ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST CW 2014

First note: the total results are real.
Everybody has goals before the contest. My goals was: „It would be nice to have about 2000 QSOs, 250 mults or 1,5 milions points.“. But when all those numbers has met on scoreboard on Sunday at 23:59:38, I thought about software fault, hi. So thanks to VE3JM (mult # 250) and N3XL (QSO # 2000). Yes, real result will be reduced after log checking…

Conditions was interesting. 160m and 80m bands was closed in fact. Fortunately I was on right time on right place on Sunday morning: 1 hour NA opening on 160m. 80m only a bit better. Only 40m was the place for racing. High bands was oposite to low bands. 20m and 15m were nice opened. I was able to run nice pileups on 10m on Saturday, with good rate of mults, but it was worse on Sunday. I was not able to make effective pileup, so I preferred 15m and 20m.

This contest I run without setup changes and it resulted to really stable hardware. I only adjusted some voltages on ACOM 2000A (thanks to Val, LZ1VB from ACOM) and it works at 100 % all the time.

Just one more SORRY to CT3IB. There was not right time to make simple QSO of 20 WPM in style „both calls + UR RST IS… = MY NAME IS…“. Especially just during ARRL contest, just during K/VE pileup of 150 Q/H. Your signal was 599 +40 dB, so sorry for my QSY after your long minutes of your sloooow calls…

Thanks to all participants!

Final score:   1 471 590
Category:      SO HP ALL
Rank:          WW #63   EU #10   OM #1

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

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 39
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

Band    QSOs  Mults
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 160:     24   14
 80:      84   25
 40:     428   51
 20:     669   53
 15:     508   56
 10:     287   51
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 Total: 2000  250  Total Score 1,500,000

Club: Dozen Dashes Contest Club

Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
ACOM 2000A (1,5 kW OUT)
MicroHAM microKeyer, MicroHAM StationMaster
WinTest
UltraBeam UB ONE rotator

Antennas:
160m: Vertical (35m tower + 2 elevated radials)
80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 rotary dipole @34m
40m: InvVee @21m
20, 15, 10m: Cushcraft A4S 3 el. tribander @31m

73!
Riki, OM7RU