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I did S&P  looking for goody's  not full time contest. The propagation did peak  Thursday at 10m  a bit too earl y   Just in the weekend the propagation was in a dip but still 10M sho wed  a lot activity  and good dx like KH7 X strong over longpath. N1MM  K3.  I am having more and mo re problems CAT connection is lost  with overflow error pop-up very often . Asking  to send error report almost every few minutes. T he  frequency ruler gives wild frequency's  and the inpu t field is wiped out. I experience t his problem  long time now .   I think it started since the switch   from XP / W2000 to W7 few years back although  also with XP I noticed this problem but rare.  I have n ot observed communication problems when using a normal system comport and W2 k  or XP I think I can say.  V ery an no ying  and some QSO's where lost . This did not happen often ...

Finaly  some good signals at 160m   After mon ths of noise   a71cv and ve1zz 160m  and C5C very good signal Also 160 WSPR  showed some DX 2012-10-26 02:56   PA0O   1.838090   -17   0   JO33hg   5   W1CDO   FN43ou   5506   292 

Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az  2012-10-25 08:16   PA0O   28.126166   -23   0   JO33hg   0.5   ZL3PX   RE66hm   18519   49   2012-10-25 07:40   PA0O   28.126167   -20   -1   JO33hg   0.5   ZL3PX   RE66hm   18519   49   2012-10-25 08:04   PA0O   28.126167   -22   0   JO33hg   0.5   ZL3PX   RE66hm   18519   49   2012-10-25 08:04   PA0O   28.126146   -24   0   JO33hg   0.5   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905   84   2012-10-25 08:16   PA0O   28.126147   -28   0   JO33hg  ...

28MHz   last 7 day  real good selected on distance    top 100  all  above 16000km DX index 100%     160 and 80  not a single decode >1000km  the low bands are real low these times My 80m experiment wi t h the loop was no improvement.  T he vertical is still bett er but not good enough it needs more distance  from the mast. Will try a fishing rod .  Heard 3B9SP  very good last night on 80m n ot busy, no jamming  but with th e vertical at only1m  from the mast the radiation pattern  is not good enough t o be heard. The 160m inverted-L  is more effect ive .  1/4 wave  is >> then the mast length and th e radiation is not disturbed  2012-10-17 08:04   PA0O   28.126171   -26   0   JO33hg   5   ZL3PX   RE66hm   18519   49   2012-10-17 08:54...

WSPR 80 and 160 has been closed for DX  long time here so..  As expected poor propagation for the Stew Perry 160 DX challenge   unfortunately.     The SP to pband DX chalence  is a contest where DX counts and  lower power is rewarded with a multiplier. x2  or QRP x4 The contest time is 24 hou r Sat. Sun . 1500-1500UTC    2 Effective time's   SS Saturday and SR S u nday Sat urday evening A65BP  as best dx with reasonable signal and goo d ears and   some UA9 N ot much activi ty  60 QSO Sund ay morning SR  to west  glad to make 3 Q   (with 100 W )  1833 CW 2012-10-21 0511 PA0O          599 JO33   KK3AN         599 FN00           20  1830 CW 2012-10-21 0519 PA0O          599 JO33 ...