[PaQSO] PAQSO Party 2016 results

[Michael Coslo]

Good morning all. 

The 2016 PAQSO Party Results have been posted at:

http://nittany-arc.net/PAQSO.html

There is a lot more information in them than there used to be, as well as the new Party classes. Enjoy.

One note is that some of the new classes have not picked up sponsors yet. So for those classes, we’ll be sending out certificates, since the sponsor’s donation pays for the engraving and mailing of the plaques. You will know which classes are affected by a note on the first page of the class scores. I’m going to put a hold on introducing new classes until we get the present groupings massaged and in order.

Regarding the party, it was a pretty good year, with about 50 logs more, which is pretty surprising given that we are on the downside of the sunspot cycle. The logs submitted tend to follow the cycle strongly. 

The number of Partiers that got all 67 counties was also up strongly. This is another group that usually follows the sunspot cycle. This year 54 reached that goal. Contrast with a few years back when there were only 2.

I’d like to thank all of the sponsors, as well as Mark NK8Q for his help with the Sponsor’s work, with Bud AA3B for his quick conversion of logs to spreadsheets, and Elaine K3ERP for handling the money matters for me.

As well, I want to thank all the partiers for making this the Friendly QSO Party.

I will be a little hard to get hold of for the following weeks. Going to be down in the Florida Keys for some R&R after a stop at Hamcation. Email is fine but I won’t have access to the databases. 

- 73 Mike N3LI -