It was fine Low Power operating two years ago, so I decided to leave PAs off also this year. In addition, hamshack stayed relatively cold the whole time, hi.

Conditions were quite fine, 20m opened all the time, NA stations palyed almost non-stop. Also 15m produced good mults number. 10m from time to time. There was no problem to run nice US pileups also on 40m, but 80m and 160m was of summer mood.

I tried to make as many I4s as I heard, despite they were of 1 point. I have 84 I4 QSOs in the log, 45 unique I4s, I46J and I49A on 4 bands were the top.

There were few minor technical issues with paddle keying of FT-1000, which made me a bit nervous, because I wasn’t able to find the reason and repair it. First time i’ve had such a problem. But it’s the base rule: solving an issue produce another one, hi. Mr. Murphy forever alive!

Surprisingly high number of big signals, but not only of signal level, but also of width. The leader one was one of the HQ stations. I counted main signal + another 2 down + another 2 up. 5 signals in total… I checked it using RBN and it confirmed this fact.

Thanks to all of you for nice activity, congrats to WRTC winners and also to OM friends: OM3BH + OM3GI = 5th place!

FINAL score:   930 602
Category:      SOAB CW LP
Rank:          WW #5     EU #4     OM #1

RAW score:     942 019
Category:      SOAB CW LP
Rank:          WW #5     EU #4     OM #1

 
Call: OM7K
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU

Class: SOABCW LP
QTH: JN98OQ
Operating Time (hrs): 23:54
Location: Europe

Band   CW Qs   Ph Qs   Zones  HQ Mults
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160:     28               3      17
 80:     115              7      16
 40:     260             21      23
 20:     532             29      31
 15:     270             25      29
 10:      82             14      18
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Total: 1287       0     159      76   Total Score   942,019

Used equipments:
Kenwood TS-590SG
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
microHAMs: MK2R+, 2x Station Master, doubleTEN, ARCO
2x OM Power OM6BPF
DXLog

Antennas:
160m: Inv Vee
80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 rotary dipole @34m
 AD-3446 multibander @31m
2-el multibander @15m
20m Inv Vee @10m
K9AY RX loops

73!
Riki, OM7RU/OM7K
www.tucek.sk/om7ru