This was the first contest with new installed antenna – multibander AD-3446.
I spent many hours by preparing, planning, mounting, climbing, testing and also repairing of everything, what was necessary to have new antenna in the air. Fortunately, on Friday afternoon just before contest Mr. Murphy was too tired and he gave up to bother me. I found the place of corroded coaxial connector – the reason of random occured SWR problem. Just after one day replacing of the most suspicious coaxial cable of the lenght of the whole tower…
The contest was without any serious hardware problem. This year with realy good low band propagation. I was able to run long pileups on any low band during all three nights. Long time averages between 120-180 QSOs/h was standard, very often over 200 QSOs/h.
High bands was three different cups of coffee. 20m as major band with few short NA pileups, 15m especially to S/P for mults and 10m to dig out some mults during short openings. Surprisely, I didn’t have serious problems neither with frequency intruders, nor with QRM from bad quality signals.
In general, my feeling of new antenna is quite fine, especialy 3 elements on 40m are other kind of operating. Also 10m mults are result of new 6 elements.
Thanks to participants, long low bands pileups was very often big fun!
Final score: 2 729 010 Category: SO AB HP Rank: WW #38 EU #5 OM #1
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 43:44
Location : Northern Europe
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------------------------- 160: 208 8 47 80: 751 15 63 40: 1139 30 99 20: 737 33 93 15: 207 27 66 10: 32 7 23 ------------------------------------------------- Total: 3074 120 391 Total Score 2,882,551
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
AD-3446 multibander:
40m: 3 elements
20m: 4 elements
15m: 4 elements
10m: 6 elements
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru