I solved a lot of interferences problems on signal cables and on second antennas. I was surprised, how many signal cables inside the tower body was the part of my 160m vertical. Resonant frequency moved from 1850 to up to 2000 kHz after installing of set of low-pass filters!
I have only 2 Inv Vees (20m and 40m) for 2nd radio and only IC-706 MkII of 100 W, but in CW contest it works! I was surprised, that I was quite succesfull in doing QSOs on 2nd radio. It helped to hold rates during deaf minutes on run frequency.
Conditions were interesting, especialy strange openings of 15m and especially on 10m. I was doing the whole EU, regardless on the antenna beaming… Low bands was full of „summer“ noise, but I had nice NA run on 80m.
The result is my personal WPX CW record, but is necessary to wait – the first view into RAW scores will give the answer, if I will go up in total rank compared to the past.
Thank so much to all, who are making this contest so big passion!
Final score: 4 308 139 Category: SOAB HP Rank: WW #69 EU #24 OM #2
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 35:33
Location : Northern Europe
Summary:
Band QSOs -------------------------------------------------- 160: 34 80: 285 40: 566 20: 941 15: 190 10: 180 -------------------------------------------------- Total: 2196 Prefixes: 857 Total Score: 4,308,139
Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
Icom IC-706 MkII
ACOM 2000A
microHAM MK2R+
2x microHAM Station Master
2x OM Power OM6BPF
DXLog
Antennas:
160m: Vertical (35m tower + 2 elevated radials)
80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 rotary dipole @34m
AD-3446 multibander @31m:
40m: 3 elements
20m: 4 elements
15m: 4 elements
10m: 6 elements
40m: InvVee
20m: InvVee
K9AY RX loops
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru