Great conditions, I enjoyed really a lot.
Last days before the contest I was finalising K9AY loop system, unfortunately preamplifier didn’t work. But there was a lot of situations, when the low QRN from K9AY was worth and reduction of QRM from any direction helped me to read DXs.
I started on low bands and the first 6 hours was over 100 Q/h. I have quite good TX antennas on 160 and 80, so pileups was nice for a long time, and 40m Inv Vee wasn’t worse. High bands was wide opened for both days. On Saturday I spent a lot of time on 10 and 15, on Sunday I had to be more on 20m. But I wasn’t able to run pileups of higher rates (over 100 Q/h) for a long time. So S/P was the major activity, which is visible at mults part of result table. I got the gifts on Sunday evening: a few difficult mults at the end of 15m opening and nice cca 45 minutes of NA pileup on 20m on Sunday evening, just before my band closing…
Problem is with really simple high band ANT – 3 elements tribander. Challenge for next summer.
And in addition: My ACOM 2000A tubes said „our lifetime is at the end“. I had to use a lot of tricks to forced PA to work at least to Sundays 2359 UTC, hi. I had only 400 – 800 W output power on 10m and 800 – 1000 W on 15m. Time to obtain new pair…
So, great fun, I have to be fully satisfied with result regarding to my antenna setup. Even hope to another positive surprising from 24th solar cycle.
CONGRATS to great results of friends at OM7M and Bela at OM0M.
Thank you for every QSO, for every MULT! CU in next contests.
Final score: 2 861 100 Category: SO AB HP Rank: WW #95 EU #21 OM #1
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Location : Northern Europe
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------------------------- 160: 173 10 40 80: 511 15 55 40: 531 23 79 20: 506 29 82 15: 433 28 90 10: 546 35 97 ------------------------------------------------- Total: 2700 140 443 Total Score 3,035,098
Club: OM0M Dozen Dashes Contest Club
Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
ACOM 2000A
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
RX: K9AY RX loops for 160, 80 and 40m
20, 15, 10m: Cushcraft A4S 3 el. tribander @31m
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru