ARRL 2nd

SRI for no update but to much to do at work and at home with other stuff.

The total result for ARRL was 72 QSO and 37 multipliers for a total of 262 700 points which is more then double the score from last year.
Activity seems higher then last year and I still missed a lot of stations I heard which is inspiring for the future.
Worked a handful of single yagi stations with low power with the smallest I think was G3LGR with a 14 el DG7YBN and 200W who was -20dB with me.
Heard a few small stations that did not copy me so I need higher power then the 500W I used now and the Italab pallet PA is on hold at the moment due to other projects priority.

The only hardware issue during the two weekends was that I lost elevetoin indication on friday evening before the 2nd part but it was a poor connector and easilly solved.
Experimented a lot with the dual pol setup and it works exactly as predicted but I have some noise in the area causing problems in some cases but have not found anything while searching.
It can clearly be seen both in the SDR spectrum display and Map65 as pulsating or changes in noise levels in both time and frequency domain.
Need to continue searching as its quite irritating and lowers the RX performance quite a bit.

Had some problem with Map65 that stopped decoding after been on for a few hours and reporting to Livecq was irregular and missed a lot of stations from time to time.
To resolve it I needed to reboot the computer so I need to evaluate that further to figure out why it  happens.

Have been looking for a PA controller that is remotely controllable and able to monitor all parameters as my intention is to have the complete station remote controlled but have not yet found anything really usable.
My programming skílls is limited and a task like that should be to much and take to long time for me.
The search and work continues.