Nice session, as usually.
Conditions were quite fine. Low bands over my expectations. This year I more prefered 40m.
High bands was the one band show – 20m. 15m only for S/P and 10m with rare unstable signals, but I skip there often to not lose at least few mults. This year I prefered to run 3 points at 20m and not be at 80m with nice, but of 1 point pileup.
HW works fine, except few chronicaly problems… I’m lazy to solve them 🙂
This was definitely my last contest in SO1R. I had had pile of all SO2R boxes in the corner of hamshack. I wanted to built it and have ready for CQWW CW. Then I made list of all necessary HW and SW issues and I was scared from tons of new things, which had to be perfectly working from the start of the contest. I’m too old to spend one of the the most popular contest by climbing between cables and finding those one bad soldered pin or swimming through tons of SW settings, which are set against each other. So I run of old school SO1R. Then I plundered my SO1R hamshack and started to work on building SO2R just after the contest.
Thanks to all participants, CU in 2019 contests!
Final score: 2 587 000 Category: SO AB HP RAW Rank: WW #43 EU #8 OM #1
Call: OM7RU
Operator(s): OM7RU
Station: OM7RU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Dolna Micina
Operating Time (hrs): 43:10
Location : Northern Europe
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------------------------- 160: 153 11 52 80: 291 16 66 40: 1111 33 107 20: 930 28 107 15: 95 18 50 10: 14 3 10 ------------------------------------------------- Total: 2594 109 392 Total Score 2,671,833
Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
ACOM 2000A
MicroHAM microKeyer, MicroHAM StationMaster
DXLog
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
K9AY RX loops
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru