First fulltime participation on RU DX. I usually run as Non Assisted, so RUDX concept is interesting experience.

Again in LP category, since my PA is not ready to work. But I immediately found out, that it isn’t going to be easy. CQ worked only during first few hours. It was useless to try fights with HP intruders. It was clear, that my frequency is lost. In addition – bands was full. RU DX CW and SSB + BARTG RTTY. So CW traffic wasn’t possible to spread into data segments…

Nice to found 10m and 15m at least a bit opened. More effective way (from score point of view) was to S/P, due to prioritising of 10 points mult stations. Nevertheless, I was not able to work with a lot of strong RU STNs and lost a lot of time with no QSO. Therefore SO2R work (CQ + S/P) was not so effective.

There was a lot of guys, which runs 2BSIQ and dual CQ. Unfortunately, it caused „disruptions“ and lost of pileup rhythm sometimes. Many seconds without answers, different QSO numbers after NR? or AGN and many „stereo“ TXs. Since I was in few cases not fully sure, if QSO was confirmed, I had to delete few QSOs from the log.

But contest was relax, as usually. Thanks to all for doing so!

FINAL score:   2 168 000
Category:      SO CW LP
Rank:          WW #??   EU #28   OM #3

RAW score:     2 235 038
Category:      SO CW LP
Rank:          WW #??   EU #28   OM #3

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

Class: SO CW LP
QTH: JN98OQ
Operating Time (hrs): 21:18
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

Band   CWqso  PHqso  Countries  Oblasts
----------------------------------------
 160:   104      0      26       18
  80:   201      0      48       39
  40:   226      0      43       50
  20:   228      0      49       60
  15:    68      0      22       30
  10:    30      0       4       13
----------------------------------------
 Total: 857      0     192      210
                 Total Score:  2,241,552

 
Used equipments:
   Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
   Kenwood TS-590SG
   microHAM MK2R+
   2x microHAM Station Master
  2x OM Power OM6BPF
   microham doubleTEN ANT switch
   DXLog

Antennas:
   160m: Inv Vee
   80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 rotary dipole @34m
   AD-3446 multibander @31m:
      40m: 3 elements
      20m: 4 elements
      15m: 4 elements
      10m: 6 elements
   2-el multibander @15m: (part of corrupted CushCraft A4S 🙂
      20m: 2 elements
      15m: 2 elements
      10m: 2 elements
  K9AY RX loops

73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru