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PA QSO Party — October 10–11

One weekend a year, the entire ham radio world points its antennas at Pennsylvania — and for once, we're the rare DX. The 70th Pennsylvania QSO Party runs Saturday, October 10 (noon–midnight) and Sunday, October 11 (9 AM–6 PM Eastern), and every station on the air that weekend wants Bucks County in their log. The short version: — CW and voice only (no FT8), on any band except the WARC bands. CW contacts are 2 points, voice is 1. — The exchange is a serial number plus your county — for most of us that's "BUX." (Yes, Bucks is BUX, not BUC. We checked.) — No registration, no fee. Operate one hour or all 26 — every contact counts. — Chase K3ZMC, this year's bonus station: 200 points per contact. Now the big ask: submit your log. Penn Wireless enters the club competition, and the club's aggregate score is simply the sum of member logs — we need at least three submitted logs just to appear in the results. Ten casual contacts from an attic dipole genuinely moves the needle. Upload your Cabrillo file at paqso.org within 7 days (by October 18) and enter "Penn Wireless Association" as your club on the submission form — that one box is what makes your effort count for W3SK. Everything else you might wonder — the exchange word-for-word, county abbreviations, logging-software setup, what to do with a paper log — is answered on one page: PA QSO Party guide Warm up on the pre-party net Friday, October 9 at 8 PM Eastern on 3.910 MHz LSB, and bring questions to the club forum or the next meeting. Get on. Make noise. Be the DX. 73, Penn Wireless Association · W3SK