PA0O ham radio

Sat to Sun. night  zero 474kHz TA decodes...   the end... Friday to Sat  just 5 decodes Thursday  to Friday  another poor propagation night hope that propagation will pick up soon. The Beverages could stay another week the land is too wet No more goodies fttb. also  LA2XPA seems to have lost propagation no more exotic West USA spots.   propagation shifted to south below  dream DX spot 2017-03-03 05:18   WH2XXP   0.475662   -26   0   DM33   50   DJ0ABR   JN68nt   9427   32 here WD2XSH/17   19 decodes  no better then -18  no exceptions from FN square Wednesday -  Friday night: 29 decodes of WD2XSH/17 last night   strongest -7  no other TA Propagation faded here  by Aurora Aurora enhanced propagation  like on 160 and 80m  can happen is not seen on 630m yet   U3S  con...

another  good night  over 100 TA decodes   WG2XXM   new one outside FN.  decoded here much later then  a few hundred km west of me.  No other goodies.  TX was repaired. fttb.  but no reverse decode  Today I will have to remove at least the east Beverage. New record signal strength    +1 2017-03-01 04:52   WD2XSH/17   0.475646   +1    0   FN42pb   5   PA0O   JO33hg   5630  2017-03-01 05:26    WG2XXM   0.475710   -24   0   EM15lj    5   PA0O   JO33hg   7736   38   2017-03-01 00:56   WG2XKA   0.475721   -25   0   FN33lq   1   PA0O   JO33hg   5656   49   2017-02-28 22:50   WD2XSH/17   0...

A Very good MF night    First time decoded WG2XIQ   EM12mp 7972km 2017-02-28 03:26   WG2XIQ   0.475791   -29   0   EM12mp   5   PA0O   JO33hg   7972   38   2017-02-28 03:20   WG2XIQ   0.475791   -30   0   EM12mp   5   PA0O   JO33hg   7972   38 18 decodes: 2017-02-28 02:28   WG2XKA   0.475721   -21   0   FN33lq   1   PA0O   JO33hg   5656   49 21 decodes:   -15 stongest 2017-02-28 04:46   WG2XPJ   0.475679   -15   0   FN34lp   1   PA0O   JO33hg   5587   50 WD2XSH/17   80 decodes  -1dB strongest ever  2017-02-28 05:24  ...

Last night i was  decoded on the other site for the first time this season  yesss 70W DC  input    antenna 28m vertical  top load If  the number of   WD2XSH/17  decodes is used  as indication   propagation looked not special this night  strongest decode -10   at 23:28 only 18 decodes    other nights had over 50 decodes WD2XSH/17  early start  22:54   and late close 08:00  2017-02-26 22:54   WD2XSH/17   0.475648   -19   0   FN42pb   5   PA0O   JO33hg   5630   49   2017-02-26 23:28   WD2XSH/17   0.475647   -10   0   FN42pb   5   PA0O   JO33hg   5630   49   2017-02-26 23:44   WD2XSH/17   0.475652   -15   1   FN42pb...

Saturday 25 Feb  morning. No exception from FN but decodes deep in daylight  sunrise 6:35 0820  -24  -0.3    0.475646    0   WD2XSH/17              37 0824  -24  -0.2    0.475646    0       FN42PB   37   5646 92 TA decodes last night   strongest -7dB -8dB /17 This night rare exception from  FN grid 2017-02-24 02:08   WI2XRM   0.475643   -26   0   EL98pd   5   PA0O   JO33hg   7368   41   2017-02-24 03:14   WI2XRM   0.475676   -26   0   EL98pd   5   PA0O   JO33hg  ...

The mother of all contests  the ARRLDX since the 70's  i was active in the ARRL tests  with club call PA0GN In those days paper logging.   CW 2 weekends  48hour and phone 2 x 48hour. Dupe checking  had to be done from the paper logs in the weekends after with a group of om's someone did read the log and the others had to check the calls in the list.. it was easy to make mistakes in the logging  bad  handwriting    wrong time wrong band etc. A dupe sheet was mandatory  with the log sheets all by air mail. QST 1974    losse verkoop 1$    PA0GN  staat er bij  low sunspots  poor bands  in 74   SO-LOW-ALL Band     QSOs     Pts  Sec  Pt/Q    1.8      42     126   21   3.0    3.5      50     150   18   3.0      7     137   ...

Monday after ARRLDXCW -10dB strongest decode this season     -12 -14  a page full decodes FN42pb again 2017-02-20 01:38   WD2XSH/17   0.475647   -10   0   FN42pb   2   PA0O   JO33hg   5630   49  it should be possible to have my signal decoded  i do not know the ERP of WD2XSH/17 there is 20dB power space with this signal levels here about  60W rf   if it was 1 kW on the other site my snr about  -13  on the other site But still no decodes WD2XSH/17 best SNR  to -15dB  but again not outside FN main square 2017-02-18 01:08   WD2XSH/17   0.475647   -15   0   FN42pb   2   PA0O   JO33hg   5630   49 2017-02-18 00:52   WG2XKA   0.475721   -27   0   FN33lq   1  ...