Steve:

Great job on the P A Q P!  It sounds like you may be in line for this year's 
Beacon award, if they are doing that again.  You beat me by far, but I knew 
it was going to be that way because I was limited to one antenna, namely the 
DXCC.  Actually, the DXCC did tune up a little better last night on 80 than 
I expected, but I could tell that it was not very efficient.

I will write to you off list about the specifics, but I made a total of 206 
contacts.  And, now, here's the heart-breaker:  I worked 65 out of the 67 
counties!  I just could not find those two missing counties anywhere.  They 
were Indiana and Lebanon counties.

Anyway, I'll write to you more off list, when I get the chance to work with 
my log, but it was a fun week-end indeed.

P.S.  A friend came over this afternoon, and we believe we found the problem 
with my Carolina Windom 160 compact.  It is a hair-line crack in the seme of 
the matching unit coil at the feed point.  We got the water out again, and 
sealed up the seam with liquid coax seal.  SWR's look good, but it will take 
a rainy week again to determine whether the seal will hold.

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 8:18 PM
Subject: Thanks for working me


> Had a great time in the Pennsylvania QSO party this weekend.    Tnx to
> those from the list who found me in the din.  Worked Tom KB8TYJ and Lou
> WA3MIX twice each, and Pat KK3F once on80 CW.   Now he knows the dirty
> little secret that I am somewhere  between a 4th rate and 5th rate cw
> operater.
>
> Over 800 QSO's in the log this weekend, and  if anyone else  gave me a
> point, many thanks.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
>