PA0O ham radio

**“The ARRL contests have been my favourites for a very long time. Back in 1980 we operated Multi with PA0GN, in the days when logging was done without computers like N1MM. Both CW and SSB were two full weekends of 48 hours. Paper logs and dupe sheets had to be mailed by post…”** “Saturday morning brought exceptionally good propagation on 40 m, with strong signals from W6, W7, VE7, and VE6. But the next day the K‑index rose to 5, and the higher bands closed early.” **“With that score I was in 4th place on the realtime contest scoreboard. SO LOW ALL I had been in 3rd place, but by the end I dropped to 4th. After the contest I sent my log to the ARRL, but I accidentally opened an empty log file and later deleted it. Since then my callsign appears in red at the bottom of the list with no points, and it will no longer update because the contest is now closed.”** SO ALL  LOW “Rig: Elecraft K3, 100 W, 3‑element SteppIR, and dipoles. On 160 m with the inverted‑L, no QSOs were possible th...