PA0O ham radio

Propagation  is about as low as it goes   zero almost max DX WSPR 80 is   890km!  OK2SAM max DX in EU is 1300km pfff In this situation  any antenna looks  trash .. I changed back to the vertical shunt type antenna f.t.t.b. I lowered the Delta loop..   or is it an inverted delta. A 80m  wire loop automatic gets the delta / triangle form using 1 high central mast and trees around. It is very easy to swap and get the vertical up again. Almost as changing the scenery in a play. Just lower the loop and up the wire  in a few minutes the loop is a vertical again. This time I hung the vertical wire closer to he mast.  At the top about 40 cm  separated only. This way this line is coupled with the steel mast  like a skeleton or  lecher line. It tunes  SW about 1:1.6 at minimum   for a wire bit shorter then 20m. But with this absolute  trash propagation  no conclusion  ...

Trying to get TT8TT  on 80M cw  good copy but many many calls no reply it felt like tx-ing in  a dummy load. I heard the lid festival too long and start ing to think those lids that QRM-ing the DX  sending:  "idiots" do have a point.   My 80m antenna  was a vertical wire hanging down in parallel separated a few meters from the mast of 27m high. S ometimes it seemed to work good but the performance was never real good.  In times of good conditions the efficiency is of lower importance. But since the last good times on 10m  in the start of October the propagation went down a lot. So exit  80m GPand see if there is an antenna that gives more joy. Now I am testing  a full wave loop for 80m The lowest SWR  2 bit high at the cw part of 80m But it seems to work even at 12M  easy QSO VK9XM in a pile Not a bad start for a piece of wire.. I had to bring the mast down since the pulley on top felt down and then I h...

Stranded  on 20 QSO That means no point for the Veron competition.. Not easy to collect more then 25 VK/ZL Oceania VK ZL hams  general don't look very contest minded. Besides a few club stations like ZM4T  ZM1G VK4NM VK7ZX  Since there are only a few on the bands the pileups are big. They take it easy VI2VIP f.i.  took a break in the middle of a pile   and did not return again. Calling in competition with South-east EU is useless Some signals very loud  like VK7ZX on 7.172 almost a full S9   Sunday I woke up early but found no WSPR VK decodes like Saturday 28 and 21 closed for ZL/VK This contest is ending Sunday 08 UTC  that is not a good time to end it is the best time for EU - VK for the high bands. Heard TT8TT very well and long time on 80m  but I gave up after  long  calling they seem to have high QRN  and mainly working East and  South-east  EU   On 160m TT8TT  weak b...

1704 -12 -0.9  28.126060  0 N6OIL DM14 23   200mW   I normally "need"   a lot more in the pile ups 20121004 0838  28017.1 CW   PA0O         559  AH0KT           559  wkd lowpower                        20121004 0939  28460.0 USB  PA0O          59  ZD9UW            59                     20121004 1541  28450.0 USB  PA0O          59  TT8TT            59       ...

Credits to the 3D2C crew for activating such rare remote locations.    3D2C 599 599 CW 20M 14.03233 32 2012-10-02 19:31:00   3D2C 59 59 SSB 20M 14.21005 32 2012-10-02 09:24:00   ZL3XDJ 579 599 CW 40M 7.00898 32 Brian 2012-09-30 18:34:00   3D2C 599 599 CW 30M 10.10503 32 2012-09-28 18:32:00   3D2C 599 599 CW 10M 28.03679 32 2012-09-28 12:15:00   KH6MB 559 559 CW 15M 21.00803 31 2012-09-27 07:20:00   V73NS 559 559 CW 15M 21.01100 31 2012-09-27 07:17:00   3D2C 599 599 CW 15M 21.02937 32 2012-09-27 07:13:00   OH1AXT 59 59 SSB 160M 1.85005 15 Mark 2012-09-26 22:22:00   IS0IGV 599 599 CW 30M 10.11945 15 2012-09-26 22:09:00   3D2C 59 59 SSB 10M 28.51515 32 2012-09-26 10:16:00   JF2IWW 549 549 CW 10M 28.03190 25 Naito 2012-09-26 09:30:00

The general problem with Dx-peditions  like 3D2C  There is only 1 dx mostly weak  but there are many idiots around just waiting for such event.  Like tonight at 40m  no clear frequency longer then a few seconds before the next  QRI starts 3d2c 40m zoo A very weak signal  that can easily be jammed  from somewhere in EU? were those  lids hide. And always around prime time  sunset the xyl has plans to go somewhere. Since I already spent so much time in the shack this is not  unreasonable but the end effect is  I wasted my radio time. Like this weekend spend quite a lot time in the CQWWRTTY 305 QSO  mostly S&P  10meters Best propagation was on Saturday 10m was real good. Sunday was not as good bands ended early in Major storm conditions all signals sounded auroral. Some difficult QSO's I had using  K3 100W  "low power"   and  dipole  should have been with the Steppir...