PAQSO party 1997. Left to Right: Tim KE3HT/m VOICE, April (my girl) Drivers logger and Elwood KA3MMM/m CW. Rigs Kenwood TS50, TENTEC Delta. 100 watts. Antenna's: Spider and Hustler multiband narrow bandwidth tuned resonating elements.

1999 guest BONUS station W3HA.

Scores by county via a really neat map from  KD8MQ

PAQSO1 My contesting software:
I first wrote PAQSO1 because nobody had a contest logging program that a mobile could use in the PAQSO party. I  wrote it in windows but on the first contest I discovered windows based notebooks created ALOT of computer hash. So I re-wrote it in dos. It can be run from from a windows window in full screen mode but you'll find that windows is not trust worthy and you'll want to run in dos anyhow.

My own version of this software has been outdone by KA3JWE's new windows version. Before you try mine, have a look at the only other two programs available from serious PAQSO hams. There are other programs that want us ham's to "pay" for what little support they have for PAQSO but I found them to have even less support than these two guys. At least as of the Summer of 1999.

I highly recommend KA3JWE's logger. Donster (Donald) has done a great job of making the contest logging not such a chore. If you have noise problems or are running mobile then you might still want to look at my software but KA3JWE has excelent support for mobiles AND county lines. It even has some support for a mobile to use this as his logging software! This is the second peice of PAQSO software to have such support. The only catch is the summary sheet needs to have the mobile bonus manualy added which ain't so hard.

Harry Bump also has a nice windows program but it lacks ease of use for base stations logging mobiles and county lines. Mobiles themselves can't use it without saveing things to different directories and starting a new contest. Basicly it is not friendly to the PAQSO mobile community but its by a great guy that loves the PAQSO party so its worthy of further investigation and development. KM3D PAWIN

If you want a quiet version for special uses, Such as inside a mobile with close antenna's !, please drop me a note and I will gladly give you an updated version of mine program.

I have my own home grown software designed specifically for the PAQSO party.
Its features include:

• Mobile usable !, the First PAQSO program of its kind.
• Bases can  log mobiles !, again this is unique. Most programs have you log on paper these very important guys. (I'm one)
• Dynamic lookup of dupes as you begin to type the call so you can skip this guy quickly if you worked him already. (Like WR9R's great field day stuff)
• Dynamic lookup of county/sections as you type. This allows you to see if you need this one. Also allows you to see the proper spelling by showing you the possables.
• Keeps a running score, all the info on your progress as you go.
• Runs in DOS mode. You might think this old BUT if you have any experiance with PC's you will know how reliable windows is. This will run in windows if you want. Runs in Black and white ! Why? because most VGA monitors generate alot of HF hash and noise. Especialy LCD panels  used by the mobiles. B&W nearly eliminates all that. Again I did this for Mobiles since the antenna's are close to the computers and monitors.
• Prints logs as you might expect but also supports Mobiles ! no more dupe checking by hand !
• Creates a summary sheet the for a Mobile if requested.