PA0O ham radio

 Was weer een heel evenement veel pileups en toch nog wel veel deelnemers uit oost EU. Helaas besloot mijn Steppir niet mee te werken en kon niet worden gebruikt dat was een behoorlijke aderlating natuurlijk dat deze beam uitgerekend tijdens de PACC niet werkte. Ik had nog een multiband dipool als reserve. Met hangen en wurgen  toch nog 1400 QSO gehaald  na ongeveer 02 uur in de nacht kwam echt niemand meer retour  ook met zoeken was er voor mij niets meer te werken alleen de reverse beacons gaven me nog rapporten , met de propagatie was niets mis, tijd voor een korte nachtrust. Ik verbaas me over de hoge QSO aantallen van anderen die blijkbaar daar geen last van hebben en continue door kunnen werken.  Onder voorbehoud preliminair resultaat PACC low (100W) CW SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CW --------------------   1.          PA4O     432900   Electronic Log   2.          PA0O    ...

**“ The ARRL contests have been my favourites for a very long time. Back in 1980 we operated in the Multi category as PA0GN logging was done by hand. No computers, hand logging. I used the memory keyer , built from WB4VVF 's article in QST. Still have that keyer on the shelf.. The ARRL CW and SSB contests then took two full weekends — 48 hours each. Paper logs and dupe sheets had to be send by air mail in a big envelope and many months later we could read the result in QST..…”** Nowadays, with the help of cluster spots that highlight workable new calls on the bandmap, I can work more stations on my own than we ever managed in the 1980s with multiple operators. This weekend Saturday morning brought exceptionally good 40m propagation strong signals from W6, W7, VE7, and VE6. ( map below) But the next day the K‑index rose to 5, and the higher bands closed early. **“I ended place 4 on the realtime contest scoreboard. section SO LOW ALL Europe I had been in 3rd place, but by th...

Running LOW power SO CW  with K3 and  Flex6500   Steppir 3 ele  beam was frozen al week with freezing N-E wind was just intime operational again and I could place  a shorted Dipole for 40-10m  to have a spare if anything would happen to the Steppir .. In January, the northern part of the Netherlands faced arctic winds from the northeast and subzero temperatures, while the south felt more like spring. Finally, the temperature rose above zero and the Steppir tuned again, but now we’re surrounded by fog. EU zones offer plenty of multipliers that make this contest exciting, and I’m in NL05. The scoring clearly favors the EU, giving EU contacts 10 points while those outside get only 3. G, HB9, LA, YU, and E7 are all worth just 3 points. It feels a bit odd to have the FOC activity on the same weekend as a completely separate event. Nigel TK/G3TXF, a well-known DX-peditioner, was running EU-DX instead of FOC—remarkable that he was on our side! FB, Nigel. ` I ...

Using a 100W K3 with an L antenna and a small loop RX antenna sometimes helped a bit.   Almost all contacts were within Europe. Propagation was poor, with only a brief window on Saturday morning at 07 UTC when some USA signals were heard and workable  and PJ2T  No signals from Asia,                      Ranking at closing, shifting up and down from 16th to 9th place.

To the south, where city lights interfere, the clouds appeared bright and dynamic, changing within seconds from glowing intensely to fading away. The green and red colors were visible only in camera pictures, while to the bare eye almost no color effects could be seen.

  Not seen that much snow in long time Strong  cold north east wind. the day before the 3cm XVTR was removed to prevent damage.