[PaQSO] CW

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

 I was only the first six hours, with a couple of short breaks, driving I-80 from west to east. 40 and 20 only.


At the start there were loud guys on 40 from EPA; at the end there were some in-state guys heard and worked. In the middle, 3 pm or so, from Centre county, things were pretty dead. I recall I took a tune across 40 SSB and the only loud signal I heard was WB8WKQ in Michigan working PA guys I could not hear.


I don't know if the band took a dip, or if there had just been a 200 mile skip zone all along, which from central PA would eliminate pretty much the whole state.





73 -  Jim   K8MR   ( /M )



 

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Duffey <wxduff at gmail.com>
To: Steve Stepansky <sstepa at verizon.net>
Cc: paqso <paqso at mailman.qth.net>; Herb Krumich <wa2fgk at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 18, 2017 11:38 am
Subject: Re: [PaQSO] CW

40m was a bit long during the party if that was your band of choice. 80m
was by far the better band in state. Let it be known for next year that if
you want to do well you need to be solid on 80m! Also, if you are using a
vertical you will tend to get less close in contacts than a dipole would
produce.

Despite having two stations on CW and two on phone, we finished with only
335 SSB contacts out of 918 total. Part of that is our CW ops (NK8Q and
K3NG) were fantastic, and part was our QRP signal. Still, CW is alive and
well, including in state. The absence of N2CU's mobile this year might have
contributed some. He's usually in people's logs multiple times on CW.

Evan - N3TWM

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Steve Stepansky <sstepa at verizon.net>
wrote:

> I chalked it up to band conditions. On 40, it seemed to go long in the
> blink of an eye. Of course, that's regardless of mode but to me, 40 seemed
> long this weekend.
>
> 73,
>
> Steve
> KC3WX
>
> > On Oct 18, 2017, at 10:19, Herb Krumich via PaQSO <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > During the contest when switching to CW I started noticing something.I
> was working so many out of state contacts, vs Pa.When using N3FJP, you can
> see your last 10 contacts, and at times 8-9 out of 10.Did anyone else
> notice this.Our local club has about 70 members, and only 3-4 do CW.Is this
> now statewide ?73Herb K2LNS
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