Conditions wasn’t very good at the start of the contest. My rates was not very high. 40m was without NA opening. Saturday morning was magic: any antenna direction produced QSOs from any part of the world. When I was confused, I decided to use „universal direction“. I rotated antenna to 0 degrees. And it worked, nice runs from NA and JA, but also SA and EU… 20m and 15m wasn’t still opened after first 6-hours break. 10m with only few stations. I tried to move from 15m to 80m to had rates over 50 QSO/h. But later evening brought nice opening on 20m. Night on low bands was full of EU stations. I tried 10m and 15m on Sunday morning, good rates, but with only few non EUs. Better part of contest was Sunday evening: good CONDX on 15m and 20m. I decided to spend last 4,5 hours of test on 20m with a lot of 3 points QSOs.

Fortunately, my setup is stable, so this contest was with no gifts from Mr. Murphy, hi.

Congratulation especialy to EU Top Ten, their results are too far from my „tribander-wire“ antenna setup score…

Thanks to all participants!

Final score:   4 036 860
Category:      SO AB HP
Rank:          WW #65    EU #26    OM #1

 

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

Class: SOAB(TS) HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 35:51
Location : Northern Europe

 

Summary:

Band     QSOs
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160:      70
80:      134
40:      534
20:      856
15:      408
10:      159
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Total:  2161  Prefixes: 830 Total Score: 4,177,390

 

Club: OM0M – 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

www.tucek.sk/om7ru