IARU HF World Championship 2018

My second full time IARU contest, so I had only one result to beat. It was in 2013, so in the times of maximum of sun activity.

20m was opened during almost all night, the rates were good, it was problem to move to low bands, hi. 15m played fine at Sunday morning, 10m just for mults, but with better moments of opening. Low bands with 40m as main band and Sunday morning with nice Y8s signals on 80m. I spent my best hour at the last contest hour, with rate of 128 QSO/h, with peaks over 200 QSO/h, great…
A lot of stations gave me various different exchanges, except proper ITU zone…

In total, better than 5 years ago from all points of view, so I’m satisfied.

Mr. Murphy visited me, two serious problems shot my DXlog program. It takes almost one hour to find solutions, so lost about 80 QSOs… Both problems are periodicaly occured, I will have to discus with Kresimir 9A5K.

Thanks to all, especially WRTC participants.

Final score:   1 015 092
Category:      SO AB HP
Rank:          WW #10    EU #4    OM #1

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

Class: SOABMixed HP
QTH: JN98OQ
Operating Time (hrs): 22:59
Location: Northern Europe

Band   CW Qs   Ph Qs   Zones  HQ Mults
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160:     49      19      4      21
80:      69      60      9      23
40:     237      72     16      35
20:     420     367     32      37
15:      86     143     16      25
10:      51      28      9      18
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Total:  912     689     86     159    Total Score 1,076,775

Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
ACOM 2000A (1,5 kW OUT)
MicroHAM microKeyer, MicroHAM StationMaster
DXLog.net

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