Very busy CW band during the Marconi CW excellent propagation. The N1MM bandmap was filled from 144.0 to 144.150 rarely seen in the FT8 era.. First time used the Flex6500 plus the Ukraine UR3LMZ setup as in my previous post. That worked very nice, 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 clean 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 older 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 7
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