PA0O ham radio

ARRL CW is the mother of all Contests.. Back in 1970 ties we where  PA0GN  ,handwritten paper logs no internet no PC.'s After contest with koffie en koek, dub check at the home of  Geert PA0GIN  Corrie and dog Sheila. Those days the cw  and phone took both 2 weekends 2 x 48 hour CW . Must be the only active HF contester's of this group left with Enno PF5X But  PI4GN is active in UHF SHF contests. Last weekend during our PACC storm depression Ciara came along. This weekend we had another storm visiting called Dennis. Friday I attempted to set up a better 40m dipole but i could not get it tuned like it did last weekend. Now i know why, the fold back wires came too close to each other and eliminated induction. But Dennis ended antenna work. Anyway i was okay for 160 80 20 15  and the 80 dipole on 40 that worked a bit my result despite not having a good 40m antenna  Oklahoma was the only spotted not worked multi. Strange  4...

160m only this time I started Saturday night          Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.7523.0         Band     QSOs     Pts  Sec  Pt/Q          1.8     219     651   42   3.0        Total     219     651   42   3.0             Score : 27,342 first contacts where a bit confused again i managed to start he wrong log type ARRL160  had to stop and move to ARRLDXCW log All contacts exported to LOTW K3 + ACOM1000  inverted L 25m vertical  rx Beverage 340m west after the contest TZ4AM   was logged good strong 569 1810kHz CW

28Mhz  no Stateside heard in my QTH JO33hg this weekend  previous PACC weekend had good W/VE signals at 10m ...  No Mexican multi's  in this contest  that is only in the ARRL 10m contest but in the next future we will not see XE at 10m afraid.. Would not be of much  help only heard 1 XE2E 80m ( i think it was)   but with a real huge signal  599 cq'n never heard such strong XE at 80 not heard or seen on any band :   SD  South Dakota  ID Idaho   UT Utah  WY Wyoming Guess they must have been worked by EU big guns in the piles. The Beverage gave crystal clear W/VE signals at 40 80 Sunday evening in a good run at 20m sudden the logger PC was frozen Tx RTS line in high state  fortunately DTR = CW key  was low.. No keyboard  and mouse control  so need to force a hard reset with power key press. No data was lost pff. But gone was the smal pile.  60m ZS unique list...

In Category  Low power    mostly Search and P propagation high bands very good on Sunday How much longer can we enjoy this super 28MHz propagation ? Even here in north-west were 28MHz signals are normally weaker at Sunday BC WA MT OR came in well propagation was even better then in 2014 December ARRL10 Only missing State:   North Dakota , South Dakota, Nebraska last year N and S Dakota worked within 1 minute .. my goal:   6 banders    as many as possible 160m was the difficult band  17 QSO possible Trying the ARRL CW this early  morning at 160 I could not use N1MM plus  the USA call all greyed out and  logging had to be forced as invalid contact must be simple  a setting  or country list still at PACC  but I could not fix this yet But still N1MM score is 0 with 940 invalid contacts after loading wl_cty ack to N1MM clasic already sunrise I was late. Few 160 W/V signals heard  W3LPL did ...