This autumn I spent a lot of time by rebuilding all connections between tower and hamshack. Unfortunately, there was not a sufficient time to test all components. Hundreds metres of coaxial and signal cables, tens various connectors and new antenna switch controlled by StationMaster from microHAM…
Friday evening: All component were connected, but I heard only 160-40 m, 20-10 m were deaf… TX was not possible on all bands. Probably coaxial cables fault – no chance to repair during night.
Saturday morning: found bad soldered coaxial connector for tribander and bad coaxial cable between antenna switch and hamshack… Repaired at late afternoon.
I struggled also with extremly high sensitivity of PA protections to bad VSWR. Many times the PA was switched off due to low PA gain or bad VSWR, nevertheless all antennas have VSWR lower than 1:1,8…
I set new goal: to test of all components and to find the best station setup. Station upgrade was successfull, I have never enjoyed so strong pileups on my QTH. I was able to make long pileups of 140-180 QSO/hour for a long time with not rare peaks to 220 QSO/hour. Also DX conditions was nice.
Monday morning: last „gift“ – I found tribander 14-21-28 with offset of 45 degrees compared with rotator controller indication…
Thanks to all participant!
Final score: 1 111 008 Category: SO AB HP Rank: WW #188 EU #58 OM #1
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Location : Northern Europe
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------------------------- 160: 156 11 35 80: 373 13 48 40: 426 22 62 20: 213 19 56 15: 157 22 62 10: 146 18 58 ------------------------------------------------- Total: 1471 105 321 Total Score: 1,159,572
Club: Dozen Dasches Contest Club
Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
ACOM 2000A (1,5 kW OUT)
MicroHAM microKeyer, MicroHAM StationMaster
WinTest
Antennas:
160m: Vertical (35m tower + 2 elevated radials)
80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 rotary dipole @34m
40m: InvVee @21m
20, 15, 10 m: Cushcraft A4S 3 el. tribander @31m
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru