CQ WW 160m CONTEST CW 2021

Low Power after many years of HP. Unfortunately in bad time. Conditions were far away from those year ago.

I had a lot of time for preparation. I wanted to built Half Sloper, but it didn’t work. I decided to build 2x Inv Vees (1x CW slot, 1x SSB slot). First one played as perfect example of Inv V, second one played as anythink else than Inv V. I tried to tune it 2 days… Final design looks much more like Half Sloper…
A lot of noise on the bands, I listened on K9AY almost the whole contest. First night with no any NA QSO. Second night a bit better, but still very low number of NA. None JA. 1k QSOs thanks to nice EU activity and also thanks to „semi“ SO2V operation most of the time.

I’m using DXlog and guys, who are continuing in DXlog support, made tons of impovements. Especially SO2R / SO2V capabilities are much more complex compared to 2-3 years before. Some of them I discovered just after the contest, hi.

On the other hand – bad conditions was good oportunity to compare RIGs – FT-1000 MkV Field vs. TS-590SG. And the winner is: Kenwood. Really markable diference.

One remark: a lot of guys left out report. Maybe due to be more quick. But result was: lost of rythm. Yes, I didn’t hear other report than „5nn“ for years. But „5NN“ is something like „acoustic beacon“ of confirmed QSO, I don’t think it’s good idea.

At the end of the day: my the worst NA mults number of LP category result ever…

Thanks to all, who switched on equipments and run!

Final score:   312 858
Category:      SO LP
Rank:          WW #12   EU #8   OM #2

RAW score:     316 638
Category:      SO LP
Rank:          WW #13   EU #8   OM #2

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

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: JN98OQ
Operating Time (hrs): 29:48
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

  QSOs     State/Prov   Countries   Total Score
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  1000         6           57          316,638
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Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
Kenwood TS-590SG
microHAM microKEYER 2R+
2x microHAM StationMaster
2x OM Power OM6BPF
DXLog.net

Antennas:
160m: 2x Inv Vee @35m
K9AY RX loops

73!
Riki, OM7RU