Congrats, Steve, on the great score!
And, you are too hard on yourself. ... Your CW wasn't all that bad. Really,
I've heard much worse, and I made my share of errors myself, even though I
consider myself to be a somewhat competent CW op.
I still haven't quite mastered how to make contacts, listen to the radio,
listen to Jaws, and enter info into the computer, all at the same time in
the heat of a contest, but as the week-end went on, I think I got better at
it.
It sure was fun, and I am indeed already looking forward to next year.
Also, there are some other contests coming up which I'd like to do,
especially the North American QSO Party winter CW and SSB contests.
73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: Pennsylvania QSO Party post mortem
> First off, to Fred, sorry but by the time I cleared my e-mails and saw
> yours about maybe meeting after the contest, it was already well after the
> fact. hope you had fun this weekend
>
> tnx to Lou and to Tom for working me and for Tom putting up with my crappy
> cw. I had a blast with a personal high of 617 QSO's and final score
> around 90,000. Like Tom, I'm already looking forward to next year.
>
> I did have the recording running in the logger. If anyone who worked me
> this weekend wants to hear how they sounded from this end, I'd be happy to
> send you a short .wav file of your audio. It's a bit of an exercise to
> extract what is needed from the large recorded file, so if you aren't
> interested I won't bother. However it's not a problem, so if you are
> interested drop me a note off list and I'll send it to you direct later
> this week.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 9:27 PM
> Subject: Pennsylvania QSO Party post mortem
>
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> Well, despite some really awful band conditions on 40 meters yesterday,
>> plus
>> having a problem with my MC60 mic for the TS480, I think I ultimately did
>> rather well in the Pennsylvania QSO Party contest.
>>
>> Made 250 contacts, and worked all but four Pennsylvania counties. I know
>> I
>> missed Northumberland, Montour, and Clearfield counties, and can't think
>> of
>> the fourth one right now.
>>
>> Ended up with something like 20 thousand points.
>>
>> Will send my log materials in, and also will apply for the Beacon award,
>> although it sounds to me that our friend Steve (KW3A) beat me by a long
>> shot.
>>
>> Was a real pleasure, though, and I'm already looking forward to next
>> year.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI
>>
>
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