also, look for certificate and QSL information announcements as we extend the celebration for The Nicholson Bridge 100th Anniversary. BCNU DE W3C (Wyoming 3 County) From n2cu at roadrunner.com Fri Oct 9 14:59:39 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (n2cu at roadrunner.com) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 14:59:39 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 6m from the mobile Message-ID: <20151009185939.2RHL8.271424.root@cdptpa-web18> I will have 6m capability, even though I've never worked/heard anyone there in past PAQPs. If you work me and want to try, just ask. 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 From rpopella at bop.gov Fri Oct 9 18:48:06 2015 From: rpopella at bop.gov (Robert Popella) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 18:48:06 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] PA Qso party Message-ID: <56180BE60200006F0001CA56@gwmail.bop.gov> Bud, At work now, but decided to take a wellness day so will be: QRV Saturday only cw-ssb-rtty 6m-80m from home in Beaver County signing KA3S. CU tomorrow, and please send me the maps below.................tnx Rob I have plotted the mobile routes and rover locations on individual state maps using Power Point. Please drop me a note if you want a copy. 73, Bud AA3B From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Fri Oct 9 21:05:05 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 21:05:05 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Pa QSO Party Plans as of 9 Oct - Final Message-ID: <003801d102f7$b36feed0$1a4fcc70$@gmail.com> The following is a summary of 2015 PA QSO Party operating plans I have seen as of 10/9/15. This is the final update for 2015. 67 of 67 counties appear on the list!!!! Fixed & Portable Stations Cty Call Notes ADA K3DCS SSB only, 40M, part time in the afternoons ALL W3WC ALL WA3HAE SSB & CW, 160 through 10 BEA KA3S Saturday only, cw-ssb-rtty 6m-80m BER AA3B Single Op, High Power, CW, SSB, 160M - 6M BER W3LP BRA KA3EQU Multi, KA3EQU and AD3O BUT N3MSE BUX K3TX Low power CW BUX W3TDF CAR AA3K & K3FT in CAR M/S or M/M 6 - 160 mainly Phone CAR K3PP Single-Op, All HF + 6m, CW & SSB CAR N3CR Multi-Single, 80 thru 6 on ssb/cw/digital CEN W3YA multi-multi on 160-10, SSB and PSK, some CW CLA N3SBF with KB3GMN CLE W3CUB CLI KI4BXU/3 80 thru 10 SSB and CW, possibly 160 CLI N3IW/P Multi, QRP, CW, SSB, 80M-10M, 160M and 6M possible CMB WA3CSP/P 160 - 6 maybe 2 mid power, single op CRA NO3M CW only CRA W3ZX DCO KW3A All bands, high power, cw/ssb. 6m and 2m ELK KE3FO 10-160 cw & phone ERI W3GV 10-80 Multi-Multi FAY W3GPC Multi Multi FRA AB3AH/P + WA8YIH, FUL/FRA Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY FUL AB3AH/P + WA8YIH, FUL/FRA Line. 80-15M, CW, SSB, PSK, RTTY GRE AA3JK HUN NA3V single op low power CW and SSB INN N3ZK + N3FB JEF KD8MQ/P 160 to 6, CW & SSB JEF W3BC LAN K3IR All bands and modes including PSK LAN N3NTJ Single Op, medium power, SSB 80m - 10m LAW W3FI LEB K3L Multi-Multi 80 - 10m LEB N3R LEH KC3WX/P 80-10 LEH NY3B mainly 40m SSB and CW MCK KD3D 160 thru 10, SSB and CW MER W3WGM Multi-Multi 80 - 10m MGY NW3H SOHP All Band All Mode 80-6 MTR N3JIX mostly 40M SSB NHA NS3L CW & SSB, 160M - 10M, 6M, 432 PHI W3AYT PIK K3MX POT K3CC 160-10 meter, all modes POT N3PC SSB and CW, 2-3 Stations SCH W3SC Multi Multi SOM N3LZV 80-10M, SSB and some PSK SOM N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M SUL WQ3N/P multi single TIO K3WJV Low power TIO NR3K Multi Multi VEN KC3AGA VEN WB3AFS All bands WAR WB3IFD mostly 40 and 80 with KB3PPI, KB3PPG, KB3RUD WAS N3TIR WAS WA3COM 80m and 40 m SSB WES K3MJW all bands SSB/CW multi-multi WES N3XF SOM/WES County Line. Single Op, HP, 80M-10M WYO W3C Bonus Station Multi Multi Station YOR KF3M/P multi-op, LP, 80-10, mostly SSB, Sat 12 to 6 PM YOR W3CQB 80-10 SSB and CW YOR W3ZGD Mobile and Rover Routes Cty Call Notes ERI N2CU/M SAT CW, SSB 10-80m WAR N2CU/M SAT CRA N2CU/M SAT VEN N2CU/M SAT MER N2CU/M SAT LAW N2CU/M SAT BUT N2CU/M SAT CLA N2CU/M SAT FOR N2CU/M SAT WAR N2CU/M SUN FOR N2CU/M SUN ELK N2CU/M SUN CRN N2CU/M SUN MCK N2CU/M SUN CLE W3CG/M SAT 40 CW and SSB, then 20 CW and SSB CEN W3CG/M SAT CLI W3CG/M SAT MIF W3CG/M SAT JUN W3CG/M SAT PER W3CG/M SAT DAU W3CG/M SAT SNY W3CG/M SAT NUM W3CG/M SAT UNI W3CG/M SAT LYC W3CG/M SAT MTR W3CG/M SAT COL W3CG/M SAT SUL W3CG/M SAT LUZ W3CG/M SAT WYO W3CG/M SAT LAC W3CG/M SAT MOE W3CG/M SAT PIK W3CG/M SAT PIK W3CG/M SUN WAY W3CG/M SUN SUS W3CG/M SUN BRA W3CG/M SUN TIO W3CG/M SUN POT W3CG/M SUN MCK W3CG/M SUN CRN W3CG/M SUN ELK W3CG/M SUN FOR W3CG/M SUN WAR W3CG/M SUN CRA W3CG/M SUN ERI W3CG/M SUN JUN AF4NC/M CW and SSB INN N3LI/M SAT ARM N3LI/M SAT JEF N3LI/M SAT CLE N3LI/M SAT ELK N3LI/M SAT CRN N3LI/M SAT POT N3LI/M SAT CLE N3LI/M SAT CEN N3LI/M SAT CEN N3LI/M SUN MIF N3LI/M SUN JUN N3LI/M SUN PER N3LI/M SUN CUM N3LI/M SUN FRA N3LI/M SUN FUL N3LI/M SUN BED N3LI/M SUN TENTATIVE CAM K0BAK/R SAT BLA K0BAK/R SAT BED K0BAK/R SAT SOM K0BAK/R SAT FUL K0BAK/R SAT FRA K0BAK/R SAT HUN K0BAK/R SAT TENTATIVE BED K0BAK/R SAT MIF K0BAK/R SUN JUN K0BAK/R SUN PER K0BAK/R SUN DAU K0BAK/R SUN LAN K0BAK/R SUN LEB K0BAK/R SUN BER K0BAK/R SUN CHE K0BAK/R SUN MGY K0BAK/R SUN GRE K3VX/M SUN 40M SSB W3WPA/R SOUTHWEST COUNTIES, TENTATIVE Out of State Sec Call Notes MI KB8TYJ NC AD8J SC WN4AFP VT KA1BSZ/M From dave at pkministrywebs.com Fri Oct 9 21:33:59 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 21:33:59 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] QP Mobile Tips Message-ID: Dear PAQP mobiles.. I hope that all of y'all have fun and stay while parking on impossible county lines etc... I recently put together some mobile operating tips that you may find interesting... Look for that strange "WN4" callsign...it's me. 73s Dave WN4AFP -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" From tvguy07 at gmail.com Fri Oct 9 22:40:58 2015 From: tvguy07 at gmail.com (John Myers) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 22:40:58 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Kd8mq digital modes Message-ID: <4ku6uapgf1c5u9trqmyuho6x.1444444858580@email.android.com> Hi, After the net, I did some more fussing with fldigi. Figured out what I was doing wrong. So, I think I can now get it operational in time for the contest. 73, John, KD8MQ From mkempisty at verizon.net Fri Oct 9 23:31:04 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 03:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] N1MM Call History for PQP References: <408483976.1363759.1444447864124.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <408483976.1363759.1444447864124.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Bud AA3B has graciously shared the call history file he put together for the PQP.? It includes the latest announced operations.? You can obtain a copy here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3412698/PaQP%20Call%20History.txt If anybody has difficult downloading it, please let me know. G/L in the contest!!! ?Take care, MarkAA3K From tvguy07 at gmail.com Fri Oct 9 23:41:44 2015 From: tvguy07 at gmail.com (John Myers) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 23:41:44 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Kd8mq digital modes - n1mm question Message-ID: I'm using N1MM w/ fldigi. How do I switch to PSK mode in the n1mm entry window? RTTY, CW, ssb work fine when I enter them into the window. I've downloaded the manual, but haven't been able to answer this. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, John, KD8MQ/3 On October 9, 2015, at 22:41, John Myers wrote: Hi, After the net, I did some more fussing with fldigi. Figured out what I was doing wrong. So, I think I can now get it operational in time for the contest. 73, John, KD8MQ From tvguy07 at gmail.com Sat Oct 10 01:03:16 2015 From: tvguy07 at gmail.com (John Myers) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 01:03:16 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Kd8mq digital modes - n1mm question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Never mind. I figured it out. John Myers, KD8MQ On Oct 9, 2015 11:41 PM, "John Myers" wrote: > I'm using N1MM w/ fldigi. How do I switch to PSK mode in the n1mm entry > window? > > RTTY, CW, ssb work fine when I enter them into the window. > > I've downloaded the manual, but haven't been able to answer this. What am > I doing wrong? > > Thanks, > > John, KD8MQ/3 > > > On October 9, 2015, at 22:41, John Myers wrote: > > Hi, > > After the net, I did some more fussing with fldigi. Figured out what I was > doing wrong. So, I think I can now get it operational in time for the > contest. > > 73, > > > John, KD8MQ From k3ct at verizon.net Sat Oct 10 05:13:30 2015 From: k3ct at verizon.net (John Bednar) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 05:13:30 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Kd8mq digital modes - n1mm question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000601d1033b$f10ab6a0$d32023e0$@net> John, In the Callsign box type PSK31 and press Enter. Other valid Callsign box mode string commands are SSB, CW, RTTY, FM, USB, LSB. To use RTTY & PSK you need to have the contest setup Mode selector set to Mixed+Digital. You can also left click on a band in the PSK column of Band Buttons (left edge of the Entry window). If you interfaced a radio, don't forget to set the Config, Mode Control tab, right side of the window "Mode sent to radio" for RTTY and PSK. This determines which mode string will be sent to the radio when you change to PSK and RTTY. John, K3CT -----Original Message----- From: PaQSO [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Myers Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 11:42 PM To: paqso Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Kd8mq digital modes - n1mm question I'm using N1MM w/ fldigi. How do I switch to PSK mode in the n1mm entry window? RTTY, CW, ssb work fine when I enter them into the window. I've downloaded the manual, but haven't been able to answer this. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, John, KD8MQ/3 On October 9, 2015, at 22:41, John Myers wrote: Hi, After the net, I did some more fussing with fldigi. Figured out what I was doing wrong. So, I think I can now get it operational in time for the contest. 73, John, KD8MQ ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From k3ct at verizon.net Sat Oct 10 05:17:12 2015 From: k3ct at verizon.net (John Bednar) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 05:17:12 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] N1MM Call History for PQP In-Reply-To: <408483976.1363759.1444447864124.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <408483976.1363759.1444447864124.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <408483976.1363759.1444447864124.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <000701d1033c$7336b020$59a41060$@net> If you save this as a file by coping the text and pasting it into an editor, use Notepad. The file needs to be ASCII text, no binary. John, K3CT -----Original Message----- From: PaQSO [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mark Kempisty Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 11:31 PM To: PAQSO PARTY Subject: [PaQSO] N1MM Call History for PQP Bud AA3B has graciously shared the call history file he put together for the PQP.? It includes the latest announced operations.? You can obtain a copy here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3412698/PaQP%20Call%20History.txt If anybody has difficult downloading it, please let me know. G/L in the contest!!! ?Take care, MarkAA3K ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From mkempisty at verizon.net Sat Oct 10 07:08:59 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] N1MM Call History for PQP In-Reply-To: <000701d1033c$7336b020$59a41060$@net> References: <000701d1033c$7336b020$59a41060$@net> Message-ID: <482634937.1421617.1444475339438.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Or right click, save link as...?Take care, MarkAA3K From: John Bednar To: 'PAQSO PARTY' Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [PaQSO] N1MM Call History for PQP If you save this as a file by coping the text and pasting it into an editor, use Notepad. The file needs to be ASCII text, no binary. John, K3CT -----Original Message----- From: PaQSO [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mark Kempisty Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 11:31 PM To: PAQSO PARTY Subject: [PaQSO] N1MM Call History for PQP Bud AA3B has graciously shared the call history file he put together for the PQP.? It includes the latest announced operations.? You can obtain a copy here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3412698/PaQP%20Call%20History.txt If anybody has difficult downloading it, please let me know. G/L in the contest!!! ?Take care, MarkAA3K ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From WA3NFV at MtAiryVHF.org Sat Oct 10 00:03:57 2015 From: WA3NFV at MtAiryVHF.org (Dan Mitten - WA3NFV) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:03:57 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Rule 8 Message-ID: Does anyone know if AM counts as a separate multiplier? (Rule 8) I assume that a 2 meter contact could be made on FM and SSB and count as separate multipliers, under the rules. 73, Dan WA3NFV From zelna.alz at gmail.com Sat Oct 10 07:22:47 2015 From: zelna.alz at gmail.com (Al Z) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 07:22:47 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] The annual question Message-ID: Is there an unofficial 6m activity period either day? DE W3C From mkempisty at verizon.net Sat Oct 10 07:28:18 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] The annual question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <27535755.1427838.1444476498129.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> There was a comment on the net last night, Sunday morning first thing. ?Take care, MarkAA3K From: Al Z To: paqso Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 7:22 AM Subject: [PaQSO] The annual question Is there an unofficial 6m activity period either day? DE W3C ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From mkempisty at verizon.net Sat Oct 10 07:34:32 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:34:32 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] Rule 8 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <280001499.1427657.1444476872103.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Separate contacts.? Multipliers are only PA counties, ARRL/CRRL sections and 1 DX. I'll leave it for NARC to comment on AM.?Take care, MarkAA3K From: Dan Mitten - WA3NFV To: paqso at mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 12:03 AM Subject: [PaQSO] Rule 8 Does anyone know if AM counts as a separate multiplier? (Rule 8) I assume that a 2 meter contact could be made on FM and SSB and count as separate multipliers, under the rules. 73, Dan WA3NFV ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From mjcn3li at gmail.com Sat Oct 10 09:19:34 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 09:19:34 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Rule 8 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > On Oct 10, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Dan Mitten - WA3NFV wrote: > > Does anyone know if AM counts as a separate multiplier? (Rule 8) > > I assume that a 2 meter contact could be made on FM and SSB and count as separate multipliers, under the rules. AM is not a party mode Which is to say, we accept the QSO, but it counts under the SSB/FM mode. We also do not differentiate between FM and SSB Both are the same mode per PQP. 2 meters, you have a choice of: CW RTTY PSK SSB or FM - 73 Mike N3LI - From dave at pkministrywebs.com Sat Oct 10 10:01:59 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 10:01:59 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] PAQP Live broadcasting with Periscope? Message-ID: If any of you are familiar with Periscope, which is a self-broadcasting app you can get for your iphone... You can actually "periscope' your contest activity one more cool internet tool Dave WN4AFP From mkempisty at verizon.net Sat Oct 10 10:20:39 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] 40m noise level References: <553092569.1452443.1444486839960.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <553092569.1452443.1444486839960.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Anyone else seeing S9+20-40 on 40m? ?Take care, Mark From WA3NFV at MtAiryVHF.org Sat Oct 10 10:52:59 2015 From: WA3NFV at MtAiryVHF.org (Dan Mitten - WA3NFV) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 10:52:59 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Rule 8 References: Message-ID: <4891AFE219B2463397391F4278818092@asuscelerond> Thanks everyone for your comments. Great, I'll take it to mean "Phone". I like that anyway. I'm active on both ends of the band on 2 and 10, which is why I ask. Yes, I really did understood the meaning of "multiplier", that was me. See everyone latter. Dan WA3NFV (in Bucks Co.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Coslo" To: "Dan Mitten - WA3NFV" ; Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Rule 8 > On Oct 10, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Dan Mitten - WA3NFV > wrote: > > Does anyone know if AM counts as a separate multiplier? (Rule 8) > > I assume that a 2 meter contact could be made on FM and SSB and count as > separate multipliers, under the rules. AM is not a party mode Which is to say, we accept the QSO, but it counts under the SSB/FM mode. We also do not differentiate between FM and SSB Both are the same mode per PQP. 2 meters, you have a choice of: CW RTTY PSK SSB or FM - 73 Mike N3LI - From dave at pkministrywebs.com Sat Oct 10 11:35:40 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:35:40 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] PA to South Carolina?? Message-ID: PA to South Carolina... 20m or 40m? I'm not hearing any "3's " right now on 20m.. Anyone working the southeast? GL WN4AFP -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" From k3cc at verizon.net Sat Oct 10 11:44:49 2015 From: k3cc at verizon.net (k3cc at verizon.net) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:44:49 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] FLdigi will not transmit sounds Message-ID: <0B38CAD0890B4A8C9F2B7D718C30B138@SkipPC> It's late and I have work for hours trying to get FLdigi to transmit sounds It tells me the USB codec for transmit via Signalink Rcve FB no audio on transmit FLdiigi by itself work 100% stumped ???? de Skip --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From n3xls at juno.com Sat Oct 10 13:28:49 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (=?utf-8?B?bjN4bHNAanVuby5jb20=?=) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:28:49 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] =?utf-8?q?80m_bonus_on_psk?= Message-ID: Bonus on 3580 psk ----- Reply message ----- From: k3cc at verizon.net To: Subject: [PaQSO] FLdigi will not transmit sounds Date: Sat, Oct 10, 2015 11:44 AM It's late and I have work for hours trying to get FLdigi to transmit sounds It tells me the USB codec for transmit via Signalink Rcve FB no audio on transmit FLdiigi by itself work 100% stumped ???? de Skip --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ____________________________________________________________ Meet the Graviteers: Ezekiel Victor My name is Zeke! I find it hard to pick favorites because I get sick of too much of one thing. Read more ? http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/56194ad232b774ad0698cst01duc From n3ntj at embarqmail.com Sat Oct 10 13:58:56 2015 From: n3ntj at embarqmail.com (Matthew Steger) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:58:56 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] bonus station In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002701d10385$5584b830$008e2890$@com> What is the BONUS station this year? The rules link on the contest website isn't working. Matt N3NTJ From zelna.alz at gmail.com Sat Oct 10 14:19:53 2015 From: zelna.alz at gmail.com (Al Z) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:19:53 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 80m to digi starting Message-ID: .... For those interested From mkempisty at verizon.net Sat Oct 10 14:46:48 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:46:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] bonus station In-Reply-To: <002701d10385$5584b830$008e2890$@com> References: <002701d10385$5584b830$008e2890$@com> Message-ID: <266554054.1514248.1444502808310.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> W3C?Take care, Mark From: Matthew Steger To: paqso at mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 1:58 PM Subject: [PaQSO] bonus station What is the BONUS station this year?? The rules link on the contest website isn't working. Matt N3NTJ ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From mjcn3li at gmail.com Sat Oct 10 22:37:42 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 22:37:42 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] bonus station In-Reply-To: <002701d10385$5584b830$008e2890$@com> References: <002701d10385$5584b830$008e2890$@com> Message-ID: <77D57EB0-462D-4005-AAB8-06D75D17B261@gmail.com> Just got back for the evening. What did you click on that didn?t work? - 73 Mike N3LI - > On Oct 10, 2015, at 1:58 PM, Matthew Steger wrote: > > What is the BONUS station this year? The rules link on the contest website isn't working. > > Matt > N3NTJ > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From k3cc at verizon.net Sat Oct 10 23:18:09 2015 From: k3cc at verizon.net (k3cc at verizon.net) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 23:18:09 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] where's the bonus station ?? Message-ID: Has anyone worked the bonus station on phone ??? I heard them on CW but they left de Skip K3CC --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From n3ntj at embarqmail.com Sat Oct 10 23:20:58 2015 From: n3ntj at embarqmail.com (Matthew Steger) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 23:20:58 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] where's the bonus station ?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <005d01d103d3$d9ba19d0$8d2e4d70$@com> They are on 80 phone right now, but I've been calling him for about an hour. Not sure if my radio is broken, my antenna is broken, the band is bad, or the op is def. Getting pretty frustrated. N3NTJ Matt -----Original Message----- From: PaQSO [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of k3cc at verizon.net Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 11:18 PM To: PaQSO at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [PaQSO] where's the bonus station ?? Has anyone worked the bonus station on phone ??? I heard them on CW but they left de Skip K3CC --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3ntj at embarqmail.com From mark.j.schreiner at gmail.com Sat Oct 10 23:52:41 2015 From: mark.j.schreiner at gmail.com (Mark Schreiner) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 23:52:41 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] where's the bonus station ?? In-Reply-To: <005d01d103d3$d9ba19d0$8d2e4d70$@com> References: <005d01d103d3$d9ba19d0$8d2e4d70$@com> Message-ID: The are on 3819 now On Oct 10, 2015 11:21 PM, "Matthew Steger" wrote: > They are on 80 phone right now, but I've been calling him for about an > hour. > Not sure if my radio is broken, my antenna is broken, the band is bad, or > the op is def. Getting pretty frustrated. > > N3NTJ > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: PaQSO [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of > k3cc at verizon.net > Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 11:18 PM > To: PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [PaQSO] where's the bonus station ?? > > Has anyone worked the bonus station on phone ??? > I heard them on CW but they left > > de Skip K3CC > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message > delivered to n3ntj at embarqmail.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to mark.j.schreiner at gmail.com > From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 01:06:23 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 01:06:23 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep Message-ID: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud AA3B From k3pp at k3pp.com Sun Oct 11 01:08:02 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 01:08:02 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> References: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: I need CRN too. Also BED & NUM. G'nite all! Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP Sent from my Begali Sculpture key ... um, nah, just an iPhone! Sorry! > On Oct 11, 2015, at 1:06 AM, Bud Trench wrote: > > Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning > to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud AA3B > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k3pp at k3pp.com From wxduff at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 01:21:13 2015 From: wxduff at gmail.com (Evan Duffey) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 01:21:13 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] where's the bonus station ?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I was running on 75m last evening and they worked me. That was nice, didn't have to try to find them. Must have gotten lucky. On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 11:18 PM, wrote: > Has anyone worked the bonus station on phone ??? > I heard them on CW but they left > > de Skip K3CC > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wxduff at gmail.com > From zelna.alz at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 08:02:28 2015 From: zelna.alz at gmail.com (Al Z) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 08:02:28 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3C Message-ID: No further discussion about a 6m period at the start today. Is it still on? From mkempisty at verizon.net Sun Oct 11 08:27:57 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:27:57 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> References: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI.?Take care, MarkAA3K From: Bud Trench To: PAQSO PARTY Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep Need CRN.? All others in the log.? I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed.? 73, Bud AA3B ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 08:32:33 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 08:32:33 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3C In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Let's try 6 at the start on Sunday On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Al Z wrote: > No further discussion about a 6m period at the start today. Is it still > on? > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to aa3b.bud at gmail.com > From mkempisty at verizon.net Sun Oct 11 08:35:41 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:35:41 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <343533889.1593458.1444566941727.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Apologies for my signature formatting running into the text I don't know what's going on, it doesn't look like that on my screen. Trying a couple of extra CR's. ?Take care, MarkAA3K From: Mark Kempisty To: Bud Trench ; PAQSO PARTY Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI.?Take care, MarkAA3K ? ? ? From: Bud Trench To: PAQSO PARTY Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep ? Need CRN.? All others in the log.? I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed.? 73, Bud AA3B ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net ? ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net From zelna.alz at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 08:44:28 2015 From: zelna.alz at gmail.com (Al Z) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 08:44:28 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3C In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: W3C to start.... 50.128 SSB with CW at the push of a button 3.828 + - SSB 7.040 + - CW On Oct 11, 2015 8:32 AM, "Bud Trench" wrote: > Let's try 6 at the start on Sunday > > On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Al Z wrote: > >> No further discussion about a 6m period at the start today. Is it still >> on? >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to aa3b.bud at gmail.com >> > From n3xls at juno.com Sun Oct 11 09:04:57 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (=?utf-8?B?bjN4bHNAanVuby5jb20=?=) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:04:57 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] =?utf-8?q?W3C?= Message-ID: N3XF and W3C on 6 meters now ----- Reply message ----- From: "Al Z" To: "paqso" Subject: [PaQSO] W3C Date: Sun, Oct 11, 2015 8:44 AM W3C to start.... 50.128 SSB with CW at the push of a button 3.828 + - SSB 7.040 + - CW On Oct 11, 2015 8:32 AM, "Bud Trench" wrote: > Let's try 6 at the start on Sunday > > On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Al Z wrote: > >> No further discussion about a 6m period at the start today. Is it still >> on? >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to aa3b.bud at gmail.com >> > ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ Meet the Graviteers: Ezekiel Victor My name is Zeke! I find it hard to pick favorites because I get sick of too much of one thing. Read more ? http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561a5e79ab57d5e7822f3st04duc From sstepa at verizon.net Sun Oct 11 09:06:50 2015 From: sstepa at verizon.net (Steve Stepansky) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:06:50 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <068E86BA-8FD0-48B1-85DB-5C745B1EF7AF@verizon.net> Need BED/CRN/NUM Please spot if heard. Thanks! 73, Steve KC3WX > On Oct 11, 2015, at 08:27, Mark Kempisty wrote: > > Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI. Take care, > MarkAA3K > From: Bud Trench > To: PAQSO PARTY > Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM > Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep > > Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning > to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud AA3B > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to sstepa at verizon.net From n3xls at juno.com Sun Oct 11 09:51:56 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (=?utf-8?B?bjN4bHNAanVuby5jb20=?=) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:51:56 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] =?utf-8?q?W3C?= Message-ID: Now on 7240 and 3828 ----- Reply message ----- From: "Al Z" To: "paqso" Subject: [PaQSO] W3C Date: Sun, Oct 11, 2015 8:44 AM W3C to start.... 50.128 SSB with CW at the push of a button 3.828 + - SSB 7.040 + - CW On Oct 11, 2015 8:32 AM, "Bud Trench" wrote: > Let's try 6 at the start on Sunday > > On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Al Z wrote: > >> No further discussion about a 6m period at the start today. Is it still >> on? >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to aa3b.bud at gmail.com >> > ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ Meet the Graviteers: Ezekiel Victor My name is Zeke! I find it hard to pick favorites because I get sick of too much of one thing. Read more ? http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561a697c9bcdc697b6c51st02vuc From bud at n3tir.com Sun Oct 11 13:26:45 2015 From: bud at n3tir.com (Bud Plants) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:26:45 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CMD BED MISSING Message-ID: <006e01d1044a$01fa0ab0$05ee2010$@n3tir.com> LOOKING FOR BEDFORD and Cambria for sweep N3TIR From k3pp at k3pp.com Sun Oct 11 14:10:52 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:10:52 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <068E86BA-8FD0-48B1-85DB-5C745B1EF7AF@verizon.net> References: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <068E86BA-8FD0-48B1-85DB-5C745B1EF7AF@verizon.net> Message-ID: <9232EF75-EB2A-4686-A98C-796998430CC7@k3pp.com> N2CU in CRN NOW! 7179 Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP Sent from my Begali Sculpture key ... um, nah, just an iPhone! Sorry! > On Oct 11, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Steve Stepansky wrote: > > Need BED/CRN/NUM > > Please spot if heard. Thanks! > > 73, > > Steve > KC3WX > >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 08:27, Mark Kempisty wrote: >> >> Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI. Take care, >> MarkAA3K >> From: Bud Trench >> To: PAQSO PARTY >> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM >> Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep >> >> Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning >> to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud AA3B >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to sstepa at verizon.net > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k3pp at k3pp.com From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 14:11:57 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:11:57 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B Sweep Message-ID: <001201d10450$5196ff00$f4c4fd00$@gmail.com> Sweep at 1811z From mkempisty at verizon.net Sun Oct 11 14:24:22 2015 From: mkempisty at verizon.net (Mark Kempisty) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <9232EF75-EB2A-4686-A98C-796998430CC7@k3pp.com> References: <9232EF75-EB2A-4686-A98C-796998430CC7@k3pp.com> Message-ID: <1024134899.1683926.1444587863018.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> In?the log!!! ?Take care, MarkAA3K From: "Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP" To: Steve Stepansky Cc: Mark Kempisty ; PAQSO PARTY ; Bud Trench Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep N2CU in CRN NOW! 7179 Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP Sent from my Begali Sculpture key ... um, nah, just an iPhone! Sorry! > On Oct 11, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Steve Stepansky wrote: > > Need BED/CRN/NUM > > Please spot if heard. Thanks! > > 73, > > Steve > KC3WX > >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 08:27, Mark Kempisty wrote: >> >> Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI. Take care, >> MarkAA3K >>? ? From: Bud Trench >> To: PAQSO PARTY >> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM >> Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep >> >> Need CRN.? All others in the log.? I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning >> to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed.? 73, Bud AA3B >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to sstepa at verizon.net > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k3pp at k3pp.com From k3pp at k3pp.com Sun Oct 11 14:31:30 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:31:30 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B Sweep In-Reply-To: <001201d10450$5196ff00$f4c4fd00$@gmail.com> References: <001201d10450$5196ff00$f4c4fd00$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <46E2E9F5-7F09-4756-93DB-8669123776D0@k3pp.com> Congrats OM!! Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP Sent from my Begali Sculpture key ... um, nah, just an iPhone! Sorry! > On Oct 11, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Bud Trench wrote: > > Sweep at 1811z > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k3pp at k3pp.com From k3pp at k3pp.com Sun Oct 11 14:32:07 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:32:07 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <1024134899.1683926.1444587863018.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <9232EF75-EB2A-4686-A98C-796998430CC7@k3pp.com> <1024134899.1683926.1444587863018.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <25B74F0A-6B60-4BFD-86B5-C457437BF9C1@k3pp.com> Still need BED & NUM. Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP Sent from my Begali Sculpture key ... um, nah, just an iPhone! Sorry! > On Oct 11, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Mark Kempisty wrote: > > In the log!!! > > > > Take care, > Mark > AA3K > > > From: "Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP" > To: Steve Stepansky > Cc: Mark Kempisty ; PAQSO PARTY ; Bud Trench > Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 2:10 PM > Subject: Re: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep > > N2CU in CRN NOW! 7179 > > Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP > > Sent from my Begali Sculpture key > ... um, nah, just an iPhone! Sorry! > > > On Oct 11, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Steve Stepansky wrote: > > > > Need BED/CRN/NUM > > > > Please spot if heard. Thanks! > > > > 73, > > > > Steve > > KC3WX > > > >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 08:27, Mark Kempisty wrote: > >> > >> Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI. Take care, > >> MarkAA3K > >> From: Bud Trench > >> To: PAQSO PARTY > >> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM > >> Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep > >> > >> Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning > >> to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud AA3B > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> PaQSO mailing list > >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > >> > >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > >> Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net > >> > >> > >> > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> PaQSO mailing list > >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > >> > >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > >> Message delivered to sstepa at verizon.net > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > PaQSO mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to > k3pp at k3pp.com > > > From sstepa at verizon.net Sun Oct 11 14:30:50 2015 From: sstepa at verizon.net (Steve Stepansky) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:30:50 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <9232EF75-EB2A-4686-A98C-796998430CC7@k3pp.com> References: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <068E86BA-8FD0-48B1-85DB-5C745B1EF7AF@verizon.net> <9232EF75-EB2A-4686-A98C-796998430CC7@k3pp.com> Message-ID: Got 'em after Bud smoked me first ! Still need NUM and BED Steve KC3WX > On Oct 11, 2015, at 14:10, Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP wrote: > > N2CU in CRN NOW! 7179 > > Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP > > Sent from my Begali Sculpture key > ... um, nah, just an iPhone! Sorry! > >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Steve Stepansky wrote: >> >> Need BED/CRN/NUM >> >> Please spot if heard. Thanks! >> >> 73, >> >> Steve >> KC3WX >> >>> On Oct 11, 2015, at 08:27, Mark Kempisty wrote: >>> >>> Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI. Take care, >>> MarkAA3K >>> From: Bud Trench >>> To: PAQSO PARTY >>> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM >>> Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep >>> >>> Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning >>> to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud AA3B >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> PaQSO mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> PaQSO mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to sstepa at verizon.net >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to k3pp at k3pp.com From TwelveVDC at aol.com Sun Oct 11 14:41:29 2015 From: TwelveVDC at aol.com (TwelveVDC at aol.com) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:41:29 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Work da Grump! Message-ID: W3TDF now on 7.202 from BUX! Might be your last chance to snag him. -NL7XM From kb3ikx at ptd.net Sun Oct 11 15:09:17 2015 From: kb3ikx at ptd.net (Todd Deem - KB3IKX) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:09:17 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: References: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <068E86BA-8FD0-48B1-85DB-5C745B1EF7AF@verizon.net> <9232EF75-EB2A-4686-A98C-796998430CC7@k3pp.com> Message-ID: <000e01d10458$53c8b270$fb5a1750$@ptd.net> STILL NEED BED, FUL, & NUM Thank you, Todd A. Deem? -?kb3ikx /W3SC ? ?"May your reach always extend beyond your grasp" -----Original Message----- From: PaQSO [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Steve Stepansky Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 2:31 PM To: Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP Cc: PAQSO PARTY; Bud Trench Subject: Re: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep Got 'em after Bud smoked me first ! Still need NUM and BED Steve KC3WX > On Oct 11, 2015, at 14:10, Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP wrote: > > N2CU in CRN NOW! 7179 > > Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP > > Sent from my Begali Sculpture key > ... um, nah, just an iPhone! Sorry! > >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Steve Stepansky wrote: >> >> Need BED/CRN/NUM >> >> Please spot if heard. Thanks! >> >> 73, >> >> Steve >> KC3WX >> >>> On Oct 11, 2015, at 08:27, Mark Kempisty wrote: >>> >>> Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI. Take care, MarkAA3K >>> From: Bud Trench >>> To: PAQSO PARTY >>> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM >>> Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep >>> >>> Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both >>> planning to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud >>> AA3B ______________________________________________________________ >>> PaQSO mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this >>> email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to >>> mkempisty at verizon.net >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> PaQSO mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this >>> email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to >>> sstepa at verizon.net >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this >> email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to >> k3pp at k3pp.com ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kb3ikx at ptd.net From edwardamoyer at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 16:09:45 2015 From: edwardamoyer at gmail.com (Edward Moyer) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:09:45 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Ab3ah/p fra/ful Message-ID: Thank you everyone whom worked me !!!! It was a ton Of fun !! Tnx for working with my crap mfj key and my Non contester Friend ... Lesson learned filters next year to do 2 stations at once ... Could only do 1 station with a amp .. Oh well. Still needed. 8 counties .. 85,000 points and 550 q's ... Glad could get fra/ful on air !! It seems I was the only one .. Not time to enjoy Montazuma's in chambersburg to end it !! I plan to do it again next year .. 73's Ed Moyer ( ab3ah) Sent from my iPhone From randy at n3zk.com Sun Oct 11 16:11:29 2015 From: randy at n3zk.com (randy at n3zk.com) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:11:29 -0700 Subject: [PaQSO] N3ZK Clean Sweep!! Message-ID: <20151011131129.07f683d8d2acb2f3b481ab68bb371def.b5b5cd49c3.wbe@email11.secureserver.net> Team N3ZK CLEAN SWEEP from Indiana County!! -Randy, N3ZK From sstepa at verizon.net Sun Oct 11 16:22:42 2015 From: sstepa at verizon.net (Steve Stepansky) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:22:42 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <068E86BA-8FD0-48B1-85DB-5C745B1EF7AF@verizon.net> References: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <068E86BA-8FD0-48B1-85DB-5C745B1EF7AF@verizon.net> Message-ID: <15A12EAC-CC8D-4C5A-A641-F70FAF4B3130@verizon.net> Only need NUM KC3WX > On Oct 11, 2015, at 09:06, Steve Stepansky wrote: > > Need BED/CRN/NUM > > Please spot if heard. Thanks! > > 73, > > Steve > KC3WX > >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 08:27, Mark Kempisty wrote: >> >> Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI. Take care, >> MarkAA3K >> From: Bud Trench >> To: PAQSO PARTY >> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM >> Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep >> >> Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning >> to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud AA3B >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to sstepa at verizon.net > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to sstepa at verizon.net From kb3ikx at ptd.net Sun Oct 11 16:29:34 2015 From: kb3ikx at ptd.net (Todd Deem - KB3IKX) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:29:34 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3SC NEEDS FUL & NUM Message-ID: <001001d10463$8b063bd0$a112b370$@ptd.net> If heard post it please Thank you, Todd A. Deem? -?kb3ikx ? ?"May your reach always extend beyond your grasp" -----Original Message----- From: PaQSO [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Steve Stepansky Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 4:23 PM To: Mark Kempisty Cc: PAQSO PARTY; Bud Trench Subject: Re: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep Only need NUM KC3WX > On Oct 11, 2015, at 09:06, Steve Stepansky wrote: > > Need BED/CRN/NUM > > Please spot if heard. Thanks! > > 73, > > Steve > KC3WX > >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 08:27, Mark Kempisty wrote: >> >> Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI. Take care, MarkAA3K >> From: Bud Trench >> To: PAQSO PARTY >> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM >> Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep >> >> Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both >> planning to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud >> AA3B ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this >> email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to >> mkempisty at verizon.net >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this >> email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to >> sstepa at verizon.net > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to > sstepa at verizon.net ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kb3ikx at ptd.net From no3m at no3m.net Sun Oct 11 16:23:19 2015 From: no3m at no3m.net (Eric NO3M) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:23:19 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CW - ARM, BED, CLE, CMB, GRE, NUM Message-ID: <561AC537.3050002@no3m.net> Still need on CW: ARM, BED, CLE, CMB, GRE, NUM on course for a 300K+ score if rate keeps up in the last 1.5 hrs, breaking CW-only, QRP, and Crawford Co. score records. 73 Eric NO3M From no3m at no3m.net Sun Oct 11 16:47:13 2015 From: no3m at no3m.net (Eric NO3M) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:47:13 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CW - ARM, BED, CLE, CMB, GRE, NUM In-Reply-To: <561AC537.3050002@no3m.net> References: <561AC537.3050002@no3m.net> Message-ID: <561ACAD1.9050507@no3m.net> Hope W3WPA/BED shows back up on CW.... QRP no match for the mosh-pit of callers. On 10/11/2015 04:23 PM, Eric NO3M wrote: > Still need on CW: > > ARM, BED, CLE, CMB, GRE, NUM > > on course for a 300K+ score if rate keeps up in the last 1.5 hrs, > breaking CW-only, QRP, and Crawford Co. score records. > > 73 Eric NO3M > > > From n8xx at arrl.org Sun Oct 11 16:51:45 2015 From: n8xx at arrl.org (Hank Greeb) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:51:45 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] PaQP N8XX Single Op QRP Message-ID: <561ACBE1.5010602@arrl.org> Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: N8XX Operator(s): N8XX Station: N8XX Class: Single Op QRP QTH: MICHIGAN Operating Time (hrs): 3 Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 0 0 0 0 80: 29 4 0 0 40: 21 18 0 0 20: 0 0 0 0 15: 0 0 0 0 10: 0 0 0 0 6: 0 0 0 0 2: 0 0 0 0 --------------------------------------- Total: 50 22 0 0 Mults = 37 Claimed Score = 9,154 Club: Mad River Radio Club Comments: Nice Contest. Definitely a part time effort, snuck into the shack every so often between other family related events. 40 was open whenever I managed to get on. 80 was a gold mine in the evening. Most people could hear my "mighty 5 watts to an antenna proven to be a few dB better than a dummy load buried 6 feet under ground." Nabbed W3C for a CW contact late in the day or Sunday, without even looking for him. Was amazed at the QSO count of many of the Pennsylvania stations. Wow! W3C had over 1100 Q's when I snagged him! Congrats to the PAQP team. From k3pp at k3pp.com Sun Oct 11 16:57:27 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:57:27 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep In-Reply-To: <15A12EAC-CC8D-4C5A-A641-F70FAF4B3130@verizon.net> References: <001601d103e2$9382a540$ba87efc0$@gmail.com> <577268281.1623938.1444566477316.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <068E86BA-8FD0-48B1-85DB-5C745B1EF7AF@verizon.net> <15A12EAC-CC8D-4C5A-A641-F70FAF4B3130@verizon.net> Message-ID: <9EC9659A-B669-4D8F-9692-B8E509290708@k3pp.com> Me too! Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP Sent from my Begali Sculpture key ... um, nah, just an iPhone! Sorry! > On Oct 11, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Steve Stepansky wrote: > > Only need NUM > > KC3WX > >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 09:06, Steve Stepansky wrote: >> >> Need BED/CRN/NUM >> >> Please spot if heard. Thanks! >> >> 73, >> >> Steve >> KC3WX >> >>> On Oct 11, 2015, at 08:27, Mark Kempisty wrote: >>> >>> Need CRN plus BED, FOR NUM, PHI, SNY & UNI. Take care, >>> MarkAA3K >>> From: Bud Trench >>> To: PAQSO PARTY >>> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:06 AM >>> Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B needs CRN for the Sweep >>> >>> Need CRN. All others in the log. I think N2CU and W3CG are both planning >>> to hit CRN tomorrow so I have my fingers crossed. 73, Bud AA3B >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> PaQSO mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to mkempisty at verizon.net >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> PaQSO mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to sstepa at verizon.net >> ______________________________________________________________ >> PaQSO mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to sstepa at verizon.net > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k3pp at k3pp.com From n3cr at yahoo.com Sun Oct 11 18:52:42 2015 From: n3cr at yahoo.com (n3cr at yahoo.com) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:52:42 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] N3CR clean sweep 2pm Message-ID: Greetings,,,,,,425 Q's 100 multis raw 45600pts SOLP from Carbon.. Clean Sweep right after Bud AA3B. Could not possibly do it without the portables, mobiles, and Rovers who do such a good job to make this the best contest. Thought i was left hanging after missing Cameron and Perry Saturday night. Everything worked but seeing a little less output on the rig. Thanks to all. Couldn't handle the noise on cw. Thanks to all who make it happen. You are great. Great operators on lousy conditions. The band changing was neat. 80m was awesome. Best 73s de Larry N3CR Carbon County Hope everyone worked me!!! From tombehler at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 18:58:50 2015 From: tombehler at gmail.com (Tom Behler) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:58:50 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] A Word Of Thanks From the state of Michigan Message-ID: <010c01d10478$651d4a20$2f57de60$@gmail.com> Hello, everyone. I just wanted to report that this year's PAQP effort from here in Michigan was my best ever. I got the county sweep, thanks to KB3UYT/p, who gave me Northumberland County late this afternoon. Put 308 qsos in the log, which also was my highest total ever from here in Michigan. One other highlight of the event was that I had the honor of working Da Grump (W3TDF) on 40 meter SSB again this year! Regarding the county sweep, I'll have to check the party web site for instructions about confirming the sweep and ordering the plaque, etc, but I'll try to get to that in the next week or so. Will submit my log and other documentation soon. Thanks for an excellent QSO Party. This is by far the friendliest State QSO Party I have ever worked! Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI From N3AD at COMCAST.NET Sun Oct 11 18:30:34 2015 From: N3AD at COMCAST.NET (Alan) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:30:34 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Fwd: PaQP N3AD Single Op HP In-Reply-To: <20151011221929.20777.39697@b4h.net> References: <20151011221929.20777.39697@b4h.net> Message-ID: <561AE30A.7050402@COMCAST.NET> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: PaQP N3AD Single Op HP Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:19:29 +0000 From: webform at b4h.net Reply-To: n3ad at comcast.net To: 3830 at contesting.com, n3ad at comcast.net Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: N3AD Operator(s): N3AD Station: N3AD Class: Single Op HP QTH: LAN Operating Time (hrs): 22 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 47 6 80: 129 123 40: 286 335 20: 140 153 15: 23 3 10: 6 5 6: 2: --------------------------------------- Total: 631 625 0 0 Mults = 142 Total Score = 269,154 Club: Frankford Radio Club Comments: Congrads to Bud/AA3B. Another great performance - as usual. Conditions challenging. A index was 55 at beginning of contest. Now 13 - still too high. Very few EU worked. Missed NUM and UNI. Broke LAN county record. Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 19:32:09 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:32:09 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B 2015 Pa QSO Party Results Message-ID: <002c01d1047d$0cf85740$26e905c0$@gmail.com> Please go to http://www.3830scores.com/scoreform.php?arg=wqC4R7NSq8%2FonePTsX79Avu8Xbz5Ng %3D%3D to share your score. Call: AA3B Operator(s): AA3B Station: AA3B Class: Single Op HP QTH: BER Operating Time (hrs): 22 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 52 9 80: 192 166 40: 257 379 20: 105 380 15: 41 5 10: 3 6: 1 6 2: --------------------------------------- Total: 651 945 0 0 Mults = 147 Total Score = 332,1009 Club: Frankford Radio Club Comments: The score includes bonus points for 9 contacts with W3C 2247 QSO points. 67 counties, 79 sections, 1 dx. Thanks to N3LI and NARC for sponsoring the event. Great job by all the mobiles and rovers. The CRN pile-up was amazing! Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ From wxduff at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 19:46:15 2015 From: wxduff at gmail.com (Evan Duffey) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:46:15 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Thanks from the W3YA Club Station Message-ID: All, Thanks for working the W3YA club station in this weekend's contest. We worked Multi Multi Medium Power, although we were only running one radio a majority of the contest.. Of all our operators, only one had ever contested before, and myself and another have only had our Amateur General for a month or so, so thanks for your patience. We had 503? QSO's, all SSB (I'm pretty sure), with 124? multipliers. We worked the bonus station a couple times. Raw score something around 64,000? Everything is up at the club station until I can get up there and get it ready to send down, so I don't have it in-front of me. We were only lacking BED and and MTR for the 67. Again thanks for making my first contest a bunch of fun. Evan N3TWM From tvguy07 at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 20:00:28 2015 From: tvguy07 at gmail.com (John Myers) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:00:28 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] KD8MQ Single Op Low Power JEF Message-ID: Hi everyone, I missed 6 counties for the sweep, and just broke 40K before closing down for the weekend. Hi points, I worked two 6 meter stations, one a county line. also managed to work a PSK QSO. There's a lot of room for personal improvement next year. Here's my stats. The high point for me was working Ray, W3TDF. John, KD8MQ Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul Mt2 1.8 CW 3 6 0 0 3.5 CW 8 16 0 0 3.5 LSB 76 76 13 0 7 CW 29 58 4 0 7 LSB 195 195 70 2 7 PSK3 1 2 0 0 14 USB 24 25 13 0 50 USB 3 3 1 0 Total Both 339 381 101 2 Score: 40,043 1 Mult = 3.3 Q's From dave at pkministrywebs.com Sun Oct 11 20:15:06 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:15:06 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Fwd: PaQP WN4AFP Single Op LP In-Reply-To: <20151011224051.477.27406@b4h.net> References: <20151011224051.477.27406@b4h.net> Message-ID: HI PAQP, Thanks for putting on a very strong QSO Party! I couldn't give this one a full-time effort, like I wanted to due to a family party today... I returned around 2100z to work at least one full hour today. I was planning to run QRP, but I immediately realized that it was going to be very difficult for me to reach PA using QRP on 40m. . >From South Carolina the only bands that I could use to reach PA were 40m and 80m. 40m was usable to PA all day on Saturday and I hate that I missed the 'all day on 40m opportunity on Sunday. Special thanks to the mobiles and rovers who helped me with 12-13 counties, Tough to work the mobiles on Saturday.. Sigs were better on Sunday. By the way, there were a lot of fixed stations 'running' in the mobile window. I worked the following mobiles... N2CU, W3CG, K0BAK and NR3C. If there were more mobiles out there, I didn't hear them. I was able to work W3C on Sunday morning on cw and Sunday afternoon on phone. I didn't hear W3C on 40m on Saturday, don't know if they were on or not. I log manually (because I enjoy the pen & paper./keyer mode) then enter the Qs into N3FJP. I worked a few county-lines so I hope that N3FJP allows me to enter all of the counties. I worked KB3SGY on Clarion, Jefferson and Armstrong. I most of the QPs, there would be logged as separate QSOs, but I guess this would be tricky due to the use of the serial number in the exchange. It was great to work several fellow QPers and to make new PA friends. Next year, I'm planning to break the SC record and get a clean sweep! 73s Dave WN4AFP (SCQP Team Member) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 6:40 PM Subject: PaQP WN4AFP Single Op LP To: 3830 at contesting.com, dave at pkministrywebs.com Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: WN4AFP Operator(s): WN4AFP Station: WN4AFP Class: Single Op LP QTH: SC Operating Time (hrs): 9 Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 80: 14 40: 55 78 20: 15: 10: 6: 2: --------------------------------------- Total: 69 78 0 0 Mults = 56 Total Score = 12,496 Club: Swamp Fox Contest Group Comments: Another fun PAQP! Most of my hours were on Saturday. 20m was a bust for SC to PA, so I spent 90% on 40m and little 80m Saturday night. I was able to work PA all day on 40m. Thanks to the mobiles and rovers for their effort... Good mix of activity on cw and phone. Hope I can work it FT next year. 73s Dave WN4AFP Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" From jimk8mr at aol.com Sun Oct 11 20:15:48 2015 From: jimk8mr at aol.com (jimk8mr at aol.com) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:15:48 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Fwd: PaQP K8MR Single Op QRP In-Reply-To: <20151012000452.20767.13471@b4h.net> References: <20151012000452.20767.13471@b4h.net> Message-ID: <15059673acb-32fc-340d3@webprd-a80.mail.aol.com> -----Original Message----- From: webform To: 3830 <3830 at contesting.com>; k8mr Sent: Sun, Oct 11, 2015 8:04 pm Subject: PaQP K8MR Single Op QRP Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: K8MR Operator(s): K8MR Station: K8MR Class: Single Op QRP QTH: Ohio Operating Time (hrs): 6:20 Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 4 0 80: 44 47 40: 39 38 20: 1 15: 1 10: 1 6: 2: --------------------------------------- Total: 90 85 0 0 Mults = 57 Total Score = 15,705 Club: Mad River Radio Club Comments: For the first time in about 15 years I did not get to PA as a mobile or rover. A combination of reasons: no readily available driver; an extended family clambake on Saturday; upcoming road trips to NJ and Florida; my mother, who had lived in Hermitage, having passed away since last year; a sense that there was already pretty good county coverage; and a uniquely difficult log submission process. But I did want to get on, and decided it was also a good opportunity to get some time on the KX3. Conditions to PA were pretty good, other than early Sunday when WPA was not very strong on 40. I suspect I could have done more on 160 had I not retired for the night at 0230Z. I managed six bands with NO3M, and could have done seven if Ty was QRV on six. On six I did hear KD8MQ (pretty weak) and N3XF (pretty strong) but neither heard me. I was impressed by the close breakdown between CW and SSB on both 80 and 40. All in all, interesting to see the contest from the fixed station perspective. 73 - Jim K8MR Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ From no3m at no3m.net Sun Oct 11 20:25:20 2015 From: no3m at no3m.net (Eric NO3M) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:25:20 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Fwd: PaQP NO3M Single Op CW QRP In-Reply-To: <20151012000925.483.3813@b4h.net> References: <20151012000925.483.3813@b4h.net> Message-ID: <561AFDF0.3000602@no3m.net> Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: NO3M Operator(s): NO3M Station: NO3M Class: Single Op CW QRP QTH: CRA Operating Time (hrs): Radios: SO2R Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 49 80: 191 40: 294 20: 95 15: 12 10: 1 6: 2: --------------------------------------- Total: 642 0 0 0 Mults = 123 Total Score = 316,664 Club: North Coast Contesters Comments: QRP is not my cup of tea, but based on past observations, it is the only way to "win" the CW only category with the 2x QRP multiplier. However, it worked out better than expected. Broke three score records: CW-only, QRP, and Crawford County SO. It was actually pleasant to not have the usual K3 thumping when running LP or HP. Got ignored on numerous occasions, only had my CQ freq clobbered a couple times, and lost hope in a few pileups for the "rare" counties. Luckily had second chances on all the needed counties and worked all those I heard on. Sunday's rate was kept up by moving as many stations as possible to other bands, just like moving guys in NAQP for mults. Second radio was always active, either dueling CQs on the most productive bands, S&P, keeping track of the mobiles and rovers, or moving stations. BTW, the mobiles and rovers do an awesome job! There are just a lot of counties lacking regular CW activity, so they really fill in the gaps. QRP next time? Probably not unless the overall band conditions are better. 10M was shot, 15M had a nice opening to the west and SW Sunday afternoon, but lousy otherwise. 62 / 67 counties (missed ARM, CLE, CMB, GRE, NUM) 60 W/VE Sections 1 DX 4 x200 bonus pts w/ W3C x2 QRP multiplier 2x K3 @ 5W 160M Four Square + beverage arrays / 8-circle 80M Dipole + Bobtail curtain E/W + beverages 40M 4-el Delta-loop wire-beam West, 3-el delta-loop wire-beam SW, Dipole 20M 5-el delta-loop wire-beam West, 3-el delta-loop wire-beam SW, Dipole 15M 3-el wire yagi, Dipole 10M Dipole 73 Eric NO3M Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ From w3iz at sbcglobal.net Sun Oct 11 20:26:16 2015 From: w3iz at sbcglobal.net (Norm Fusaro) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] PaQSO Digest, Vol 129, Issue 18 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1535402055.1721132.1444609576757.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> PA QSO PARTY Summary Sheet Call Sign Used : W3IZ Operator(s) : W3IZ Operator Category : SINGLE-OP HP ARRL Section : CTOperating Time (hrs): 4:30 Club/Team : Frankford Radio Club ???????? ??????? Band?? Mode? QSOs???? Pts? Mul ???????? 3.5? CW?????? 7????? 14??? 2 ?????????? 7? CW????? 35????? 70?? 11 ?????????? 7? LSB??? 118???? 118?? 45 ?????? Total? Both?? 160???? 202?? 58 Bonus Points : 200Score : 11,916 ????? ?73, Norm W3IZ On Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:16 PM, "paqso-request at mailman.qth.net" wrote: Send PaQSO mailing list submissions to ??? paqso at mailman.qth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit ??? http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ??? paqso-request at mailman.qth.net You can reach the person managing the list at ??? paqso-owner at mailman.qth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of PaQSO digest..." Today's Topics: ? 1. Fwd: PaQP N3AD Single Op HP (Alan) ? 2. AA3B 2015 Pa QSO Party Results (Bud Trench) ? 3. Thanks from the W3YA Club Station (Evan Duffey) ? 4. KD8MQ Single Op Low Power JEF (John Myers) ? 5. Fwd: PaQP WN4AFP Single Op LP (Dave Edmonds) ? 6. Fwd: PaQP K8MR Single Op QRP (jimk8mr at aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:30:34 -0400 From: Alan To: PaQSO at mailman.qth.net, gofrc at yahoogroups.com Subject: [PaQSO] Fwd: PaQP N3AD Single Op HP Message-ID: <561AE30A.7050402 at COMCAST.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: ??? PaQP N3AD Single Op HP Date: ??? Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:19:29 +0000 From: ??? webform at b4h.net Reply-To: ??? n3ad at comcast.net To: ??? 3830 at contesting.com, n3ad at comcast.net ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: N3AD Operator(s): N3AD Station: N3AD Class: Single Op HP QTH: LAN Operating Time (hrs): 22 Radios: SO2R Summary: ? Band? CW Qs? Ph Qs? RTTY Qs? PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- ? 160:? 47? ? ? 6 ? ? 80:? 129? ? 123 ? ? 40:? 286? ? 335 ? ? 20:? 140? ? 153 ? ? 15:? 23? ? ? 3 ? ? 10:? ? 6? ? ? 5 ? ? 6: ? ? 2: --------------------------------------- Total:? 631? ? 625? ? ? 0? ? ? ? 0? Mults = 142? Total Score = 269,154 Club: Frankford Radio Club Comments: Congrads to Bud/AA3B. Another great performance - as usual. Conditions challenging. A index was 55 at beginning of contest. Now 13 - still too high. Very few EU worked. Missed NUM and UNI. Broke LAN county record. Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:32:09 -0400 From: "Bud Trench" To: "PAQSO PARTY" Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B 2015 Pa QSO Party Results Message-ID: <002c01d1047d$0cf85740$26e905c0$@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain;??? charset="us-ascii" Please go to http://www.3830scores.com/scoreform.php?arg=wqC4R7NSq8%2FonePTsX79Avu8Xbz5Ng %3D%3D to share your score. Call: AA3B Operator(s): AA3B Station: AA3B Class: Single Op HP QTH: BER Operating Time (hrs): 22 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band? CW Qs? Ph Qs? RTTY Qs? PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- ? 160:? 52? ? ? 9? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 80:? 192? ? 166? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 40:? 257? ? 379? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 20:? 105? ? 380? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 15:? 41? ? ? 5? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 10:? ? 3? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 6:? ? 1? ? ? 6? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? --------------------------------------- Total:? 651? ? 945? ? ? 0? ? ? ? 0? Mults = 147? Total Score = 332,1009 Club: Frankford Radio Club Comments: The score includes bonus points for 9 contacts with W3C 2247 QSO points.? 67 counties, 79 sections, 1 dx. Thanks to N3LI and NARC for sponsoring the event.? Great job by all the mobiles and rovers.? The CRN pile-up was amazing! Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:46:15 -0400 From: Evan Duffey To: paqso at mailman.qth.net Subject: [PaQSO] Thanks from the W3YA Club Station Message-ID: ??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 All, Thanks for working the W3YA club station in this weekend's contest. We worked Multi Multi Medium Power, although we were only running one radio a majority of the contest.. Of all our operators, only one had ever contested before, and myself and another have only had our Amateur General for a month or so, so thanks for your patience. We had 503? QSO's, all SSB (I'm pretty sure), with 124? multipliers. We worked the bonus station a couple times. Raw score something around 64,000? Everything is up at the club station until I can get up there and get it ready to send down, so I don't have it in-front of me. We were only lacking BED and and MTR for the 67. Again thanks for making my first contest a bunch of fun. Evan N3TWM ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:00:28 -0400 From: John Myers To: paqso Subject: [PaQSO] KD8MQ Single Op Low Power JEF Message-ID: ??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi everyone, I missed 6 counties for the sweep, and just broke 40K before closing down for the weekend. Hi points, I worked two 6 meter stations, one a county line. also managed to work a PSK QSO. There's a lot of room for personal improvement next year. Here's my stats. The high point for me was working Ray, W3TDF. John, KD8MQ Band? Mode? QSOs? ? Pts? Mul? Mt2 ? 1.8? ? CW? ? ? 3? ? ? ? ? 6? ? 0? ? ? 0 ? 3.5? ? CW? ? ? 8? ? ? ? ? 16? ? 0? ? ? 0 ? 3.5? ? LSB? ? 76? ? ? ? ? 76? 13? ? 0 ? ? 7? ? ? CW? ? ? 29? ? ? ? 58? ? 4? ? ? 0 ? ? 7? ? ? LSB? ? 195? ? ? ? 195? 70? ? 2 ? ? 7? ? PSK3? ? 1? ? ? ? ? ? 2? ? 0? ? 0 ? ? 14? ? USB? ? 24? ? ? ? ? 25? 13? ? 0 ? ? 50? ? USB? ? ? 3? ? ? ? ? ? 3? ? 1? ? ? 0 Total? Both? 339? ? ? ? ? 381? 101? 2 Score: 40,043 1 Mult = 3.3 Q's ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:15:06 -0400 From: Dave Edmonds To: "" Subject: [PaQSO] Fwd: PaQP WN4AFP Single Op LP Message-ID: ??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 HI PAQP, Thanks for putting on a very strong QSO Party! I couldn't give this one a full-time effort, like I wanted to due to a family party today... I returned around 2100z to work at least one full hour today. I was planning to run QRP, but I immediately realized that it was going to be very difficult for me to reach PA using QRP on 40m. . >From South Carolina the only bands that I could use to reach PA were 40m and 80m. 40m was usable to PA all day on Saturday and I hate that I missed the 'all day on 40m opportunity on Sunday. Special thanks to? the mobiles and rovers who helped me with 12-13 counties, Tough to work the mobiles on Saturday.. Sigs were better on Sunday. By the way, there were a lot of fixed stations 'running' in the mobile window. I worked the following mobiles... N2CU, W3CG, K0BAK and NR3C. If there were more mobiles out there, I didn't hear them. I was able to work W3C on Sunday morning on cw and Sunday afternoon on phone. I didn't hear W3C on 40m on Saturday, don't know if they were on or not. I log manually (because I enjoy the pen & paper./keyer mode) then enter the Qs into N3FJP. I worked a few county-lines so I hope that N3FJP allows me to enter all of the counties. I worked KB3SGY on Clarion, Jefferson and Armstrong. I most of the QPs, there would be logged as separate QSOs, but I guess this would be tricky due to the use of the serial number in the exchange. It was great to work several fellow QPers and to make new PA friends. Next year, I'm planning to break the SC record and get a clean sweep! 73s Dave WN4AFP (SCQP Team Member) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 6:40 PM Subject: PaQP WN4AFP Single Op LP To: 3830 at contesting.com, dave at pkministrywebs.com ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: WN4AFP Operator(s): WN4AFP Station: WN4AFP Class: Single Op LP QTH: SC Operating Time (hrs): 9 Summary: Band? CW Qs? Ph Qs? RTTY Qs? PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- ? 160: ? 80:? 14 ? 40:? 55? ? 78 ? 20: ? 15: ? 10: ? ? 6: ? ? 2: --------------------------------------- Total:? 69? ? 78? ? ? 0? ? ? ? 0? Mults = 56? Total Score = 12,496 Club: Swamp Fox Contest Group Comments: Another fun PAQP! Most of my hours were on Saturday. 20m was a bust for SC to PA, so I spent 90% on 40m and little 80m Saturday night. I was able to work PA all day on 40m. Thanks to the mobiles and rovers for their effort... Good mix of activity on cw and phone. Hope I can work it FT next year. 73s Dave WN4AFP Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:15:48 -0400 From: jimk8mr at aol.com To: mrrc at contesting.com, ncc at contesting.com, ??? qsopartygroup at yahoogroups.com, ??? paqso at mailman.qth.net Subject: [PaQSO] Fwd: PaQP K8MR Single Op QRP Message-ID: <15059673acb-32fc-340d3 at webprd-a80.mail.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 -----Original Message----- From: webform To: 3830 <3830 at contesting.com>; k8mr Sent: Sun, Oct 11, 2015 8:04 pm Subject: PaQP K8MR Single Op QRP Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: K8MR Operator(s): K8MR Station: K8MR Class: Single Op QRP QTH: Ohio Operating Time (hrs): 6:20 Summary: Band? CW Qs Ph Qs? RTTY Qs? PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- ? 160:? ? 4? 0? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 80:? 44? ? 47? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 40:? 39? ? 38? ? ? 20:? ? 1? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 15:? ? 1? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 10:? ? 1? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 6:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2:? --------------------------------------- Total:? 90? ? 85? ? ? 0? ? ? ? 0 Mults = 57? Total Score = 15,705 Club: Mad River Radio Club Comments: For the first time in about 15 years I did not get to PA as a mobile or rover. A combination of reasons: no readily available driver; an extended family clambake on Saturday; upcoming road trips to NJ and Florida; my mother, who had lived in Hermitage, having passed away since last year; a sense that there was already pretty good county coverage; and a uniquely difficult log submission process. But I did want to get on, and decided it was also a good opportunity to get some time on the KX3. Conditions to PA were pretty good, other than early Sunday when WPA was not very strong on 40. I suspect I could have done more on 160 had I not retired for the night at 0230Z. I managed six bands with NO3M, and could have done seven if Ty was QRV on six. On six I did hear KD8MQ (pretty weak) and N3XF (pretty strong) but neither heard me. I was impressed by the close breakdown between CW and SSB on both 80 and 40. All in all, interesting to see the contest from the fixed station perspective. 73? -? Jim K8MR Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list PaQSO at mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso ------------------------------ End of PaQSO Digest, Vol 129, Issue 18 ************************************** From k3yd at aol.com Sun Oct 11 22:52:25 2015 From: k3yd at aol.com (K3YD) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:52:25 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 160? Message-ID: <15059f69ae1-6c96-341a0@webprd-m45.mail.aol.com> Was part of the M/S @ N3GWR. Operated Saturday evening, conditions were FB on 75. Went to 160 at 0300Z. Where was everyone? Anyone? Called CQ till I lost my voice. Nobody! Didn;t hear any SSB activity. Nobody responded to many, many, many CQ's. A very few CW spots showed up, nothing on SSB The band was quiet. Was running 100 W. to full size 1/4 wave vert 160 M antenna. Nada! After 15 minutes, we went back to 75. Has 160 been abandoned in PAQP? Is there another (unpublished, unofficial ) activity hour on 160? 73 de K3YD From davidastout at yahoo.com Mon Oct 12 07:53:03 2015 From: davidastout at yahoo.com (David Stout) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 04:53:03 -0700 Subject: [PaQSO] Special Thanks to Mobiles and Rovers Message-ID: <1444650783.43686.YahooMailBasic@web160205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> On behalf of the WQ3N team I would like to say thanks so much to all of the mobile and rover operations across the state, which made many clean sweeps possible this and many past years. Special thanks to: N2CU W3WPA K0BAK KB3UYT N3LI NR3C W1RGA And to anyone I missed. We appreciate you guys being out and about! Dave KY3W Mike N3BUD Bob AK3V WQ3N The Berwick Contest Team From rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com Mon Oct 12 09:18:00 2015 From: rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com (Pete K0BAK) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] Special Thanks to Mobiles and Rovers In-Reply-To: <1444650783.43686.YahooMailBasic@web160205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1444650783.43686.YahooMailBasic@web160205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1976869419.2510400.1444655880804.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Thank you, it's nice to be recognized. My favorite part of rover/mobile operating is hearing someone tell me excitedly that they needed the county. And for WQ3N, I appreciate you strong reliable stations on the air. Lets me get at least the 10 per county minimum on S&P before calling CQ. I didn't cover all the counties I wanted due to staying too long at most stops, so I regret if some stations missed out on FUL, FRA, and HUN because I ran out of time Saturday night. -- Pete K0BAK/R ----- Original Message ----- From: David Stout via PaQSO To: paqso at mailman.qth.net Cc: Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 7:53 AM Subject: [PaQSO] Special Thanks to Mobiles and Rovers On behalf of the WQ3N team I would like to say thanks so much to all of the mobile and rover operations across the state, which made many clean sweeps possible this and many past years. Special thanks to: N2CU W3WPA K0BAK KB3UYT N3LI NR3C W1RGA And to anyone I missed. We appreciate you guys being out and about! Dave KY3W Mike N3BUD Bob AK3V WQ3N The Berwick Contest Team ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com From n3xls at juno.com Mon Oct 12 10:05:10 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (n3xls at juno.com) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:05:10 GMT Subject: [PaQSO] Fw: PaQP W3C(@N3KAE) M/M HP Message-ID: <20151012.100510.18153.1@webmail04.vgs.untd.com> Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: W3C Operator(s): N3XLS N3KAE KA3QLF Station: N3KAE Class: M/M HP QTH: WYO Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 49 13 80: 127 214 4 40: 200 288 8 5 20: 85 195 15: 12 15 10: 2 4 6: 2 2 2: 0 11 --------------------------------------- Total: 477 742 12 5 Mults = 133 Total Score = 227,696 Club: KQX Group Comments: QSL's may be made to my home call N3XLS Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Meet the Graviteers: Ezekiel Victor My name is Zeke! I find it hard to pick favorites because I get sick of too much of one thing. Read more ??? http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561bbe695bd083e694169st02vuc From wb3gnj at yahoo.com Mon Oct 12 13:38:04 2015 From: wb3gnj at yahoo.com (jim seeber) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:38:04 -0700 Subject: [PaQSO] kw3u notes Message-ID: <1444671484.41259.YahooMailBasic@web120403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Had lot of fun with a low key op this year. ran my ohr qrp rig 1.5w for couple dozen 40cw q's then switched to BA mode with johnson adventurer,drake 2b and eico 722vfo for a dozen the old fashioned way. going to ssb next with a ts520 worked well. going to digital didnt find anyone but a spec event on 20m k2m. finished up with the ft920 on ssb 40/80 to toss out pike co to the deserving for a total of 53 q's in very casual operating. good times. jim kw3u From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Mon Oct 12 22:27:58 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:27:58 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] AA3B QSOs by County Message-ID: <002601d1055e$c6e2ebc0$54a8c340$@gmail.com> Here is a count of the number of contacts per PA counties. The rarest counties for me were ADA and ARM. 73, Bud AA3B County QSOs ADA 1 ALL 23 ARM 1 BEA 9 BED 2 BER 17 BLA 4 BRA 3 BUT 7 BUX 15 CMB 2 CAR 17 CEN 6 CHE 8 CLA 8 CLE 2 CLI 5 COL 7 CRA 12 CRN 4 CUM 8 DAU 6 DCO 16 ELK 6 ERI 10 FAY 7 FOR 3 FRA 6 FUL 3 GRE 4 HUN 8 INN 10 JEF 12 JUN 2 LAC 6 LAN 16 LAW 6 LEB 7 LEH 19 LUZ 14 LYC 5 MCK 9 MER 9 MIF 2 MOE 9 MGY 23 MTR 1 NHA 21 NUM 2 PER 4 PHI 7 PIK 6 POT 7 SCH 21 SNY 4 SOM 8 SUL 7 SUS 2 TIO 7 UNI 2 VEN 6 WAR 5 WAS 11 WAY 2 WES 13 WYO 10 YOR 12 Total 537 From davidastout at yahoo.com Tue Oct 13 07:51:28 2015 From: davidastout at yahoo.com (David Stout) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:51:28 -0700 Subject: [PaQSO] Rarest counties Message-ID: <1444737088.85742.YahooMailBasic@web160201.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Bud, Our rare ones were: Adams 2 Armstrong 2 Bedford 1 Cameron 2 Fulton 2 Northumberland 1 Snyder 1 Susquehanna 1 Union 2 Wayne 2 KY3W From dave at pkministrywebs.com Tue Oct 13 08:30:32 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:30:32 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Rarest counties In-Reply-To: <1444737088.85742.YahooMailBasic@web160201.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1444737088.85742.YahooMailBasic@web160201.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Good morning.... Some observations from an out of state stations... I heard every PA county except for Susquehanna. I heard many PA stations working PA stations that never were "running" their own county. I asked one PA station if he would allow me to contact the station that he just worked from Adams county. He stopped his run for me to work WB3EME. I thanked him for the opp and he continued his "run". Seems like many stations were going to for the "county sweep" rather than the "all states/prov and counties sweep". I'm curious about how many stations operated "S&P" for a majority of the QP? I also noticed that there were more "out of state" stations calling CQ PA than in most of the QPs that I work. I've worked over 250 contests during the last two years with a majority being QPs. When you start hearing many OOS stations calling CQ, that indicates that they've worked all the competitive 'fixed' stations that run continuously and they are waiting on new mobile or rover stations to work... Basically, they can't do anything else to make contacts. I've got an idea... how about publishing a "CQ PA" suggested frequency in the rules or on website etc... This would be the out of state "run" frequency. Encourage the PA stations to listen for OOS stations around this frequency or window.. Thanks again to all the mobile and rover ops. I missed a few mobiles that I worked last year including N3VZ, W3USA and W3NO. Please recruit a few more mobiles for 2016, to help keep our BIC. 73s Dave WN4AFP On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:51 AM, David Stout via PaQSO < paqso at mailman.qth.net> wrote: > Bud, > > Our rare ones were: > > Adams 2 > Armstrong 2 > Bedford 1 > Cameron 2 > Fulton 2 > Northumberland 1 > Snyder 1 > Susquehanna 1 > Union 2 > Wayne 2 > > KY3W > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to dave at pkministrywebs.com > -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" From n3cr at yahoo.com Tue Oct 13 15:50:51 2015 From: n3cr at yahoo.com (n3cr at yahoo.com) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:50:51 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Fwd: PaQP N3CR Message-ID: <7v9gxk119w326vp71kfcyifi.1444765851788@email.android.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: PaQP N3CR Single Op LP From: webform at b4h.net To: 3830 at contesting.com,n3cr at yahoo.com CC: Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: N3CR Operator(s): N3CR Station: N3CR Class: Single Op LP QTH: carbon Operating Time (hrs): 17 Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 2 80: 2 153 40: 17 244 1 20: 8 15: 1 10: 1 1 6: 2: --------------------------------------- Total: 22 407 1 0 Mults = 100 Total Score = 45,600 Club: Comments: Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ From kb3orr at comcast.net Tue Oct 13 16:39:54 2015 From: kb3orr at comcast.net (kb3orr at comcast.net) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:39:54 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable Message-ID: <009f01d105f7$5aae2c00$100a8400$@comcast.net> Is anyone able to fill in the standalone summary sheet - http://www.nittany-arc.net/pqppdf/15%20PAQP%20Summary%20Sheet.pdf ? I have tried three different computers all with Adobe Reader 11.0.12 and it does not allow any fields to be filled. Reader pops up an error that the extended features are no longer available. The summary sheet in the package is fillable. I was not sure if the PA QSO folks want the whole 19 page package file sent. Thanks, -Brian, KB3ORR From mjcn3li at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 16:51:24 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:51:24 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable In-Reply-To: <009f01d105f7$5aae2c00$100a8400$@comcast.net> References: <009f01d105f7$5aae2c00$100a8400$@comcast.net> Message-ID: <4E7BDBD3-0D0A-4DDE-BA83-9BB50FE89F7C@gmail.com> Hi Brian, Not certain what the issue is. I tried downloading the file from the website and it works okay. Are you trying to edit the file while you are still in the webpage? some browsers won?t allow that. If you haven?t already, save the file on your computer, then open it directly in Adobe reader. Otherwise, I can operate from the version inside thetotal package . - 73 Mike N3LI - > On Oct 13, 2015, at 4:39 PM, wrote: > > Is anyone able to fill in the standalone summary sheet - http://www.nittany-arc.net/pqppdf/15%20PAQP%20Summary%20Sheet.pdf ? I have tried three different computers all with Adobe Reader 11.0.12 and it does not allow any fields to be filled. Reader pops up an error that the extended features are no longer available. The summary sheet in the package is fillable. I was not sure if the PA QSO folks want the whole 19 page package file sent. > > Thanks, > > -Brian, KB3ORR > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to mjcn3li at gmail.com From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 17:31:15 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:31:15 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable In-Reply-To: <009f01d105f7$5aae2c00$100a8400$@comcast.net> References: <009f01d105f7$5aae2c00$100a8400$@comcast.net> Message-ID: I was unable to fill it in online or after downloading it. I am using Windows 10. I printed it out, filled it in by hand, scanned it, and sent the resulting PDF. 73, Bud AA3B On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, wrote: > Is anyone able to fill in the standalone summary sheet - > http://www.nittany-arc.net/pqppdf/15%20PAQP%20Summary%20Sheet.pdf ? I > have tried three different computers all with Adobe Reader 11.0.12 and it > does not allow any fields to be filled. Reader pops up an error that the > extended features are no longer available. The summary sheet in the > package is fillable. I was not sure if the PA QSO folks want the whole 19 > page package file sent. > > Thanks, > > -Brian, KB3ORR > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to aa3b.bud at gmail.com > From dave at pkministrywebs.com Tue Oct 13 17:06:22 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:06:22 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable In-Reply-To: <4E7BDBD3-0D0A-4DDE-BA83-9BB50FE89F7C@gmail.com> References: <009f01d105f7$5aae2c00$100a8400$@comcast.net> <4E7BDBD3-0D0A-4DDE-BA83-9BB50FE89F7C@gmail.com> Message-ID: HI Guys, I was able to fill in the "total package" summary sheet using Adobe Reader (attached). However, I couldn't fill-in the "stand alone" summary sheet using Adobe Reader. I deleted the other pages in the "total package"... try to fill-in the attached summary sheet... Yes.. Please download first and then opening it with Adobe Reader. 73s Dave from SC WN4AFP On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Michael Coslo wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Not certain what the issue is. I tried downloading the file from the > website and it works okay. > > Are you trying to edit the file while you are still in the webpage? some > browsers won?t allow that. If you haven?t already, save the file on your > computer, then open it directly in Adobe reader. Otherwise, I can operate > from the version inside thetotal package . > > - 73 Mike N3LI - > > > > On Oct 13, 2015, at 4:39 PM, > wrote: > > > > Is anyone able to fill in the standalone summary sheet - > http://www.nittany-arc.net/pqppdf/15%20PAQP%20Summary%20Sheet.pdf ? I > have tried three different computers all with Adobe Reader 11.0.12 and it > does not allow any fields to be filled. Reader pops up an error that the > extended features are no longer available. The summary sheet in the > package is fillable. I was not sure if the PA QSO folks want the whole 19 > page package file sent. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Brian, KB3ORR > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > PaQSO mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to mjcn3li at gmail.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to dave at pkministrywebs.com -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" From kb3orr at comcast.net Tue Oct 13 17:45:39 2015 From: kb3orr at comcast.net (kb3orr at comcast.net) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:45:39 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable In-Reply-To: References: <009f01d105f7$5aae2c00$100a8400$@comcast.net> Message-ID: <01f501d10600$81113410$83339c30$@comcast.net> Same problem using Windows 7. I was going to do the same as Bud however I am able fill in the copy Dave WN4AFP sent over. Thank you Dave! -Brian, KB3ORR From: Bud Trench [mailto:aa3b.bud at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 5:31 PM To: kb3orr at comcast.net Cc: paqso at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable I was unable to fill it in online or after downloading it. I am using Windows 10. I printed it out, filled it in by hand, scanned it, and sent the resulting PDF. 73, Bud AA3B On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, wrote: Is anyone able to fill in the standalone summary sheet - http://www.nittany-arc.net/pqppdf/15%20PAQP%20Summary%20Sheet.pdf ? I have tried three different computers all with Adobe Reader 11.0.12 and it does not allow any fields to be filled. Reader pops up an error that the extended features are no longer available. The summary sheet in the package is fillable. I was not sure if the PA QSO folks want the whole 19 page package file sent. Thanks, -Brian, KB3ORR ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to aa3b.bud at gmail.com From dave at pkministrywebs.com Tue Oct 13 17:48:50 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:48:50 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable In-Reply-To: <01f501d10600$81113410$83339c30$@comcast.net> References: <009f01d105f7$5aae2c00$100a8400$@comcast.net> <01f501d10600$81113410$83339c30$@comcast.net> Message-ID: Glad to help! 73s Dave WN4AFP "Keep your BIC and keep reaching for the Qs" On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:45 PM, wrote: > Same problem using Windows 7. I was going to do the same as Bud however I > am able fill in the copy Dave WN4AFP sent over. > > > > Thank you Dave! > > > > -Brian, KB3ORR > > > > From: Bud Trench [mailto:aa3b.bud at gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 5:31 PM > To: kb3orr at comcast.net > Cc: paqso at mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable > > > > I was unable to fill it in online or after downloading it. I am using > Windows 10. > > > > I printed it out, filled it in by hand, scanned it, and sent the resulting > PDF. > > > > 73, Bud AA3B > > On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, wrote: > > Is anyone able to fill in the standalone summary sheet - > http://www.nittany-arc.net/pqppdf/15%20PAQP%20Summary%20Sheet.pdf ? I > have tried three different computers all with Adobe Reader 11.0.12 and it > does not allow any fields to be filled. Reader pops up an error that the > extended features are no longer available. The summary sheet in the > package is fillable. I was not sure if the PA QSO folks want the whole 19 > page package file sent. > > Thanks, > > -Brian, KB3ORR > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to aa3b.bud at gmail.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to dave at pkministrywebs.com > -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" From tombehler at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 19:02:07 2015 From: tombehler at gmail.com (Tom Behler) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:02:07 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Attention: Mike, N3LI Message-ID: <00fb01d1060b$2fa2f270$8ee8d750$@gmail.com> Mike: Could you send me the best e-mail address for you? Please send to: tombehler at gmail.com I sent you an e-mail the other evening via the e-mail address listed for you on qrz.com, but I did not get a response, so I don't know if you received it. I have some questions about my log submission, and my application for the county sweep recognition. Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, Michigan From n3xls at juno.com Tue Oct 13 19:48:33 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (=?utf-8?B?bjN4bHNAanVuby5jb20=?=) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:48:33 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] =?utf-8?q?Summary_Sheet_not_Fillable?= Message-ID: I couldn't use the form either only the complete package form worked I printed to an xps file and sent it. ----- Reply message ----- From: kb3orr at comcast.net To: "'Bud Trench'" Cc: Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 5:45 PM Same problem using Windows 7. I was going to do the same as Bud however I am able fill in the copy Dave WN4AFP sent over. Thank you Dave! -Brian, KB3ORR From: Bud Trench [mailto:aa3b.bud at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 5:31 PM To: kb3orr at comcast.net Cc: paqso at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable I was unable to fill it in online or after downloading it. I am using Windows 10. I printed it out, filled it in by hand, scanned it, and sent the resulting PDF. 73, Bud AA3B On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, wrote: Is anyone able to fill in the standalone summary sheet - http://www.nittany-arc.net/pqppdf/15%20PAQP%20Summary%20Sheet.pdf ? I have tried three different computers all with Adobe Reader 11.0.12 and it does not allow any fields to be filled. Reader pops up an error that the extended features are no longer available. The summary sheet in the package is fillable. I was not sure if the PA QSO folks want the whole 19 page package file sent. Thanks, -Brian, KB3ORR ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to aa3b.bud at gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ A Balance Transfer Card With An Outrageously Long Intro Rate And No Balance Transfer Fees That Can Save You Thousands http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561d9851cacd718515105st01duc From johngetz24 at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 20:08:01 2015 From: johngetz24 at gmail.com (John Getz) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:08:01 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P Message-ID: I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations calling CQ for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of PA mobiles to work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. John Getz ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) From n2cu at roadrunner.com Tue Oct 13 20:17:17 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (Tom Williams) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:17:17 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] PAQP N2CU/M Message-ID: <9F93868E90F84EEA875F66E21E2DDBE8@696908E74163425> Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: N2CU Operator(s): N2CU Station: N2CU Class: SO Mobile LP QTH: WPA Operating Time (hrs): 16:17 Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 80: 177 46 40: 418 263 20: 26 0 15: 10: 6: 2: --------------------------------------- Total: 621 309 0 0 Mults = 108 Total Score = 174,508 Club: North Coast Contesters Comments: That was fun! I decided to try a different strategy this year. Rather than starting near my home base, and finishing the first night several hours away (at 1 AM no less), I drove to the furthest county I was going to activate and backtracked, ending up with a relatively short ride home. After the contest ended the second day, I was driving along the expressway at 65 MPH when two deer appeared in my headlights, one on the fog line and one on the striped line. I split the difference while locking up the brakes and avoided both. That would have been an awful end to a great weekend. I activated 12 counties this year by selecting locations that minimized travel time between counties. However, some counties are so large that there's no getting around long off times. I knew I was in for a treat when lots of guys were asking if I was going to activate Cameron County. Yes, I was going to in a few hours. When I got there, KB3AGZ was holding a frequency for me and must have been letting everyone else know I was coming. I worked him first and then he turned the frequency over to me. The pileup was great and guys were well behaved. I was thanked a number of times for providing the last county for their sweep. One hour and 12 minutes produced 144 mixed mode QSOs; 119 SSB in 49 minutes. I only worked bonus station W3C five times; a far cry from the big W3TDF operation last year where I got 28 bonus station QSOs. 60 out of 67 counties (I missed 3 counties that I activated myself), 47 SPC and 1 DX. The high bands never opened for me; I checked them constantly but no go. The only DX (SM6BZV) was ESP weak. Although my QSO count was up from last year, fewer bonus station points meant a lower score. Bummer. I had hoped to do better and even set a goal of 1000 QSOs. Maybe next year. Special thanks to QSO leaders AA3B & K2SSS (18), NO3M (17), WA3HAE & K8NYG (13), WA4GQG (12), K3PP & W1DWA (11), AA3LX, N3RN & W9QL (10) and many others with multiple contacts who I knew would be worked in each county I visited. Please look for me operating mobile in the NYQP this Saturday. K3, KA8KIP Eliminator screwdriver, N1MM+ 73, Tom N2CU <>< From n2cu at roadrunner.com Tue Oct 13 20:25:46 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (Tom Williams) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:25:46 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Special Thanks to Mobiles and Rovers Message-ID: <053AE47EB5E948A0B07CDC3A3B8A4940@696908E74163425> You're welcome. It's always a blast operating this QSO party. 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 From mark.j.schreiner at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 20:39:44 2015 From: mark.j.schreiner at gmail.com (Mark Schreiner) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:39:44 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Results of N3IW from Clinton County, Portable Multi-Op QRP Message-ID: This year I decided to do something a little different than my typical portable QRP activity to a rare county to try to break a record. For several years I have asked Chip, N3IW, if he would like to operate PA QSO Party and this was finally the year that he said he would like to give it a shot. So, we planned a Multi-Op Portable effort. We were not sure if we could do QRP as such, so we checked with Mike, N3LI, and he authorized it, although nobody is sure if that had ever been done before. If anyone knows of a previous portable multi-op QRP effort, please let me know, otherwise, I am going to declare ours to be the first! We ended up operating at the Holiday Pines Campground located just off the Loganton Exit of I-80 in eastern Clinton County, located within just a few miles from Center, Union and Lycoming Counties, but not close enough to be a county line. I had operated from that same campground in 2010 when I rented a cabin and operated Single Op QRP. This year we took Chip's RV trailer and operated from RV site #74, although our antennas spanned sites 72 - 76 and luckily there were no other campers in those sites. You could hear traffic from I-80 nearby but otherwise the campground is very quiet and seems very nice. The owners were very friendly to our operation and I reminded them that I had operated from there a few years ago as well - they remembered. It is located between exits 185 and 192 but a bit closer to exit 185. I thought propagation was a bit challenging and I was missing several counties and quite a few multipliers and came up a few QSOs short compared to previous years when I operated in Somerset in 2013, Mifflin in 2012 and Cameron on 2011 (in 2014 I was operating in support of the multi-county Bonus Station effort as W3TDF/CLE from downtown Clearfield with antennas on the roof of the Dimeling Hotel using 100W so I won't count that activity), but we had a great time. Here is a summary of our results, showing a really big lack of Q's (not for any lack of effort) on 20m. Of course with QRP, CW is quite a bit easier than SSB, although I have in the past had about a 50/50 split between CW & SSB QSOs: Band Mode QSOs 1.8 CW 14 3.5 CW 118 3.5 LSB 99 7 CW 175 7 LSB 70 14 CW 29 14 USB 2 Total Both 507 CW QSOs: 336 SSB QSOs: 171 Points: 843 2x multiplier for QRP = 1686 Counties: 60 (missed ARM, BED, CLE, FOR, JUN, NUM and UNI) Sections: 43 Score before Bonus = 173,658 Bonus Station QSOs = 4 x 200 points each = 800 points (160m, 80m and 40m CW and 75m SSB) Total Score : 174,458 I heard many of the counties listed above that I missed but they were doing S&P at the time and if they ended up running I sure didn't find them. We had three major highlights in the contest. First and foremost was working Ray, W3TDF, aka Da Grump on 40m SSB a couple of hours in to the start of the contest (+1 to what John, KD8MQ already said!). Second was breaking through the pileup to work N2CU/m in Cameron. I worked Tom while he was in four different counties and I sure wish I had found him while he was in Forest. I think we missed most of the other mobile operations, unfortunately. Third was breaking the Clinton County multi-op record that had been set in 1997 (actually broken before midnight on Saturday). As others have said, thanks to the mobiles and rovers but also to the portable stations who activate counties that aren't well represented otherwise. Now that I'm warmed up from PAQP, I can't wait for other contests of the upcoming season, such as November Sweepstakes, ARRL 10m, various 160m 'tests and of course the CQ WW Contests at the end of this month and next month. 73 and already looking forward to next year! Mark, NK8Q (on behalf of the N3IW team) From n2cu at roadrunner.com Tue Oct 13 21:02:29 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (Tom Williams) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:02:29 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] OK, now what? Message-ID: <5A193A0267ED42F6BF79056F3FBE9AF0@696908E74163425> OK my PA friends, now that the party is over, what is there to do? Check out the NYQP this Saturday. I will be operating mobile through some rare central NY counties. Please stop by and give me (and others) a shout. There are some 48 plaques available to in- and out- of state ops, including one I sponsor (first county sweep). 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 From numbnutz33 at verizon.net Tue Oct 13 21:04:13 2015 From: numbnutz33 at verizon.net (Steve Forst) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:04:13 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] KW3A from DCO Message-ID: <561DAA0D.1000607@verizon.net> Had a great time, as usual. Missed the sweep, as usual. From the home station in Delaware county I worked a total of 728 QSO's. 415 SSB and 313 CW. 127 mults and 4 bonus contacts put me right at 133,000. Except for 10 meters, I made contacts on all bands from 160 through 6 meters. Nice to run into people I only see once a year. Tnx to the mobiles, rovers, and rare county ops. Looking forward to next year. If I can increase my CW speed, and reduce the number of "?" I have to send, that elusive 1,000 QSO total may be mine someday. 73, Steve KW3A DCO From mjcn3li at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 21:35:13 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:35:13 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I?ll upload another one, and see if that cures the problem. On a W10 machine I got some ?extended features? gobbledygook, so there is a problem with the one on the website and PC?s at least. - 73 MIke N3LI - > On Oct 13, 2015, at 7:48 PM, n3xls at juno.com wrote: > > I couldn't use the form either only the complete package form worked I printed to an xps file and sent it. > > > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: kb3orr at comcast.net > To: "'Bud Trench'" > Cc: > Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable > Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 5:45 PM > > > Same problem using Windows 7. I was going to do the same as Bud however I am able fill in the copy Dave WN4AFP sent over. > > > > Thank you Dave! > > > > -Brian, KB3ORR > > > > From: Bud Trench [mailto:aa3b.bud at gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 5:31 PM > To: kb3orr at comcast.net > Cc: paqso at mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable > > > > I was unable to fill it in online or after downloading it. I am using Windows 10. > > > > I printed it out, filled it in by hand, scanned it, and sent the resulting PDF. > > > > 73, Bud AA3B > > On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, wrote: > > Is anyone able to fill in the standalone summary sheet - http://www.nittany-arc.net/pqppdf/15%20PAQP%20Summary%20Sheet.pdf ? I have tried three different computers all with Adobe Reader 11.0.12 and it does not allow any fields to be filled. Reader pops up an error that the extended features are no longer available. The summary sheet in the package is fillable. I was not sure if the PA QSO folks want the whole 19 page package file sent. > > Thanks, > > -Brian, KB3ORR > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to aa3b.bud at gmail.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com > > > ____________________________________________________________ > A Balance Transfer Card With An Outrageously Long Intro Rate And No Balance Transfer Fees That Can Save You Thousands > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561d9851cacd718515105st01duc > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to mjcn3li at gmail.com From mark.j.schreiner at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 21:49:15 2015 From: mark.j.schreiner at gmail.com (Mark Schreiner) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:49:15 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] 2015 Plaque Sponsors Message-ID: Now that the fun is over for the 2015 PA QSO Party some work is yet to be done by Mike, N3LI, of the Nittany ARC. I've tried to contact sponsors of the plaques as listed on the website and from my spreadsheet of contacts from last year. While I have heard back from most there are still a few that I have not heard back from yet. In some cases I did not get a reply but Mike got payment, so those are not included below. I have not heard back yet from the following sponsors: *Plaque Sponsor (contact)* Canadian Division Columbia-Montour ARC (Bob, K3QIA) Multi-Op Multi Tx Reading Radio Club (Rich, W3WJC) Medium Power EPA Duane Traver, WV2B Multi-Op Single Tx Tuscorora ARA If you are listed above, please contact me immediately to let me know if you still wish to sponsor the plaque for 2015. If you already contacted me this year and I missed your reply, I apologize in advance! If you are associated with one of the organizations above and know of a current/updated contact information, please forward the correct information so that I can contact the right person. I know that club officers change on an annual basis, so my contact info from the previous year may no longer be valid. On behalf of Mike, N3LI, Chairman of the PA QSO Party, the Nittany ARC and all the participants of the 2015 PA QSO Party, thank you for those who sponsored plaques! Thank you and 73, Mark, NK8Q From mjcn3li at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 22:04:42 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:04:42 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Summary Sheet not Fillable In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <32E564E6-D4F1-44AE-9AFC-C59193EAAB06@gmail.com> There was an issue with the summary sheet I uploaded to the website. As far as I can tell, something got corrupted when it was uploaded. I have it fixed now. I uploaded a new copy of the file, with a different name, and changed the link on the forms page as well You can either get it there, or download it via this link: http://www.nittany-arc.net/15%20PAQP%20Summary%20Sheet-1.pdf The file you get should be 15 PAQP Summary Sheet-1.pdf If no -1, it is the old file, and you have it in your browser cache. I?ve tried it out, and it works on a completely different PC, so hopefully that will solve the problem for good. Everyone should make certain they are using the latest version of adobe reader, or whichever reader they use that will allow filling out forms. Really sorry for the confusion and the delay. As always, let me know if there are any problems or any help needed. - 73 Mike N3LI - From rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com Wed Oct 14 04:57:28 2015 From: rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com (Pete K0BAK) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:57:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] PaQP K0BAK/R In-Reply-To: <20151014083537.7262.43553@b4h.net> References: <20151014083537.7262.43553@b4h.net> Message-ID: <1461765483.100113.1444813048409.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Pennsylvania QSO Party Call: K0BAK/R Class: Rover Single Op HP Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs RTTY Qs PSK31 Qs --------------------------------------- 160: 80: 12 40: 1 311 20: 22 15: 10: --------------------------------------- Total: 1 345 0 0 Mults = 97 (55 counties, 41 sections, 1 DX) County activation bonus = 5500 (11 x 500) Total Score = 39,159 Club: Pottstown Area ARC Comments: Again had a fun time running around PA counties. More than doubled my score from last year. Activated south central counties CMB, BLA, BED, SOM, FUL, MIF, JUN, PER, DAU, LEB, LAN. Spent too much time in most locations, so missed getting to FRA, HUN, BER. Was more aggressive this year elbowing into a 40m frequency to call CQ. "High" power was "only" 400 watts. Can't hang after 10PM. Location in PER was so isolated, I thought my radio was disconnected because there was no noise. OTOH, my JUN location was so noisy I couldn't complete some contacts calling me with reasonable signals; need to find a better spot. Thanks to the sponsors and organizers (but you really need to nix those multiple summary sheets; all the info is in the log file). Shout outs to: KB3SGY, triple county operation and only ARM contact. AB3AH, fellow PAARC members camping out on county line and only FUL contact. W1KMA/RI, great signal and great audio. Four+ contacts, thanks for being reliable: K3CCR/MDC, K3MX, KB8TYJ/MI, KV4LV/SC, N3SBR, N3JDR, N3ZK, W1KDA/RI, W1KMA/RI, W3SO, W3VPJ/SNY. Unique county contacts, thanks for being there: K3ZA/CHE, KC3DBG/CMB, N3MIE/COL, KB3YJC/DAU, AA3JK/GRE, K3BVU/LAC, W3FI/LAW, KA3UOL/MIF, W3MF/MTR, W3AYT/PHL, N3LI/M/PER, NR3K/TIO, WB3AFS/VEN, W3AI/WAY. Lastly, thanks to all the stations who stumbled onto my lonely calls on Saturday night and Sunday morning with the patience to give me a contest exchange with serial # 1. Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/ From K9CAV at aol.com Tue Oct 13 23:42:47 2015 From: K9CAV at aol.com (Les Dershem) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:42:47 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] (no subject) Message-ID: <001f01d10632$65191890$2f4b49b0$@com> I enjoyed the party, even though I missed a clean sweep by just 5 counties. Made 173 contacts, not bad from southwest Ohio, running only 100 watts into a G5RV peaked at 45'. Would have used the beams, but the rotor cable went bad, and my antenna is now pointed north! Timing sucks! From n3xls at juno.com Wed Oct 14 09:01:33 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (=?utf-8?B?bjN4bHNAanVuby5jb20=?=) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:01:33 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] =?utf-8?q?CQ_vrs_S=26P?= Message-ID: Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure more mobile activity. I think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more incentives to go mobile would help. Rover category took off in recent years and I think that took a hit on the amount of mobiles. Maybe mobiles need a score formula where the rare counties and number of stations worked and number of counties activated all play a part in the score. I am not a mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents. I am just following the old advice of whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a rare county or have a game plan of lighting up several counties. I know for the past 15 year no one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. ----- Reply message ----- From: "John Getz" To: Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations calling CQ for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of PA mobiles to work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. John Getz ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ A Balance Transfer Card With An Outrageously Long Intro Rate And No Balance Transfer Fees That Can Save You Thousands http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561e522e6ef70522c207bst02vuc From wn3vaw at verizon.net Wed Oct 14 09:57:20 2015 From: wn3vaw at verizon.net (Ron Notarius W3WN) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:57:20 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P Message-ID: <16690332.1403263.1444831040163.JavaMail.root@vznit170164.mailsrvcs.net> With all due respect to John, I disagree that shortening the contest to one day would improve things. More activity on the upper bands during the afternoons and Sunday morning time slots would be better incentive for the out of state stations, especially those states further away from the Northeast. Something that will become a little tougher over the next few years, now that we're on the downside of the solar cycle. And certainly encouraging more operators to run Mobile or Rover would be a big help as well. But compressing the event into a single day? (Would we just drop Sunday? If so, would the Saturday start time change? How about the Saturday night/Sunday morning end time, would it be extended?) No, I just don't see it. There will always be the Sunday doldrums where it's getting tougher to find people to work. It's part of many contests, including the major ones. Working around or through that comes into a station's strategy. But simply lopping the time out altogether? You penalize those who had a late start, or are only available to operate on Sunday (try running PaQP with a local start time of 11 PM because you had not one but TWO weddings and receptions on Saturday! ), or who have switched to S&P as they are hunting those last few ellusive counties. No. Leave the operating dates/times alone. Find other ways to get more ops on the air, especially on Sundays. That's my opinion. YMMV, of course. 73, ron w3wn On 10/14/15, n3xls at juno.com wrote: Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure more mobile activity. I think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more incentives to go mobile would help. Rover category took off in recent years and I think that took a hit on the amount of mobiles. Maybe mobiles need a score formula where the rare counties and number of stations worked and number of counties activated all play a part in the score. I am not a mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents. I am just following the old advice of whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a rare county or have a game plan of lighting up several counties. I know for the past 15 year no one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. ----- Reply message ----- From: "John Getz" To: Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations calling CQ for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of PA mobiles to work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. John Getz ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ A Balance Transfer Card With An Outrageously Long Intro Rate And No Balance Transfer Fees That Can Save You Thousands http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561e522e6ef70522c207bst02vuc ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wn3vaw at verizon.net From wxduff at gmail.com Wed Oct 14 10:08:40 2015 From: wxduff at gmail.com (Evan Duffey) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:08:40 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A simple adjustment to the rules to encourage rare county activation: Current Rules: 12. PA Mobile operation Bonus points 12.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each county you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. 13. PA Rover operation Bonus points 13.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each location you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. New Rules: 12. PA Mobile Bonus Points 12a. Rare Counties: The following ten counties have been determined rare by the PAQSO party staff (insert 10 rarest counties over the last 5 years). Add 1000 points to your final score for each rare county where you made at least 10 QSOs. Add 500 points to your final score for each non-rare county where you made at least 10 QSOs. 12b. Add 250 points to your final score for each location you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. Just a suggestion Evan N3TWM On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 AM, n3xls at juno.com wrote: > Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure more mobile activity. I > think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more incentives to go > mobile would help. Rover category took off in recent years and I think > that took a hit on the amount of mobiles. > > Maybe mobiles need a score formula where the rare counties and number of > stations worked and number of counties activated all play a part in the > score. > > I am not a mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents. I am just following > the old advice of whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a > rare county or have a game plan of lighting up several counties. I know > for the past 15 year no one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "John Getz" > To: > Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P > Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM > > > I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations > calling CQ for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a > two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to > attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of > PA mobiles to work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be > easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. > More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ > as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be > interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. > > > John Getz > ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com > ____________________________________________________________ > A Balance Transfer Card With An Outrageously Long Intro Rate And No > Balance Transfer Fees That Can Save You Thousands > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561e522e6ef70522c207bst02vuc > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wxduff at gmail.com > From n3bud at pa.metrocast.net Wed Oct 14 10:34:23 2015 From: n3bud at pa.metrocast.net (n3bud) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:34:23 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P Message-ID: How about lowering the price of gas and maintenance. ?Most likely this and less than perfect band conditions account for the decline. ?Since mobiles are already in their own category I question any changes to the scoring system making a difference. Mike, N3BUD Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone-------- Original message --------From: Evan Duffey Date: 10/14/2015 10:08 AM (GMT-05:00) To: n3xls at juno.com Cc: paqso at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P A simple adjustment to the rules to encourage rare county activation: Current Rules: 12. PA Mobile operation Bonus points 12.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each county you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. 13. PA Rover operation Bonus points 13.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each location you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. New Rules: 12. PA Mobile Bonus Points 12a. Rare Counties: The following ten counties have been determined rare by the PAQSO party staff (insert 10 rarest counties over the last 5 years). Add 1000 points to your final score for each rare county where you made at least 10 QSOs. Add 500 points to your final score for each non-rare county where you made at least 10 QSOs. 12b. Add 250 points to your final score for each location you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. Just a suggestion Evan N3TWM On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 AM, n3xls at juno.com wrote: > Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure more mobile activity.? I > think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more incentives to go > mobile would help.? Rover category took off in recent years and I think > that took a hit on the? amount of mobiles. > > Maybe mobiles need a score formula where the rare counties and number of > stations worked and number of counties activated all play a part in the > score. > > I am not a mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents.? I am just following > the old advice of whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a > rare county or have a game plan of lighting up several counties.? I know > for the past 15 year no one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "John Getz" > To: > Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P > Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM > > > I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations > calling CQ for PA contacts.? I was one of the callers.? With this being a > two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to > attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P.? There was also a shortage of > PA mobiles to work.? I think PA should be a one day contest.? It would be > easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. > More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ > as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available.? I'd be > interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. > > > John Getz > ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com > ____________________________________________________________ > A Balance Transfer Card With An Outrageously Long Intro Rate And No > Balance Transfer Fees That Can Save You Thousands > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561e522e6ef70522c207bst02vuc > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wxduff at gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3bud at pa.metrocast.net From jimk8mr at aol.com Wed Oct 14 11:39:10 2015 From: jimk8mr at aol.com (jimk8mr at aol.com) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:39:10 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <15067015000-1907-7d22@webprd-m53.mail.aol.com> Some observations from a long time mobile participant in PA and several other states. And I think I speak for a number of mobile contesting friends: 1. Scoring systems have very little to do with the decision to head out. If we are competing, we are competing against other mobiles who will be under the same scoring system. 2. One minor exception to the above: One of the thrills of mobile contesting is knowing that a lot of the time we'll be a much appreciated new multiplier for somebody. PAQP has, to its credit, a huge bunch of dedicated ops who do a good job of activating nearly all the counties. But many of these guys are phone ops only. If multipliers were given for each mode, there would be a lot of places that I'd be a new multiplier on CW, even though there had been phone activity from that county. However, even this change would be a minor factor. 3. Two days is unappealing. The two days of operating is not bad, but finding a motel in the far reaches (especially if Penn State is playing a home football game), getting there close to 1 AM, and then being up and on the road by 9 am sucks. Plus, I (and I suspect many others) prefer not blowing off an entire weekend to radio. 4. As I have previously written, the Rover category is great for phone operation. The couple extra S-units with a real antenna on 40 and 80 makes a huge difference on SSB. But one still wants to also be able to operate while between stops. I strongly recommend allowing rovers to operate while moving. If that were the case, I'd spend most of the time parked doing SSB, and most of the time while moving operating CW. 5. Mobile contesting does cost money. For me two full days in PA involves pushing a thousand miles, including my travel on the Ohio side of the state line. That's 40 or so gallons of gas, plus a motel. (And maybe the Turnpike tolls!). That doesn't force me to eat cat food to make up for a weekend, but it is enough to notice. 6. To get back to the question of two days vs. one, it would be interesting to see the logs of various levels of competitors. How are their rates on the second day? Are they taking lots of time off? Do people quit while the Steelers or Eagles are on TV? Is Sunday really fun, or just a cost of being a serious competitor? 73 - Jim K8MR Hickory HS (Sharon, PA) '67 -----Original Message----- From: n3bud To: Evan Duffey ; n3xls Cc: paqso Sent: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 10:35 am Subject: Re: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P How about lowering the price of gas and maintenance. Most likely this and less than perfect band conditions account for the decline. Since mobiles are already in their own category I question any changes to the scoring system making a difference. Mike, N3BUD A simple adjustment to the rules to encourage rare county activation: Current Rules: 12. PA Mobile operation Bonus points 12.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each county you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. 13. PA Rover operation Bonus points 13.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each location you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. New Rules: 12. PA Mobile Bonus Points 12a. Rare Counties: The following ten counties have been determined rare by the PAQSO party staff (insert 10 rarest counties over the last 5 years). Add 1000 points to your final score for each rare county where you made at least 10 QSOs. Add 500 points to your final score for each non-rare county where you made at least 10 QSOs. 12b. Add 250 points to your final score for each location you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. Just a suggestion Evan N3TWM On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 AM, n3xls at juno.com wrote: > Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure more mobile activity. I > think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more incentives to go > mobile would help. Rover category took off in recent years and I think > that took a hit on the amount of mobiles. > > Maybe mobiles need a score formula where the rare counties and number of > stations worked and number of counties activated all play a part in the > score. > > I am not a mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents. I am just following > the old advice of whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a > rare county or have a game plan of lighting up several counties. I know > for the past 15 year no one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "John Getz" > To: > Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P > Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM > > > I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations > calling CQ for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a > two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to > attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of > PA mobiles to work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be > easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. > More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ > as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be > interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. > > > John Getz > ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) > From rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com Wed Oct 14 11:38:06 2015 From: rxr978-vhf at yahoo.com (Pete K0BAK) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:38:06 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] warning on PDF calculations and confirm rule for county line QSOs? References: <1024484554.253615.1444837086615.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1024484554.253615.1444837086615.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> I was bleary-eyed last night importing my log into a spreadsheet and doing the calculations needed by the per-county worksheets required by rovers (and mobiles). As others have commented, this activity is definitely a negative enticement to participation. Obviously the faster way to submit multiple worksheets is to copy a PDF file for one county into the next county file and edit it (since most of the info is identical). But, I noticed that the computations in the PDF are incomplete; after changing the QSO counts, the point total doesn't change on the right hand column and therefore the total doesn't change. If you're a rover/mobile, don't make assumptions about the PDF calculations, verify everything with your own calculations. My logger N1MM computed a higher total score than me. One reason is that I had forgotten that the 2 Penn. sections can be counted along with non-PA sections (this is pretty unusual). The only other discrepancy I can think of is for county line operations. For example, I thought that when you contact a 3-county station, that you counted 3 counties BUT ONLY ONE QSO. However, when I went back to read the rules, it's not clear ... the rules say that the county-line station gives out a single serial number, but that's not the same as explicitly saying that there is only one QSO point. So, do I count a 3-county county-line station as 3 QSOs or 1 QSO? Hope this isn't a dumb question. -- Pete K0BAK From dave at pkministrywebs.com Wed Oct 14 12:08:37 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:08:37 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Good morning PAQP'ers The PAQP states on the website that *"Mobiles and Rovers are truly the heart and soul of the Pennsylvania QSO Party."....* Active Mobile & Rover operators is the Key to a vibrant QSO Party. I've participated in all of the state/regional QPs since I returned to ham radio in 2013. I was a county hunter, net control station and county runner in my previous chapter in ham radio and have been licensed since 1975. I've spent almost a year retooling the SCQP to increase on-air participation. Features included new rules, new scoring, multiple bonus stations and new awards. We received 90 logs last year. So far, we've received 150 logs and our deadline is the 20th. One weakness was that we needed more mobile/rover operators. Some ideas for increasing mobile activity for any QP.... We've implemented some of these in our QP and considering others for 2016. 1. Create scoring incentives... I like the ideas that XLS just posted. Increase scoring as the mobile/rover activates more counties. Perhaps they receive 2 mults for every county activated...Perhaps a mobile would receive more points per QSO and for fixed stations a mobile QSO is worth more points. Some QP already do this. 2. Make the contest logging/reporting as easy as possible for the mobile operator. Logging serial numbers my be difficult for 'new' first-time mobiles. If you run 20+ counties, then you have to complete 20+ summary forms. Create an online mobile summary form which includes data fields for each county and one submission and attach the complete cabrillo file. 3. Have specific mobile awards categories. Create "Single Op without Drive" and a "Single Op with Driver" categories. Have "Multi-Single" and "Multi-Multi" mobile categories. It's difficult for a "single op no driver" to compete with a "single op with driver' operation. The single op with driver seems to be a huge incentive. We had a dual-car team run "Multi-Multi" in the SCQP. 4. Publish/promote the mobile routes/trips - Post trip details on the website for the mobiles/rovers. 5. Recruit, recruit, recruit.. Identify as many possible /m operators as possible... Contact mobiles from previous years. Contact active county hunters etc. Begin this process today for the 2016 event. You can never recruit enough mobile ops. You may have contact 10-15 to get one solid operator. 6. Give a mobile/rover station "Bonus Station" status. 7. Recruit mixed mode ops.- Two of our cw mobiles cancelled on us a week before the QP. I would have loved to had a few more "mixed" mode mobile ops. It's like a college football team... you have to recruit new players every year.. and many more... . I love the challenge of the QPs... IMO, the PAQP is definitely on my top 10 list. I plan to attend this one again next year. What new twist will the PAQP offer for 2016? I can't wait to find out. Please support N2CU/m in his NYQP adventure this weekend. . 73s Dave WN4AFP (member of the SCQP Team) www.scqso.com On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 AM, n3xls at juno.com wrote: > Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure more mobile activity. I > think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more incentives to go > mobile would help. Rover category took off in recent years and I think > that took a hit on the amount of mobiles. > > Maybe mobiles need a score formula where the rare counties and number of > stations worked and number of counties activated all play a part in the > score. > > I am not a mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents. I am just following > the old advice of whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a > rare county or have a game plan of lighting up several counties. I know > for the past 15 year no one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "John Getz" > To: > Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P > Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM > > > I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations > calling CQ for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a > two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to > attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of > PA mobiles to work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be > easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. > More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ > as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be > interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. > > > John Getz > ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com > ____________________________________________________________ > A Balance Transfer Card With An Outrageously Long Intro Rate And No > Balance Transfer Fees That Can Save You Thousands > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561e522e6ef70522c207bst02vuc > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to dave at pkministrywebs.com -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" From wmorganjr at verizon.net Wed Oct 14 12:46:49 2015 From: wmorganjr at verizon.net (Chip Morgan) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:46:49 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: <15067015000-1907-7d22@webprd-m53.mail.aol.com> References: <15067015000-1907-7d22@webprd-m53.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: <561E86F9.3070307@verizon.net> I feel compelled to throw in my 2 cents worth from a Portable perspective. I don't believe that any changes in the scoring will have a large impact on mobile participation. As far as the duration of the contest, 2 days is what makes it worthwhile to mount a serious portable operation. If the contest were one day, I would not consider traveling to a destination, setting up multiple antennas, and then spend all the hours operating. As it is, it's a 4-day operation for what I like to do. If it were shortened to one day of contesting, I wouldn't bother doing all the prep work, loading the camper, finding the "rare" county and then going out and doing it. The overnight break makes it possible to have one operator be effective for the entire contest duration. I understand that mobiles and rovers have a bit more work involved during the contest, but portable operation of any magnitude really isn't worthwhile without the 2 day span. I think the distinction between Rover and Mobile is necessary and is fine the way it is. The solution to the Phone vs. CW balance is to have some more CW operators roving. That is not something that's going to change unless someone wants to actually do it. Portable operation is not usually a free endeavor either. But, it is factored into my decision of whether to do it or not. And towing a 32 foot trailer can eat up some gas, especially to a distant locale. As far as rates on one day vs. another, I find them to be fairly consistent, but in a "rare" county you find more people actively searching you out on the second day. Plus, there's a lot of new calls on Sunday (worked many low serial numbers Sunday afternoon). We sat at the radios for essentially the entire contesting period (nature breaks are much easier in a camper than in a mobile). I am not denigrating Mobile/Rover operation by any means nor am I suggesting that Portable is any better or more difficult. I think one of the things that makes the PA QSO Party a fun operating event is choosing what category to operate and where to operate. There can be a lot of strategy involved in the contest planning or it can be just getting on the air for a few hours. There's something for everybody. And really is a friendly, fun contest to participate in. Thanks to everyone who make it a success every year, both participants and organizers. 73, Chip N3IW On 10/14/2015 11:39, jimk8mr--- via PaQSO wrote: > Some observations from a long time mobile participant in PA and several other states. And I think I speak for a number of mobile contesting friends: > > > 1. Scoring systems have very little to do with the decision to head out. If we are competing, we are competing against other mobiles who will be under the same scoring system. > > > 2. One minor exception to the above: One of the thrills of mobile contesting is knowing that a lot of the time we'll be a much appreciated new multiplier for somebody. PAQP has, to its credit, a huge bunch of dedicated ops who do a good job of activating nearly all the counties. But many of these guys are phone ops only. If multipliers were given for each mode, there would be a lot of places that I'd be a new multiplier on CW, even though there had been phone activity from that county. However, even this change would be a minor factor. > > > 3. Two days is unappealing. The two days of operating is not bad, but finding a motel in the far reaches (especially if Penn State is playing a home football game), getting there close to 1 AM, and then being up and on the road by 9 am sucks. Plus, I (and I suspect many others) prefer not blowing off an entire weekend to radio. > > > 4. As I have previously written, the Rover category is great for phone operation. The couple extra S-units with a real antenna on 40 and 80 makes a huge difference on SSB. But one still wants to also be able to operate while between stops. I strongly recommend allowing rovers to operate while moving. If that were the case, I'd spend most of the time parked doing SSB, and most of the time while moving operating CW. > > > 5. Mobile contesting does cost money. For me two full days in PA involves pushing a thousand miles, including my travel on the Ohio side of the state line. That's 40 or so gallons of gas, plus a motel. (And maybe the Turnpike tolls!). That doesn't force me to eat cat food to make up for a weekend, but it is enough to notice. > > > 6. To get back to the question of two days vs. one, it would be interesting to see the logs of various levels of competitors. How are their rates on the second day? Are they taking lots of time off? Do people quit while the Steelers or Eagles are on TV? Is Sunday really fun, or just a cost of being a serious competitor? > > > > > 73 - Jim K8MR > > > Hickory HS (Sharon, PA) '67 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: n3bud > To: Evan Duffey ; n3xls > Cc: paqso > Sent: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 10:35 am > Subject: Re: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P > > > How about lowering the price of gas and maintenance. Most likely this and less > than perfect band conditions account for the decline. Since mobiles are already > in their own category I question any changes to the scoring system making a > difference. > Mike, N3BUD > > > A simple adjustment to > the rules to encourage rare county activation: > > Current Rules: > 12. PA Mobile > operation Bonus points > 12.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each county you > operated from where > you made at least 10 QSOs. > 13. PA Rover operation Bonus > points > 13.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each location you operated > from > where you made at least 10 QSOs. > > New Rules: > 12. PA Mobile Bonus > Points > 12a. Rare Counties: The following ten counties have been determined rare > by > the PAQSO party staff (insert 10 rarest counties over the last 5 years). > Add > 1000 points to your final score for each rare county where you made at > least 10 > QSOs. Add 500 points to your final score for each non-rare county > where you made > at least 10 QSOs. > 12b. Add 250 points to your final score for each location you > operated from > where you made at least 10 QSOs. > > Just a > suggestion > > Evan > N3TWM > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 AM, n3xls at juno.com > wrote: > >> Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure > more mobile activity. I >> think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more > incentives to go >> mobile would help. Rover category took off in recent years > and I think >> that took a hit on the amount of mobiles. >> >> Maybe mobiles need > a score formula where the rare counties and number of >> stations worked and > number of counties activated all play a part in the >> score. >> >> I am not a > mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents. I am just following >> the old advice of > whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a >> rare county or have > a game plan of lighting up several counties. I know >> for the past 15 year no > one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. >> ----- Reply message > ----- >> From: "John Getz" >> To: >> > Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P >> Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM >> >> >> I concur > with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations >> calling CQ > for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a >> two day > contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to >> attract the > casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of >> PA mobiles to > work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be >> easier for the > mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. >> More mobiles to chase > means out of station stations don't have to call CQ >> as much as new counties > and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be >> interested in hearing what > others think about making PA a one day contest. >> >> John Getz >> ?, AD8J? (Long > time PA resident now retired in NC) > > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wmorganjr at verizon.net From mjcn3li at gmail.com Wed Oct 14 13:50:59 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:50:59 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] warning on PDF calculations and confirm rule for county line QSOs? In-Reply-To: <1024484554.253615.1444837086615.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1024484554.253615.1444837086615.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <1024484554.253615.1444837086615.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4C731883-22AC-488D-84EF-13D41BD5A583@gmail.com> It?s one QSO. If your next serial number is 100, that is the QSO number you give the county line station If it?s a 3 county line, you get the mults but only one QSO point. - 73 Mike N3LI - > On Oct 14, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Pete K0BAK via PaQSO wrote: > > I was bleary-eyed last night importing my log into a spreadsheet and doing the calculations needed by the per-county worksheets required by rovers (and mobiles). As others have commented, this activity is definitely a negative enticement to participation. From n3bud at pa.metrocast.net Wed Oct 14 13:52:45 2015 From: n3bud at pa.metrocast.net (n3bud at pa.metrocast.net) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:52:45 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P References: <15067015000-1907-7d22@webprd-m53.mail.aol.com> <561E86F9.3070307@verizon.net> Message-ID: <561E966B.000025.05760@MANCAVE> Chip, As a fellow portable operator I am in agreement with it not being worth the effort if it were reduced to a one day event. Mike, N3BUD for WQ3N -------Original Message------- From: Chip Morgan Date: 10/14/15 12:47:26 To: jimk8mr at aol.com; paqso at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P I feel compelled to throw in my 2 cents worth from a Portable perspective. I don't believe that any changes in the scoring will have a large impact on mobile participation. As far as the duration of the contest, 2 days is what makes it worthwhile to mount a serious portable operation. If the contest were one day, I would not consider traveling to a destination, setting up multiple antennas, and then spend all the hours operating. As it is, it's a 4-day operation for what I like to do. If it were shortened to one day of contesting, I wouldn't bother doing all the prep work, loading the camper, finding the "rare" county and then going out and doing it. The overnight break makes it possible to have one operator be effective for the entire contest duration. I understand that mobiles and rovers have a bit more work involved during the contest, but portable operation of any magnitude really isn't worthwhile without the 2 day span. I think the distinction between Rover and Mobile is necessary and is fine the way it is. The solution to the Phone vs. CW balance is to have some more CW operators roving. That is not something that's going to change unless someone wants to actually do it. Portable operation is not usually a free endeavor either. But, it is factored into my decision of whether to do it or not. And towing a 32 foot trailer can eat up some gas, especially to a distant locale. As far as rates on one day vs. another, I find them to be fairly consistent, but in a "rare" county you find more people actively searching you out on the second day. Plus, there's a lot of new calls on Sunday (worked many low serial numbers Sunday afternoon). We sat at the radios for essentially the entire contesting period (nature breaks are much easier in a camper than in a mobile). I am not denigrating Mobile/Rover operation by any means nor am I suggesting that Portable is any better or more difficult. I think one of the things that makes the PA QSO Party a fun operating event is choosing what category to operate and where to operate. There can be a lot of strategy involved in the contest planning or it can be just getting on the air for a few hours. There's something for everybody. And really is a friendly, fun contest to participate in. Thanks to everyone who make it a success every year, both participants and organizers. 73, Chip N3IW On 10/14/2015 11:39, jimk8mr--- via PaQSO wrote: > Some observations from a long time mobile participant in PA and several other states. And I think I speak for a number of mobile contesting friends: > > > 1. Scoring systems have very little to do with the decision to head out. If we are competing, we are competing against other mobiles who will be under the same scoring system. > > > 2. One minor exception to the above: One of the thrills of mobile contesting is knowing that a lot of the time we'll be a much appreciated new multiplier for somebody. PAQP has, to its credit, a huge bunch of dedicated ops who do a good job of activating nearly all the counties. But many of these guys are phone ops only. If multipliers were given for each mode, there would be a lot of places that I'd be a new multiplier on CW, even though there had been phone activity from that county. However, even this change would be a minor factor. > > > 3. Two days is unappealing. The two days of operating is not bad, but finding a motel in the far reaches (especially if Penn State is playing a home football game), getting there close to 1 AM, and then being up and on the road by 9 am sucks. Plus, I (and I suspect many others) prefer not blowing off an entire weekend to radio. > > > 4. As I have previously written, the Rover category is great for phone operation. The couple extra S-units with a real antenna on 40 and 80 makes a huge difference on SSB. But one still wants to also be able to operate while between stops. I strongly recommend allowing rovers to operate while moving. If that were the case, I'd spend most of the time parked doing SSB, and most of the time while moving operating CW. > > > 5. Mobile contesting does cost money. For me two full days in PA involves pushing a thousand miles, including my travel on the Ohio side of the state line. That's 40 or so gallons of gas, plus a motel. (And maybe the Turnpike tolls!). That doesn't force me to eat cat food to make up for a weekend, but it is enough to notice. > > > 6. To get back to the question of two days vs. one, it would be interesting to see the logs of various levels of competitors. How are their rates on the second day? Are they taking lots of time off? Do people quit while the Steelers or Eagles are on TV? Is Sunday really fun, or just a cost of being a serious competitor? > > > > > 73 - Jim K8MR > > > Hickory HS (Sharon, PA) '67 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: n3bud > To: Evan Duffey ; n3xls > Cc: paqso > Sent: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 10:35 am > Subject: Re: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P > > > How about lowering the price of gas and maintenance. Most likely this and less > than perfect band conditions account for the decline. Since mobiles are already > in their own category I question any changes to the scoring system making a > difference. > Mike, N3BUD > > > A simple adjustment to > the rules to encourage rare county activation: > > Current Rules: > 12. PA Mobile > operation Bonus points > 12.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each county you > operated from where > you made at least 10 QSOs. > 13. PA Rover operation Bonus > points > 13.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each location you operated > from > where you made at least 10 QSOs. > > New Rules: > 12. PA Mobile Bonus > Points > 12a. Rare Counties: The following ten counties have been determined rare > by > the PAQSO party staff (insert 10 rarest counties over the last 5 years). > Add > 1000 points to your final score for each rare county where you made at > least 10 > QSOs. Add 500 points to your final score for each non-rare county > where you made > at least 10 QSOs. > 12b. Add 250 points to your final score for each location you > operated from > where you made at least 10 QSOs. > > Just a > suggestion > > Evan > N3TWM > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 AM, n3xls at juno.com > wrote: > >> Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure > more mobile activity. I >> think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more > incentives to go >> mobile would help. Rover category took off in recent years > and I think >> that took a hit on the amount of mobiles. >> >> Maybe mobiles need > a score formula where the rare counties and number of >> stations worked and > number of counties activated all play a part in the >> score. >> >> I am not a > mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents. I am just following >> the old advice of > whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a >> rare county or have > a game plan of lighting up several counties. I know >> for the past 15 year no > one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. >> ----- Reply message > ----- >> From: "John Getz" >> To: >> > Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P >> Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM >> >> >> I concur > with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations >> calling CQ > for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a >> two day > contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to >> attract the > casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of >> PA mobiles to > work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be >> easier for the > mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. >> More mobiles to chase > means out of station stations don't have to call CQ >> as much as new counties > and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be >> interested in hearing what > others think about making PA a one day contest. >> >> John Getz >> ?, AD8J? (Long > time PA resident now retired in NC) > > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wmorganjr at verizon.net ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3bud at pa.metrocast.net From wn3vaw at verizon.net Wed Oct 14 14:01:50 2015 From: wn3vaw at verizon.net (Ron Notarius W3WN) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:01:50 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [PaQSO] warning on PDF calculations and confirm rule for county line QSOs? Message-ID: <8642064.1421665.1444845710018.JavaMail.root@vznit170164.mailsrvcs.net> 1 QSO. (And anywhere from 0 to 5 multipliers, depending on where he's sitting and when you work him... potentially, 3 counties and 2 sections) A few of us who've been around awhile (that means you too Chip!) will remember when what was informally known as the "KC3CL Rule" was put on the books... although it is probably worded a lot better these days. My friend Dave K3SK, formerly KC3CL, operated from a 2 county line one year. He worked everyone twice... one QSO from one county, one from the other. (If memory serves, Dave claimed that he was moving from one end of his truck to the other between Q's). Dave alleged, after the contest, that the wording of the rules wasn't clear on whether or not this was copacetic, so it wasn't forbidden... and the next year, the rules were updated to make it clear. 73, ron w3wn On 10/14/15, Pete K0BAK via PaQSO wrote: < snip > So, do I count a 3-county county-line station as 3 QSOs or 1 QSO? Hope this isn't a dumb question. -- Pete K0BAK ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wn3vaw at verizon.net From n8xx at arrl.org Wed Oct 14 14:32:45 2015 From: n8xx at arrl.org (Hank Greeb) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:32:45 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] What info in realty needed for the summary sheet? In-Reply-To: <561E966B.000025.05760@MANCAVE> References: <15067015000-1907-7d22@webprd-m53.mail.aol.com> <561E86F9.3070307@verizon.net> <561E966B.000025.05760@MANCAVE> Message-ID: <561E9FCD.7050107@arrl.org> For most (I'd say >99.44%) of contest I've entered in the past few years, except for the "honor system ones" I've generally not bothered to fill in any of the scoring details if there's summary sheet requested. However, I notice that Pennsylvania REQUIRES a summary sheet or an entry won't be counted. Do I need to calculate my score? I've been told that claimed score is only "advisory" or a "Brag sheet" item, so I generally just take whatever score my logging software calculates, or sometimes change the number to zero before submitting it. Since I'm one of the highest rollers from Rockford, Michigan, I want to be sure my entry is valid so I can claim the trophy for being the winner from this zip code. That's why I want to be sure I "get it right." (Right? I did read somewhere in the rules or otherwise that there's a special trophy for the highest score in zip code 49341-9502. Or was I dreaming?) 72/73 de n8xx Hg QRP >99.44% of the time From k2cddx at yahoo.com Wed Oct 14 12:37:18 2015 From: k2cddx at yahoo.com (C. Michael D'Alto) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:37:18 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] warning on PDF calculations and confirm rule for county line QSOs? In-Reply-To: <1024484554.253615.1444837086615.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1024484554.253615.1444837086615.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <1024484554.253615.1444837086615.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <561E84BE.4010109@yahoo.com> I don't think it's a dumb question at all. . . I wondered that myself. I always counted it as three multipliers (the first contact), and one QSO. Most of the logging programs I used over the years counted it the same way. Last year I did run into scoring discrepancies last year when using N1MM for the first time, which I never got to the root of, so I simply calculated the score manually. I haven't had the time go over my log yet, this year, so I can't comment if the score was calculated accurately or not. 73/DX, Mike, K2CD op. K3MX, Pike Cty. "My logger N1MM computed a higher total score than me. One reason is that I had forgotten that the 2 Penn. sections can be counted along with non-PA sections (this is pretty unusual). The only other discrepancy I can think of is for county line operations. For example, I thought that when you contact a 3-county station, that you counted 3 counties BUT ONLY ONE QSO. However, when I went back to read the rules, it's not clear ... the rules say that the county-line station gives out a single serial number, but that's not the same as explicitly saying that there is only one QSO point. So, do I count a 3-county county-line station as 3 QSOs or 1 QSO? Hope this isn't a dumb question. -- Pete K0BAK ______________________________________________________________ " --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From mjcn3li at gmail.com Wed Oct 14 15:09:14 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:09:14 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: <561E86F9.3070307@verizon.net> References: <15067015000-1907-7d22@webprd-m53.mail.aol.com> <561E86F9.3070307@verizon.net> Message-ID: <02587F46-E4DD-4E3C-B31D-6DA874A18A57@gmail.com> Probably time to chime in with why we do things the way we do things. Mobiles and Rovers We have mobiles, and we have rovers A mobile station is designed to get around quickly. A Rover station is designed to have a better antenna system. A mobile station is a big part of how we have people getting 67 counties, as the mobiles scoot to the counties that are rare that year. Mobiles are a little harder to work for sure. There were plenty of Ops that I didn?t make it into their log from a rare county, but they had a pileup, and I can?t compete with power and antennas. CQ or call for a mobile in a pileup, and sometimes there can be a big reward. Rovers are going to have a home station signal if they have a decent antenna. This is a huge advantage over a mobile. The disadvantage is that setup/teardown moving and setting up again is slower. The best strategy for Rovers is to pick out a group of counties that are all nearby each other in order to maximize their coverage, and minimize travel. Hard work simply to operate in these two classes. We have portable stations Portable stations are where a person goes to a particular county, sets up in a RV park, State Park cabin, or even a pavilion if they are especially brave to game the October weather. A little more setup, usually a camping type atmosphere for the people involved. Usually a much better antenna is in use, as you can set up the day before, and take time to get it right. We have County Line Stations This one is a little different, as a person sets up by a county line, and hands out more than one mult. There is really no good competitive reason for this, but one very important reason nonetheless. Fun County line ops enjoy the search for multiple county locations, and how to get there and set up. It?s fun for them. Certainly they get no scoring advantage. They?re just enjoying it. They are helping other people get more counties. We have Home Ops. This is what most people enter, and most of them as low power stations. This class should be pretty self explanatory. We have a Bonus Station Another fun, and often competitive aspect for people and the bonus station Operator(s). It often takes a good bit of planning and coordination to pull this off. A lot of work for the bonus station coordinators, eh Pete? (last years bonus station coordinator) Then there are all the other subgroups like QRP, CW only and other plaque classes. The important thing to remember is that I have to balance things out so that one group or person's desired change doesn?t throw a wrench in the works for other classes. Now this doesn?t mean I don?t want feedback. I really do. I just have to bring a different perspective to the discussion. I have everyone to worry about. As an example, an Op who I don?t think participates any more, wanted me to eliminate county line stations altogether, allow Rovers to operate in multiple counties without moving, operate as a mobile between setups. Basically making mobiles and Rovers indistinguishable except for the Rovers having an occasional antenna advantage, plus bonus points for not ever moving when parked at a county line. Remember when I asked for feedback on County line operations last year? People were overwhelmingly for their continuation. Roving and mobiling is inherently a lot of work. We?re lucky to have the people we do have. I?m not certain that making things as easy as possible will help entice more people. Just the preparation and operation of either is more work than folks who desire a more relaxed operation wish to do. I spend several days getting ready, 2 long days operating, and maybe 20 minutes preparing my summary sheets. Now regarding two day operation. As Chip eloquently put it, going to one day will have a bad impact on people who want to do portable operations, not for lack of effort, but for a massively reduced return on that effort. In addition, one day party means no mobile operations going to counties that happen to be rare that year. A lot of 67 county results will simply go away. Cutting the party in half is seriously drastic. There really is something for everyone, IMO, and I?ve been more than willing to make changes, as my record shows, but I have to be careful that I don?t pee in anyone else's Wheaties by making those changes. - 73 Mike N3LI - From n3xls at juno.com Wed Oct 14 16:56:31 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (=?utf-8?B?bjN4bHNAanVuby5jb20=?=) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:56:31 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] =?utf-8?q?CQ_vrs_S=26P?= Message-ID: I agree now do we say the 1000 is only for activating a rare and non-rare county combined. So we don't have operators just flocking to rare ones and keep a good rate of new stations to work going? ----- Reply message ----- From: "Evan Duffey" To: "n3xls at juno.com" Cc: Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 10:08 AM A simple adjustment to the rules to encourage rare county activation: Current Rules:12. PA Mobile operation Bonus points 12.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each county you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. 13. PA Rover operation Bonus points 13.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each location you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. New Rules:12. PA Mobile Bonus Points12a. Rare Counties: The following ten counties have been determined rare by the PAQSO party staff (insert 10 rarest counties over the last 5 years). Add 1000 points to your final score for each rare county where you made at least 10 QSOs. Add 500 points to your final score for each non-rare county where you made at least 10 QSOs.12b. Add 250 points to your final score for each location you operated from where you made at least 10 QSOs. Just a suggestion EvanN3TWM On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 AM, n3xls at juno.com wrote: Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure more mobile activity.? I think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more incentives to go mobile would help.? Rover category took off in recent years and I think that took a hit on the? amount of mobiles. Maybe mobiles need a score formula where the rare counties and number of stations worked and number of counties activated all play a part in the score.. I am not a mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents.? I am just following the old advice of whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a rare county or have a game plan of lighting up several counties.? I know for the past 15 year no one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. ----- Reply message ----- From: "John Getz" To: Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations calling CQ for PA contacts.? I was one of the callers.? With this being a two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P.? There was also a shortage of PA mobiles to work.? I think PA should be a one day contest.? It would be easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available.? I'd be interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. John Getz ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ A Balance Transfer Card With An Outrageously Long Intro Rate And No Balance Transfer Fees That Can Save You Thousands http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561e522e6ef70522c207bst02vuc ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wxduff at gmail.com From zelna.alz at gmail.com Wed Oct 14 17:00:59 2015 From: zelna.alz at gmail.com (Al Z) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:00:59 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Why not just look to the most popular state QSO parties to see how their rules compare and contrast to that of PA? KISS On Oct 14, 2015 4:57 PM, "n3xls at juno.com" wrote: > I agree now do we say the 1000 is only for activating a rare and non-rare > county combined. So we don't have operators just flocking to rare ones and > keep a good rate of new stations to work going? > > > > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Evan Duffey" > To: "n3xls at juno.com" > Cc: > Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P > Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 10:08 AM > A simple adjustment to the rules to encourage rare county activation: > > Current Rules:12. PA Mobile operation Bonus points > > 12.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each county you operated from > where you made at least 10 QSOs. > > 13. PA Rover operation Bonus points > > 13.a. Add 500 Points to final score for each location you operated from > where you made at least 10 QSOs. > > New Rules:12. PA Mobile Bonus Points12a. Rare Counties: The following ten > counties have been determined rare by the PAQSO party staff (insert 10 > rarest counties over the last 5 years). Add 1000 points to your final score > for each rare county where you made at least 10 QSOs. Add 500 points to > your final score for each non-rare county where you made at least 10 > QSOs.12b. Add 250 points to your final score for each location you operated > from where you made at least 10 QSOs. > Just a suggestion > EvanN3TWM > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:01 AM, n3xls at juno.com wrote: > Shortening the contest to one day will not ensure more mobile activity. I > think relaxing the rules on mobile's and making more incentives to go > mobile would help. Rover category took off in recent years and I think > that took a hit on the amount of mobiles. > > > > Maybe mobiles need a score formula where the rare counties and number of > stations worked and number of counties activated all play a part in the > score.. > > > > I am not a mobile op so this is just my 1/2 cents. I am just following > the old advice of whats in it for me if I go to the trouble of activating a > rare county or have a game plan of lighting up several counties. I know > for the past 15 year no one would have a sweep with out at least one mobile. > > > > ----- Reply message ----- > > From: "John Getz" > > To: > > Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P > > Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 8:08 PM > > > > > > I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations > > calling CQ for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a > > two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to > > attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of > > PA mobiles to work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be > > easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. > > More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ > > as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be > > interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. > > > > > > John Getz > > ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) > > ______________________________________________________________ > > PaQSO mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com > > ____________________________________________________________ > > A Balance Transfer Card With An Outrageously Long Intro Rate And No > Balance Transfer Fees That Can Save You Thousands > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561e522e6ef70522c207bst02vuc > > ______________________________________________________________ > > PaQSO mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to wxduff at gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to zelna.alz at gmail.com From mjcn3li at gmail.com Wed Oct 14 18:12:14 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:12:14 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > On Oct 14, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Al Z wrote: > > Why not just look to the most popular state QSO parties to see how their > rules compare and contrast to that of PA? KISS > On Oct 14, 2015 4:57 PM, "n3xls at juno.com" wrote: > Sounds like a good idea, Al Let?s look at the California QSO Party, the biggest party in the country. I was a little surprised. Here are their rules: http://cqp.org/Rules.html Short version - what I gleaned from their ruleset: As far as I can see, the basics are very similar, but we have a lot more features. We do try to keep things less stringent for people, our philosophy is get on the air and make contacts and have fun. They run 30 hours contiguous but you can only operate 24 of them. We run 23 hours broken up. Objective - Same as ours - instate works everyone and OOS and DX work instate. We allow spotting, they have assisted class if you use it. We accept paper logs, ADIF - when I can translate it - and Excel files. They accept Cabrillo only. QSO Points - Phone = 2 points CW = 3.points We give our CW Ops more points per contact (1 SSB 2 CW)@ 2X versus 1.5X They do not have RTTY or PSK - we do Multipliers - They do States we do Sections OOS is very similar - unless they changed a couple years ago, I based our VE mults on CAQSO. note they do not use the new Ontario sections either. Counties They have 58, and we have 67. They use 4 letter counties, we use 3 letter counties. Scoring: CW points plus Phone times multipliers They have a ?County Expedition? class that is similar to our portable station We have county lines, they do not. We have Rovers, they do not Mobile - we have two classes, they have one They have school, YL, Youth, and New Contester We have a first-timer mostly similar to the New Contester. both have club competitions We have a a lot of plaque classes they do not. But the biggest surprise for me was, especially since I have taken so much heat for having summary sheets AT ALL - is right here: http://robot.cqp.org/cqp/logsubmit-form.html A summary sheet. Their's is html, ours is pdf. - 73 Mike N3LI - From n2cu at roadrunner.com Wed Oct 14 19:55:16 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (Tom Williams) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:55:16 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P Message-ID: <2694B2BDF46F4E0BAC67742EA3BBA942@696908E74163425> As a carpet-bagging mobile who has participated in several PAQPs, I would vote for keeping things status quo. I come down to PA because I enjoy mobile contesting and the scenery is spectacular this time of year. The creation of summary sheets for each county doesn't bother me one bit, now that I know exactly how to do it. Just create the composite summary, save it, and edit another copy for each county. The only thing that needs to be changed is the county name, number of QSOs for each mode, and whether or not you worked more than 10 QSOs there. N1MM provides all the necessary information in their Statistics window (you are using N1MM aren't you?). Creating my summaries for 12 counties only took about 15 minutes of distracted work. Two days is fine with me. I wouldn't be able to activate half of the counties I did without the second day. Changing anything in the scoring can have an unexpected result; county and party record scores would fall by the dozens for no other reason than getting more points for the same number of QSOs. One change I would like to see; let me be a bonus station. Everyone would want to work me! 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 From jimk8mr at aol.com Wed Oct 14 20:09:41 2015 From: jimk8mr at aol.com (jimk8mr at aol.com) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:09:41 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <15068d4b17a-54b6-89f8@webprd-m104.mail.aol.com> There are several major differences between CQP and PAQP. The biggest two are the result of geography. 1. California does not count California counties as multipliers for California stations. This is geography in action: if they did, and people in California were busy trying to work all the CA counties, they wouldn't be working anybody outside California, other than maybe people in AZ, NV, and OR. In PA (as well as other nearby states like OH, NY, MI, etc.) one can work in state counties and at the same time work people in about half of the country. The same geographic consideration for California applies in Florida as well. 2. Mobiles (and rovers if they existed) are not a big factor in California. Counties out there are big: San Bernadino county is over 20,000 square miles - almost half the size of PA. Inyo county is over 10,000 square miles. The smaller, rare, counties in northern California are in mountainous areas where there aren't a lot of roads to choose from to get from one county to another, and are often down in valleys. Not good for mobile operations. Plus many of the rare California counties are hundreds of miles from the big cities. From almost anywhere in PA one can be in a rare county in less than an hour. 3. California does NOT require a summary sheet. They accept email Cabrillo logs with no summary sheet. What they now prefer is a web submission, where you enter some basic information about you and your entry category (but not about how you did in the contest). We now do this in Ohio, which catches a lot of errors such as the common mistake where people using N1MM try to submit a Cabrillo log showing their sent exchange as "OH" rather than their county. Our robot rejects such logs, and sends back an email requesting the correction. This process saves us a lot of time and effort when we get around to checking the logs. 4. California does a somewhat odd multiplier list for out of state multipliers in order to have 58 multipliers for in-state stations, the same number as the 58 California counties. 50 states (including California) and 8 Canadian areas, essentially VE1-8, where VE1 includes all the Maritime provinces plus Newfoundland and Labrador, and VE8 includes the three northern territories (Yukon, NWT, and NU) as a single multiplier. PA's treatment of Canada is also rather odd: three multipliers for the northern territories (which are not RAC sections) from which there is never any activity anyway, but only one multiplier for Ontario, which is now four RAC sections. There of course are a lot of other differences - digital modes, bonus stations, etc. - which fall under the classification of "Viva la difference". 73 - Jim K8MR -----Original Message----- From: Michael Coslo To: paqso Sent: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 6:16 pm Subject: Re: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P > On Oct 14, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Al Z wrote: > > Why not just look to the most popular state QSO parties to see how their > rules compare and contrast to that of PA? KISS > On Oct 14, 2015 4:57 PM, "n3xls at juno.com" wrote: > Sounds like a good idea, Al Let?s look at the California QSO Party, the biggest party in the country. I was a little surprised. Here are their rules: http://cqp.org/Rules.html Short version - what I gleaned from their ruleset: As far as I can see, the basics are very similar, but we have a lot more features. We do try to keep things less stringent for people, our philosophy is get on the air and make contacts and have fun. They run 30 hours contiguous but you can only operate 24 of them. We run 23 hours broken up. Objective - Same as ours - instate works everyone and OOS and DX work instate. We allow spotting, they have assisted class if you use it. We accept paper logs, ADIF - when I can translate it - and Excel files. They accept Cabrillo only. QSO Points - Phone = 2 points CW = 3.points We give our CW Ops more points per contact (1 SSB 2 CW)@ 2X versus 1.5X They do not have RTTY or PSK - we do Multipliers - They do States we do Sections OOS is very similar - unless they changed a couple years ago, I based our VE mults on CAQSO. note they do not use the new Ontario sections either. Counties They have 58, and we have 67. They use 4 letter counties, we use 3 letter counties. Scoring: CW points plus Phone times multipliers They have a ?County Expedition? class that is similar to our portable station We have county lines, they do not. We have Rovers, they do not Mobile - we have two classes, they have one They have school, YL, Youth, and New Contester We have a first-timer mostly similar to the New Contester. both have club competitions We have a a lot of plaque classes they do not. But the biggest surprise for me was, especially since I have taken so much heat for having summary sheets AT ALL - is right here: http://robot.cqp.org/cqp/logsubmit-form.html A summary sheet. Their's is html, ours is pdf. - 73 Mike N3LI - From mjcn3li at gmail.com Wed Oct 14 21:03:49 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:03:49 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: <2694B2BDF46F4E0BAC67742EA3BBA942@696908E74163425> References: <2694B2BDF46F4E0BAC67742EA3BBA942@696908E74163425> Message-ID: <9343E61A-68BE-4843-9AED-3CAA16EBA01D@gmail.com> I have been toying with the idea of a mobile bonus station. As in seriously toying. One thing with them though is that since they are so popular, bonus stations aren?t eligible for awards. Although I recall from Ron Notarius that might have been an exception one time! We do have the bonus station for next year lined up, but I?m always happy to discuss plans. - 73 Mike N3LI - > On Oct 14, 2015, at 7:55 PM, Tom Williams wrote: > > One change I would like to see; let me be a bonus station. Everyone would > want to work me! > From wa2fgk at yahoo.com Wed Oct 14 21:58:34 2015 From: wa2fgk at yahoo.com (Herb Krumich) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:58:34 -0700 Subject: [PaQSO] Puzzling Message-ID: <1444874314.67770.YahooMailBasic@web141705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I am baffled why hams try fixing things that aren't broke. This is a beautiful contest and the results every year confirm this. So what if stations misses a few counties. We continue to play for nothing other than bragging rights. For many years, VHF contesting has had the same problem. After every contest, hams want changes made to enhance their scores. It has done nothing other than gotten some people worthless awards. Gentlemen, enjoy what you have. It's getting very late for most of us. BTW - Mobiles and rovers are only a small percentage of contacts in my log. Those to be thanked are out of state stations. They make this contest terrific. I operated a limited amount of time this year, due to hernia surgery. Hopefully by next year, I'll put in a better effort OK I'm done 73's Herb K2LNS Used the call K3YTL From mjcn3li at gmail.com Wed Oct 14 22:20:11 2015 From: mjcn3li at gmail.com (Michael Coslo) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:20:11 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Puzzling In-Reply-To: <1444874314.67770.YahooMailBasic@web141705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1444874314.67770.YahooMailBasic@web141705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I?m also baffled. If I might note, it gets a little discouraging to come home, and most of what I hear is all the things I?m doing wrong. Both via the list and privately. I always suggest that people who love contesting should try administering one. This is my tenth administration of the QSO Party. I am amazed. As you note - the party is not broken. It does not need fixed. The original complaint that started this was an out of state Op who didn?t hear many mobiles. As noted, propagation was not terribly good. We have mobiles, we have activity. I am going to take a few days off from the list now, to quiet my ragged nerves. Carry on. Mike > On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Herb Krumich via PaQSO wrote: > > I am baffled why hams try fixing things that aren't broke. This is a beautiful contest and the results every year confirm this. > So what if stations misses a few counties From n8xx at arrl.org Wed Oct 14 23:09:26 2015 From: n8xx at arrl.org (Hank Greeb) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:09:26 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Puzzling In-Reply-To: References: <1444874314.67770.YahooMailBasic@web141705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <561F18E6.2020608@arrl.org> Shucky durn. I for one really liked the PAQP. I wish I had more time to devote to it last weekend. Be of good cheer. It's the nay sayers who usually write. I'm sure we in Michigan would LOVE to have enough coverage to offer plaques for a "clean sweep." A clean sweep hasn't been done in Michigan (according to the 2015 results) ever.... 72/73 de n8xx Hg QRP >99.44% of the time On 10/14/2015 10:20 PM, Michael Coslo wrote: > I?m also baffled. > > If I might note, it gets a little discouraging to come home, and most of what I hear is all the things I?m doing wrong. Both via the list and privately. > > I always suggest that people who love contesting should try administering one. This is my tenth administration of the QSO Party. I am amazed. > > As you note - the party is not broken. It does not need fixed. The original complaint that started this was an out of state Op who didn?t hear many mobiles. As noted, propagation was not terribly good. We have mobiles, we have activity. > > I am going to take a few days off from the list now, to quiet my ragged nerves. Carry on. > > Mike > > >> On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Herb Krumich via PaQSO wrote: >> >> I am baffled why hams try fixing things that aren't broke. This is a beautiful contest and the results every year confirm this. So what if stations misses a few counties From kb3co at comcast.net Thu Oct 15 01:58:01 2015 From: kb3co at comcast.net (Charles) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 05:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] Mobile bonus station In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1670307666.598928.1444888681019.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> Mike, There was a mobile bonus station in 2004. W3UU was the bonus callsign and there were multiple stations using that call - each one in a different county - and one mobile, namely KQ3F and I. The multiple stations were a little confusing for people but they eventually got the hang of it. Joe and I covered 18 counties and logged somewhere between 1100 and 1200 QSOs. Mid-afternoon on Sunday in CLI was particularly productive - people were scrambling for needed counties and CLI was needed for very many of them. And we were also the bonus station. Needless to say we spent a lot of time there - 204 QSOs worth. Charlie KB3CO ------------------------------ > On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Michael Coslo wrote: > I have been toying with the idea of a mobile bonus station. As in seriously toying. > One thing with them though is that since they are so popular, bonus stations aren?t eligible for awards. > Although I recall from Ron Notarius that might have been an exception one time! > We do have the bonus station for next year lined up, but I?m always happy to discuss plans. > - 73 Mike N3LI - > On Oct 14, 2015, at 7:55 PM, Tom Williams wrote: > > One change I would like to see; let me be a bonus station. Everyone would > want to work me! > ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list PaQSO at mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso ------------------------------ End of PaQSO Digest, Vol 129, Issue 28 ************************************** From k3pp at k3pp.com Thu Oct 15 07:06:22 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:06:22 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Puzzling In-Reply-To: References: <1444874314.67770.YahooMailBasic@web141705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <14822AD0-ED6D-4065-B63A-7FD35F038DAD@k3pp.com> Please don't be discouraged, Mike! There are always whiners, but the VAST majority of participants applaud and thank you, the rest of the team behind it, and those who preceded you! You've done wonderful things for this contest and the extensive community that built up around it! This is my favorite contest of them all! It is a beautiful event in so many ways! We should always watch for opportunities to improve, but, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! From the bottom of all of our hearts, we thank you! VY 73 de Glenn K3PP Sent from my iPad > On Oct 14, 2015, at 10:20 PM, Michael Coslo wrote: > > I?m also baffled. > > If I might note, it gets a little discouraging to come home, and most of what I hear is all the things I?m doing wrong. Both via the list and privately. > > I always suggest that people who love contesting should try administering one. This is my tenth administration of the QSO Party. I am amazed. > > As you note - the party is not broken. It does not need fixed. The original complaint that started this was an out of state Op who didn?t hear many mobiles. As noted, propagation was not terribly good. We have mobiles, we have activity. > > I am going to take a few days off from the list now, to quiet my ragged nerves. Carry on. > > Mike > > >> On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Herb Krumich via PaQSO wrote: >> >> I am baffled why hams try fixing things that aren't broke. This is a beautiful contest and the results every year confirm this. >> So what if stations misses a few counties > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k3pp at k3pp.com From k3pp at k3pp.com Thu Oct 15 07:23:41 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:23:41 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: <2694B2BDF46F4E0BAC67742EA3BBA942@696908E74163425> References: <2694B2BDF46F4E0BAC67742EA3BBA942@696908E74163425> Message-ID: From N2CU: > One change I would like to see; let me be a bonus station. Everyone would > want to work me! Everybody already wants to work you, Tom! :-) You mobile and rover stations make this an incredibly fun contest! I can't recall anyone ever getting the county sweep without you guys. As awful as it was for me to miss NUM as my only county lost this year, going through Sunday and checking off those last few is REALLY exciting! I didn't get the sweep. That's MY fault, nobody else's. Please keep the mobile and rover station rules as they are. I adore this dimension of our Party! Some year, I'd love to do it myself! VY 73 de Glenn K3PP Sent from my iPad > On Oct 14, 2015, at 7:55 PM, Tom Williams wrote: > > As a carpet-bagging mobile who has participated in several PAQPs, I would > vote for keeping things status quo. I come down to PA because I enjoy mobile > contesting and the scenery is spectacular this time of year. > > > > The creation of summary sheets for each county doesn't bother me one bit, > now that I know exactly how to do it. Just create the composite summary, > save it, and edit another copy for each county. The only thing that needs to > be changed is the county name, number of QSOs for each mode, and whether or > not you worked more than 10 QSOs there. N1MM provides all the necessary > information in their Statistics window (you are using N1MM aren't you?). > Creating my summaries for 12 counties only took about 15 minutes of > distracted work. > > > > Two days is fine with me. I wouldn't be able to activate half of the > counties I did without the second day. > > > > Changing anything in the scoring can have an unexpected result; county and > party record scores would fall by the dozens for no other reason than > getting more points for the same number of QSOs. > > > > One change I would like to see; let me be a bonus station. Everyone would > want to work me! > > > > > > 73, > > Tom N2CU <>< > > K3 #3582 > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k3pp at k3pp.com From k3pp at k3pp.com Thu Oct 15 07:58:21 2015 From: k3pp at k3pp.com (Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:58:21 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] CQ vrs S&P In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2A400E30-40FA-44EB-BA87-39BEFDC2C22D@k3pp.com> The biggest issue with the high bands (and therefore a challenge to many out-of-state participants) is propagation. This year, propagation was rough on 15 and nearly non-existent on 10. 20m was OK, but never great. The choice of run versus S&P isn't a choice. You do both. You run when you can, but when that dries up ( and it does for us regular folks), you go hunting. Freaks of nature like AA3B can do both simultaneously. I've done this, but at a very feeble level compared to the super-elite class. It's hard! EXTREMELY hard! People who can do this DESERVE to win! My IC-7600 has a nice band scope. When I QSY to 15m, for example, I can "see" all the signals on the band. If I see one, I chase it. Hopefully, it's another PAQPer and I log it but often it's not. This year, the scope was largely empty. Usually, that tells me to move on. In a contest, you try anyway. That tactic didn't work on 10, but it was somewhat effective on 15. That "dead" band had a spectacular pipeline to the 0, 5, and 7 call areas! Every station answering my CQ was strong. If more people had known to try, I would have logged a boatload of stations on a pretty quiet band - recipe for beautifully blistering rates! As it happened, people shied away from 15 thinking it was dead. It makes me think of the inverse of one of my favorites from the great linguist Yogi Berra, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded!" Because 10 and 15 were such a bust, everyone crowded into 20. The same will happen in the upcoming CQWW SSB contest. 20 is usually a snake pit on phone, but under these conditions, it gets far worse. It was rare to find anywhere with a QRM level under S9+10 dB! Running in these conditions is a slugfest and S&P can be excruciating. That chases people back to 40. By the way, OOS stations can learn some lessons from OM2VL. This guy really knows how to play the game! I found him calling CQ at least once and answered him. He is smart enough to move stations to other bands and modes, and it works. He holds the DX record (I believe from last year) because he does things like this! He's an impressive guy! I, for one, will always try running first, but I will also always tune around to look for other stations calling. The next several years are going to be tough for OOS stations calling us in PA and we will struggle to win those OOS multipliers. That's life when el sol calls the shots! Thank you! VY 73 de Glenn K3PP Sent from my iPad > On Oct 13, 2015, at 8:08 PM, John Getz wrote: > > I concur with Dave, WN4AFP, that there were a lot of out of state stations > calling CQ for PA contacts. I was one of the callers. With this being a > two day contest, you just run out of PA stations to work and need to > attract the casual PA ops that only do S&P. There was also a shortage of > PA mobiles to work. I think PA should be a one day contest. It would be > easier for the mobile stations so more mobile stations would come out. > More mobiles to chase means out of station stations don't have to call CQ > as much as new counties and contacts are always becoming available. I'd be > interested in hearing what others think about making PA a one day contest. > > > John Getz > ?, AD8J? (Long time PA resident now retired in NC) > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k3pp at k3pp.com From wn3vaw at verizon.net Thu Oct 15 09:18:11 2015 From: wn3vaw at verizon.net (Ron Notarius W3WN) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:18:11 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [PaQSO] Mobile bonus station Message-ID: <29263007.1746053.1444915091239.JavaMail.root@vznit170126.mailsrvcs.net> The rules state (or stated) that the Bonus stations are not eligible for the usual awards. Yet, I know of a WPA club station that proudly displays their winning certificate for their home county, even though they were the bonus station that year. (And this happened prior to N3LI becoming the contest administrator). When some of us inquired, at the time, as to how this could happen, the answer back was... well, nothing, there was no answer back. At this point in time, the incident is so far in the past that it's a moot point. We simply accept that someone made a mistake and awarded a county cert when they shouldn't have, and otherwise wash our hands of it. 73 On 10/15/15, Charles wrote: Mike, There was a mobile bonus station in 2004. W3UU was the bonus callsign and there were multiple stations using that call - each one in a different county - and one mobile, namely KQ3F and I. The multiple stations were a little confusing for people but they eventually got the hang of it. Joe and I covered 18 counties and logged somewhere between 1100 and 1200 QSOs. Mid-afternoon on Sunday in CLI was particularly productive - people were scrambling for needed counties and CLI was needed for very many of them. And we were also the bonus station. Needless to say we spent a lot of time there - 204 QSOs worth. Charlie KB3CO ------------------------------ > On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Michael Coslo wrote: > I have been toying with the idea of a mobile bonus station. As in seriously toying. > One thing with them though is that since they are so popular, bonus stations aren?t eligible for awards. > Although I recall from Ron Notarius that might have been an exception one time! > We do have the bonus station for next year lined up, but I?m always happy to discuss plans. > - 73 Mike N3LI - > On Oct 14, 2015, at 7:55 PM, Tom Williams wrote: > > One change I would like to see; let me be a bonus station. Everyone would > want to work me! > ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list PaQSO at mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso ------------------------------ End of PaQSO Digest, Vol 129, Issue 28 ************************************** ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wn3vaw at verizon.net From wn3vaw at verizon.net Thu Oct 15 09:27:09 2015 From: wn3vaw at verizon.net (Ron Notarius W3WN) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:27:09 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [PaQSO] Puzzling Message-ID: <11008279.1746806.1444915629388.JavaMail.root@vznit170126.mailsrvcs.net> There is always someone who will find fault with a contest, be it an international, national, regional, or local one. There's always something that can be "done better", at least in the eyes of (if not for the benefit of) the person kvetching. Constructive comments are one thing. Kvetching and destructive comments are something else. I still recall what I got, publicly and privately, in my inbox back when I was in charge of the N3SH bonus station op, a few years back. I STILL get complaints from some people about it, especially those who don't like the idea of a multi-county bonus station. So I can just imagine what N3LI is seeing in his inbox. There is nothing major wrong with Pa QSO. No, it's not perfect... what is? Conditions were not ideal, gas prices are still too high for some of the mobile ops to do all the travelling they (and we) would like, and Little Miss Field Day's college scheduled their annual Family Weekend for the same weekend, which knocked me out of the club's Fayette County op. So it goes. These things happen. None of these, or other similar annoying but minor issues, justify major changes to the contest. It's not broke. It doesn't need fixing. 73 On 10/14/15, Michael Coslo wrote: I?m also baffled. If I might note, it gets a little discouraging to come home, and most of what I hear is all the things I?m doing wrong. Both via the list and privately. I always suggest that people who love contesting should try administering one. This is my tenth administration of the QSO Party. I am amazed. As you note - the party is not broken. It does not need fixed. The original complaint that started this was an out of state Op who didn?t hear many mobiles. As noted, propagation was not terribly good. We have mobiles, we have activity. I am going to take a few days off from the list now, to quiet my ragged nerves. Carry on. Mike > On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Herb Krumich via PaQSO wrote: > > I am baffled why hams try fixing things that aren't broke. This is a beautiful contest and the results every year confirm this. > So what if stations misses a few counties ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to wn3vaw at verizon.net From w3tdf at ptd.net Thu Oct 15 11:32:42 2015 From: w3tdf at ptd.net (Ray Bilger) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:32:42 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Tsk tsk Message-ID: <002101d1075e$bba7ed80$32f7c880$@net> Hey Ron, You said it all. With my experience and long-time participation, and contributions to this, (the friendliest and most respected QSO party), I just sit back and shake my head until all the fuzzies go away, then I concentrate in having FUN. (Mike - like Ron says, don't fix it ! ). Unfortunately, due to my failing health, this was my last PAQP. Only could do about 10 hours , but made 303 Q's, AND, had F U N. 73, all, De DaGrump, ((Ray-W3TDF)) From jfunk at fossna.com Thu Oct 15 00:14:41 2015 From: jfunk at fossna.com (Jim Funk) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 04:14:41 +0000 Subject: [PaQSO] PA QP remarks Message-ID: <9EC91E047E4F634E9114CA27B4EE118301F6CB99E9@FOSS48.foss.net> I hesitate to go very deeply into what I consider an interesting discussion as I have only dabbled in the PAQP, have never sent in a log until this year (and from EMA as a guest op), and have never been mobile in the contest. However, as meekness has never been my strong suit, here goes nothing.... 1) Comparing PAQP and CAQP is like comparing baseball and volleyball. They both use round objects that you hit and hope nobody stops them. That's where they start being different.... 2) It's nice that PAQP is still willing to accept hand-written logs. ILQP still does as well, but fortunately we receive only a dozen or so each year. Transcribing them is a chore (I don't need to tell the PAQP folks this....). I can understand why CAQP does not, given the volume of total logs they get. 3) I cannot understand why a summary sheet is required for an electronic log, but that's entirely up to the sponsors and log checkers. For ILQP we are happy to receive a summary sheet, but it is used only as a comparison with the score we calculate from the entrant's log. If there is a marked discrepancy, we did deeper to find out why. Sometimes it's our scoring model that had messed up; more often it's that the entrant has miscalculated something. 4) Not all QSO parties have to be the same. My take on the PAQP is that the emphasis is on allowing PA stations to get a "sweep" of all 67 counties. This is well and good and appears to make many people happy. Many states give special recognition to stations who get all of the target state's counties. I hope someday to give something super-duper to the first station to work all 102 IL counties in ILQP. Maybe this year....? 5) For those who wish to endure a two-day QSO party, have at it. I am "wooped" after operating 8 hours in ILQP as a mobile. I can't imagine doing 24 hours over two days. (Well, come to think of it, I did this in TX a few years ago....but I digress....). It would seem to me that it's more difficult to get out-of-state stations to come in as mobile entrants if they have to leave home on Friday and get home on Monday....but maybe not.... Maybe when I retire.... 73, Jim N9JF Best regards, Jim Funk Customer Service Engineer FOSS 800/547-6275 option 1 for parts, option 3 for service jfunk at fossna.com Dedicated Analytical Solutions "When confident, speak; when in doubt, obfuscate." From n3xls at juno.com Thu Oct 15 12:36:10 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (=?utf-8?B?bjN4bHNAanVuby5jb20=?=) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:36:10 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] =?utf-8?q?Puzzling?= Message-ID: All of this is just suggestions. It's up to mike and the club to discuss and consider the suggestions. I don't believe anyone's comments were directed as "the contest is broken fix it now". It's merely an attempt to suggest we may need to tweak the rules and offer more incentive to mobiles . As n2cu said it doesn't change his mind because he will do it anyway. However a party like ours will not have success if we don't encourage mobiles and rovers moving around activating counties increasing the available qsos. Everyone is correct regardless of how you feel. The pqp it isn't broken. But we can all make it better and more exciting as a group. Because of we fail to express our concerns we may not have anything to be concerned about. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Hank Greeb" To: Subject: [PaQSO] Puzzling Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 11:09 PM Shucky durn. I for one really liked the PAQP. I wish I had more time to devote to it last weekend. Be of good cheer. It's the nay sayers who usually write. I'm sure we in Michigan would LOVE to have enough coverage to offer plaques for a "clean sweep." A clean sweep hasn't been done in Michigan (according to the 2015 results) ever.... 72/73 de n8xx Hg QRP >99.44% of the time On 10/14/2015 10:20 PM, Michael Coslo wrote: > I?m also baffled. > > If I might note, it gets a little discouraging to come home, and most of what I hear is all the things I?m doing wrong. Both via the list and privately. > > I always suggest that people who love contesting should try administering one. This is my tenth administration of the QSO Party. I am amazed. > > As you note - the party is not broken. It does not need fixed. The original complaint that started this was an out of state Op who didn?t hear many mobiles. As noted, propagation was not terribly good. We have mobiles, we have activity. > > I am going to take a few days off from the list now, to quiet my ragged nerves. Carry on. > > Mike > > >> On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Herb Krumich via PaQSO wrote: >> >> I am baffled why hams try fixing things that aren't broke. This is a beautiful contest and the results every year confirm this. So what if stations misses a few counties ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ Cable TV Is Dying. Here's What Comes Next http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/561fd5fb31f355f80fa5st03vuc From tombehler at gmail.com Thu Oct 15 12:49:02 2015 From: tombehler at gmail.com (Tom Behler) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:49:02 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Tsk tsk In-Reply-To: <002101d1075e$bba7ed80$32f7c880$@net> References: <002101d1075e$bba7ed80$32f7c880$@net> Message-ID: <000801d10769$664a7050$32df50f0$@gmail.com> I echo what Ray and others have said here. The PAQP isn't broken, so please don't fix it! I have written to Mike (N3LI) privately about this, but the PAQP is definitely one of the best QSO parties out there from the perspective of an out-of-state op like myself. I don't get to do too many state QSO parties because of my work and personal schedules, but I try very hard to set aside the second week-end in October for the PAQP, because it is a truly great contest! Out here in Michigan, we have a state QSO party, but it is only a 12-hour event, and really can't compare to the PAQP, at least at this time. So, please stay the course, and keep things as they are! >From a very happy out-of-state participant: Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, Michigan -----Original Message----- From: PaQSO [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ray Bilger Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 11:33 AM To: PAQSO Subject: [PaQSO] Tsk tsk Hey Ron, You said it all. With my experience and long-time participation, and contributions to this, (the friendliest and most respected QSO party), I just sit back and shake my head until all the fuzzies go away, then I concentrate in having FUN. (Mike - like Ron says, don't fix it ! ). Unfortunately, due to my failing health, this was my last PAQP. Only could do about 10 hours , but made 303 Q's, AND, had F U N. 73, all, De DaGrump, ((Ray-W3TDF)) ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to tombehler at gmail.com From tdanley at centurylink.net Thu Oct 15 12:37:24 2015 From: tdanley at centurylink.net (Tad Danley) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:37:24 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] PA QP remarks In-Reply-To: <9EC91E047E4F634E9114CA27B4EE118301F6CB99E9@FOSS48.foss.net> References: <9EC91E047E4F634E9114CA27B4EE118301F6CB99E9@FOSS48.foss.net> Message-ID: <561FD644.60500@centurylink.net> I thought that summary sheets were no longer required for PAQP as of 2014? Tad Danley, K3TD On 10/15/2015 12:14 AM, Jim Funk wrote: > I hesitate to go very deeply into what I consider an interesting discussion as I have only dabbled in the PAQP, have never sent in a log until this year (and from EMA as a guest op), and have never been mobile in the contest. However, as meekness has never been my strong suit, here goes nothing.... > > 1) Comparing PAQP and CAQP is like comparing baseball and volleyball. They both use round objects that you hit and hope nobody stops them. That's where they start being different.... > > 2) It's nice that PAQP is still willing to accept hand-written logs. ILQP still does as well, but fortunately we receive only a dozen or so each year. Transcribing them is a chore (I don't need to tell the PAQP folks this....). I can understand why CAQP does not, given the volume of total logs they get. > > 3) I cannot understand why a summary sheet is required for an electronic log, but that's entirely up to the sponsors and log checkers. For ILQP we are happy to receive a summary sheet, but it is used only as a comparison with the score we calculate from the entrant's log. If there is a marked discrepancy, we did deeper to find out why. Sometimes it's our scoring model that had messed up; more often it's that the entrant has miscalculated something. > > 4) Not all QSO parties have to be the same. My take on the PAQP is that the emphasis is on allowing PA stations to get a "sweep" of all 67 counties. This is well and good and appears to make many people happy. Many states give special recognition to stations who get all of the target state's counties. I hope someday to give something super-duper to the first station to work all 102 IL counties in ILQP. Maybe this year....? > > 5) For those who wish to endure a two-day QSO party, have at it. I am "wooped" after operating 8 hours in ILQP as a mobile. I can't imagine doing 24 hours over two days. (Well, come to think of it, I did this in TX a few years ago....but I digress....). It would seem to me that it's more difficult to get out-of-state stations to come in as mobile entrants if they have to leave home on Friday and get home on Monday....but maybe not.... Maybe when I retire.... > > 73, Jim N9JF > > Best regards, > > Jim Funk > Customer Service Engineer > > FOSS > > 800/547-6275 > option 1 for parts, option 3 for service > jfunk at fossna.com > > Dedicated Analytical Solutions > > > > "When confident, speak; when in doubt, obfuscate." > > > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to tdanley at centurylink.net > From n3fr at comcast.net Thu Oct 15 13:33:37 2015 From: n3fr at comcast.net (=?utf-8?B?bjNmckBjb21jYXN0Lm5ldA==?=) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:33:37 GMT Subject: [PaQSO] Tsk tsk Message-ID: <000f4242.622575ae5cc4ba7d@comcast.net> Hi Ray (and PaQP gang)! Since buying our business 5 years ago, I've had virtually no time allowed for ham radio. ?THAT'S GONNA CHANGE!! You all cannot imagine just how much I've missed participating in the PaQP. ?Going portable to WAR was something I looked forward to all year. Anyway, I'm looking forward to being back on the air and giving it hell in 2016. For da Grump: ?It has been an honor and an absolute pleasure to have your call in my logs so many times, and yes, with all due respect, I plan to continue chasing your records!! ?Afterall, W3TDF is THE benchmark!! For Mike: ?I applaud your efforts and your unbelievably sound guidance. ?Please.....take all these suggestions as constructive criticism and don't let it be anything other than what it is intended to be.....FUN! Take care folks, and until next year, 73s! Bob/N3FR (portable WAR) Sent from my LG G3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone ------ Original message------From: Ray BilgerDate: Thu, Oct 15, 2015 11:33 AMTo: PAQSO;Subject:[PaQSO] Tsk tsk Hey Ron, You said it all. With my experience and long-time participation, andcontributions tothis, (the friendliest and most respected QSO party), I just sit back andshake my headuntil all the fuzzies go away, then I concentrate in having FUN. (Mike - like Ron says, don't fix it ! ). Unfortunately, due to my failing health, this was my last PAQP. Only coulddo about10 hours , but made 303 Q's, AND, had F U N. 73, all,DeDaGrump, ((Ray-W3TDF))______________________________________________________________PaQSO mailing listHome: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqsoHelp: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htmPost: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.netThis list hosted by: http://www.qsl.netPlease help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.htmlMessage delivered to n3fr at comcast.net From k3yd at aol.com Thu Oct 15 17:08:36 2015 From: k3yd at aol.com (K3YD) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:08:36 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Puzzling In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1506d554725-7ed3-c537@webprd-a25.mail.aol.com> Hi Mike, I'm baffled too. PAQP was the first contest in which I participated. (I won't say how many thousand year ago.) I've watched the rules change a bit over the years (remember 1.5 points for CW Q's?) while the contest grew to be "Something Big". This is a contest where a guy with 100 watts and a decent dipole, in a rare county, can feel like real rare DX. This is a contest where I can say "Hello" to old friends who I hear year-after-year but probably wouldn't recognize if I encountered them in a Mall. It's a fun contest because I can operate from home, or go to a rare county and either way I can get some sleep overnight. The 2-day format is wonderful because I can't always get on for both days. I remember one year when I showed up for the first time about 1600 EDST Sunday and enjoyed a bottomless 2-hour run. :-) I keep trying for a sweep of PA counties (never got more than 66), and wonder if anyone will every get a Super-sweep (all counties plus all ARRL/CRRL mults). Thanks Mike (and before you, Doug) for all your hard work of organizing and managing. Thanks NARC for sponsoring the best weekend activity in Ham radio. And it isn't broken . . . don't fix it! 73, Blair K3YD -----Original Message----- From: Michael Coslo To: paqso Sent: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 10:20 pm Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Puzzling I?m also baffled. If I might note, it gets a little discouraging to come home, and most of what I hear is all the things I?m doing wrong. Both via the list and privately. I always suggest that people who love contesting should try administering one. This is my tenth administration of the QSO Party. I am amazed. As you note - the party is not broken. It does not need fixed. The original complaint that started this was an out of state Op who didn?t hear many mobiles. As noted, propagation was not terribly good. We have mobiles, we have activity. I am going to take a few days off from the list now, to quiet my ragged nerves. Carry on. Mike > On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Herb Krumich via PaQSO wrote: > > I am baffled why hams try fixing things that aren't broke. This is a beautiful contest and the results every year confirm this. > So what if stations misses a few counties ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to k3yd at aol.com From wa2fgk at yahoo.com Thu Oct 15 17:30:24 2015 From: wa2fgk at yahoo.com (Herb Krumich) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] Two days vs One References: <480069917.1069292.1444944624498.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <480069917.1069292.1444944624498.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> My last post is thisThis is the easiest two day contest, bar none. We get 8 hours of rest on Saturday evening and start up at a gentle 9am.You can't beat this gents73'sHerb K2LNSOperated K3 Your Toilets Leaking From w3frb at comcast.net Thu Oct 15 17:37:20 2015 From: w3frb at comcast.net (Bill Hewitt) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:37:20 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Pa qso party Message-ID: This was my first pa qso party and I had a blast only working 40m . My club Pottstown arc (PAARC) had several members participate. We built special nvis antennas and are planning for next year. Thanks to all. Bill W3FRB From n2cu at roadrunner.com Thu Oct 15 19:56:29 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (Tom Williams) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:56:29 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Two days vs One Message-ID: <34278E22833747948C0C3CC6FA21AE5A@696908E74163425> "We get 8 hours of rest on Saturday evening and start up at a gentle 9am". For home or fixed stations, yes. For mobiles it's a long drive home after 1 AM and then you get a couple hours of sleep before being on the road again at 7 or 8 AM (so excuse my lousy fist). This year I drove a couple hours before the contest on Saturday to start at the most distant county and finished closer to home base. However, would I change the times? I can deal with it. At least until I get too advanced in age. 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 From n2cu at roadrunner.com Thu Oct 15 20:05:31 2015 From: n2cu at roadrunner.com (Tom Williams) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:05:31 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] warning on PDF calculations and confirm rule for county Message-ID: <9CA571FA3DAC4EF6AC3E5251B8A5C629@696908E74163425> FYI, N1MM+ is giving points for each county of a county line station. Example: 40m SSB N3LI/CRN/POT/MCK is 3 points and 3 mults. 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 From jpfox at enter.net Thu Oct 15 20:58:20 2015 From: jpfox at enter.net (J. P. Fox, III) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:58:20 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Puzzling In-Reply-To: <1506d554725-7ed3-c537@webprd-a25.mail.aol.com> References: <1506d554725-7ed3-c537@webprd-a25.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: <5B381A23-FB4A-43B3-9B24-0B12B93AD329@enter.net> Mike, Blair said it all. 73, JP N3GWR, 33k from Berks County. :-) > On Oct 15, 2015, at 5:08 PM, K3YD via PaQSO wrote: > > > > Hi Mike, > > I'm baffled too. PAQP was the first contest in which I participated. (I won't say how many thousand year ago.) I've watched the rules change a bit over the years (remember 1.5 points for CW Q's?) while the contest grew to be "Something Big". > > This is a contest where a guy with 100 watts and a decent dipole, in a rare county, can feel like real rare DX. This is a contest where I can say "Hello" to old friends who I hear year-after-year but probably wouldn't recognize if I encountered them in a Mall. > > It's a fun contest because I can operate from home, or go to a rare county and either way I can get some sleep overnight. The 2-day format is wonderful because I can't always get on for both days. I remember one year when I showed up for the first time about 1600 EDST Sunday and enjoyed a bottomless 2-hour run. :-) > > I keep trying for a sweep of PA counties (never got more than 66), and wonder if anyone will every get a Super-sweep (all counties plus all ARRL/CRRL mults). > > Thanks Mike (and before you, Doug) for all your hard work of organizing and managing. Thanks NARC for sponsoring the best weekend activity in Ham radio. And it isn't broken . . . don't fix it! > > 73, Blair K3YD > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Coslo > To: paqso > Sent: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 10:20 pm > Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Puzzling > > > I?m also baffled. > > If I might note, it gets a little discouraging to come home, > and most of what I hear is all the things I?m doing wrong. Both via the list and > privately. > > I always suggest that people who love contesting should try > administering one. This is my tenth administration of the QSO Party. I am > amazed. > > As you note - the party is not broken. It does not need fixed. The > original complaint that started this was an out of state Op who didn?t hear many > mobiles. As noted, propagation was not terribly good. We have mobiles, we have > activity. > > I am going to take a few days off from the list now, to quiet my > ragged nerves. Carry on. > > Mike > > >>> On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:58 PM, Herb Krumich via >> PaQSO wrote: >> >> I am baffled why hams try fixing > things that aren't broke. This is a beautiful contest and the results every year > confirm this. >> So what i From k3ct at verizon.net Fri Oct 16 06:32:27 2015 From: k3ct at verizon.net (John Bednar) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 06:32:27 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] warning on PDF calculations and confirm rule for county In-Reply-To: <9CA571FA3DAC4EF6AC3E5251B8A5C629@696908E74163425> References: <9CA571FA3DAC4EF6AC3E5251B8A5C629@696908E74163425> Message-ID: <008101d107fd$f4a13160$dde39420$@net> Tom, I know that the points for county line stations are not correct. It is a time consuming nut to crack and the users could bypass any system by logging separate QSO's. In addition, when a sponsor rescores the Cabrillo log it is likely that they will credit points to every county line QSO in your log anyway. Therefore, I simply cannot justify the time involved knowing the outcome. Some sponsors have eliminated this entire issue by forcing the county line stations to make separate contest QSO's (can't send a single exchange) or eliminating county line operation. John, K3CT -----Original Message----- From: PaQSO [mailto:paqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tom Williams Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 8:06 PM To: paqso at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [PaQSO] warning on PDF calculations and confirm rule for county FYI, N1MM+ is giving points for each county of a county line station. Example: 40m SSB N3LI/CRN/POT/MCK is 3 points and 3 mults. 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to k3ct at verizon.net From w3frb at comcast.net Fri Oct 16 08:18:42 2015 From: w3frb at comcast.net (Bill Hewitt) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:18:42 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] FW: Pa qso party References: <20151015215059.32626149B3D7@mailman.qth.net> Message-ID: <002701d1080c$cc74ee20$655eca60$@comcast.net> Hi Mark and others, Thanks for the warm welcome. The NVIS was a modified military design. My ham experimenter Walt (KC3DGC) and I built these antennas. We tried 2 heights of 12 feet and 15 feet off of the ground. 40 meter was incredible on the NVIS. In test mode, at either 12 or 15 feet we were hitting as far North to Maine, South to South Carolina and West to Ohio. No wires under it. It was a great performer for the QSO party as well. I got 30 distinct counties easily. Erie came in a 59 as well as Montgomery (my QTH) 80 meters was a different story. We were unable to get it to work at all. We tried different configurations (the two heights) , and with or without a wire underneath it. No dice. we discussed the antenna?s performance at our monthly club breakfast, after the QSO party. Another ham, Alex (KA2VLP) has the same antenna and he put coils on it. It worked perfectly for him. He suggested that we put coils on it That is our next project. All in all it was a great time. I truly enjoyed the party and the antenna project. I am looking forward to 2016! Bill (W3FRB) From: Mark Schreiner [mailto:mark.j.schreiner at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 6:07 PM To: Bill Hewitt Subject: Re: [PaQSO] Pa qso party Congratulations and welcome! Tell me more about the NVIS antennas. How high (low)? Ground wire(s) under? How well did they work? On Oct 15, 2015 5:50 PM, "Bill Hewitt" wrote: This was my first pa qso party and I had a blast only working 40m . My club Pottstown arc (PAARC) had several members participate. We built special nvis antennas and are planning for next year. Thanks to all. Bill W3FRB ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to mark.j.schreiner at gmail.com From n3cr at yahoo.com Fri Oct 16 10:25:36 2015 From: n3cr at yahoo.com (n3cr at yahoo.com) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:25:36 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] PAQP not broke Message-ID: <8vylkvq77qnaa8pbf1o8ensf.1445004711889@email.android.com> Greetings ALL,,,,,,It's not broke. Fix the propagation!!!! Conditions have been fair to poor all summer. When is the last you saw an Aindex 10 and Kindex 1 ????? Been a while. I watch daily. We have been seeing K Index of K3 to K6 for a couple weeks! Few stations were heard at my qth on 15m and 10m. On the other side 80m was great. 40m band conditions changed all contest long. I worked Iowa and MO on 80m and 40m which was neat. I put several Michigan stations in the log as well. Thanks guys!! I was able to run a frequency on 40m which seldom happens. But conditions allowed at the time. This was not the normal propagation. But it was still a great contest. Worked the 67 and can't thank the mobiles, portables and rovers enough. Got good signal reports and that is what counts. Blair said it right. It don't need fixing. Make the propagation better!! 73s de larry n3cr carbon county Good Day From wa2fgk at yahoo.com Fri Oct 16 10:57:05 2015 From: wa2fgk at yahoo.com (Herb Krumich) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [PaQSO] NVIS References: <1109545621.1387389.1445007425966.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1109545621.1387389.1445007425966.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Years ago I learned that an antenna on 80 meters will be an NVIS below 130 feet above ground. Same situation with 40 meters where a dipole or yagi should be up at least 70 feet.This was after I tried running an 80 meter dipole, ten feet off the ground. It does not work. Although the tree level was much higher.Does an NVIS antenna need to be in an open field ? Good question.?On 80 meters, any dipole up 25-40 feet is a killer antenna for our contest.Throw some RF into the sky, you never know where it will landHerb K2LNS From dave at pkministrywebs.com Fri Oct 16 11:29:38 2015 From: dave at pkministrywebs.com (Dave Edmonds) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:29:38 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] NVIS In-Reply-To: <1109545621.1387389.1445007425966.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1109545621.1387389.1445007425966.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <1109545621.1387389.1445007425966.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: HI Herb, My low band focus is 40m stateside typically for qso parties/contests, like the PAQP. I use a 40m dipole at 9 feet with an old IC-730 at 82.5 watts. It works amazingly well. I was on 40m all day on Saturday during the PAQP and worked 110 PA stations (including 5 mobile/rover contacts) with solid reports. I also ran K2L in 13 colonies along with W1AW/4 for several thousand Qs. I've won plaques in 5 QPs along with numerous top five finishes including WPX. Top station in South Carolina for the ARRL Centennial. These and more with an antenna at 10 feet has been simply AMAZING! I am a believer in NVIS! 73s Dave WN4AFP On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Herb Krumich via PaQSO < paqso at mailman.qth.net> wrote: > Years ago I learned that an antenna on 80 meters will be an NVIS below 130 > feet above ground. Same situation with 40 meters where a dipole or yagi > should be up at least 70 feet.This was after I tried running an 80 meter > dipole, ten feet off the ground. It does not work. Although the tree level > was much higher.Does an NVIS antenna need to be in an open field ? Good > question. On 80 meters, any dipole up 25-40 feet is a killer antenna for > our contest.Throw some RF into the sky, you never know where it will > landHerb K2LNS > ______________________________________________________________ > PaQSO mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to dave at pkministrywebs.com -- Dave Edmonds PK Ministry Webs 864.288.6678 dave at pkministrywebs.com www.pkministrywebs.com "Webs from the Heart" From n8xx at arrl.org Fri Oct 16 16:29:10 2015 From: n8xx at arrl.org (Hank Greeb) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:29:10 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] NVIS In-Reply-To: <1109545621.1387389.1445007425966.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1109545621.1387389.1445007425966.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <1109545621.1387389.1445007425966.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <56215E16.6040702@arrl.org> I' ve had GREAT performance from a dipole @ 60 to 70' on 80/40/20 meters. I try to find spots for portable operation which have "naturally occurring antenna supports" of this height spaced between 120 and 150 feet apart, so that my dipole can fit between. A lower antenna works, but when available, the higher antenna, on high ground, works the very best. In choosing an operating location, I find that Peakbagger.com will list the peaks in a given county, and show them on a topographical map, usually with 10 feet contours. It's frequently hard to get to the highest "peak" in a county, but it's easy to follow contours and get within a few feet of a high point with good height above average terrian. 72/73 de n8xx Hg QRP >99.44% of the time On 10/16/2015 10:57 AM, Herb Krumich via PaQSO wrote: > Years ago I learned that an antenna on 80 meters will be an NVIS below 130 feet above ground. Same situation with 40 meters where a dipole or yagi should be up at least 70 feet.This was after I tried running an 80 meter dipole, ten feet off the ground. It does not work. Although the tree level was much higher.Does an NVIS antenna need to be in an open field ? Good question. On 80 meters, any dipole up 25-40 feet is a killer antenna for our contest.Throw some RF into the sky, you never know where it will land Herb K2LNS From aa3b.bud at gmail.com Sun Oct 18 15:46:34 2015 From: aa3b.bud at gmail.com (Bud Trench) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 15:46:34 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] W3C QSLs Message-ID: <003301d109dd$b2364ae0$16a2e0a0$@gmail.com> I got a request for information on W3C QSLs. Where should they be sent? 73, Bud AA3B From peteralbright1 at gmail.com Sun Oct 18 17:54:57 2015 From: peteralbright1 at gmail.com (Peter Albright) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:54:57 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] mobile submission Message-ID: Hi Mike, It seems that I have 33 files to submit - the log, the aggregate summary sheet, and summary sheets for 31 counties. My email connection is gorking on trying to send them all together. OK to send them in a few batches? -Peter, AA2AD dba W3CG/m From n3xls at juno.com Sun Oct 18 20:11:54 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (n3xls at juno.com) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:11:54 GMT Subject: [PaQSO] W3C QSLs Message-ID: <20151018.201154.11555.0@webmail09.vgs.untd.com> All W3C QSL requests can be sent to N3XLS ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Bud Trench" To: "PAQSO PARTY" Subject: [PaQSO] W3C QSLs Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 15:46:34 -0400 I got a request for information on W3C QSLs. Where should they be sent? 73, Bud AA3B ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ Protect what matters Knowing your flood risk and being prepared can help keep your family safe and reduce potential damages. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/562435606069735600396st01vuc From peteralbright1 at gmail.com Mon Oct 19 05:22:11 2015 From: peteralbright1 at gmail.com (Peter Albright) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:22:11 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] Soap Box (late) Message-ID: I am sorry this summary is so late. After a weekend of mobiling, real life intervened as soon as we returned to home base. Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul Mt2 3.5 CW 16 32 0 0 7 CW 637 1252 77 2 Total Both 653 1284 77 2 Operated from 31 counties Mobile bonuses for 26 counties Worked W3C twice Final Score: 116,574 ===== Driver/navigator Laurie (N3KZI) set the goal for this year's party: we would operate from as many different counties as possible. She spent as much time mapping our route as I spent installing a TS-480, whip, and antenna tuner into the old Chevy Cobalt. Following her plan as closely as possible, we operated from 31 counties, working ten or more stations from 26 counties. Best of all, we were only 20 minutes from home at the closing bell. What can I say? In previous years, Laurie (N3KZI) and I (AA2AD) headed east out of Erie County around noon on Saturday, spent Saturday night in a hotel at the far end of the state, then dropped south and headed back west on Sunday. This year, we headed east after work on Friday and spent the night in Clearfield. After a leisurely breakfast, I configured the new K1EL keyer, which had arrived in Friday's mail and which I had assembled Friday afternoon just before we pulled out. It worked perfectly in the hotel room but Murphy struck as he always does when one is in a careless hurry. When I connected keyer to radio, the computer crashed, seemingly catastrophically. We were prepared with paper logs as backup, but I was not looking forward to that alternative. I convinced the laptop to reboot and reverted to a crude, single 2N2222 transistor serial port keyer that I had slapped together in case the Winkeyer did not arrive in time. The homebrew keyer worked on my (very) old laptop, but timing was horrible at low speeds and even worse at reasonable speeds. If I had realized how irritating the bad fist would become, I would have sacrificed operating time to fix the K1EL before we pulled out of the parking lot. My humble apologies to all who struggled to differentiate Saturday dits from dahs at 20 WPM. Late Saturday night, as I drifted off to sleep in Wayne County, I flashed on some clip-on RF chokes from WA3A (thanks Steve) that I had tossed into the car trunk, and I made the logical connection between crashing laptops and RF in the USB port. By early Sunday AM, the K1EL keyer was working perfectly. It is an awesome little box. N1MM's recommendation is right on the money! Thanks to Laurie, and thanks to the many ops who made it a point to work W3CG/m over, and over, and over. 73, Peter (AA2AD, W3CG op) ===== As his signature sign off, ?It?s a beautiful day in Pennsylvania.? Pete Wombach knew what he was talking about. The weekend of the 2015 PA QSO party was weather and travel perfection. Cool temps and October?s bright blue skies and gorgeous fall foliage helped this driver of the W3CG/M station enjoy this year?s event to the fullest. Here are some words of advice to those who are going to attempt the multi- mobile venue in 2016: 1. Asking our mechanic to change the oil, put on new wiper blades, check the tire pressure and install new headlights was a smart move. 2. You need a cave-like interior to a vehicle to be able to see the computer screen in broad daylight. Purchase some window cling to darken the side windows, it will run about $30 but well worth the effort. Wear dark shirts, for both the driver and operator which will cut down on the sun?s reflection. 3. Map out your course well ahead of time. Use both a paper map and MapQuest to calculate the quickest route between counties. Be prepared to adjust your route due to detours and heavy traffic areas. It is surprising how many fall leaf and apple festivals there are on this weekend. Traffic moves slowly on the rural roads this time of year. Other helpful hints: 1. To help keep the operator, my husband, accurately reporting our QTH, I made flash cards with the three letter abbreviations and full name of each county. When we crossed a county line I would put the appropriate card onto his keyboard. 2. I would set GARMIN to as close to a county line town/village or intersection road as possible and keep my eyes peeled for either homemade or state issue county line signs. County lines are sometimes missing and bridges and pavement changes can be an indicator of a county line demarcation/ 3. Finding a place to pull over to make contacts is not as easy as it may seem. There are power lines to avoid and elevation was key (no pun intended) to helping others receive his signal. Sadly , convenience stores in gas stations are the worst QRN generators of all. 4. Once the sun went down and we were in unfamiliar territory, I found it very difficult to find county lines or a places to perch while Peter operated the rig. Sometimes concessions are necessary for safety sake and I-80 offered better visibility and actual lines painted on the road. The Pocono hills and curves offer a scenic drive in the daylight but are treacherous after sunset. 5. After dark, keep a flashlight or two available for map gazing, use highlighters for map marking and keep a tablet with a pen handy for making notes on what to do (or not) next year. We drove a total of 861.3 miles from our home and back averaging 33.8mpg. We hit 31 counties. Only five of the 31 did not having 10 contacts. Peter made 659 CW contacts. We had our best run ever and I doubt that weather conditions could be better. Maybe we will do something different next year but no doubt we will operate the PA QSO part in 2016. 73, Laurie (N3KZI, W3CG navigator) From n3xls at juno.com Mon Oct 19 10:14:39 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (=?utf-8?B?bjN4bHNAanVuby5jb20=?=) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:14:39 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] =?utf-8?q?Soap_Box_=28late=29?= Message-ID: Great job and advice! ----- Reply message ----- From: "Peter Albright" To: Subject: [PaQSO] Soap Box (late) Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 5:22 AM I am sorry this summary is so late. After a weekend of mobiling, real life intervened as soon as we returned to home base. Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul Mt2 3.5 CW 16 32 0 0 7 CW 637 1252 77 2 Total Both 653 1284 77 2 Operated from 31 counties Mobile bonuses for 26 counties Worked W3C twice Final Score: 116,574 ===== Driver/navigator Laurie (N3KZI) set the goal for this year's party: we would operate from as many different counties as possible. She spent as much time mapping our route as I spent installing a TS-480, whip, and antenna tuner into the old Chevy Cobalt. Following her plan as closely as possible, we operated from 31 counties, working ten or more stations from 26 counties. Best of all, we were only 20 minutes from home at the closing bell. What can I say? In previous years, Laurie (N3KZI) and I (AA2AD) headed east out of Erie County around noon on Saturday, spent Saturday night in a hotel at the far end of the state, then dropped south and headed back west on Sunday. This year, we headed east after work on Friday and spent the night in Clearfield. After a leisurely breakfast, I configured the new K1EL keyer, which had arrived in Friday's mail and which I had assembled Friday afternoon just before we pulled out. It worked perfectly in the hotel room but Murphy struck as he always does when one is in a careless hurry. When I connected keyer to radio, the computer crashed, seemingly catastrophically. We were prepared with paper logs as backup, but I was not looking forward to that alternative. I convinced the laptop to reboot and reverted to a crude, single 2N2222 transistor serial port keyer that I had slapped together in case the Winkeyer did not arrive in time. The homebrew keyer worked on my (very) old laptop, but timing was horrible at low speeds and even worse at reasonable speeds. If I had realized how irritating the bad fist would become, I would have sacrificed operating time to fix the K1EL before we pulled out of the parking lot. My humble apologies to all who struggled to differentiate Saturday dits from dahs at 20 WPM. Late Saturday night, as I drifted off to sleep in Wayne County, I flashed on some clip-on RF chokes from WA3A (thanks Steve) that I had tossed into the car trunk, and I made the logical connection between crashing laptops and RF in the USB port. By early Sunday AM, the K1EL keyer was working perfectly. It is an awesome little box. N1MM's recommendation is right on the money! Thanks to Laurie, and thanks to the many ops who made it a point to work W3CG/m over, and over, and over. 73, Peter (AA2AD, W3CG op) ===== As his signature sign off, ?It?s a beautiful day in Pennsylvania.? Pete Wombach knew what he was talking about. The weekend of the 2015 PA QSO party was weather and travel perfection. Cool temps and October?s bright blue skies and gorgeous fall foliage helped this driver of the W3CG/M station enjoy this year?s event to the fullest. Here are some words of advice to those who are going to attempt the multi- mobile venue in 2016: 1. Asking our mechanic to change the oil, put on new wiper blades, check the tire pressure and install new headlights was a smart move. 2. You need a cave-like interior to a vehicle to be able to see the computer screen in broad daylight. Purchase some window cling to darken the side windows, it will run about $30 but well worth the effort. Wear dark shirts, for both the driver and operator which will cut down on the sun?s reflection. 3. Map out your course well ahead of time. Use both a paper map and MapQuest to calculate the quickest route between counties. Be prepared to adjust your route due to detours and heavy traffic areas. It is surprising how many fall leaf and apple festivals there are on this weekend. Traffic moves slowly on the rural roads this time of year. Other helpful hints: 1. To help keep the operator, my husband, accurately reporting our QTH, I made flash cards with the three letter abbreviations and full name of each county. When we crossed a county line I would put the appropriate card onto his keyboard. 2. I would set GARMIN to as close to a county line town/village or intersection road as possible and keep my eyes peeled for either homemade or state issue county line signs. County lines are sometimes missing and bridges and pavement changes can be an indicator of a county line demarcation/ 3. Finding a place to pull over to make contacts is not as easy as it may seem. There are power lines to avoid and elevation was key (no pun intended) to helping others receive his signal. Sadly , convenience stores in gas stations are the worst QRN generators of all. 4. Once the sun went down and we were in unfamiliar territory, I found it very difficult to find county lines or a places to perch while Peter operated the rig. Sometimes concessions are necessary for safety sake and I-80 offered better visibility and actual lines painted on the road. The Pocono hills and curves offer a scenic drive in the daylight but are treacherous after sunset. 5. After dark, keep a flashlight or two available for map gazing, use highlighters for map marking and keep a tablet with a pen handy for making notes on what to do (or not) next year. We drove a total of 861.3 miles from our home and back averaging 33.8mpg. We hit 31 counties. Only five of the 31 did not having 10 contacts. Peter made 659 CW contacts. We had our best run ever and I doubt that weather conditions could be better. Maybe we will do something different next year but no doubt we will operate the PA QSO part in 2016. 73, Laurie (N3KZI, W3CG navigator) ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ No Branches = Great Rates Ally Bank http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/5624fad236d3d7ac91fbast02duc From n3xls at juno.com Mon Oct 19 10:14:18 2015 From: n3xls at juno.com (=?utf-8?B?bjN4bHNAanVuby5jb20=?=) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:14:18 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] =?utf-8?q?Soap_Box_=28late=29?= Message-ID: Great job and advice! ----- Reply message ----- From: "Peter Albright" To: Subject: [PaQSO] Soap Box (late) Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 5:22 AM I am sorry this summary is so late. After a weekend of mobiling, real life intervened as soon as we returned to home base. Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul Mt2 3.5 CW 16 32 0 0 7 CW 637 1252 77 2 Total Both 653 1284 77 2 Operated from 31 counties Mobile bonuses for 26 counties Worked W3C twice Final Score: 116,574 ===== Driver/navigator Laurie (N3KZI) set the goal for this year's party: we would operate from as many different counties as possible. She spent as much time mapping our route as I spent installing a TS-480, whip, and antenna tuner into the old Chevy Cobalt. Following her plan as closely as possible, we operated from 31 counties, working ten or more stations from 26 counties. Best of all, we were only 20 minutes from home at the closing bell. What can I say? In previous years, Laurie (N3KZI) and I (AA2AD) headed east out of Erie County around noon on Saturday, spent Saturday night in a hotel at the far end of the state, then dropped south and headed back west on Sunday. This year, we headed east after work on Friday and spent the night in Clearfield. After a leisurely breakfast, I configured the new K1EL keyer, which had arrived in Friday's mail and which I had assembled Friday afternoon just before we pulled out. It worked perfectly in the hotel room but Murphy struck as he always does when one is in a careless hurry. When I connected keyer to radio, the computer crashed, seemingly catastrophically. We were prepared with paper logs as backup, but I was not looking forward to that alternative. I convinced the laptop to reboot and reverted to a crude, single 2N2222 transistor serial port keyer that I had slapped together in case the Winkeyer did not arrive in time. The homebrew keyer worked on my (very) old laptop, but timing was horrible at low speeds and even worse at reasonable speeds. If I had realized how irritating the bad fist would become, I would have sacrificed operating time to fix the K1EL before we pulled out of the parking lot. My humble apologies to all who struggled to differentiate Saturday dits from dahs at 20 WPM. Late Saturday night, as I drifted off to sleep in Wayne County, I flashed on some clip-on RF chokes from WA3A (thanks Steve) that I had tossed into the car trunk, and I made the logical connection between crashing laptops and RF in the USB port. By early Sunday AM, the K1EL keyer was working perfectly. It is an awesome little box. N1MM's recommendation is right on the money! Thanks to Laurie, and thanks to the many ops who made it a point to work W3CG/m over, and over, and over. 73, Peter (AA2AD, W3CG op) ===== As his signature sign off, ?It?s a beautiful day in Pennsylvania.? Pete Wombach knew what he was talking about. The weekend of the 2015 PA QSO party was weather and travel perfection. Cool temps and October?s bright blue skies and gorgeous fall foliage helped this driver of the W3CG/M station enjoy this year?s event to the fullest. Here are some words of advice to those who are going to attempt the multi- mobile venue in 2016: 1. Asking our mechanic to change the oil, put on new wiper blades, check the tire pressure and install new headlights was a smart move. 2. You need a cave-like interior to a vehicle to be able to see the computer screen in broad daylight. Purchase some window cling to darken the side windows, it will run about $30 but well worth the effort. Wear dark shirts, for both the driver and operator which will cut down on the sun?s reflection. 3. Map out your course well ahead of time. Use both a paper map and MapQuest to calculate the quickest route between counties. Be prepared to adjust your route due to detours and heavy traffic areas. It is surprising how many fall leaf and apple festivals there are on this weekend. Traffic moves slowly on the rural roads this time of year. Other helpful hints: 1. To help keep the operator, my husband, accurately reporting our QTH, I made flash cards with the three letter abbreviations and full name of each county. When we crossed a county line I would put the appropriate card onto his keyboard. 2. I would set GARMIN to as close to a county line town/village or intersection road as possible and keep my eyes peeled for either homemade or state issue county line signs. County lines are sometimes missing and bridges and pavement changes can be an indicator of a county line demarcation/ 3. Finding a place to pull over to make contacts is not as easy as it may seem. There are power lines to avoid and elevation was key (no pun intended) to helping others receive his signal. Sadly , convenience stores in gas stations are the worst QRN generators of all. 4. Once the sun went down and we were in unfamiliar territory, I found it very difficult to find county lines or a places to perch while Peter operated the rig. Sometimes concessions are necessary for safety sake and I-80 offered better visibility and actual lines painted on the road. The Pocono hills and curves offer a scenic drive in the daylight but are treacherous after sunset. 5. After dark, keep a flashlight or two available for map gazing, use highlighters for map marking and keep a tablet with a pen handy for making notes on what to do (or not) next year. We drove a total of 861.3 miles from our home and back averaging 33.8mpg. We hit 31 counties. Only five of the 31 did not having 10 contacts. Peter made 659 CW contacts. We had our best run ever and I doubt that weather conditions could be better. Maybe we will do something different next year but no doubt we will operate the PA QSO part in 2016. 73, Laurie (N3KZI, W3CG navigator) ______________________________________________________________ PaQSO mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/paqso Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:PaQSO at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n3xls at juno.com ____________________________________________________________ No Branches = Great Rates Ally Bank http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/5624fabe7afcd7aba691est01duc From jlindvay at msn.com Sun Oct 25 19:17:36 2015 From: jlindvay at msn.com (John Lindvay) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 19:17:36 -0400 Subject: [PaQSO] PA QSO Party Message-ID: My son-in-law, Wes KB3PPI and my daughter, Emily KB3PPG flew in from Calgary, British Columbia, to be with me and my wife at Wes's hunting camp near Sheffield in Warren County for the QSO party. They flew into Buffalo and drove to Erie and met us. We all drove down to Warren Friday night. Wes brought his Yeasu 897 transceiver and a MFJ manual tuner. I took an IC-718 transceiver and an IC -746 Pro to operate. I went to the Cleveland hamfest and month earlier and picked up what I thought was an 80 meter dipole and enough material to make a trap dipole for 80-40 meters. I also took an army surplus discone antenna for 6 meters. Saturday morning we discovered that the 80 meter antenna was really a 20 meter dipole. (I thought the coiled wire was a few turns short.) We then built the 40-80 meter dipole. Wes put up an army surplus pole and fastened the rope guys to the ground. We used a pulley arrangement to pull up the dipoles to the top of the 25 ft. pole. After constructing it, we discovered the SWR was much, much more than 3:1 on 80 meters. So we jumpered out the traps and the SWR came down to 1.5:1. So much for the traps being good for an 80-40 meter dipole. We had a good run on 80 meters Saturday night and worked a quite a few stations. We woke Sunday and realized all the action would be on 40 meters, so we cut the wire right in front of the traps and inserted some insulators. We tried 40 meters and the SWR was good! Our very first contact complained there was a terrible buzzing on our signal. At first we thought it was the mike, so we switched it with the 718 mike. Still had that terrible buzzing. We then swapped out the whole radio and still had the buzzing. We then connected to the 20 meter antenna and the buzzing went away. However, we didn't want to operate on 20 but on 40 where all the action was. We found out that the only radio that didn't produce the buzzing was the Yeasu 897. We never did find out why the buzzing and didn't take time to investigate; we had a party to operate. So we ran the contest on 40 meters from the 897. We monitored 6 meters throughout the contest but only worked one station, KD8MG/3 in Jefferson County. 6 meters was a big disappointment because of the time and effort to put up the antenna. Our main mode of operating was to go up and down the band working stations calling CQ. We also kept looking for a free and clear frequency until we found one, then we started calling CQ. It took two operators, one to talk on the radio and one to operate the computer and enter information in the log. We would take turns calling CQ. My daughter Emily was at first a little mike shy, but after a few moments was working like a pro. Why is it that hams act like gentlemen and come back to a YLs first every time? We worked 206 contacts, 57 counties, and 27 sections. We had a good time, no TV, no cell phones, just good conversation with our in-laws and ham radio. John Lindvay WB3IFD jlindvay at msn.com 814-455-1061 (h) 814-490-0253 (c)