ARRL DX Contest SSB 2022

A bit of contesting during nights, between weekend dayshifts at work.

My last attendance at SSB part of ARRL was in 2019. And it was a big disappointment. Two years off helped. Especially first night was nice, as every contest beginning. A lot of weak signals, digged from under the noise and QRM, sometimes it took long minutes. But workable. I ran mainly CQ. S&P didn’t provide a mults increasing and CQ still brought good QSO numbers.
Interesting how many OPs are listening by the mouse. I had nice dupe pileup after OM6RU had been added to the cluster instead of me…

Over 500 QSOs, so good fun finally.

Football, hockey, handball, biathlon, F1 (+ many others also apolitical organisations) sport headquarters have already reacted. HAM radio is the exception. I don’t think ignoring war crimes is the way.

Every QSO made in memory of Ukrainian victims of Russian „special operation“.

Final score:   79 101
Category:      SO 40 HP
Rank:          WW #8   EU #4   OM #2
RAW score:     80 511
Category:      SO 40 HP
Rank:          WW #5   EU #3    OM #2

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

Class: SO 40m HP
QTH: JN98OQ
Operating Time (hrs): 10:33
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

Band    QSOs  Mults
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  40:    571   47
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 Total:  571   47  Total Score    80,511

Used equipments:
Kenwood TS-590SG
OM Power 3500A
microHAM MK2R+
2x microHAM Station Master
2x OM Power OM6BPF
microHAM doubleTEN ANT switch
microHAM ARCO
DXLog

Antennas:
AD-3446 multibander @31m:
40m: 3 elements

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