Downsizing – DO NOT BE STUPID!

To say I messed up when downsizing would be an understatement.  I am seeing this great sunspot cycle slip away ( I am 80 do the math).  If you like to work DX and do not want to settle for:

• Being heard fairy well 600 mies away
• Receive marginal reports up to 2,000 miles away
• Work the occasional station beyond that point who works at pulling your signal out of the noise because there is no one else for them to work.
• See your signal on the RBN just above the noise level.
• Work the same park with the same operator for the 25th time.

Do not downsize before really thinking it through!

Note: Yes FT8 is ham radio and I do work the mode from time to time.  It has no personality to me.  Also, they say it is like shooting fish in a barrel.  Well my barrel is very large the fish appear to be very small.