PA0O ham radio

High power single operator Spend a lot of time and work for just 95 QSO's No more then 4 hours of sleep .. A good test to see if I still could survive that Saturday afternoon  I set up a Beverage   to west    300m Setting up the Beverage left me with muscle strain lasting until today after jumping over a ditch.  But a good experience at least now I have a good working Beverage to West.  fb quiet reception clear W signals on the Beverage disappeared when RX on the TX antenna  I tried to record collection of the stronger signals   VY2ZM  589 on the Beverage..K3ZM  579 aswel  and some other major signals But the recording failed Audio handeling never has been as difficult as in W7 The internal mike can not be disabled the mixer control is fuzzy Early evening  20UTC Saturday already a few W's came in very promising. But propagation broke down later I had 50 QSO  aded 47 only could not reach 100Q ...

First night: Friday evening the gusty wind  finally calmed down a bit and I managed to tilt the mast up. The wind was turned to N-E . Some hail and wet snow showers  made it a cold job. Also the K9AY was re-erected. No damage  only the rotator turned very slow now for unknown reason no things visible jamming it. The multi band wire dipole 40/30/12 became spaghetti.  No way to unravel  in the dark. Wire antenna's will struck to anything that touches it. But I was ready for ARRL160 I entered L.P. single  3.1. Single Operator (use of spotting networks is NOT PERMITTED): 3.1.1. QRP (5 watts or less) 3.1.2. Low Power (150 watts or less) 3.1.3. High Power (1500 watts or less or your country's maximum power limit It cost me a few dB the K3 KPA3 output sometimes drops to 80W my old tube FT102 could get 150W out.  The KPA3 should be able to ...