First time as Low Power and unassisted. But since I’m one of the guys, which didn’t read rules carefully before the contest, I run first few hours as unassisted, hi.

Conditions weren’t good, but I was able to made few QSOs, and interesting mults also on 15m. LP is not very suitable for run CQ, except of few hours at the begining of the test. Then CQ + S/P on radio 2 didn’t produced acceptable rates. So I worked almost the whole rest of the contest as SO1R S/P. Focusing to 3/6 points mults was the main goal. It produced much more points, than SO2R CQ + S/P.
Few attempts at „free“ frequency usually took only few minutes. Then I was killed by STN, which maybe didn’t heard me, or I was inoffensive for him.

Low Power SSB is hard job. Long minutes lost by hopeless calling without respone. Also synchronisations of listening between 2 splattered top gun PA stations TXs was strong challenge. A lot of wide, QRMed and splattered signals.

PLUS: Few „strong signal in NY“ (or other USA locations)…
MINUS: …and then few his neighbours with no answer at all.
That’s SSB Low Power. But finally: It run better, than I expected, so I wasn’t bothered with ideas of giving it up!

HW worked well, I made only minor maintenances. I got new toy just on Friday noon – ARCO. But installing, configuring and testing just few hours before the start would be risky 😉

Thanks to all. Stay contesting!

FINAL score:   1 254 528
Category:      SO AB LP
Rank:          WW #25    EU #14    OM #1

RAW score:     1 322 982
Category:      SO AB LP
Rank:          WW #25    EU #13    OM #1

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

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 35:52
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

Band    QSOs
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 160:    84
  80:   255
  40:   261
  20:   240
  15:    51
  10:     0
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Total: 981 Prefixes: 603 Total Score: 1,322,982

Club: Dozen Dashes Contest Club

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
   40m: InvVee @20m
   AD-3446 multibander @31m:
      40m: 3 elements
      20m: 4 elements
      15m: 4 elements
      10m: 6 elements
   2-el multibander @15m:
      20m: 2 elements
      15m: 2 elements
      10m: 2 elements
   K9AY RX loops

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