PA0O ham radio

Propagation by far not as good as during the ARRLDX CW  ( 960 QSO  low power) Low power phone is more difficult missing the CW RBN spots.  Band     QSOs     Pts  Sec    1.8       3       9    2    3.5      14      42    9      7      22      66   15     14      51     153   24     21      66     198   32     28      63     189   27  Total     219     657  109 Score: 71,613 1 Mult = 2.0 Q's off time 40:44   on time 07:16 In the very last minutes of the contest 2352...2359  I took a short look at topband for the big guns. Jenever can tell..  K3LR  and WE3C where at 160 peaking with sudden good good signals. I s...

No free spots to find on the bands 14MHz is crowded  except   around 14230 But that is the TV channel!   24x7 TV  don't you dare to start a cq  on top of the continuous digi TV transmissions!     Had to move above 29MHz to find a  more or less clear freq. east / south east EU  always S units stronger Propagation did not favor NW-EU   as usual.  HG3M  reporting 59005  5Watts ! having  run on 40m a joke I believe 5 is 5K   or are they using the old shortwave BC stations? running 50kW  or so?   So watch if this HG3M is entering the QRP class it is 100% cheating    SSB is not my thing but for the ARRL I make an exception And phone  does not have the RBN spots so it is way more difficult to find new multy's in the very very crowded bands Bad timing  to have an Aurora disturbance  at Friday evening just before the start. Still 28 was good open  inc...