CQ WW 160 m CONTEST CW 2014

My 3 favourites met during one weekend: contest, band and mode. My start of2014 contest year.
Unfortunately, quite bad CONDX. Especially towards NA. Every QSO was hard digging from noise. Both mornings. Only few big guns are over S6. Interesting – Caribbeans run amazingly nice. The gift came at the end of the contest – great JA opening. Unfortunately there was too late to find few Hz of clear frequency inside JA window.

Other contest characteristics were (as usually):
– QRM S9, often a lot of dB over,
– a lot of big and wide foot stations,
– a lot of wide spectrum clickers,
– I want to say: „Guys, when I listen 2-3 seconds between my CQs, it doesn’t mean, that frequency is clear and you can catch my frequency at this moment.“

Mr. Murphy stolen me 2 hours of sleeping on Sunday. My ACOM 2000A said, that relay is open, and stopped to operate. I opened the case, checked all necessary, found nothing wrong, started to test and… PA started to work properly. It means „Don’t touch this!“ for me. So I run the contest with PA without front panel, hi. This contest was the final reason to finish my K9AY receiving antenna.

This contest was the final reason to finish my K9AY receiving antenna.

Thanks to all participants!

Final score:   450 720
Category:      SO HP
Rank:          WW #25   EU #12   OM #2

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

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 29:58
Location : Northern Europe

Summary:

  QSOs       State/Prov   Countries   Total Score
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 1067        17           63          453,520
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Club: Dozen Dashes CC

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)

73!
Riki, OM7RU