Welcome to the KD8MQ PA QSO party website. This is not to be confused with the Official Pa QSO Party website. On my site, I archive the per county PA QSO Party scores for the last several years.

The PA QSO Party is one of the best state QSO parties in the country. Run by the good folks at the Nittany ARC, in State College, PA, it always proves to be one of the friendliest contests you'll find.

From this page, you can view the data for any county, by either clicking on the county map above, or from one of the links to the left. Besides the county links, there are also links to handy map which shows the difference between EPA & WPA, and the maps of the rarest counties, since 1987

A Little History
Back in 1987, WI8T, and I were planning to come to PA, to run portable for the party. After consulting previous years results, and talking with Doug, W3HDH, we chose INN for our first attempt. It rained all weekend. we operated from an open pavillion, and slept in a tent. The high temp that weekend felt like 48°. Despite the inhospitable conditions we had fun, and resolved to return the next year. It was about four years later that we wised up and found an indoor QTH.

The Database
Around that time, I began tabulating the total points per county, and storing it in a database. This data helped us to plan the next years effort, as well as helping us predict which counties would likely be the next "rare ones". When the web came along, it seemed perfectly logical to post the data there for everyones benefit. I didn't let the fact that I knew nothing about HTML deter me.
Using Front Page, I constructed a set of 75 pages, and uploaded them to qsl.net. I quickly learned why "Friends don't let friends use Front Page", and took some classes to learn HTML. This year, I'm adding graphs for each county.
I hope you find this site useful. If you have any questions, or ideas on how to improve, please contact me.