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…