Worked a few members on 40M before my 8PM start. By 8PM Mountain Time 40M was dead.  80M was good, but boy 50W sure limits my contacts. I tried 160M, but again, 50W here in the black hole of MT isn't enough. Still picked up 4 LONP members and I am closing in on 200.

I expected to do much better since I had about 1.5 hours after getting home from work and I figured all of the mid-West would be on, it was only 2330 there.  Talk about frustrating.  I could see signals come and go but rarely long enough to make a contact.  I CQed on 160M for 32 minutes and got nothing!  I answered two 160M CQs and was not seen by them.  I still don't have a 160M contact.  I guess the conditions just were not favorable enough for a 20M dipole to get anywhere. I also saw two Canadian stations but could never link up there either.  All in all a very unsatisfactory night.  But still fun … how do I explain that?  I guess an activity that you like and an interesting time together make it a fun time.

This is the first PSK contest I've ever worked. It was fun.