I came back to ARRL SSB after two years pause. Again single band, 40m, due to my work duty during the weekend days. This year contest season continue in weaker propagation. I had real pileupthe whole story…

Part time participation due to work duties also this year. Conditions wasn’t good, but slightly expected, considering ARRL CW last week. I can say „I was running“ just only in first two hours. Then huntingthe whole story…

I hoped in at least average good conditions in the period of sunspot max. But reality was a bit different. I spent days before the contest by repairing of tribander A4S damaged years ago. Ithe whole story…

Quite good conditions regarding the maximum solar activity. Also some station setup improvements made the job. I used FTDX101D for the first time in this contest, with two RX systems (K9AY and 5-circle RX verticals)the whole story…

It looks like the Sun is fully working with us, it is essential for my small pistol station. Good bands openings, I broke 4 Million points, so… great weekend! I took care about preparations. 5-circlethe whole story…

The Sun is cooperating, it was pleasure to run juicy pileups for hours from my home garden station. I wanted to have the station ready at least on Thursday evening, but you know it… therethe whole story…

My personal the top in this category, it could have been better, but mother nature arranged it other way. CW LP category, as usually. Daily maximum of 35 °C plus PA heat… no, thanks.Mr. Murphythe whole story…

New toy in the hamshack was source of new issues, which have to be solved… and Mr. Murphy knew it 🙂 The station was completely configured and tested during Friday. But uHAM router SW didn’tthe whole story…

„Unfortunately“ good conditions on high bands, since this is my weak point. But I made my the best SSB WPX result ever, so… OK. I started on 40m/80m and hoped in 6-points. But 20m wasthe whole story…

Only part time participation, due to my work. Part time participation due to work duties, as usually. Good conditions recently and this weekend was not exception. I wanted primary to test RX ANT during morningsthe whole story…

Very good conditions was observed few days before the contest, and it sustained during the whole weekend too. I started at low bands, since I expected main activity on 40m. I realised too late, thatthe whole story…

I tried to make at least any RTTY QSO, since I’m not skilled RTTY operator at all. RTTY is starting to be one of the rarest mode. The only one chance is during „old-school“ RTTYthe whole story…

The first full-time using 5-circle RX verticals after installing few protections. The first three hours was the key point of the contest (almost 30% of QSOs), then hard work. First night with difficult NA conditions,the whole story…

Technical problems was the main issue of this contest, Mr. Murphy was here again. OM Power PA started to trip the breaker and to burn PA fuses. Longer heat-up solved it.Then ACOM started to refusethe whole story…

I expected good conditions and already opened high bands. It was true, but only partially. I had a lot of time to check the station settings on Friday. It was good to solve few minorthe whole story…

It was fine Low Power operating two years ago, so I decided to leave PAs off also this year. In addition, hamshack stayed relatively cold the whole time, hi. Conditions were quite fine, 20m openedthe whole story…

Conditions were fine this year, but hope for better one, maybe in next contests. I started the contest in „panic mode“. I updated DXLog to the newest version, I considered few improvements like useful, sothe whole story…

Started as disaster, fortunately all improved later. In general, it was the contest of „Again“, „Roger?“ and „Repeat the …, please“. I wanted to start on 40m, my main band in WPXs. But it wasthe whole story…

Only part time participation, due to my work. I wanted to test new RX vertical array in SSB Top Band contest, it works really well. Not many DXs, but I was able to read thosethe whole story…

The contest of breaking of my ARRL CW personal top. Saturday with good conditions on 40m and 80m. But miserable on 160m, few mults, no problem, will be done on Sunday. 20m fine, but perfectthe whole story…