Pennsylvania QSO Party
Call: K8MR/3
Operator(s): K8MR, W8DRZ
Station: K8MR/3
Class: Rover LP
QTH: 27 Counties
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160: 0 0
80: 110 8
40: 596 388
20: 207 20
15: 76 15
10: 0 1
6: 0 3
2: 0 8
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Total: 989 443 Mults = 126 Total Score = 269,369.0
Club: North Coast Contesters
Comments:
By County:
CW SSB
MER 37 26
VEN 31 47
CLA 36 0
JEF 54 106
FOR 71 64
WAR 22 0
MCK 21 0
ELK 66 0
CLE 55 0
CEN 32 0
CLI 38 1
UNI 44 2
NUM 38 0
MTR 32 0
SNY 47 63
MIF 36 0
JUN 57 122
PER 21 0
CUM 35 3
FRA 8 2
HUN 13 0
FUL 29 0
BED 37 2
SOM 36 0
WES 48 0
ALL 39 0
BUT 11 0
65 counties; missed Wayne and Juniata (should have given W8DRZ an HT :-) )
60 ARRL sections, 1 DX
This includes 13,500 bonus for activating 27 counties, and 1 qso with W3KWH.
There are also several extra qsos included due to double logging of county line
stations.
This is not the score that will be submitted to the sponsors.
Much experience by myself and others has shown that SSB qsos as a mobile are
very difficult. So as an experiment, I chose not to do a true mobile, but rather
stop in several places, mostly counties expected to be rare, and throw up a 40
meter dipole in an effort to be loud enough to make an impact on SSB. This made
me a rover. However, the PaQP sponsors do not allow rovers to make qsos while
en route between stops. Therefore I will be entering two logs, one mobile, and
one rover. Only after much more processing will I have the breakdown between
the two.
My rover results were quite gratifying. We made six rover stops, in Mercer,
Venango, Jefferson, Forest, Snyder, and Juniata counties. All of the 40 SSB
qsos, and a few CW QSOs were made during these stops. The average antenna
height was about 20 feet at the center, either with a string tossed over a tree
limb or with a DK9SQ fiberglass mast. In Forest county we used a 75/40 dipole,
which included all the 75 meter qsos. But this was about a half hour before
sunset, before much activity had moved there.
We were quite successful in running from all six stops. In particular, from
Jefferson county (Saturday afternoon) and Juniata county (Sunday noon) we had
the 10 qso rate timer over 250, and in Juniata had the 100 qso timer as high as
155/hr. Quite an improvement from mobile antennas where making 10 SSB qsos in a
row is a big accomplishment.
High points:
Literally, the stop in Juniata county. We were at a small trailhead parking
area at the top of an 1900 foot ridge (1300 feet above the valleys on either
side) and had a very convenient tree limb at about 30 feet. Juniata had not had
much activity, and we had lots of "thanks for the new one", and several "thanks
for the last county" reports, to go with the great rates.
The serious activity by a number of Europeans who were following us from county
to county. With the Hustler 3 band system I picked up last month, I was able to
work many of them on both 15 and 20 CW, plus a few on 15 SSB. DL6KVA may have
won the award for being the quickest to work me when I showed up on a band with
propagation to EU, with SP4JWR, DL5MC, and LY3BA (on Sunday) not far behind.
DL6KVA or SP4JWR will likely win the award for the most qsos with a given
station.
The beautiful weather, with the leaves changing colors making it a pleasure just
to be driving around. With a good contest, priceless.
73 - Jim K8MR and Jim W8DRZ/Designated Driver
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