2025 CQ WW DX SSB - HD8R
⚠️ Long-text warning — about a one-hour read, on average. If you keep going, don't say I didn't warn you. If you already know my style, you know I'll try to bring you along for the whole ride.
One more for the books.
I don't think I've ever seen the bands like this in my life — at least from 40 meters up — which surely helped make participation massive and made it extremely hard, almost impossible, to find a clear spot on any of those bands. To make it worse, I had the misfortune of having to operate with Flex radios again, which let you see the bands in real time. I've seen people up above 29,000 every now and then, but not above 29,300, and much less below 28,300 among the beacons…