Conditions are improving, but are still unstable. Nevertheless, I achieved my personal CQ contest record.
I still have main problem with sufficient portion of sleeping before the contest. With more or less possibility to affect it. And there is still the influence of „pre-contest fever“, which often doesn’t allow me to sleep, hi.
Nice to see 15m opened for JA pileups. Also 10m with many opened directions with a lot of mults. 20m closed too early. Saturday was better on high bands, than Sunday. In addition, a lot of weak and bell echo effect sounded signals complicated 2nd radio S&P. There was big struggle to dig mults from pile of plenty neverending callers sometimes, especially on 160m and 80m. Rare mults didn’t call me, so I had to do precise single radio S&P at the end of the contest to have good number of mults, but it brought decent score increasing.
Few problems spread: reducing exchange below minimum accepted to have valid contest QSO, missing reports, extremely shortened exchanges, unclear confirming of the QSO. Few not valid QSOs wasn’t logged.
Tired, but relaxed. Thanks to all contesters!
FINAL score: 3 716 190
Category: SO AB HP
Rank: WW #36 EU #7 OM #1
RAW score: 3 850 846
Category: SO AB HP
Rank: WW #37 EU #7 OM #1
Call: OM7K
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SO AB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 43:41
Location: Northern Europe
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 215 11 43
80: 407 15 55
40: 1013 33 88
20: 1032 28 75
15: 579 26 67
10: 243 27 59
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Total: 3489 140 387 Total Score 3,857,113
Club: OM0M Dozen Dashes Contest Club
Used equipments:
. Kenwood TS-590SG
. Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
. OM Power 3500A
. ACOM 2000A
. microHAMs: MK2R+, 2x Station Master, doubleTEN, ARCO
. 2x OM Power OM6BPF
. DXLog
Antennas:
. 160m: Half Sloper
. 80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 @34m
. AD-3446 @31m
. 2-el tribander @15m
. 40m: Inv V @20m
. 20m: Inv V @10m
. K9AY RX loops
73!
Riki, OM7RU / OM7K
www.tucek.sk/om7ru