905 Total QSOs 976 Total QSO Points 133 Total Multipliers
( 976 ) QSO points X ( 133 ) Multipliers = ( 129,808 ) points
2 BONUS QSOs WITH W3SGJ = ( 400 ) points
********** FINAL SCORE ********** = ( 130,208 ) points
Club or Team Name: Carbon Amateur Radio
Club
I
entered my log into an Excel spreadsheet, ran some calculations and produced
an interesting graph of my progress over the contest period. This
kind of data will be a useful study for my next PA QSO Party contest. Click
on the image for a larger version.
The graph shows the growth in QSOs, Mults, and Score over time. It also shows the rate for the past 10 QSOs at each point and the band I was on at the time. Where the dots indicate the highest band, this is an aggregation of all of my VHF activity. Most was 2 meter FM, followed by a few 6 meter SSB/FM and 222 MHz FM QSOs.
Thanks to everyone for the QSOs! This was a new all time high
PA QSO Party score for me. I broke my own Carbon County record, set
the previous year at 80,588 points. It got me 2nd place in my category
(EPA Medium Power), and was the high single-op score for the Carbon
Amateur Radio Club. The club also achieved a new record, thanks
largely to two multi-op efforts by K3CT (w/KR3I) and W3MF (w/K3PH) who
had 207,485 and 218,055 points respectively. K3CT set a new Carbon
County multi-op record. W3MF set a new Monroe County multi-op record
and won the multi-op category for the whole contest! Here are the
official club standings from the 1997 PA QSO Party.
|
Rank
|
Club | Club Name |
Entries
|
Total Score
|
|
1
|
WW | Weekend Warriors |
12
|
1,346,884
|
|
2
|
DLA | Delaware-Lehigh Amateur Radio Club |
40
|
1,326,253
|
| 3 | MUR | Murgas Amateur Radio Club |
25
|
1,125,609
|
|
4
|
QWL | Outlaw Wireless League |
12
|
937,638
|
|
5
|
RAE | Radio Association of Erie |
24
|
931,567
|
|
6
|
CAR | Carbon Amateur Radio Club |
11
|
647,478
|
|
7
|
FRC | Frankford Radio Club |
7
|
513,724
|
|
8
|
EARS | Exeter Amateur Radio Society |
6
|
400,604
|
|
9
|
PWA | Penn Wireless Association |
6
|
395,250
|
|
10
|
NARC | Nittany Amateur Radio Club |
7
|
383,028
|
Transceiver 1: Icom
IC-775DSP
for most of my HF QSOs
Transceiver 2: Icom
IC-736 for other HF QSOs and all 6m
QSOs
Transceiver 3: Icom
IC-2000H for all 2m FM QSOs
Transceiver 4: Standard
C228A HT for all 222 MHz FM QSOs
Gateway 2000 486 33 MHz
Computer for logging, running NA Version 10
It's an old, clunky computer now, but it does the job for
logging!
160m antenna: 1/2 sloper
80m antenna: Open sleeve wideband
dipole at 30 feet
This is a killer PA QSO Party antenna!
I have to get it higher for next year!
40m antenna: Dipole at 20 feet (I
need better)
20m antenna: Force
12 EF-420 4 el monobander at 68 feet
15m antenna: Force
12 EF-415 4 el monobander at 76 feet
10m antenna: Force
12 EF-410 4 el monobander at 84 feet
6m antenna: Cushcraft
A50-3S 3 el yagi at 25 feet
2m antenna: Comet CX-333 vertical
(Super 144/222/440 tribander)
1.25m antenna: Comet CX-333 vertical
Other antenna: Butternut
HF9V-X Multiband HF/6m
vertical
Automated HF antenna switching using Top-Ten
Devices band decoder
and automatic antenna switch