PA0O ham radio

   Very busy CW band during the Marconi CW  with this time excellent propagation. My setup was  new The Flex6500 plus the Ukraine UR3LMZ as in my previous post. That worked very nice used the Maestro as control. Doing  only S&P no CQ runs, wtKST was on so I was open for skeds.  I did cherry picking and there where lots of cherry's on.. The result is a very high average distance 733km over 85 QSO on 2m. A full contest station of course  should work al stations on the band. My tx signal was clear I could come very close to competitors without IMD or reciprocal noise. So the Ukraine transverter is excellent as long as its internal l.o. is not used. And the Flex has very low  internal noise. I use an old SSB LNA close to the 12 ele  dual band  Antenna & Amplifiers. This SSB LNA can handle max 400W  it's nf is not extreme low measured about 1.7 or so at144MHz But it really makes the difference especially at 70cm. Some stations with good Q5 signals could not hear my 400W f.i