Last years CQ WW CW conditions was probably last gift of sun cycle 24. I expected bad high bands conditions due to conditions few days before the contest.
Quite nice pileups during the whole first night told me, that 40m is going to be main band for me. It was true. 10m only for catching of multipliers, 15m and 20m was space of attempts to make some pileup. But it was only rarely, so main activity was to S/P of multipliers and 3 points. Except of nice NA opening on 15m and 20m on Sunday afternoon.
I was surprised, compared to last year claimed score. Only 5% loss, and by best total QSO number is success for me with respect to worse conditions. Fortunately I fixed rotator problem and didn’t make massive setup changes, which are playgrounds for Mr. Murphy. Few stupid attempts to disable my keyboard I killed by quick PC restart. PA problems I successfully ignored, so he gave up and went to make bad to some other HAM, hi.
I use very simple 40m antenna – Inv Vee and it was my best band. So challenge for next year: replace all antennas with Inv Vees, hi…
Thanks for every QSO, thanks to all participants, you are The Contest!
Final score: 2,762,205 Category: SO AB HP Rank: WW #78 EU #22 OM #2
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: 271 9 49 80: 564 16 66 40: 842 28 92 20: 690 25 76 15: 381 27 82 10: 85 22 49 ------------------------------------------------- Total: 2833 127 414 Total Score 2,887,317
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
20, 15, 10m: Cushcraft A4S 3 el. tribander @31m
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru