Another nice Low Bands contest, hi. Also good time to improve my SO2R skills.

Low bands of very nice conditions. Nice pileups on 40m but conditions moved few times between good and average. 80m also fine, but rates was lower. 160m with a lot of easy workable guys. Both bands was surprisingly quiet on both mornings.
High bands was as usually this years. Only 20m was ready to operate from my QTH with my antennas. Much better on Saturday than on Sunday, but band closing was early, fast and definite. I monitored competitors from western QTHs or with big antenna setups and I read their callers from time to time… They had additional 1-3 hours of opened 20m. I erected another simple 2-el tribander for R2, but used it only to monitor of 15m noise, and few 20m QSOs when running 40m CQ on R1.
15m with few hard worked mults. I listened also 10m few times as a joke 🙂

Mr. Murphy forced me to walk around my cables – bad SWR and various of similar feedlines issues. I lost a lot of time, fortunately solved by unscrew / screw of connectors. Time to general repair of feedlines.

I used SO2R, mostly to sweep other band, but I don’t have good R2 antennas and PA, just only 100W IC-706. Better any than nothing, but I’m still learning all about it.

So, at the end: I beat 1 mil. points, 1900 QSOs, but low number of mults. I often enjoyed in pileups instead of searching of mults… Learned a lot about SO2R HW, SW, tactics.

I enjoy it, thanks to all who did the same this weekend!

Final score:   993 240
Category:      SO AB HP
Rank:          WW #23   EU #10   OM #2

 
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 32:26
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

Band    QSOs  Mults
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 160:     92   25
  80:    220   36
  40:   1013   58
  20:    571   55
  15:      5    4
  10:      0    0
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 Total: 1901  178  Total Score 1,015,134

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
   2-el tribander 14-21-28 @6m
   K9AY RX loops
73!

Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru