I had a pretty good idea going into the weekend that this year wasn't going to be like last year...

Started late due to a prior commitment Friday night local time...landed one QSO
- local. Up early Saturday morning hoping for an opening to Europe...didn't
happen...set the tone for the rest of the weekend but I didn't give up. 99%
search and pounce...mostly searching and, being QRP, the pounce is more like a
tap on the shoulder. The 1% spent calling ended up in a few runs of 1 station
each. Even up early Sunday morning but nothing from Europe...Africa, Asia,
Oceania...few from the Caribbean and South America.

Used my Ten-Tec Jupiter cranked down to 5 watts...as always...to my MA3B (MA5B
without the WARC element) at 25 feet. Anyone ever try putting another parasitic
element on that antenna to up the gain on 10? I wonder...lengthen the boom...add
a director...

In any case, thanks to everyone that heard my QRP signal and put NQ2W in the
log...some of you have amazing receivers and I appreciate the work you have
done on your stations. I wish there was a way to award more points to stations
for working us QRPers. 

Looking forward to next year...hopefully, I'll be a little louder.

73,

Will
NQ2W