A bit better conditions, but still in deep minimum of sun activity.
HW and SW worked fine this time. So somebody else had to be bothered by Mr. Murphy, hi.
It was hard work for home station of average equipped. I used second radio only as RX monitoring of other bands.
My antenna setup is of average performance and 1,5 kW in SSB contest is not enough to make any pileups. 80m was the only one low band, where I was able to run meaningful pileup sometimes. I had only few moments with pileup on 40m, rest was only calling of CQ. High bands was with just only one hour of real pileup to North America on Saturday evening on 20m. Not many QSOs on 15m and a few on 10m, but thanks for possibility to make any.
Bands was as usually. Full of splatters, QRM and wide signals. I feel, that again more than before… How do the guys with strong, but narrow signals do it? Why others are not able to do it too?
But finaly fine relax in this difficult period for everyone. Especialy MULTI stations are affected by Coronavirus. We can see a lot of SO from superstations, usually competing in MULTI categories.
Thanks to all for calling and having big deal of patience during repeatings.
Final score: 2 804 825 Category: SO AB HP Rank: WW #66 EU #23 OM #2
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 36:00
Location : Northern Europe
Summary:
Band QSOs -------------------------------------------------- 160: 90 80: 647 40: 394 20: 408 15: 51 10: 9 -------------------------------------------------- Total: 1599 Prefixes: 759 Total Score: 2,933,535
Club: Dozen Dashes Contest Club
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:
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