Berger's
Bandits!
This is the motley crew that broke the long-standing record for the multi-operator, multi-transmitter class in the PA QSO Party! The five of us operated four stations, three at a KW or more, plus some sporadic contacts on VHF and UHF. The numbers are shown below, along with some other information about this historic contest effort.
From left to right, the operators are:
K3CT
John Bednar
K3II
Jim Berger (our idol and fearless leader)
K3PP
Glenn O'Donnell
KA3NGH Anthony "Goody"
Good
KR3I
Ed Eroh
Behind us, the wall is covered with some of K3II's rich collection of
QSL cards. Most of these are from countries long since placed on
the DXCC deleted countries list. They are among the rarest QSL cards
around!
New PA QSO Party Multi-Multi Record: 404,151 Points set by K3II in 1998 !!!!
Multipliers:
67 Pennsylvania Counties
79 ARRL/RAC Sections (Missed LB, SK, NWT, and NF)
1 DX
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147 TOTAL MULTIPLIERS
2265 Total QSOs 2733 Total QSO Points 147 Total Multipliers
( 2733 ) QSO points X ( 147 ) Multipliers = 401,751 points
12 BONUS QSOs WITH K3YTL = ( 2,400 ) points
********** FINAL SCORE ********** = ( 404,151 ) points
Club or Team Name: Carbon Amateur Radio
Club
This effort began as an informal idea to run a multi-multi operation from one of the finer DX contest stations in the world. K3II is a terrific guy with a terrific station and a terrific QTH. We just planned to operate and have a good time.
We knew we could do very well from Jim's place, but as the planning process went on, we started thinking that we could really win this contest. We also did some analysis and came up with a strategy that could get us the new record. It worked! We smashed the old record and broke 400,000 points for the first time in the 41 year history of the contest.
K3
Performance Plot
I entered our log into an Excel spreadsheet, ran some calculations
and produced an interesting graph of our progress over the contest period.
This kind of data will be a useful study for the 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 bands we were on at the time.
Thanks to everyone for the QSOs! This was a VERY memorable contest
for all of us in Berger's Bandits!
Transceiver 1: Icom
IC-775DSP
+ Alpha 87A
1500W
Transceiver 2: Yaesu
FT-1000 + Ameritron
AL-1200
1500W
Transceiver 3: Kenwood
TS-850S + Ameritron AL-80B
1000W
Transceiver 4: Icom
IC-736
100W
Transceiver 5: Icom
IC-706MkII
in K3PP's truck (6m QSOs) 100W
Transceiver 6: Yaesu
2m FM Mobile on Astron Power Supply 50W
Transceiver 7: 222 MHz FM Mobile in K3CT's
car 25W
160m antenna: N4KG reverse-fed 100 ft
tower
80m antenna: Delta loop
Dipole at 30 ft
1/4 wave vertical
40m antenna: 2 el monobander at
60 feet
1/4 wave vertical
20m antenna: 4 el monobander at
100 feet
4 el monobander at 50 feet
15m antenna: Force
12 EF-515 5 el monobander at 112 feet
5 el monobander at 60 feet
10m antenna: 5 el monobander at
50 feet
6m antenna: High
Sierra HS-1500 mobile antenna on K3PP's old truck
2m antenna: 12-el yagi
1.25m antenna: 1/4 wave ground plane on
K3CT's Jeep Cherokee