2019 PA QSO Party Bonus Station - PA QSO PA

We will have two high  powered stations on the air for the entire event, concentrating on 80,  40 and 20. One will be on SSB and the other on CW for the whole contest  and we will move bands depending on conditions and activity.  A third station will be set up as a training station as some guys are not  contesters but want to participate so we will be on 2 meter FM and SSB.  I  understand some rovers will be on 146.55 so we will listen for them as  well as others.  I plan on getting on 6 meter SSB/CW Sunday morning as I  have done in past years.

We have a dedicated computer guru who will be in charge of our local  network and he will be posting our frequencies to the PA QSO chat on a  regular basis and he will be watching spots and chat info for rovers and  relay the info to the operators.  I feel comfortable we will be able to  provide the bonus points to anyone who may be looking for us.  On Sunday,  we will have more operators who are not contesters getting their feet  wet, but we have had N1MM training sessions at our Thursday night  meetings over the past month as well as reviewing the rules and  operating procedures. Sunday will be slower and a good chance to train  some new contesters and generally get some of our club members involved.

The first few hours, K1ZE, my DXpedition and contest buddy and I will be  on the HF stations when it is busiest so we can keep the rate up.  We  have backup rigs in case and the shack has a 20 KW whole house  generator, which we hopefully won’t need.  We even have a full time cook  for the event!