It looks like conditions are finally getting better, hi.
Low bands were fine, especially 40m was great at my QTH. High bands started to be alive again, with nice runs of NA pileups on 20m and 15m. Also few JA short pileups shows the start of cycle 25. 10m still just only for few valuable mults and with few sterile CQs, hi.
But still noisy periods on 20m and 15m, with most signals sunk in „bell“ sound effects, especially on mornings. It was tiring to S/P on R2 as non assisted. But I like this classic manual digging on R2. And second point of view – less competition in non assisted category means better chance to good result. Except crazy 2BSIQ guys, which has no time to play with clusters, hi. Yes, their operating style is not „nice“ (late answers, QSO is not always clearly confirmed, loss of operating rythm, often stereo TX… = time loss to others), but result is interesting, so… OK.
Still a lot of extremely bad signals over the bands, mostly from eastern EU, few from western EU. Splatters, wide signals, multiple carriers (I counted 5 carriers from 1 STN!)… it’s jury business.
HW works well, no any HW issues, no major interferences nevertheless I was working SO2R HP on 40m and 20m into AD-3446 (different coax feeders). Last year I made big redesign, improved hundereds small HF details (connectors, coaxes, grounding, filters etc.) and the influence of it to RF station condition is realy essential. Realy worthy investment.
I still believe in end of Corona restrictions next year. Influence to mults in the air is significant. Who knows…
So… great to be part of this adventure, thanks guys!
FINAL score: 2 917 980 Category: SO AB HP Rank: WW #36 EU #7 OM #1
RAW score: 3 008 940 Category: SO AB HP Rank: WW #39 EU #7 OM #1
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 43:13
Location: Northern Europe
Radios: SO2R
Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------------------------- 160: 247 8 41 80: 529 13 56 40: 1285 30 82 20: 868 25 72 15: 375 28 73 10: 57 14 28 ------------------------------------------------- Total: 3361 118 352 Total Score 3,008,940
Club: OM0M Dozen Dashes Contest Club
Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
Kenwood TS-590SG
ACOM 2000A
OM Power 3500A
microHAM MK2R+
2x microHAM Station Master
2x OM Power OM6BPF
microHAM doubleTEN ANT switch
microHAM ARCO
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:
20m: 2 elements
15m: 2 elements
10m: 2 elements
40m: Inv V @20m
20m: Inv V @10m
K9AY RX loops
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru