Another test of start of next solar cycle, but we still have to be patient.

Low bands were in good mood. 40m – my the best, 80m with few pileups. 160m also with good rates. Main portion of QSOs and mults during second night, when 40m was less productive. 20m and 15m quite fine, but only rare pileups from my QTH. I preferred CQ+S/P, later dual CQ, but I was able to try 2BSIQ only during few tens of minutes when 20m and 15m provided solid openings. 10m closed.

There were a lot of weak signals. Also very high numbers of stations, which QSL their callsigns, nevertheless I was sure, that I was sending wrong call (typing missmatch) or incomplete call. They sent „599 XX“ and immediately flew away.

Another problem is „DX cluster logging“. I noticed high number of dupes in few minutes. I repeated my call as often as it was possible, nothing helped. Every 5-6th QSO was dupe. I found OK7RU propagated through DX cluster…

Thanks to all contesters, nice weekend again.

Final score:   1 235 616
Category:      SO AB HP
Rank:          WW #19   EU #10   OM #1

RAW score:     1 256 505
Category:      SO AB HP
Rank:          WW #19   EU #10    OM #1

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

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: JN98OQ
Operating Time (hrs): 37:10
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

Band    QSOs  Mults
----------------------------------------
 160:    116   25
  80:    252   39
  40:    869   54
  20:    448   53
  15:    300   41
  10:      0    0
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 Total: 1985  212  Total Score 1,262,460

Used equipments:
Kenwood TS-590SG
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
OM Power 3500A
ACOM 2000A
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
K9AY RX loops

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