This year I participated with limitation of my antenna farm. Half of my Cushcraft A4S boom (half with just reflector mounted) crashed and new large Multibander has arrived just two days before the CW leg… Fortunately, I was able to tune my PA without problem into remaining 2 elements.

I was aware of incoming Sun activity minimum, so I didn’t expect good conditions. So, only huge noise on both days on 10m, I checked the band from time to time, but no QSO, no mults… 15m bad on Saturday, a bit better on Sunday, but without any pileup. 20m better than 15m, but with worthwhile 3 points rare pileups only on Sunday afternoon. Low bands were other cup of coffee. I spent a lot of low band operating time in pileups, long minutes in row of over 200 QSO/h weren’t rare. Saturday morning on Top band, evening on 80m, yes, mostly of 1 point, of course. And as a gift 40m North America opening on Sunday fternoon.

I checked guys at LiveScore (I wasn’t connected) and I was surprised, that my QSO number is of Top Ten, but miserable mult number. It stimulated me to took care more about mults S/P. And it worked. Hard mults hunting together with a lot of 40m 3-points pileup at the end of the contest speeded up me from #15 to #11 (virtualy) in the EU SOABHP list. I’m quite satisfied in the „one-radio subcategory“.

Tired, but with cleared head after almost 43 hours of dots and dashes contesting.

So, thanks to all who call me or participate at the contest, I really enjoyed a lot in long pileups.

Final score:   1 920 405
Category:      SO AB HP
Rank:          WW #61   EU #17   OM #1

 

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

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 42:42
Location : Northern Europe

 

Summary:

Band     QSOs  Zones Countries
-------------------------------------------------
160:     310     9    45
80:      768    15    69
40:      922    25    90
20:      731    30    93
15:      105    20    53
10:        0     0     0
-------------------------------------------------
Total:  2836    99   350    Total Score 2,048,338

 

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: „Reduced“ Cushcraft A4S to 2 el. tribander @31m

 

73!

Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru